News

This is where we’ll post third sector news and important updates that are useful for your organisation.

What If Your Job Was Good For You? Report

Business in the Community’s (BITC) What If Your Job Was Good For You? report identifies actions employers can take to transform wellbeing at work. The report sets out how business leaders can create an environment in which employees feel supported to do their best work. It also outlines how to achieve good jobs for all, that drive sustainable positive mental health outcomes.

The What If Your Job Was Good for You? report was delivered in partnership with the BITC Wellbeing Leadership Team and Affinity Health at Work, and supported by CIPD.

Download the report here.

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Community Accelerator

A program to help leaders harness the power of their community to turn impactful ideas into action.

 

Training & Coaching

Learn how to organize and strengthen your community through custom training, one-on-one coaching and meaningful partnerships.

Access to New Products

Get early access to new products aimed at helping you manage and activate your community.

Funding

Facebook will work with GlobalGiving to offer you up to $50k USD to help fund your community’s initiatives, with a subset of communities eligible to receive part of $1 million USD in additional funding.

 

Find out more here.

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Reflective Practice Session for Senior Managers

A webinar on the challenges of working in the voluntary sector. Appreciation and understanding of the role of the sector, caring for yourselves and each other.

Wednesday 7th July @ 4pm (via Teams) 

Dr Leon Fletcher-Tomenius and Magnus Irvine of Here For You service will facilitate a reflective practice session for managers during a 50 mins to an hour online reflective space.

This will be a space for managers to talk about their recent experience of working through the pandemic and how this has impacted on them with a particular focus on the challenges of the changing environment, understanding of the role of the sector and being reactive not proactive.

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Mid Essex Mental Health Forum

Your chance to share your experiences of Mid Essex Mental Health Services and ask any questions you may have – join us on Thursday 15 July from 1:30pm to 3:00pm. Email epunft.pet@nhs.net to attend.

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Social media strategy for housing CEOs: how to lead a new kind of tenant and stakeholder engagement

There’s one fundamental thing that almost every social housing organisation in the UK is getting wrong with their social media. 

In this free webinar you’ll learn what that is, how to get it right, and you will change how you think about your organisation’s communications.

  • Ever wondered why your housing association’s social media doesn’t get much engagement?
  • Think there’s too much negativity on your Facebook page?
  • Want to know how you can support and lead your comms team to turn your social media in a thriving community of positivity?
You’re not alone.
Learn what you need to do to turn your organisation’s social media around: from ghost towns and slanging matches, into thriving communities.

Join one of the UK’s leading social media experts, Hel Reynolds, for a thought-provoking talk that will show you what you can do to make your social media an asset to your organisation, and the people you serve.

Enter your email address below to get the video sent straight to your inbox (check your spam folder if you don’t see it!).

Register here.

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Net Zero: Making Essex Carbon Neutral

The Essex Climate Action Commission is launching its report at this online event to mark the end of its first year advising Essex on how best to reach net zero.

Since it was established and met for the first time in May 2020, the Commission has been discussing what action it recommends the county of Essex should take in order to tackle climate change. This event will launch the report which will reveal the Commission’s key recommendations on a number of key themes:

  • Transport
  • The Built Environment
  • Energy and Waste
  • Land Use and Green Infrastructure
  • Community Engagement

We all have a role to play in taking action on climate change – join us at this event to hear the Essex Climate Action Commission’s views on how working together now, we can secure a brighter, greener future for the people of Essex.

Why attend?

Delegates will learn how best the Essex Climate Action Commission recommends Essex transforms itself into a net zero county as quickly as possible. Innovative ways in which we can take action now to minimise the impact of climate change will be revealed.

Extensive research on what Essex residents think, will also be revealed during the event.

Delegates will also have the option to network with over 30 Commissioners as well as fellow delegates both before and after the main event.

Who should attend?

This event will be of interest to:

  • Residents
  • Students
  • Young people
  •      Educationalestablishments
  •     Community groups, charities and voluntary groups
  •      Anchor institutions
  • Local and national government
  • Other climate commissions
  • Essex businesses
  • Businesses looking to invest in Essex
  •      Land owners and farmers

The event will be particularly relevant to professionals in those sectors linked to the key themes covered in the report.

Register now to secure your place at this event on 20th July! https://www.airmeet.com/e/a384a230-c9ee-11eb-b8a2-eb5d6bc1deff

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Time to Change Essex Assistant – Mind in West Essex

Base : Harlow – travel across Essex
Hours: 8 hours per week (1-year fixed term, extension pending further funding )
Salary: £10.36 per hour

To read the job description please click here

To apply for any of these positions 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 11th July 2021.
Interview date TBC : Wednesday 23rd July or Friday 25th July

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Applications for final funding from Culture Recovery to open soon

The government has said it will “shortly” start to accept applications for the final part of its £2bn Culture Recovery Fund emergency funding package, which amounts to about £300m.

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport said the fund had provided £1.2bn to more than 5,000 organisations in England, with further support going to help organisations in Scotlad, Wales and Northern Ireland.

It said this had helped protect an estimated 75,000 jobs and supported almost 100,000 freelancers in the arts and culture sector.

It said the third and final round of funding would go towards protecting more “culturally significant organisations in need” and provide additional funding to some existing recipients of the fund.

The DCMS said it hoped that thousands of arts, heritage, cultural and creative organisations would receive support from the fund to secure their futures and help them move towards reopening at full capacity.

It said that of the more than £300m that would be made available, £218.5m would go to organisations “at imminent risk of failure” that had not yet received any funding from the scheme, plus existing recipients.

The DCMS said a further £35m would be put in the Heritage Stimulus Fund, taking the total allocated to £80m, to support major programmes of work and repair grants for heritage at risk.

The government said £20m would go in a Cultural Asset Fund, which would support the £20m National Heritage Memorial Fund’s Covid-19 Response Fund, designed to save heritage assets at risk of loss.

A further £35m is available for “contingencies”.

The government said guidance for each funding stream would be published shortly.

“Funding will be available to boost those who have received support already while ensuring more culturally significant organisations do not fail as a result of the pandemic, protecting theatres, museums, galleries, independent cinemas and organisations around the country for future generations and safeguarding hundreds of thousands of creative jobs in the supply chain,” the DCMS said.

Oliver Dowden, the culture secretary, said: “This round of funding will provide a further boost to help organisations build back better and ensure we can support more of those in need – safeguarding our precious culture and heritage, and the jobs this supports.”

Sourced from Third Sector.

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Student volunteering boom this summer

A volunteering boom among young people is being predicted for the summer by the Royal Voluntary Service (RVS).

It has released the findings of a survey that show that seven out of ten students aged 18-24 plan to spend their summer break volunteering.

The survey found that more than a third (34%) of students believe that volunteering “will give them a sense of purpose they are lacking.

A similar proportion (35%) want to ‘give back’ following a pandemic bit year for the country.

Schemes young people are looking to get involved in include the NHS Volunteer Responders Initiative, which is being delivered by the RVS and GoodSAM on behalf of NHS England.

This includes a call for students to help at Covid-19 vaccination sites as stewards.

RVS chief executive Catherine Johnstone said: “It’s great that students and other young people are now able to get their first dose – and by volunteering over the summer they can help the NHS protect many others too.

“Feedback from those who have stepped forward already has been fantastic, with people saying it has boosted their CV as well as being a great way to make friends.”

Sourced from Charity Times.

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