… We are delighted that the Garfield Weston Foundation has given the Resource Centre a £10,000 grant towards the cost of our advice and support work in 2016-17. This funding will enable us to continue our free one-to-one support for: Groups run by local residents in areas of social housing in Brighton & Hove Self-organised BME community groups Self-organised groups run by disabled people …
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Working with Communities Training
The Trust for Developing Communites has a few places left on their Working with Communities training. These are taking place on various dates in January 2016: Wednesday 13th January – one day course for those already working with communities or who are too busy to attend the two day course. Tuesday 19th January 2016 with day two on 1st March – a two day course supporting participants to design and test out their own approach to working with a com…
Information session about the Community Health Fund
Community Works are holding an information session about the Community Health Fund on Thursday 3 December, 6pm to 8pm at BMECP, 10a Fleet Street Brighton. The fund is aimed at groups with an annual income of under £35,000. The session will introduce the fund and it’s aims, go through the application form and timetable for applying and give information about support available to help you to make an application. There will also be plenty of time fo…
Stalls available at Celebrating Faith in Our Community event
Local community groups are invited to hold stalls at an event to celebrate faith in our local community. This event has been organised by a small group of faith organisations, working with the Interfaith Contact Group, B&H Faith in Action, the Health and Social Care Faith Forum and Community Works. Its purpose is to recognise and celebrate the wealth of work currently delivered by faith groups in the city and explore the potential for increased p…
Community Health funding for health improvement projects
If your group is planning a project which improves the health of your members, you can apply for a Community Health grant of up to £1500 in January 2016. Community Health funding is one of several different pots of money managed by Sussex Community Foundation. You can apply for it by filling in the general Sussex Community Foundation application form, and returning it by 15th January 2016. The Community Health fund is keen to work with groups who…
Brighton Energy Coop Community Fund
Brighton Energy Coop recently launched their new Community Fund: www.brightonenergy.org.uk/community-fund/. This year the fund is for £2,500, and is open for any organisation in the Brighton and Hove, East or West Sussex areas. The aim of the fund is to support local generation of renewable electricity or implement energy efficiency measures, as has been the intention for BEC since they began. You can see more about the fund here: http://bit.ly/1…
Community Works: Support for Trustees – Governance Surgeries
Community Works are running Governance Surgeries for trustees, management committee members or anyone in charge of the governance of their organisation. Wednesday 4 November, 6-8pm at the BMECP Centre Drop in anytime to speak to one of their experts and network with fellow trustees and management committee members. Community Works are bringing together all of the expertise, information and advice you could need if you are a trustee or are conside…
SafetyNet safeguarding workshops in November
SafetyNet have spaces on the following courses running during November. Use the links to find out more about the course and a book place via Eventbrite, or email [email protected] for more information. Supervising to Safeguard https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/supervising-to-safeguard-tuesday-3rd-november-2015-tickets-16627318758 Tuesday 3rd November, 10:00am – 4:00pm. This course is suitable for all managers who, as part of their role, hav…
Get to Grips with Social Media course, Brighton
… Creative Future have a 3 week course starting at Jubilee Library on Thursday 5th November; ‘Get to Grips with Social Media’. Fee: £7/£15 Dates 2015: 5, 12, 19 November Time: Thursdays 2-5pm Venue: Jubilee Library, Jubilee Street, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 1GE Places can be booked online here:http://www.creativefuture.org.uk/events/get-to-grips-with-social-media-brighton/ …
FREE Football inclusion sessions for homeless people
For those experiencing or working with homeless people. Inspired by the recent Homeless World Cup held in Amsterdam and won by Mexico. Albion in the Community is providing FREE football sessions EVERY Friday at Hove Lawns, meeting at the Peace statue at 11:00am for those homeless people that would like to join ‘the movement’! This is followed for those that wish by access to First Base for refreshments and computer access. No requirement to be fi…