A free introductory workshop for sports clubs, voluntary organisations and community groups working with 5 – 18 year-olds. The session will increase your awareness and understanding of child and adolescent mental health.

Trainer:     Debra Nash (Dip. Couns. Registered Member MBACP)

The workshop will cover:

  •  Mental Health: protective factors and risk factors

  •  Common mental health problems in children and young people

  •  Societal influences/lifestyles, and the pressures they bring

  •  Working and communicating with children and young people to engender supportive, accepting & trusted environments

  •  Understanding grooming & sexual exploitation

  •  Supporting children and young people at risk of mental health conditions

  •  Where to go for help

To book a place on the workshop, please contact us at DDCVS on 01629 812154 or email.

We will be hosting a coffee morning in Tideswell for community and voluntary groups.

Local groups will have the chance to publicise the work that they do and network with each other.

We will also have a member of staff from local funder Foundation Derbyshire, giving a talk about the small grants available from Foundation.

Staff from Derbyshire Dales CVS will be on hand to answer any queries you may have about running a group.

If your groups is based in, or near, Tideswell and you would like to book a table to share information about your group please contact Jonathan Simcock on 01629 812154.

The event is open to all so please feel free to share this information in Tideswell and surrounding area.

Careline is holding their first monthly Coffee & Chatter morning at St Oswald’s Hospital, Ashbourne.

It is open to everyone. Limited parking is available – if you require transport please let Careline know. Tel 01335 210353 or email info@carelinecalling.org.uk

Support Staffordshire is working in partnership with the People’s Postcode Lottery and Staffordshire Council of Voluntary Youth Organisations (SCVYS) to bring you this free funding event which includes the opportunity to

  •  Find out about what the People’s Postcode Lottery and other funders have on offer

  •  Gain an overview of a range of funding options

  •  Discuss your funding needs one-to-one with individual funders

  •  Learn the top tips on choosing the right funding for your activities and what makes a good funding application

  •  Attend a workshop on making good grant applications, particularly to the Staffordshire Police and Crime Commissioners Fund

Funders who have so far agreed to attend include the People’s Postcode Lottery, BBC Children in Need, Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery Fund, Staffordshire Community Foundation, Staffordshire Police and Crime Commissioner’s Fund and the South West Peak Landscape Partnership Community Fund.

The Funding Fair will run from 1.00pm until 7.00pm but if you can’t make the whole day you are welcome to just come for part of it. Light refreshments will be available.

The event is free but booking is essential.

To register your interest in attending, receive updates on the funders attending, details of the programme for the day, and instructions on how to book your one-to-one appointments with funders please go to https://www.supportstaffordshire.org.uk/ ...

For further information please contact Esther Jones in Support Staffordshire’s Leek office via esther.jones@supportstaffordshire.org.uk or 01538 381356.

A new group for Derbyshire Dales and Staffordshire Moorlands residents to meet and make friends is set to be launched.

The first Hartington Rural Social Group is due to take place at Hartington Village Hall from 1.00pm to 3.00pm on Tuesday 27th February.

People living in rural communities are invited to come together for the meetings to catch up with old friends, make new ones and enjoy each other’s company in a relaxed environment over a cup of tea.

The Lloyds Bank Foundation invests in charities supporting people to break out of disadvantage at critical points in their lives and promote practical approaches to lasting change. To apply you need to be registered as a Charity or a CIO and have income between £25,000 and £1 million in your previous accounts.

The Invest programme is a flexible, long term core funding programme for organisations delivering clear, targeted outcomes for disadvantaged people. These are typically around £25k p.a. with the potential to fund for up to six years. This programme is open for applications between 9th April and 18th May with grants being made in November 2018.

A grants programme for organisations that have identified clear development needs in areas such as governance, planning, evidencing need monitoring, communications etc. Grants of up to £15k are available for you to develop your organisation;

All grantees will be eligible for additional support through the ENHANCE programme –providing an option of tailored in-kind support to strengthen and develop charities. If you are successful in applying for an Enable or Invest grant, Lloyds will work with you to identify whether support under the Enhance programme is right for you.

The Lloyds Foundation operates an online application process and encourages applicants to find further information on the programmes and strategy at www.lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk

It is always wise to have an informal chat first. If you wish to do so then please contact Gary Beharrell at

Email               gbeharrell@lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk

Telephone       07734 973060

If, after having read the guidelines, you think your project may be eligible for funding and you would like the opportunity to meet a Gary Beharrell before putting your application together, please let us know at DDCVS. We would like to arrange a funding advice session in the Dales about the Lloyds Foundation but can only do this with eligible organisations.

Applications for charity grants of up to £18,000 are now being accepted for the Transform Foundation’s 2018 Charity Website Grant Programme.

The programme, which is run by the Transform Foundation, offers charities a grant to enable them to redevelop their website to ramp up their online income and increase their charitable impact. It has so far helped charities raise more than £9.5million in donations.

HUNDREDS of unemployed and marginalised Matlock families are set to benefit from the launch of a successful national employment initiative in the town.

Since it was launched in 2012, CAP Job Clubs has grown to a network of 163 across the UK, helping more than 1,000 people into work, many of them long-term unemployed. The initiative currently boasts a 24% success rate, up to seven times more successful than some government-commissioned work schemes.

The Gas Safety Charity is running a free, interactive half-day workshop to help organisations become more aware of the sources, signs and symptoms of Carbon Monoxide poisoning.

Open to public bodies, charities and private care agencies, the training will introduce you to the signs and symptoms of CO poisoning. This includes the numerous health risks associated with frequent, low-level exposure to this odourless, invisible and toxic gas. For example, the potential increased risk of falls and signs of dementia.

Knowing the sources, signs and symptoms, and being able to manage the risks, will help organisations support vulnerable people and will ensure employers meet their Duty of Care to staff and volunteers.

This event is fully funded by the Gas Safe Charity and is part of a programme of activity to raise awareness of CO poisoning in 2018. This includes an e-learning module and webinars.

For further information or to book a place please send an email to ThinkCO@gassafecharity.org.uk or call Hilary on 07813 977798 or Simon on 07549 956376.

The Child Outcomes Research Consortium (CORC), in partnership with the Anna Freud Learning Network, has developed its first ever online eLearning module: ‘Measuring mental wellbeing to improve the lives of children and young people’

This eLearning aims to increase the awareness, understanding and confidence of non-specialist and school staff who support the wellbeing and mental health of children or young people to access the benefits associated with measuring mental wellbeing. This free interactive short course aims to demystify and simplify the whole process of using outcomes and feedback measures to monitor mental wellbeing and is laid out in six easy to follow parts:

  •  Understanding mental wellbeing

  •  Introduction to outcome measures

  •  The benefits of measuring mental wellbeing

  •  Selecting and using measures

  •  Best practice using measures

  •  Using and interpreting data

Outcome measurement has become a focus of funders, commissioners and policymakers as a tangible and reliable way in which to assess the welfare of children and young people in the care of wellbeing services and schools. The process can also have important benefits for the children and young people themselves as well as for associated professionals, projects, interventions and services.

This course features engaging activities and quizzes to illustrate how staff can choose and use measures to monitor wellbeing and how to analyse wellbeing information to drive improvement and demonstrate effectiveness.

To access the eLearning module please go to http://www.corc.uk.net/elearning/ for more information.