This is where we’ll post third sector news and important updates that are useful for your organisation.
Third Sector is taking Tech Summit online!
They will be bringing together senior leadership specialists to discuss how you can operate a successful modern charity by leveraging the power of technology.
To register your interest in the summit, click here.
As part of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Essex County Council is reaching out to the
local community and voluntary sector with opportunities for grant funding. There are two funds
available: one-off small grants, which can be used for small organisations to offer support to their
own workforce; and larger one-off grants to target key groups identified as having additional
needs for wellbeing support.
Click here to read the full information.
More than 20 per cent of charities have less than a month’s worth of expenditure in reserve, new research has found.
A paper by David Clifford of the University of Southampton and John Mohan of the Third Sector Research Centre at the University of Birmingham says that of the approximately 12,700 charities in England and Wales studied, 21 per cent held less than one month’s spending in reserve.
About 10 per cent of charities in the sample held virtually no reserves, the paper says.
Read the full article here.
At Third Sector’s next briefing, industry leaders, HR and recruitment experts will present wellbeing initiatives that they have implemented in response to employees suddenly being forced to work from home.
Wellbeing in the third sector will be taking place on 10 December. Join us to learn how to best support your employees during this time of crisis.
Register for a free place.
This session has been designed to help explain what insurance requirements community groups, small charities and not for profits should consider, how an insurance policy would work, what are the most important elements of covers needed and what kind of claims could be brought against them.
The presentation will also include practical tips on how groups can understand their risk, measure it and mitigate against it, linking to the recently developed risk assessment templates.
Learning outcomes – At the end of this session, attendees will be able to:
Book your tickets now.
Free online Asset Based Community Development training programme delivered by Nurture Development, it is aimed at people in the Uttlesford Community who want to start something in their communities in an exciting new way.
This programme is aimed at local volunteers, community leaders, people who are community-minded but don’t know where to begin and people who want to develop their knowledge in this area of Community development are encouraged to register for this training opportunity.
Click here for more information.
Volunteer Essex are looking to understand how volunteering involving organisations have been affected by the COVID pandemic, what they predict for the next 6-12months challenges and opportunities as well as how Volunteer Essex can help as an infrastructure network.
Please complete the survey and circulate it to others.
We have a vision to develop Sustainable Communities with people in Essex. Our vision is “to transition the council from service-led to a citizen-led approach to improve Health and Wellbeing, with sustainable shared approaches led by communities themselves.”
Please continue to circulate the paper and invite your membership so that we can ensure we broaden the discussion into our VCS colleagues, which is imperative to ensure this reflects the system as a whole.
You can read the full paper, here.
Please see below the updated Life East Project for Southchurch, you can read it in full here.
We had proposed the introduction of 2 news outlets in the form of newspaper and spoken word, no longer feasible so scrapped. We had an initiative called SWAT, which has been rebranded Community Ambassadors. Connected Vision has a 2 level strategy now. Our SoHo initiative, regarding housing strategy, has been scrapped. We had a meeting with the company concerned and the concept is not transferrable and wouldn’t work, it would create issues we weren’t looking for.
New to Life East 2 are Carries Outreach, Get Together, Integrity, Concept Southchurch, which is our most ambitious plan, Village Square Deals, Twenty Minute Neighbourhood, Human CoOperative and FrostBite. Space @ The Beach has been rethought.
We have continued to work on our initiatives since August, but have been bound by restrictions. Please email us if you have any specific concerns you would like us to help with. We are currently in dialogue with the council regarding fly-tipping issues along Southchurch Road and continue to work with Community Police teams over a number of concerns.
We await funding for our website to be created and are working with the Essex Chambers of Commerce to achieve this aim. We still are scheduled for our AGM next March or April but once we have a clearer picture as to the situation we will confirm dates. We are looking for people to join us as part of the Foundation and Development Committee as Divisional Secretaries and Co-Ordinators.
A recent Third Sector survey focusing on Giving Tuesday revealed that over half of the respondents thought it was ‘a date we need to make more of’.
To inspire our readers to make more of the date, we have jam-packed our latest industry report, How to get the most from Giving Tuesday, with: