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Essex County Council has teamed up with the University of Essex to lead a research project about women’s safety at night.
The online survey takes around 5-10 minutes to complete and responses will be used to inform future work of Essex County Council’s Safety Advisory Group (SAG).
The survey is open until Sunday 15th January, residents can take part here.
We know people are worried about rising costs and may be struggling. This document outlines a range of services, resources and additional information to help the county during this difficult time.
Grants for Good is our first fund that invites local charities, voluntary groups or social enterprises that have an average annual income of less than £50,000 to apply to us for funding.
Every three months, we’ll share £10,000 between 5 shortlisted projects that have a positive impact on communities, people or the environment.
Since 2011, the Matthew Good Foundation has empowered employees of the John Good Group to support many good causes in the UK and around the world by nominating good causes for funding. However, in 2021, our tenth year, we wanted to extend our impact and allow small charities, community projects and social entrepreneurs to come straight to us.
To stay true to our ethos of donating funds to causes close to the hearts of our members, every three months, five shortlisted projects will be voted for by John Good Group employees. These five charities will all receive a share of £10,000 – the more votes a cause receives, the bigger the donation. Following the vote, the project that receives the most votes will receive a grant of £3,500, second place £2,500, third place £2,000 and fourth and fifth place will both receive £1,000.
Charities and projects are welcome to apply all year round, and your application will be considered in the next funding round. Funding will be awarded every three months, in April, July, October and January, with an application deadline of the 15th of the month before. Eg. for the April round, applications will close on the 15th March, for the October round, applications will close on 15th September.
Your application must be on behalf of a local community group, charity, voluntary group or social enterprise that has a positive impact on communities, people or the environment and has an average income of less than £50,000 in the last 12 months.
We want to make it easy for very small charities or new community interest companies to apply, so organisations/groups do not need to be a registered charity, however, you will need to have a bank account in your organisation’s/project’s name such as a community bank account. We are not able to provide funding to personal bank accounts.
We don’t want small charities to be intimidated by lengthy forms to complete – so we’ve kept the online application form straightforward. We’ll need your contact details, a brief outline of the organisation’s work, and how you’ll use the funds. We’ll also need a reference from someone not involved in the project, but with enough knowledge of what you do to support your application.
If you have any problems applying using the online form, please email [email protected].
Please forward this on to your team and anyone you think could be interested in this opportunity
Essex County Council are inviting Individuals with Learning Disabilities and/or Autism and Essex businesses to apply for Grant funding to open or expand their business to employ individuals with Learning Disabilities and Autism.
Essex County Council have up to £120,000 worth of funding available for Essex Businesses, with grants of up to £25,000 available per proposal.
The Council welcomes small and medium commercially viable businesses that are focused on creating solutions to overcome barriers that create real and meaningful jobs for individuals with Learning Disabilities and Autism.
Do you:
If so, then this funding opportunity is for you.
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To find out more information and to request an expression of interest form please email [email protected]. |
Applications open Thursday 1 December 2022 and will close on Friday 13th January 2023.
We have just launched our secondary prevention workstream fund for 2023-24.
This is an exciting new fund from the VVU, with a potential pot of £380, 000 to support and provide interventions for children, young people and families who are at risk of being involved in criminality and exploitation through factors that make them more vulnerable than their peers.
This fund has two rounds; Round one will fund work taking place from January 2023, and round 2.) will fund work taking place from April 2023-March 2024.
The Secondary Prevention Workstream focuses on those Children, Families & Young People, who are at risk of being involved in criminality and exploitation through factors that make them more vulnerable than their peers.
These factors might include but are not limited to- Adverse Childhood Experience, early trauma, peer/ sibling/ parental involvement in criminality, difficulty in engaging with education, risk of ‘falling out’ of education, poverty, disenfranchisement.
The secondary prevention ‘cohort’ includes children and young people suspected of being involved in county lines, gangs and knife crime.
Applications should demonstrate how projects have a positive impact on reducing serious violence, criminality and exploitation in areas within Southend, Essex and Thurrock.
Interventions need to target one or more of the vulnerable groups – especially those at risk of ‘falling out’ of education, and those who are frequently missing from education; those accessing A&E departments due to violence or threat of violence.
Outcomes should include increased awareness and resilience towards serious violence, criminality and exploitation with individuals taking part having the opportunity to divert away from crime and exploitation toward more positive futures.
All applications must demonstrate how their project enables children & young people to do one or more of the following: Improve engagement with education; Reduce the risk of exploitation and increase protective factors; Make positive choices that keep them safe; Raise self-esteem and confidence; Build resilience; Improve emotional and physical health and mental well-being.
And finally, applications must demonstrate how they reflect in their approach and delivery the learning from the Youth Endowment Fund Toolkit.
1.) This funding round is ONLY open to for local **’not for profit’ voluntary or community groups and statutory organisations based in, and delivering in Essex, Southend and Thurrock. (Excluding schools, colleges or educational establishments – unless in conjunction with a voluntary community sector provider as above).
2.) We are looking to fund projects that meet our stated aims and can run from January OR April 2023-31st March 2024.
3.) Projects starting in January will be funded in ‘Round One’, and projects with an April start date will be funded in ‘Round Two’. Projects funded from January onwards in round one must be an established project with face-face work taking place in January.
3.) Groups can apply for more than one project if they would like to, but the total cost of all applications must be no more than £50,000
For the timeline and funding guidance visit: https://ecvys.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/secondary-prevention-fund-information.docx
For any outstanding questions take a look at our Q&A sheet available at https://ecvys.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/secondary-prevention-fund-q-and-a.docx
If you have any questions not already answered in our Q&A sheet, then please contact Jim White [email protected], or Rachel Brett [email protected]
Apply for this fund online using the link https://forms.gle/Rd9hK3EEJU7bUpSZA
Be Well & Age Well Fund Launch Meeting
One Colchester Hub, 4-6 Long Wyre Street
On Monday 16th January 2-4pm, C360 will be co-facilitating a meeting with the Be Well (£150,000) & Age Well (£167,000) domains to launch a fund totalling £317k aimed to address key priorities:
Be Well
Outcome : Adults are empowered to make health lifestyle choices.
Funding Criteria: Physical activity in men aged 30-50 (linked to higher men suicide rates).
Cost of Living Support – healthy, affordable and sustainable eating.
Age Well
Outcome: For people to live as safely and independently as possible as they grow older
Funding Criteria:
The meeting will start at 2pm and will close at 4pm including time for networking.
The session will be interactive with an opportunity to hear from the Be Well & Age Well Domain followed by a networking session.
One Colchester, the local strategic partnership for the Borough, is holding £317,000 for distribution in Colchester over the next two years. The same figure is being held by Tendring Together whose launch event will take place on the same day 10am-12pm please contact [email protected] for more details. C360 and CVS Tendring are providing administrative support for managing the fund and supporting development of applications. There will be the potential to explore awarding funds to groups working across North East Essex through the collaborative management of the funding.
If you would like to attend the Colchester event, please contact [email protected] to confirm. If you would like to be involved but are unable to attend, get in touch and your name will be registered.
Co-op and Crowdfunder have teamed up to help community organisations navigate the cost of living crisis to provide vital services this winter.
Are you welcoming people into a warm space in your community, or wanting to extend existing activities or services to support more people?
Eligible community groups could get up to £3,000 to continue or extend vital services.
This £1m match fund has been launched by Co-op to support local organisations who are supporting their communities through rising costs this winter, by bringing people together into warm spaces.
To be eligible for match funding your organisation must:
Your project must be a community organisation that welcomes people into a community space in your local area to provide support and needs urgent help this winter to:
Typical projects may include (but are not limited to):
Match Funding criteria:
To receive match funding, the following conditions must all be met:
This fund will be distributed on a first come first serve basis and applications will close on 28th February 2023.
Please read the full funding boost criteria before applying
Projects will be required to agree to the Terms and Conditions
Please see the attached job description here
To apply for this position please click on the application form button at the top of this page, and complete the form by the closing date of Friday 23rd December 2022
Interview date – 4th January 2023
Covid-19 has affected all aspects of our society along with the current cost of living crisis. There has been profound disruption to people’s lives and livelihoods and a significant impact on people’s physical, and mental health as well as their wellbeing.
Uttlesford Community Response Hub has been established in response to these needs and we are therefore looking for a highly motivated, practical individual to provide support, signposting, and engage with residents and communities in specific tasks whilst connecting them with health, the voluntary sector and other social services or support such as
volunteers to ensure that all Uttlesford residents in need get the support they require.
The successful candidate will be working alongside our other Community Responder. We are looking for someone who has good practical and people skills. This role would suit someone with a hands-on approach and will involve driving to different locations across West Essex, so access to own vehicle is essential. Training will be given to those unfamiliar
with the health, social care and voluntary sectors.
Download our Job Description and Person Specification
Please call 01371 878400 for an informal conversation about the role. No CV’s will be accepted, please email [email protected] to request an application form.
Please return your completed application form to the above email by 17:00hrs on the 21st of December 2022. Interviews will commence the week beginning 9th of January 2023.
Please be aware that this role will require an Enhanced DBS check and two satisfactory. References are to be provided and the completion of a 2-month Probationary period. This role will also require the ability to drive and have access to a vehicle for use at work (Mileage will be paid).
Children’s Services Manager
Contract type: Permanent
Available posts: 1
Area Covered: South Region – Surrey, Kent, Essex, and Isle of Wight
Purpose:
Barnardo’s National Counter Trafficking Service runs several different services across England and Wales. This includes the Independent Child Trafficking Guardianship Service, a statutory provision set out in Section 48 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
Do you want to improve the lives of young people affected by modern slavery? Do you have immigration, social care or criminal justice experience? Are you an experienced manager who is ready to join a passionate growing team and step up to this challenge? If your answers are yes, we want to hear from you.
Our Children’s Services Managers:
This is a Home-Based role but will involve some travel around the region to meet with staff and attend meetings. Do you drive? Do you have access to a car? If the answers are yes, we want to hear from you.
What are the benefits of joining the National Counter Trafficking Service?
About Barnardo’s:
At Barnardo’s we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Our safer recruitment processes mean that the safety and welfare of the child is paramount at every stage of the process and therefore, we adopt rigorous scrutiny in our pre-employment checking. This post is subject to a range of pre-employment checks including a Criminal Records Enhanced Disclosure for the successful candidate(s).
We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo’s values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.
For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which should be in place by 1st April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a key pillar of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to grow and develop in their career at Barnardo’s.
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible
Barnardo’s believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
At Barnardo’s we believe in children – no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.
Barnardo’s is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce for staff and volunteers. We actively encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within Barnardo’s.