Welcome to this edition of Inter-action
The e-newsletter of Redcar and Cleveland Voluntary Development Agency.
Have you signed up for the weekly funding update from the local authority. If not contact Adrian Harris, The External Funding Lead who provides a weekly report of the latest announcements across the funding world. This can be sent to your inbox on request, just email adrian.harris@redcar-cleveland.gov.uk and ask to be added.
Sport England Local Delivery Pilot
This is an open tender so feel free to share with colleagues who might be interested. The stated aim of the tender is:
“To undertake the process evaluation of the Sport England Local Delivery Pilot in South Tees, specifically looking at the journey (e.g. what has worked, what hasn’t worked as well) and produce a report that reflects on the key learning and experiences.”
To find out more information, you will need to visit https://www.nepo.org/ and register with the portal. Once registered, you can search for the tender using the title or by the procuring organisation (Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council) or by using the unique identifier DN368058.
Expression of Interest window from 27/09/2018 12:48 to 19/10/2018 13:30.
Please note that all questions should be asked via the e-portal.
Volunteers Needed
Cancer Research UK Charity Shop Redcar
An opportunity to make an invaluable contribution to cancer research UK. A chance to work with a friendly team, meet a diverse set of people and learn the retail environment. Training on all aspects of retail cash handling, till operation, tagging and steaming equipment.
British Heart Foundation Charity Shop Redcar
Volunteers are needed to be involved in all aspects of the shop, to work as part of a good team, be able to gain customer service experience. Volunteer opportunities include working on the shop floor, helping to sort out stock, selecting, pricing and displaying the best books, CDs and DVDs. British Heart Foundation offer volunteers the opportunity for NVQ levels in Retail.
Dormanstown Community Sports and Social Group
Volunteers needed to help with the lunch club, youth club and football club (boys and girls).
We are a real community group keen to provide space for sporting/social activities and promote good community relationships.
Friday Friends
We are an inclusive friendship group of people of differing abilities aged 18+. We have a range of weekly activities from keep fit, drumming, bingo, sing-a-long to art & craft afternoons.
We are looking for volunteers with a range of skills to help set up the room for the day, chat to members, encourage people to participate in activities, help with arts and crafts sessions
Redcar & Cleveland Mind
Café Volunteer
Volunteers are needed to assist in the running of our Something in Mind cafe, preparing and selling a variety of hot and cold beverages and snacks. The profits generated by our cafe are used to support our work.
Tasks include:
- Welcome visitors and clients
- Preparing and serving food and beverages, ensuring food safety and hygiene at all times
- Assisting with the ordering of stock
Beanstalk
Reading Helpers
Beanstalk is a national charity and their aim is to build a nation of confident children who are literate for life by training and supporting a team of amazing people who volunteer their time to become reading helpers in a local school. Reliability is paramount so you must be able to commit to a minimum of one school year to ensure the children get the consistent support they need.
You would need to undertake a 7 hour pre-placement training course and would receive on-going support from Beanstalk Volunteer Support Worker once placed in a school.
Level of commitment: Beanstalk ask that you are able to commit to 3 hours a week (broken down into two one-and-a-half hour sessions, mostly in the afternoon) and that you are able to do this during term time and school hours.
If you are interested in any of the above roles please contact Trish Waters RCVDA Volunteer Centre 01642 440571 or email trish@rcvda.org.uk
Let’s take on dementia together welcome event
Our Welcome Event is an opportunity to hear about the types of volunteering that are available in Darlington and Middlesbrough, and to complete your registration form with our support.
Volunteer Welcome Events are taking place in:
Middlesbrough at the Community Safety Hub (CSH), 1 Cliffland Way, Hemlington, Middlesbrough,TS8 9GL
(Parking in the public car park and head for the entrance of public building)
- or Tuesday 13th November 2018 at 10am-12pm
- or Tuesday 13th November 2018 at 2pm-4pm
Please book on ONE event at http://as-teesvalley.eventbrite.com/
ARRIVAL & REGISTRATION:
Doors will open at the time indicated and will start 10 minutes later.
REMEMBER TO BRING:
- TWO REFERENCE CONTACTS to ensure we can process your registration form
- and YOUR DIARY TOO – to book in your inductions
QUESTIONS/QUERIES
If you have any queries, please contact Shirley Gray at Alzheimer’s Society on 0191 389 0400 / 07872 867256 or email shirley.gray@alzheimers.org.uk
Virgin Money North East Fund
Here at the Virgin Money Foundation, we’re on a mission to support community regeneration by backing the people who can make big changes happen locally.
In partnership with Clay Hill Trust we are launching the 2018 North East Fund. We want to hear from community organisations in the North East of England working to promote long-term change in the neighbourhoods that need it most.
We would like to encourage applications from voluntary organisations working within their local neighbourhood to:
- Help disadvantaged young people to find and keep a job. While we understand the value of programmes that support young people to make them work ready, we are only funding applications that move young people into sustainable employment and, as a result, applications will be judged on the numbers of young people that gain employment.
- Help homeless people or people at risk of homelessness to find a new home. We are interested in supporting applications from organisations working to increase access to affordable, good quality, rented properties particularly those bringing empty properties back into use.
- We are also looking for ambitious, locally-led community enterprises, providing social and economic benefit to an area, who want to explore new ways of generating income and, by doing so, achieve greater impact in their neighbourhoods. You might be interested in developing a new social enterprise, growing an existing social enterprise, supporting more beneficiaries, expanding a service into a neighbouring town or working with completely new clients. With the Foundation’s support you will be able to turn these ideas into action. The North East Fund will provide organisations with grants of up to £50,000 to be spent on staff time for scoping, designing and launching the new work or the start-up costs of a new enterprise – please remember we can’t fund capital costs through this programme.
Our grants can be for an amount between £10,000 and £50,000. Grant awards are to cover running costs (not capital costs) and are for one year only. In addition, funds cannot be used to cover marketing costs, for example, to pay for advertising or promotional activity.
Note: There are only 3 weeks left to apply for the Virgin Money North East Fund
Universal Credit Training
As you are aware, Universal Credit is going full service for all of Redcar & Cleveland on the 28th November 2018. (Some TS7 properties have already gone full service)
The borough’s partnership manager from the DWP has agreed to deliver some Universal Credit training to support local agencies in the area. The session will aim to provide an overview of the benefit and provide insight into the claiming process. There will also be a short presentation towards the end looking at local authority support and digital access.
This training is due to take place on the 6th November 1pm- 4pm at Redcar & Cleveland House, Kirkleatham Street, Redcar, TS10 1RT. 1-2 of places will be allocated per organisation but more may be available upon request closer to the training date.
To book please contact Gemma Bennison on 01287 612347 or email gemma.bennison@redcar-cleveland.gov.uk.
Please feel free to pass this information on to other agencies not included in this initial invite.
If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact me at Nichola.Wilson-Barret@redcar-cleveland.gov.uk or 01287 612587.