Would you like to support a growing charity committed to supporting the improvement of health and wellbeing in North East Essex?
Are you interested in joining a charity who are beginning a new journey?
Anglian Community Trust (ACT) was formed in 2014 to ‘promote and protect the social, mental and physical health, welfare and well-being of people in the community of North East Essex, and surrounding areas’. Since that time ACT has distributed around £500,000 in donations to local charities and community groups.
In 2021, the board of trustees was reformed, with a new and distinct purpose taking forward the legacy work, but effectively creating a new, exciting approach. Dedicated to our new vision of “We will help you to create change to improve lives for the long term”, we are keen to grow our board who share our values of:
Long term impact
Equity for all
Kindness
Honesty
Compassion
Planet friendly
There are exciting times ahead for ACT in collaboratively making decisions about how our funding can be used to make a real difference to the health and wellbeing of communities in and around North East Essex, both by supporting impactful projects/services and by identifying further investment and fund-raising opportunities.
As well as ensuring the good governance of the charity, the Board of Trustees actively work to promote ACT’s objects and to maximise impact on reducing inequalities and improving wellbeing.
Please get in touch if you have:
A passion to help shape and develop the direction of the charity
An interest in joining a charity who is rebranding and looking for new opportunities
An understanding of the local social and political environment
Integrity and commitment to our objectives
Strategic thinking/planning
Excellent communication skills and the ability to be non-judgmental when helping the Board make decisions
Ideally you will bring connections with local business and the community, and we are particularly looking for experience of finance and commerce.
We encourage and welcome applicants from currently under-represented groups and with a variety of diverse backgrounds, interests and experiences who are committed to improving our local communities and enhancing people’s lives.
If you would like to apply, please send us your CV and a covering letter to: [email protected]
Community360 is calling for volunteers to help support the NHS and partners to discharge patients from hospital to their homes.
With the NHS facing huge challenges, volunteers are urgently needed locally to fill ‘Home from Hospital’ roles. These volunteer roles will help people stay safe and well in their homes this winter after being discharged from hospital.
“If you would like to give something back to our local hospitals, we would love to hear from you.” Said Cat Wright, Volunteer Centre Manager at Community360. She added: “Our Home from Hospital Volunteers provides simple, practical support to isolated people after they leave hospital. We ease their worries about being discharged whilst they are in hospital, assist them in the transition back to their homes and continue to visit for 6 weeks afterwards.
This support really helps with their recovery process at home, helping them to settle back into their community and giving them confidence again. If you only have an hour to spare a week you could make a real difference to someone’s life. We know many people are living on their own and will rely on this support.”
Pat Deburca has been volunteering for community360 wanting to give something back to the community and the hospital that has helped him in the past. “The best thing about becoming a befriending volunteer is seeing the trust the patient puts in you, and how much it is appreciated, getting them from hospital and back into their own homes, It is so rewarding, and you can really see what a difference you are making.”
Community360 also helps with things such as organising transport home from hospital, distributing winter welfare packs and signposting to charities or social groups in the area.
All volunteers will undertake induction training specific to the project and includes boundaries, safeguarding, health & safety. They receive continued support from the team and reimbursed for any travel and out of pocket expenses. For more information on these roles please log onto:
For further information please contact Community360 on 01206 505250 or email [email protected]
Or Sonia Shelcott Millriver Publicity 07775 613079
Community360 is an independent charity Established in 1968 to assist charities, voluntary and community organisations in Colchester and Braintree (300+) through any activities which provide representation, enable development, encourage liaison, nurture strategic partnerships and provide support to promote voluntary action.
Our frontline services are developed in response to local needs and not only assist established community groups but are designed to address unmet needs, with project development defined by the communities we work with to improve their outcomes and life opportunities.
These include Community Development, Community Transport, Shopmobility, Volunteer Centre, Timebank and Community Accounts. We signpost members of the public, provide training for low level skills, apprenticeships and volunteer recruitment. Groups receive assistance on fundraising, business planning, constitutions, policies/procedures, monitoring/evaluation and Quality Marks.
Sitting on the board of a charity, and consulting for another, I recognised a need to make this program on how to have challenging conversations in the workplace available to other charities.
We have developed a program specifically for all not for profits, based on the work we have done with charities, so that they too can benefit from and develop an effective leadership culture of trust & transparency.
“As a growing startup we wanted to create a framework for our team to help with challenging conversations at work, to enable the growth of individuals and the organisation. Having run Suparna’s program to the ELT effectively, we are now rolling it out to other managers in the organisation and will now run this for all new starters. Suparna’s program has helped us have more open communication within the organisations, managing up and down. I would recommend this program to all other charities.
Lainey Gough, Director of Operations & Impact, Access Social Care
“As a growing startup we wanted to create a framework for our team to help with challenging conversations at work, to enable the growth of individuals and the organisation. Having run Suparna’s program to the ELT effectively, we are now rolling it out to other managers in the organisation and will now run this for all new starters. Suparna’s program has helped us have more open communication within the organisations, managing up and down. I would recommend this program to all other charities.
Lainey Gough, Director of Operations & Impact, Access Social Care
“As a growing startup we wanted to create a framework for our team to help with challenging conversations at work, to enable the growth of individuals and the organisation. Having run Suparna’s program to the ELT effectively, we are now rolling it out to other managers in the organisation and will now run this for all new starters. Suparna’s program has helped us have more open communication within the organisations, managing up and down. I would recommend this program to all other charities.
Lainey Gough, Director of Operations & Impact, Access Social Care
“How to help with challenging conversations to enable the growth of individuals and the organisation”
• Are you quietly seething because you are unable to express yourself?
• Does feedback make you want to shrink?
• Are you afraid to tell a colleague or a reportee what you think for fear of hurting their feelings?
• Is your lack of effective communication holding you back from effectively leading your team?
It is possible to communicate clearly, honestly AND with compassion. With simple, small tweaks you too can speak your mind with clarity and impact. Whilst being compassionate, to become the type of leader who inspires.
We are holding a free webinar on 25 January at 11am UK time, to give you a taster of how to have difficult conversations at work, avoid conflict, and be more effective.
Begin 2023 on a high and get this in your diary now!
This discussion will show you how to:
Avoid unnecessary conflict
Understand difficult conversations
Learn how to give feedback safely, and so it is understood
Receive feedback gracefully
Increase levels of confidence and
Help with career progression through effective communication
Become and inspiring leader, develop a trusted team
We look forward to sharing our experties on how to have effective conversations in the workplace whilst avoiding conflict.
Conference Theme for 2023: Keeping Access and Commitment High When Resources are Low
2022 has brought new developments in the field of self harm and suicide prevention, not least with the release of the new NICE guidelines for self harm. If you want to learn what this means for you, your organisation and your work, join us. On Wednesday 1st March 2023, The national centre of excellence for Self Harm and Suicide Prevention will be leading Self Harm Awareness Day on the theme of suicide prevention starts here. In line with this day of significance, Harmless will also host our eighth national conference with a range of expert speakers on a variety of topics pertinent to the field of self harm and suicide prevention.
As in previous years, the conference will be shaped around the following five strategic areas:
Collaborative partnership
Service user representation
Effective practice
Driving change
Overcoming stigma and discrimination
Our conference gathers together leading academics and experts in the fields of self harm and suicide.
We are charging a fixed fee of just £100.00 for Face-to-Face admission, to access quality, specialist, evidence-based, CPD-accredited content. We expect this event to be in high demand therefore we will also LIVE STREAM for a small fixed fee of £55.00. These fees will cover our administration costs, and help us to sustain our life-saving support sessions to those impacted by self harm and suicide across the UK.
We have an amazing line up of Confirmed Speakers:
Professor Nav Kapur
More great speakers to be confirmed
As ever, delegates can expect to take away from the conference a range of knowledge, inspiration and practical applications for the implementation in real life personal and professional situations. Learning from some of the leaders in the field, delegates will have access to sessions that can drive change in the field of self harm prevention.
Free Places – To apply for free/sponsored places for our 2023 conference, please contact: [email protected]
You are invited to attend Demystifying EOL Care for Family & Friends, the latest in a series of Compassionate Tendring events aimed at helping improve end of life care for everybody.
This event is suitable for anyone who has a personal or professional interest in the care provided for people at the end of life and will include presentations and open discussion relating to community led support and services, delivered in collaboration with Essex Family Carers, Action for Family Carers and Carers First.
The event will take place from 10am-12noon on Wednesday 25th January at the Dovercourt & Harwich Hub, 276 High Street, Harwich, CO12 3PD. Please email [email protected] to confirm your attendance (or accept the calendar invitation you may have already received), and please do share this opportunity to support a Compassionate Community approach with colleagues, friends and family. Further details below and attached.
Schedule
09.30 – 10.00: Arrival and refreshments
10.00 – 10.10: Scene setting
10.10 – 11.40: Presentations, discussion and feedback
If you are driven by a passion to make a difference, then we want to hear from you.
At Community360, we all play our part. We are a large, diverse family with a variety of skills working together to help grow our communities. Whether you have just started out in your career journey or already have experience, we would like to hear from you so we can build on your enthusiasm, strengths and skills.
Our current vacancies are;
Senior Engagement Officer – Essex Family Support Service Mat Leave Cover
Social Prescribers (Zero Hours) (Engagement Officers Band 1) – Colchester
Social Prescriber (Engagement Officer Band 1)
Home from Hospital Team Leader (Engagement Officer Band 3)
Part-time Scheduler/Administrator – Transport
If you are interested in working with Community360 we would love to hear from you.
Please email [email protected].uk or call 01206 505250
Position Accountable To: Clinical Director, North Uttlesford PCN
Position Line Managed By: To be confirmed
Social Prescribing Link Worker
We are looking to recruit a Social Prescribing Link Worker to join our friendly, dynamic and progressive primary care network in North Uttlesford.
About North Uttlesford PCN
North Uttlesford PCN comprises 4 General Practices working in conjunction with local health and social care organisations to improve the health and wellbeing of the local population. North Uttlesford is a lovely place to live and work with good working relationships forged between practices over many years. There is a real sense of enthusiasm to improve health and social care
locally.
The Role
Social prescribing empowers people to take control of their health and wellbeing through referral to non-medical ‘link workers’ who give time, focus on ‘what matters to me’ and take a holistic approach, connecting people to community groups and statutory services for practical and emotional support. Social prescribing can help to strengthen community resilience and personal resilience, and reduces health inequalities by addressing the wider determinants of health, such as debt, poor housing and
physical inactivity, by increasing people’s active involvement with their local communities. It particularly works for people with long-term conditions (including support for mental health), for people who are lonely or isolated, or have complex social needs which affect their wellbeing. The Job Description and Person Specification provide outlines of the responsibilities and
requirements for this role.
What we offer:
NHS Pension (employer is Uttlesford Health – GP provider company for Uttlesford)
Generous annual leave
Flexible working
Excellent transport links
Supportive working environment in General Practice
Registered charities whose beneficiaries are in Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Essex, Kent, Surrey and London.
Our priorities
As from 1st April 2022 the Fund has the following priority areas:
Mental Health
The Trustees support registered charities working with people with mental health problems.
Applications for funding for counselling services will only be supported where such services are either free or very low cost (details should be provided) and where counselling is provided specifically to address mental ill health as it results from social disadvantage or discrimination. Evidenced measures for improving mental health in the target group will be sought.
Charities applying under this category will have annual income of up to a maximum of £1M. Smaller charities with incomes of up to £500,000, particularly those working in rural communities, could be considered for larger grants of up to £20,000 paid over 2 or more years under this category.
NB: Charities who have previously received funding under the old Learning Disability category cannot apply for funding under this category.
Homelessness
The Trustees are focusing their support under this category in the following areas:
1. Church and Community Shelters
The Trustees wish to encourage the establishment of Church and Community Shelters in areas where there is insufficient provision for rough sleepers. Applications are invited for a contribution of up to one half of the fee charged by Housing Justice for their “Shelter in a Pack” and/or a contribution to the cost of bedding and other equipment for the shelter, as well as for existing shelters seeking to attain the Housing Justice Quality Mark.
2. Advice and Support
The Trustees are also keen to assist charities working with people who are affected by or threatened with homelessness. The Trustees wish to encourage applications to fund caseworker/s providing direct support, for example, to help find suitable housing, navigate access to benefits or organising appropriate professional assistance.
3. Training and Employment
The Trustees also welcome applications from charities providing training or employment opportunities for people seeking to leave homelessness behind them and move into regular work.
Charities applying under this category will have annual income of up to a maximum of £1M. NB: If your charity also provides accommodation, annual income must be less than £1M after deduction of rental income/housing benefit.
Community Youth Services
The Trust is interested in receiving applications to fund community youth services, designed to benefit children and young people aged 24* and under. The proposed grantee could be an existing youth service or a charity which is proposing to put together a multi-year community youth project. The service could be based around sporting, leisure, educational, musical or other activities of interest and benefit to young people, which promotes positive mental health and wellbeing and enables young people to connect with others in their community.
The service should be free to users and aimed primarily at children or young people experiencing inequalities and social exclusion, who may have experience of trauma and disadvantage such as family breakdown, bereavement, loss and separation, relationship difficulties or domestic violence. It could also be extended to children or young people affected by serious youth violence as well as associated experience of socioeconomic disadvantage, poverty or discrimination.
*funding up to the age of 24 years is to support the transition into adulthood.
Charities applying under this category will have annual income of up to a maximum of £1M.
What type of grants do we give?
Grants are given for projects; general running costs/core funding; salaries; advice services; furnishings/equipment; organisational development.
The Trustees do not normally consider building costs, only refurbishment or alterations necessary to bring a building up to standards to meet legislative requirements.
Exclusions
The Trustees will only consider appeals from national organisations at branch level where the branch is able to provide separate accounts and is responsible for its own finances.
The Trustees do not fund individuals.
The Trustees do not consider generally consider applications from charities with an income of over £1M, except where the conditions stated under Homelessness above are met.
The Trustees are unable to accept applications from charities that are not registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales.
How much do we give?
Grants are generally up to £5,000, unless applicants meet the specific criteria set out above for consideration for a larger grant, which the Trustees consider on a case by case basis. Grants may be repeated for a second year if funding is available, in all of the categories above.
When to apply?
The Trustees meet three times per year in March, July and November and application forms and supporting documentation must be submitted at least six weeks in advance of a meeting or by the date specified.
The next meeting of the Trustees is due to take place in
March 2023.
How to apply?
All applications must be submitted using the online application form. This can only be accessed by successfully completing the eligibility quiz using the link below.
Applications will open on Thursday 5th January 2023. Applications will close once we have received a sufficient amount of applications in order to avoid grant rounds being over subscribed, or on the 31st January 2023, whichever is soonest. We therefore advise you to submit your application as soon as you are able to and please check on our website that we are still accepting applications before you submit your application. We are unable to accept late applications.
The Community Action Fund exists to support grassroots campaigning and community organising in the UK.
It will provide one-off grants between £2,500 and £20,000.
These grants are available to grassroots organisations that are building the power of their community and campaigning for long-term change.
All successful applicants will be offered support beyond funding. This will include the Civic Power Fund Governance Hub and optional, bespoke cohort and capacity building opportunities.
The deadline is 26th February 2023.
IS THE COMMUNITY ACTION FUND RIGHT FOR YOU?
The Community Action Fund is open to UK-based organisations that are:
Rooted in and accountable to their community.
Hoping to achieve long-term change on issues affecting the lives of their community.
Addressing injustice by building the power of their community. For example, through community organising, campaigning, or democratic engagement.
Lacking the resources to take their vision to the next level.
Seeking to build a larger us and resisting the politics of division
The Community Action Fund prioritises organisations led by people with lived experience of the injustice they are trying to overcome.
HOW TO APPLY?
We do not want to waste your time.
Before submitting an application, you must first answer a short questionnaire to confirm your organisation is in scope.
The questionnaire includes a checklist of yes or no questions. It also includes four questions where you can share a few bullet points or a short video to tell us a bit more about your work.
To be eligible for funding you must complete the questionnaire by 26th February 2023.
The Randal Charitable Foundation welcomes applications from charities,
voluntary and Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs), which share similar goals and objectives to us.
Before enquiring about applying for grant funding please make sure you read about the different areas of work, which the Foundation supports in the Our Work section.
Our Application Process
The Trustees are keen to support causes in which the key aim is to directly save lives and therefore ask all applicants to give clear forecasted numbers for this within their application.
Once we have received an enquiry and approved for it to progress to the next stage, the Foundation will invite the charity/ organisation to complete a Foundation application form.
The key information which we require, includes:
The main objectives and focus areas of the organisation
The public benefit provided by the organisation
The amount (£) of Grant Funding requested and a breakdown of the project/cause cost
If the Grant Funding will be used for general purpose or support towards a specific cause and if so, the details of this project
If General Funding, a detailed breakdown of how the funds will be utilised
If the Grant Funding is for a specific cause, a detailed breakdown of costs for the project
If they require a one-off grant or multi-year funding.
The timescale of the grant period and the sustainability of the cause.
We ask all applicants to attach a copy of their Safeguarding Policy to accompany their application and confirm that there are no Safeguarding concerns within the organisation.
We also ask all applicants to include a copy of the latest Trustees’ Report, Safeguarding Policy, latest Financial Statements and Full Budget, as well as Charity Details from the Charity Commission Website
Please note that the Trustees do not enter into correspondence in respect of decisions made on applications for funding.