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The fund is open for applications now. It provides grants to help social enterprises rebuild from COVID-19. It is established in partnership by The National Lottery Community Fund and five social enterprise support agencies.
Please see the attached job description here
To apply for this position please click here.
Applications open on 2 December for grants from the new £4 million fund to support suicide prevention voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations across 2021 to 2022.
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has made available £4 million for a grant fund to support suicide prevention VCSE organisations across 2021 to 2022. A portion of the grant fund will be ring-fenced specifically to help support small community-led and user-led groups and organisations.
The application portal for the grant fund will open on 2 December and will close on 6 January 2022. The grant fund is being administered by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) on behalf of DHSC.
Further guidance and support on the application process will be available through a webinar shortly.
You can register your interest to get updates on the grant fund and webinar.
This page will be updated on 2 December with a link to the application portal, and key documents including the application guidance. This guidance will provide full details of the fund, eligibility criteria and application process.
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When applying for funding from Enovert Community Trust, it is important to demonstrate how your proposal will benefit your community.
Your application will be more effective if you can outline who will be using your facility, how many members of the community will frequent it, and if you can demonstrate a real need for it in the local area. Letters of support are helpful, as is succinct information about your project, which will enable the Trustees to gauge its impact. To be eligible for funding from the Trust, your organisation must comply with the following guidelines:
Enovert’s Greatness Landfill Site in Sevenoaks is now closed and as a result the Trust has closed to new applications from the Sevenoaks area. Its last funding round for Sevenoaks was 10 September 2021 for a meeting on 19 October 2021.
If you’re aged 60+ and from Epping, Harlow or Uttlesford, have your say about West Essex based NHS services.
Thursday 16 December 2021 at 11am – 12:30pm
To find out more and book your place email: epunft.pet@nhs.net
Tesco Community Grants helps to fund thousands of local projects across the country. Since 2016 the scheme has supported over 40,000 community groups with more than £90 million in grants. The scheme aims to make a positive difference – because where our communities thrive, our business and our colleagues thrive too.
Tesco Community Grants is managed by Groundwork who are working with greenspace scotland to support applicants in Scotland.
Tesco Community Grants is open to charities and community organisations to apply for a grant of up to £1,500. Every three months, three local good causes are selected to be in the blue token customer vote in Tesco stores throughout the UK.
Suffolk and North East Essex ICS and Cancer Research UK facilitators invite you to join a workshop:
Cancer is Everyone’s Business
Tuesday 14th December 2021 @ 13:00 – 14:00pm via Microsoft Teams.
Learn more about:
< what cancer actually is and the importance of early diagnosis
< practical steps you can take to lower your risk of getting cancer
< the national cancer screening programmes and how to access them
< myth busting around cancer
< how you can help your community by championing the national screening programmes
For more information, please email susan.robertson@cancer.org.uk or to register just click the link below.
Please see the attached job description here
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 Thursday 2nd December 2021.
Interview date TBA
We are pleased to draw your attention to the application process for Leading Greater Essex (LGE) 2022 which is now open until 3rd December 2021.
As many of you will be aware for the past few years we have run Leading Greater Essex, a whole system leadership programme to support emerging leaders across the Greater Essex gain the skills and experience to further progress in their roles, look beyond organisational boundaries and help tackle complex cross-profession challenges.
Since 2016 more than 200 leaders have already successfully completed Leading Greater Essex and are now applying their learning within their place of work, operating as effective system leaders.
For this years prospectus and the link to application form , please visit the LGE page of our partnership website
If you or your colleagues would like to hear more about the programme this year we would welcome the opportunity to talk to you further, if you would like to arrange a chat or presentation at an upcoming session please email Shammi Jalota (shammi.jalota@essex.gov.uk).