Britain is facing its biggest cost of living crisis in decades. Citizens Advice has seen more people coming to us for help with crisis support, energy problems and not having enough money to make ends meet than ever before.
Join Citizens Advice and a panel of experts for our second regular Cost of Living Briefing. We’ll be sharing more of our data insights on how the cost of living crisis is affecting our clients.
A recording of this event will be available afterwards for anyone who was unable to attend or would like to watch it back. Please check back here for updates on how that will be shared.
Britain is facing its biggest cost of living crisis in decades. Citizens Advice has seen more people coming to us for help with crisis support, energy problems and not having enough money to make ends meet than ever before. In this dashboard we share insights from across our service on how the crisis is affecting our clients.
We’ll be updating this dashboard every month tracking how the cost of living crisis is changing. If there are insights you’d like to hear from us, please get in contact at [email protected]
YMCA Essex is a growing, medium-sized Youth Charity working across the county of Essex with an exciting mission and a passionate team.
The Charity wishes to encourage expressions of interest in joining the Governing Body to help further its aims and objectives. The role of a non-executive Governor is not salaried (although expenses are paid) but provides opportunities to contribute to the development of the Charity working with other members of the Governing Body, the CEO and the wider team of paid and volunteer staff.
All Governors need to have the skills, senior level strategic experience and time to make a significant contribution to the work of the Board. Appointments are made to ensure that collectively the Governing Body has the full range of skills required to govern a growing, medium-sized charity with a turnover in 2022/23 expected to be approaching £2m. Legal, financial, Safeguarding, Youth Development and Housing knowledge are particularly sought after.
To find out more and to receive a Board Member prospectus, please submit an expression of interest to [email protected]
A lot has changed over the past two years and charity finance teams have had the tough job of helping to keep the cash flowing in an organised manner.
At Charity Times, we’re producing a report into the state of charity finance. We want to know what the major challenges facing finance teams look like and how you’re all overcoming them. But to do this, we really need your help.
Could you be a trustee with Healthwatch Essex? We are looking for someone with exceptional qualities who can add value to the governance of our charity. We are keen to hear from you if you have particular expertise or experience in finance or accounting. More details are available in the:
2 Posts – one each at Citizens Advice Uttlesford and Citizens Advice Harlow
Hours: 18.5 hours per week
Salary: FTE Circa £30,000 (actual salary will be determined by employing Local Citizens Advice Office but is expected to be in this region)
Citizens Advice Essex, the consortium of local Citizens Advice serving Essex, Southend and Thurrock, has entered into a long-term partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support to set up and deliver a new specialist advice service providing expert welfare benefits advice to people diagnosed with cancer and their families. The service aims to support individuals holistically, to ensure the financial effect of their diagnosis is mitigated by ensuring all possible benefits are claimed, other sources of financial support accessed and that they are referred to other Citizens Advice or Macmillan services where appropriate.
To assist the Project Manager in overall operational management for Macmillan-funded services across the Citizen Advice Consortium. Candidates will require previous administrative experience. We welcome applications from those who have worked in a project management environment or where this has been a significant element of their organisation’s work.
We are very excited to announce the launch of the VVU Community Grants funding for 2023-2024.
As a partnership, our strategic goal is to reduce serious violence, the harm it causes, and to safeguard those at risk (relating to county lines, gangs and knife crime). We recognise that local organisations and groups are at the forefront of some amazing work that takes place to address these issues and we would like to support this work further as much as we can.
Our 2022-2024 VVCS grant round is for local *’not for profit’ voluntary or community clubs or organisations based in (and therefore delivering in) Essex, Southend and Thurrock only, and we are looking to fund projects that meet our stated aims and can run from April 2023- 31st March 2024.
Groups can apply for up to **£20,000 to deliver support and interventions for children, young people, young adults and families (families must include children and young people, and ‘young person’ is defined as up to the age of 25). Projects must demonstrate how they have a positive impact on issues relating to crime and anti-social behaviour and violence and vulnerability. This may include early intervention work, gang & ‘county lines’, and child criminal exploitation projects.
**Our grants funding this year has a total pot of just under £156,000 that we will look to distribute as evenly as possible across the 12 ECC districts/ Quadrants plus Southend & Thurrock. Please bear this is mind when completing your applications.
We would be particularly interested in projects that can evidence they are meeting needs as highlighted by young people and local residents in our Listening Project 2021-2022.
You can read the full report here https://ecvys.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/vvu-listening-2021-2022-youth-report-final.pdf The report only focuses on 7 Districts in Essex, but the fund is open to all (including Southend & Thurrock). Some examples of need highlighted in the report are-
• Indoor/ outdoor safe spaces with affordable & inclusive activities for young people to socialise (this can include a one off cost for lighting the outside of voluntary group spaces to create a safer space for young people, additional staff or youth activities).
• Opportunities for young people to learn life skills, participate in community based or volunteering projects and undertake work experience
• Work with young people and their families to raise awareness of youth violence
• Projects that promote greater communication and positive engagement between the police, youth groups and schools
• Targeted youth work aimed at those young people most at risk of exploitation
• Support for victims of youth violence
• Drugs education in informal settings or led by voluntary groups in schools with evidenced links to how drug use relates to young people becoming involved in serious violence
The fund is open to work of all ages from 0-25 but we would especially like to see some applications for creative work around risk taking behaviours with primary school age children and their families.
Please do read the listening report and try to evidence the need for your intervention within your application, referencing the listening report or local needs if your district is not one of the 7 listed.
All applications must demonstrate how their project enables children & young people to-
• Make positive choices that keep them safe
• Raise self-esteem and confidence
• Build resilience
• Improve emotional and physical health and mental wellbeing
• Have a letter of support from the local CSP
*PLEASE NOTE THAT: Your organisation MUST have a recognised constitution and be a- not for profit voluntary or community club or organisation, a registered Charity, A not for profit company or community interest company or other social enterprise. company limited by guarantee, charitable incorporated organisation or Registered society.