One Voice, May 21st 2015- calling all community groups! Local community members together with Brighton & Hove Council are organising an event called One Voice to coincide with the UN Day for Cultural Diversity. UN Day for Cultural Diversity is about sharing cultural customs with others and learning about other people’s cultural traditions. One Voice is a program of work in Brighton and Hove that is reconfirming the need for communities to work to…
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Supported volunteering opportunities: survey
The Volunteer Centre Brighton & Hove (part of Community Works), The Fed Centre for Independent Living and Better Futures would like to find out from you what’s available in Brighton & Hove regarding accessible volunteering opportunities. Their aim is to increase and improve the volunteering offer in the City to disabled people and also increase organisations’ capacity and diversity by opening up opportunities to more people. Please help by comple…
Community Health Fund deadline 17 July
Grants of up to £1,500 are available to community groups (annual income up to £35,000) working on health improvement projects. The next deadline for applications is 5pm Friday 17th July 2015 (Sussex Community Foundation are managing the grant giving process). A few examples of things funded in the past include: Community festivals with a health and well-being focus Singing groups Serving healthy food in a group Exercise classes for women from BME…
Review of Brighton & Hove Council Annual Grants
… Community and voluntary organisations are invited to a consultation meeting with officers from the city council’s Communities and Third Sector team, to discuss proposed changes to the Annual Grants programme. Date: Monday 1st June 2015 Time: 9.30am -12.30pm Venue: Auditorium, Brighthelm Centre, North Road, Brighton To book a place, contact Emma McDermott: [email protected] …
Community Works summer conference
Bookings are now open for the Community Works Summer Conference, due to take place on Tuesday 9 June. Book your place by Monday 1 June at the latest (early booking is recommended to secure your place), at: http://bhcommunityworks.org.uk/members/services-members/events-networking/ At this Conference, each of the 5 networks will be themed around safeguarding. You can choose to attend one session in the morning, and one session in the afternoon …
Free video production workshop
… The Media Trust is running an introductory workshop for charitable and community groups to help them understand how they can create video content that will enable them to amplify their campaigns and calls to action. When: 13 May 2015, 10.00am-4.00pm, Where: Brighton You need to complete an application form to apply to attend. For more details and an application form contact Adam Perry on: [email protected] …
Small grants for Health & Wellbeing projects in London Road/Trafalgar/New England area
Grants of up to £500 are available to groups and organisations to run projects/activities that will impact on the Health and Wellbeing of the above area. Priority will be given to projects that: educate to prevent people starting to smoke or support them when they are ready to stop. help to reduce obesity, improve diet and nutrition, (e.g. via cooking skills, food growing, etc.) improve sexual health ensure active living & increase exercise impro…
Information sessions about Community Works Mentoring programme
The Community Works Mentoring Programme for 2015-16 is coming soon. They are holding two Information Sessions for anyone who would like to find out more. Whether you would like to take part as a mentor or whether you are seeking the support of one, you can come along to find out the details of the programme, criteria for taking part and speak to people who have participated in previous years. The aim is also to help you decide whether mentoring s…
May 1st deadline for Brighton & Hove council small grants
Brighton & Hove Council has announced the deadlines for this year’s annual grants programme for smaller organisations. The first deadline is Friday May 1st. The council runs a general grants scheme, offering funding of up to £5,000 for community groups with an annual income below £35,000, as well as four specialist grants programmes: Arts partnership awards (grants of up to £2,500, match funding required) Environmental Sustainability grants (gran…
Governance Network, 20th May
Community Works carried out a consultation at the end of 2014 on trustee support. It asked trustees questions about what areas they would like support in and how they would like to address these areas. In brief, the responses indicated that the majority of people would like a quarterly network that is held in the evening and has a well-structured learning element to it. The topic areas that people indicated they most wanted to address were: Devel…