BVSC's Weekly e-bulletin
Friday 28 May 2021
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Volunteers' Week 2021
National Volunteer’s Week is an annual UK wide celebration of volunteers taking place each year between 1-7 June. The overarching theme this year is ‘Time to Say Thanks’. This 37th annual Volunteers’ Week is taking place during the #MonthofCommunity which runs throughout June and brings together organisations with a range of events in order to encourage us all to think about and join in with activities happening in our local communities.
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New Vision for Birmingham Children and Families
4000 children and young people contributed to a new and ambitious vision for the city. We know children and families have had a tough experience during recent times, so it’s even more important that as Birmingham bounces back, we prioritise their development, outcomes and experience.
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WMCA Mental Health Listening Exercise – Survey
BVSC Research, alongside our partners from the Institute for Community Research and Development at the University of Wolverhampton and the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University are gathering information from across the West Midlands to inform the focus of the forthcoming Mental Health Commission which is due to be launched in summer 2021.
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Community Groups are Receiving their easyfundraising Donations!
Community organisations using easyfundraising to raise money are receiving their latest donations this month, totalling over £900k. If your organisation is one of them, well done! Look out for an email telling you how much you’ve raised. If you haven’t registered with easyfundraising yet, give it a try. Your organisation will receive extra donations when your supporters shop online with leading online retailers like Amazon, John Lewis, Just Eat, Argos and over 5000 more. There is no cost to register and use and it’s an effective way to keep funds coming in as people shop online more and more.
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Leadership Development: Understanding Change in the Third Sector
In mid-December 2020, BVSC two online leadership development sessions for voluntary organisations were held online focusing on navigating change in the third sector. These sessions built on a series of activities we have been running together to provide spaces for third sector leaders to reflect on change within voluntary action, in connection with our ESRC-funded Change in the Making research.
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Vaccination Information
We continue to update the Vaccination resources on our website to support organisations and communities around the vaccination programme, as well as updated guidance on eligibility and how to book your appointment – take a look and please share!
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Updated information and Guidance on the Government Plan to Lift Lockdown!
BVSC has updated its guidance intended to support Voluntary, Community and Faith organisations and Social Enterprises in Birmingham to understand what will be permissible under the Roadmap C-19 restrictions.
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Community Grants 2021/22
Near Neighbours grants will open in July 2021. If you are a grassroots project interested in bringing people of different backgrounds together through local partnership work and in your neighbourhood, we would love to hear from you! To receive the criteria & guidelines when they are published, please register your interest with us now by email, with Debbie Saunders on debbiesaunders@cofebirmingham.com
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Tesco Community Grants
Tesco Community Grants helps to fund thousands of local projects across the country. Grants will be awarded to voluntary or community organisations (including registered charities/companies), schools, health bodies (e.g. Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), NHS Hospital Trust, Foundation Trust), Parish/Town Councils, local authorities and social housing providers.
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The National Lottery Community Fund’s Bringing People Together fund
The Bringing People Together funding can support projects that will build stronger connections across communities, and improve the infrastructure and conditions that are needed to strengthen these connections.
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Asda Foundation - Healthy Holiday Grant
This grant is designed to support groups that typically would be holding summer holiday activities to ensure children are provided with a hot meal. If social distancing is relaxed before school holidays, then standard (Transforming Communities Improving Lives (TCIL) criteria would apply. If social distancing hasn’t relaxed, the Asda Foundation will provide grants for groups to deliver provisions to children at home.
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Screwfix Foundation (UK)
Grants of up to £5,000 are available to local charities and not for profit organisations for projects that will fix, repair, maintain and improve properties and community facilities for of those in need in the UK.
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Funding to Help Young People Volunteer in Response to C-19 (UK)
UK-based volunteering or community service projects, organised and run by people under 30 years old, can apply for up to £500 for actions that directly or indirectly respond to C-19. The funding is being made available through the Alec Dickson Trust. Applications must align with Public Health England guidance on how to volunteer safely during recent times. The deadline for applications is 8 pm on the 23rd June 2021.
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Birmingham Back to Backs Reminiscence Team were one of 450 organisations and businesses to be shortlisted for a National Dementia Hero Award. The volunteer team also went on to take the first prize for the Dementia Friendly Business (Small/Medium) category.
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Have your say: Surveys and Consultations
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Your New Police and Crime Plan
The newly elected Police and Crime Commissioner for the West Midlands, Simon Foster, is calling for members of the public and organisations to let him know what their priorities are for policing in the West Midlands.
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#RespondRecoverReset: the voluntary sector and C-19 – Have your say!
Nottingham Trent University, together with the NCVO and Sheffield Hallam, are currently conducting the largest UK study exploring the impact of C-19 on the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise sector. The more organisations that take part in the study, the more impact this can have for the whole sector.
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Birmingham Healthy City Planning Toolkit is now out for consultation
The Birmingham Healthy City Planning Toolkit is now out for consultation until the 30th June 2021. We want the people of Birmingham, strategic partners, and key agencies to let us know if they support the toolkit approach, and to help us to understand whether it presents barriers or opportunities for creating a city that improves health and well-being.
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Volunteering Opportunities
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Chair of the Board of Trustees
Middleton Hall and Gardens are looking for a new Chair to provide clear strategic drive in the next phase of our development.
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Simmer Down Festival 2021 Volunteers
We are recruiting volunteers to work for a couple of days in the summer at our reggae festival in Handsworth Park for our 10th anniversary!
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Activity volunteer - Day Care Services
Age UK Birmingham are looking for committed volunteers with experience of supporting people with dementia, to help run group and 1:1 activities in our daycare services.
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Volunteering with Change Grow Live - Substance Misuse Service
Volunteering for Change Grow Live will provide you with the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of hundreds of thousands of people across Birmingham. If you want to help other people change their lives, we'd love to have you on the team.
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Independent Panel Member
We are looking for a community-minded individual to join the West Midlands Police and Crime Panel. You will act as an independent voice to scrutinise the work of the recently elected Police and Crime Commissioner.
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Threads Together
Voluntary opportunity to be involved in a 2022 Commonwealth Games community project.
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Looking for volunteers? Advertise your opportunities in the next e-bulletin here.
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Sir Josiah Mason Trust: Young People’s Service Design Project
Do you work with young people in Birmingham and Solihull who are: are experienced; care leavers; Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET); or at risk of becoming NEET? Please get in touch and help with the design stage of this new project.
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Christmas Challenge 2021 applications are now open
Applications are now open for this year’s Big Give Christmas Challenge, the UK’s biggest match funding campaign. We have millions of pounds of match funding available for a wide range of charities.
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Looking for a new podcast?
Try Changing Minds, Changing Lives from BSMHFT NHS Mental Health's Liaison and Diversion team. Their frontline workers discuss supporting people experiencing #multipledisadvantage in the criminal justice system.
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Shelter Women's Peer Research Project
Are you passionate about effecting change in your local community? Have you got experience of bad housing or homelessness? Shelter's Women's Centred Services are looking for women/non-binary individuals in Birmingham who have lived experience of bad housing and homelessness to become volunteers through conducting 1-2-1 interviews with others in their area.
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Spring into Action: Community Gardening
01 June 2021
Designed for community groups and organisations - Learn about the benefits of community gardening and how ecobirmingham can help you to set up and run your own community growing space.
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Spring into Action: Community cycling
02 June 2021
Discussing the impact of cycling tuition, the role of community cycling clubs, and how they help get get more people pedalling.
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Get Grants: Online Major Donor Fundraising Course
07 July 2021
Get Grants Major Donor Fundraising Course offers a comprehensive overview of the major donor fundraising process and includes practical examples for you to apply to your organisation.
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Spring into Action: Energy
08 June 2021
Phil Beardmore will share some of the work he has done with community groups and organisations to become more energy efficient.
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Spring into Action: Waste & Recycling
09 June 2021
Explore low-cost actions your community organisation can do to reduce their waste and encourage others too.
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Birmingham Inclusive Sports Festival (BISF)
14 June 2021
The Birmingham Inclusive Sports Festival (BISF) is going to look a little different this year, but we are still offering a range of inclusive activities for all ages, abilities & backgrounds, for no cost or at a discounted rate. We will be offering a range of face to face activities at various locations across the City, as well as live virtual sessions and pre-recorded sessions that you can access in your own time.
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Virtual Learning & Networking Session: Creating Inclusive Environments
16 June 2021
Sport Birmingham would like to invite local clubs/hubs and groups to join us for our Virtual Learning & Networking event series, which will focus on the theme of: 'Creating Inclusive Environments'
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What Is Play ?
30 June 2021
ashebo CIC are putting on a one day course CPD accredited course, for anyone who works with children. Do you know the difference between freely chosen play and structured activities? Do you want to improve children’s social, physical, intellectual, creative and emotional growth through play?
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Support for Reopening Community Buildings -
10 June 2021
BVSC and Acivico are holding a workshop to provide support to organisations through a challenging period of reopening. We are pleased that Birmingham City Council has now provided some additional funding to ensure more organisations across Birmingham can be supported. Voluntary sector organisations can also book in for one to one support around risk assessments for the building.
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The Rise of Community: How to Realise Community Power?
16 June 2021
Evidence suggests that community spirit has flourished during the global pandemic and some have promoted the idea of community power. As thinking turns to recovery, it is timely to think critically about the potential for community power, how power operates within and between communities, and to consider what this might mean for their role in efforts to build back better.
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Changing Needs: What Do We Know and How Do We Respond?
22 September 2021
There is growing concern about a tsunami of need as the full effects of c-19 come to be realised. Understanding the latest national and local evidence on issues such as poverty, unemployment, debt and mental health within our communities is vital to inform our thinking about future responses.
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Hosting an online event or training? Advertise them in the next e-bulletin here.
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Development Officer
Birmingham, Versus Arthritis,
Closing date: Monday 7 June 2021
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Benefit Take-Up Worker
Warwickshire Welfare Rights Advice Service,
Closing date: Friday 18 June 2021
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Community Integration Project Transition Worker
WAITS, Closing date: Monday 21 June 2021
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Business Development Project Manager - Express Signs Solihull
Better Pathways, Closing date: TBC
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Consultant
Ageing Better in Birmingham,
Closing date: Tuesday 1 June 2021
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Communications Officer
SIFA Fireside,
Closing date, Friday 4 June 2021
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Female Criminal Practitioner
Anawim,
Closing date: Thursday 10 June 2021
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IT Lead
SIFA Fireside,
Closing date: Friday 11 June 2021
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Volunteer Manager
Age UK Birmingham and Sandwell, Closing date: Monday 14 June 2021
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Female Prison Liaison Worker
Anawim,
Closing date: Tuesday 15 June 2021
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Creative Resource & Admin Assistant (Kickstart Placement)
Base Women's Housing,
Closing date: Sunday 20 June 2021
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Arts Inclusion Co-ordinator
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust,
Closing date: TBC
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