To apply for this position please download and complete the three-part application form at the bottom of this page and send it to hr@mindinwestessex.org.uk by the closing date of Wednesday 1st September 2021.
To apply for this position please download and complete the three-part application form at the bottom of this page and send it to hr@mindinwestessex.org.uk by the closing date of Wednesday 1st September 2021.
Interviews to be held on 6th September 2021 via zoom.
To apply for this position please download and complete the three-part application form at the bottom of this page and send it to hr@mindinwestessex.org.uk by the closing date of Friday 10th September 2021.
United In Kind Radio is a digital broadcasting platform with shares great music, community information and messages of thanks and kindness, across our local communities, here in Essex.
If you would like to share a message of thanks and kindness with our listeners – you can call us and leave a message on our answerphone on: 03333 409505.
Listen on the go – download the United in Kind Radio Apps!
A FREE online sessions available from ECFRS. If you could share across the membership of the group, I would appreciate it.
ECFRS online fire safety awareness sessions are presented over Microsoft teams, last for approximately 50 mins and provide the following :
Understand how to assess the risk of fire in the home
Recognise the common causes of fire in the home
Recognise the warning signs that an individual could be at increased risk of fire
Understand how to make a referral to ECFRS, and know what support we can offer
After completion of the session, you will be emailed supporting documentation to assist you in the information shared during the session.
We are currently working on an online booking system but until that is in place, we are arranging bookings over email.
Please identify a session that would be suitable for you from the list below, email me with your preferred date and time and I will book you in and confirm back by email with a link to the session you have booked.
If you are part of a larger group (5+) we can arrange a session outside of these times to deliver to the whole group to support availability. Please contact me for further details.
Fires safety awareness sessions August to mid-September.
Due to Covid-19, physical activity is now positioned as essential to health and wellbeing. Active Essex and Essex County Council are taking the bold step of creating a major new campaign called Find Your Active to ensure physical activity is a top priority for everyone.
The ‘Community Connector’ role will provide the eyes and ears on the ground for Active Essex. Working within local communities and alongside United in Kind Coaches, to map physical activity where it already exists and help facilitate it where it doesn’t. The post is fixed term for 12 months.
For more information on this role including job description please visit our website:
Do you have a proven track record of community coordinator and developing community relationships? Would you like to deliver an exciting new project in West Essex over the next year?
If you have previous experience of working in the health and wellbeing arena and understand the benefits of building community interventions, we would love to hear from you.
This exciting new role will build partnerships that tackle health inequalities through a series of projects over the next twelve months. For more information on the role including job description please visit our website:
Communities in two of the country’s most significant and cherished designated landscapes are set to benefit thanks to funding provided by DEFRA to the Suffolk Coast & Heaths and Dedham Vale Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
£59,000 of grant support has been awarded through the Sustainable Development Funds, which aim to support projects that will lead to the further conservation and enhancement of the areas.
Successful projects in the Suffolk Coast & Heaths AONB, which stretches from Kessingland in the North to the southern shore of the Stour Estuary in North Essex, include RSPB Havergate Island for a Spoonbill deep water feeding creation project, and historic Dunwich Greyfriars Trust for ‘Chronicles of Greyfriars’ – a programme of summer activities for children and adults.
Meanwhile in the Dedham Vale AONB, an area covering much of world renowned Constable Country, projects to be awarded funds include National Trust Flatford’s creation of a Valley Farm Kitchen Garden Children’s Project – Grow It Wild, forming a hub for local school children and community workshops, in addition to St Mary’s Church, East Bergholt for a Bell Cage and Church History Education project at the famous location.
QUOTE FROM SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FUND PANEL
“Over the past 18 months, millions of people have discovered the benefits of nature and how important our surroundings are for our physical and mental health – highlighting the need to protect them for future generations.
The Sustainable Development Fund is one of several easily accessible grants for a variety of projects to make a real difference in local communities across Suffolk and Essex.
This year we received a wide range of applications and consider the projects selected to most strongly meet the sustainable environmental, social and economic goals of the Fund, so that the unique landscape of the AONB is conserved, making it more enjoyable for all. “
AONB Grants are available to a variety of community and conservation organisations (or individuals) to support projects for the benefit of the Coast & Heaths AONB and the Dedham Vale AONB & Stour Valley.
A further £16,000 is now open for applications across two Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
The AONB is seeking applications from local community projects that are innovative, socially inclusive, sustainable, that benefit the public and involve partnership working.
Whether you have a project that works in heritage, media, conservation, learning, health, accessibility, and diversity, to give but a few examples, we welcome your applications. Find out more about the Sustainable Development Fund and Stour Valley Environment Fund atdedhamvalestourvalley.org or the Community and Conservation Fund at suffolkcoastandheaths.org.
For more information, contact Oka Last, Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Grants Officer, on 01394 445225 orAONBgrants@suffolk.gov.uk.
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Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs) are some of the UK’s most outstanding landscapes. There are 38 AONBs in England and Wales, and a further eight in Northern Ireland.
The Suffolk Coast and Heaths and Dedham Vale AONBs are two protected landscapes and make up part of the 46 strong family of AONBs nationwide
Both AONBs celebrated their 50th anniversary last year
The Sustainable Development Fund is a fund provided by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to enable local communities and other organisations to make a difference in AONBs by promoting and achieving sustainable development, partnership, and social inclusion.
On the 22nd September at 16.00 arranged by Citizens Advice Essex in partnership with FRP.
Charities, small and large, will face unprecedented challenges in the coming years. If you’re a charity trustee, what are the warning signs that there could be trouble ahead for your charity?
This timely webinar, provided by experts in charity restructuring and insolvency, examines the lessons to be learnt from charities that have experienced distress and some of the root causes that could have averted crisis if addressed earlier.
The Charity Commission has opened a statutory inquiry into a charity whose trustees were involved in the awarding of loans totalling over £1.7m to a company they had connections to.
The regulator first opened an inquiry into the MB Foundation (also known as the Mossad Horav Aryeh Halevy) as part of its “double defaulters” class inquiry for failing to submit annual accounts for the financial years ending 31 March 2014 and 31 March 2015.
Subsequent scrutiny of the accounts and information received from the trustees raised several concerns about the charity’s governance, in particular, the trustees’ handling of conflicts of interest, the commission said.
The charity lists its activities as providing financial support to help relieve sickness and poverty.
But the charity’s trustees, which the commission said were all brothers, carried out several transactions with companies and individuals directly connected to the trustees or the trustees’ family members.
This included a total of four loans to a connected company totalling more than £1.7m, according to the regulator.
The trustees had failed to provide any formal documentation in relation to the loans, the commission said, and they did not provide information to demonstrate they had adequately identified or managed conflicts of interest.
The regulator said its inquiry would focus on the trustees’ decision making, particularly regarding loans and investments and whether the trustees had adequately managed potential conflicts of interests.
It will examine if there has been any unauthorised or indirect private benefit,
whether the charity has suffered any financial loss as a result of any mismanagement/misconduct.
It will also assess whether trustees have fulfilled their duties and responsibilities under charity law.
Third Sector was unable to contact anyone from the charity for comment.