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Welcome to eNews! Updates this week include @@@@Anchor@@@@, @@@@Anchor@@@@, @@@@Anchor@@@@, as well as the usual selection of funding opportunities and jobs from CommunityNI.
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NICVA have teamed up with Queen’s University Belfast to launch a specific call to voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations in a position to offer short internships of 1 to 3 weeks duration, to QUB students over the summer.
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The Department of Health has made available a list of ongoing transformation projects, complete with the names of relevant project owners. The full details are on the NICVA website.
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Be part of the biggest Marathon event in Northern Ireland and have a great time by supporting runners and spectators along the route, at water and energy stations and at the start and finish lines. Volunteers must be 16+ and you can volunteer as an individual, a family or as part of a group.
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Ratepayers whose home has been adapted for a disabled person's needs could get a discount on their rates with Disabled Person’s Allowance (DPA). The scheme is administered by Land & Property Services.
Read more on the NI Direct website, Telephone: 0300 200 7801, Text relay: 18001 0300 200 7801 or email: applicationbased.raterelief@finance-ni.gov.uk.
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It seems that making friends on the doorstep may becoming a thing of the past for many in Northern Ireland as 46% of us don’t know our neighbours’ names and only 25% would knock on a new neighbour’s door to welcome them to the neighbourhood.
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Department of Health (DoH) is to commission a new cancer strategy for NI. The central goal of the new strategy will be to identity new ways of working to secure further advances across cancer care and DoH will work with patients, staff and cancer charities in its development.
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Carers NI have launched the State of Caring 2019 Survey. It's the most comprehensive research into the lives of carers in the UK and helps to push caring up the agenda for policy makers. Please fill it in if you're a carer and share with your networks
Take the survey here
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The European Social Fund has committed £200m to NI for employability schemes – including Start360’s Switch onto Employment. The organisation tells Scope that ESF’s post-Brexit replacement cannot be half hearted.
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Date & Time: Friday, 29 March 2019 - 9.45am to 11.00am
Venue: NICVA, 61 Duncairn Gardens, Belfast
Is globalisation more of a problem, driving over-consumption of natural resources, climate change and economic inequality, or more of a solution to society’s problems in a world where global problems demand global solutions rather than competition between nations? This is your chance to hear arguments on both sides of this debate from two local speakers with different perspectives.
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Dates: 2 workshops available: 4 April or 7 May both run from 10am to 1pm
Venue: WorkWest, 301 Glen Road, Belfast, Antrim
As our ability to harness technology and digital services for voluntary and community activity grows so too does the challenge of keeping our organisations safe from cyber fraud and data breaches. NICVA is bringing key stakeholders and interested parties together to gather views on the challenges facing organisations and expertise to identify key focus areas to improve cyber resilience across the sector.
Find out more and register here
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Date & Time: Monday, 8 April 2019 - 10am to 12noon
Venue: NICVA, 61 Duncairn Gardens, Belfast
Advice NI and NICVA are facilitating a media morning at NICVA to highlight the welfare reform mitigations cliff edge NI faces in one year. Through this engagement we aim to generate sustained media coverage on the fast approaching mitigations cliff edge in March 2020 and the impact this will have on people including the threat of an eviction crisis.
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Date & Time: Thursday, 21 March 2019 - 9am to 12noon
Venue: Ulster Bank Entrepreneur Accelerator, 1st Floor, Donegall Square East, Belfast
You are invited to attend the Ignition event for the fully-funded Ulster Bank Social Pre-Accelerator, in partnership with Social Enterprise NI and Work West. At Ignition you will be introduced to pitching, business model canvas and the lean start up. It is a quick-fire, immersive 8 week online learning course with an exciting Ignition event to kick it off in Belfast.
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Date & Time: Friday, 29 March - 9am to 11pm
Venue: Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
Democracy Day is back for its third outing. It’s a full dawn to dusk programme exploring the health of democracy and the latest local and international thinking about civic activism.
Register here
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Various dates & locations
The Home Office’s EU Settlement Scheme will be fully open for applications at the end of March 2019. The Executive Office has arranged for the Home Office to provide a series of information sessions on the Scheme for EU Citizens resident in NI, Voluntary and Community groups and Businesses in a number of locations across NI.
Full details of the events and booking available here
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Date & Time: Friday, 22 March 2019 - 9.30am to 1.00pm
Venue: NICVA, 61 Duncairn Gardens, Belfast
NICVA are partnering with Google Digital Garage to offer free digital skills training to help you grow your charity or community group online. This training will help your charity access the digital skills training needed in order to reinforce your communications capacity. The workshop will cover a range of topics such as an Introduction to Digital Advertising, Knowing your Charity with Data and how to Get your Charity Visible on Google.
Find out more and register here
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Date & Time: Thursday, 21 March 2019 - 10am to 4pm
Venue: NICVA, 61 Duncairn Gardens, Belfast
Attend this one-day interactive workshop with journalist Sarah Travers of Bespoke Communications to learn how to make your story newsworthy. In this course, you’ll also learn how to plan your key message for a media interview and you’ll experience a live TV interview in a safe environment, under the guidance of an experienced broadcasting mentor.
Find out more and register here
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Various dates & locations
Urban Villages are offering a series of training sessions delivered by NICVA in March to build community capacity in Finance and Organisational Governance. The training sessions are fully funded and so are free of charge. Both sessions, Understanding Governance and Understanding Finance are offered in 4 locations – North, South and West Belfast and Derry/Londonderry.
Find out more and book your free place here
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Date & Time: Wednesday, 27 March 2019 - 10am to 1pm
Venue: NICVA, 61 Duncairn Gardens, Belfast
This is a practical training session showing you how to carry out a risk assessment, action plan and record the results in a risk register. The templates used in the exercises can then be used in your own organisation so that you have both the skills and the tools to implement risk assessment.
Find out more and register here
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Various dates & locations
NICVA are running a series of free practical workshops for treasurers or personnel of small charities to help them establish appropriate financial systems to keep their organisation safe. Upcoming sessions include:
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Date & Time: Wednesday, 20 March 2019 - 9.30am to 4pm
Venue: Play Resource Centre, 2 Duncairn Gardens, Belfast
At this training, participants will be introduced to: 1. The key concepts and principles of OBA 2. The ‘turning the curve’ process 3. The use of OBA in the performance management of services.
Find out more and register here
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Banbridge Lipreading Group
Dates: Starting 28 March & 9 April 2019
Venue: Tesco Banbridge & Hillsborough Pres Church
New Lipreading classes begin on 28 March 2019 at Tesco Boulevard from 2pm to 4pm. Also new class commences in Hillsborough Presperterian church, Hillsborough on 9 April 2019 from 10am to 12am.
To find out more or to book, call 079 4947 3392.
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Various dates & locations
Venue: Belfast Exposed Photography, 23 Donegall Street, Belfast
Belfast Exposed have a range of courses coming up including:
- Level 2: Develop Your Photography Skills - Saturday 6 & 13 April, 10am to 1pm
- Level 3: Studio Photography - Saturday 6 & 13 April, 2pm to 5pm
- Photoshop Basics - Saturday 20 April, 10am to 4pm
Find out more and register here
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Training session coming up?
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New or Updated Funding Initiatives
Woodward Charitable Trust: Playschemes
One of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts. Each year the Woodward Charitable Trust fund summer playschemes for children between the ages of 5-16 years. Most grants awarded are in the range of £500 to £1,000. Around 35 grants are made each year.
Find out more on GrantTracker or on the website
Vodafone UK Foundation
Connecting for Good is about combining Vodafone's charitable giving and technology to make a difference in the world. Globally, the Vodafone Foundation supports projects that are focused on delivering public benefit through the use of mobile technology across the areas of health, education and disaster relief.
Find out more on GrantTracker or on the website
The Percy Bilton Charity
Supports UK Charities assisting disadvantaged youth, people with disabilities, people with mental health problems and older people may apply for grants towards furnishings and equipment (excluding office items), building or refurbishment projects. (NB the charity also supports individuals in financial need who have a disability or severe mental health problem, or who are over 65 on low income.)
Find out more on GrantTracker or on the website
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Key Dates for your Fundraising Diary
Social Justice Small Grants Programme
The Social Justice Small Grants Programme, funded by Atlantic Philanthropies, aims to support local community groups with projects and initiatives that contribute to peacebuilding, tackle the impact of poverty and austerity measures and/or give voice to excluded groups.
Closing Date 25 Mar 2019. Find out more on GrantTracker or on the website
BMA Giving: Charitable Purposes Subcommittee
BMA Giving is a committee of BMA members who meet annually to determine the grants which are made by the BMA to healthcare charities for projects that create lasting benefits to patient care, the medical profession or medical/health research. Grants are up to £50,000 although smaller grants will also be considered.
Deadline 29 Mar 2019. Find out more on GrantTracker or on the website
Executive Office: Minority Ethnic Development Fund (MEDF)
Pprovides support for voluntary and community organisations working with minority ethnic people and groups. The aim of the Fund is to assist minority ethnic and local community organisations to promote good relations between people of different ethnic backgrounds. There are 3 tiers of funding offering from £100 to £75000.
Closing Date (2pm) 21 Mar 2019. Find out more on GrantTracker or on the website
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For a full list of upcoming dates see GrantTracker
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A selection of jobs currently listed on CommunityNI
Accounting Technician - Christian Aid Ireland
General Adviser's Full Time And Part Time. Newry And Downpatrick - Community Advice Newry, Mourne And Down
Loaf Catering Operations Manager - NOW Group
Communications Officer - Cedar Foundation
Chief Executive - The Crescent
Tribunal Representative - Ligoniel Improvement Association
Student Support Timetabling & Data Administrator - Belfast Metropolitan College
Head Of Business Development - Business In The Community
Enquiry & Compliance Support Officer - Charity Commission For Northern Ireland
Policy And Research Officer: EU Atlantic Areas-Floods - British Red Cross
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