The Fund provides small-scale repayable finance to socially driven arts and cultural organisations working with the people and communities in greatest need.
Objectives of the fund are to:
Enable enterprising, ambitious organisations in the arts and cultural sector to take on small-scale repayable finance in order to achieve social outcomes and financial resilience
Increase the capability of arts and cultural organisations to achieve, monitor, evaluate, and articulate their intended social impact.
Arts and culture organisations based in England are eligible to apply, including:
Arts and cultural venues
Museums, libraries and archives
Non-venue based organisations (e.g. touring organisations, production companies, festivals, etc.)
Sector support organisations (e.g. development agencies, workspace providers, cultural education organisations)
Funding is available for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community groups and organisations, working to deliver coronavirus/COVID-19 related services in England.
The grants programme has three sections:
Delivering COVID 19 services. Groups can apply for help with current costs, if their funding has been affected by the pandemic.
Delivering mental health and well-being services, particularly to those who have been further impacted by COVID 19
Delivering sports activities to tackle BAME inequalities and help with the impact of COVID 19 including well-being initiatives
The grants can be used to cover the following costs:
Running costs for organisations, including volunteer expenses, staff costs, and transport (providing the organisation is focusing their attention on providing support to both existing, and any potential new beneficiaries).
Small capital costs, providing the capital item will address the priorities of the Fund, and is linked to keeping older people or those in vulnerable circumstances connected to the outside world.
The fund is for established infrastructure organisations, the Design Lab will support organisational redesign and renewal. For emerging infrastructure organisations, it’ll help strengthen efforts and build additional capacity.
The fund is open to those infrastructure organisation that offers at least one of the following:
supports voluntary and community sector organisations, networks, groups and/or communities
develops the work and capacity of civil society organisations and groups
convenes and advocates on behalf of the sector and the communities you serve
connects local organisations to assets and wealth.
North East Lincolnshire Council (the Authority) on behalf of Grimsby Creates, the Cultural Development Fund programme for Grimsby, wishes to commission a Festival Director to lead the development and delivery of the inaugural ‘Grimsby Festival of the Sea 2021’.
A maximum budget of £10,000 excluding VAT, is being offered for the role of Festival Director, financed by the Cultural Development Fund (CDF).
The follow series of NHS Coping Well During Covid webinars have been developed to support you if you are feeling anxious about coronavirus and how it is impacting you, your loved ones or your work. Each 60-minute webinar is led and delivered by Emily Gardner, High Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, East London NHS Foundation Trust.
Sent on behalf of Emma Wragg, Learning and Development Advisor (Safeguarding), Children’s Services, NELC:
North East Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children Partnership’s Online Learning is Moving to a New Platform fromMonday 23 November 2020
Our safeguarding children e-learning training, in collaboration with Virtual College, is moving over to a new platform called Enable on Monday 23 November 2020. This new platform will provide a more modern and visual appeal and an improved user experience.
If you have accessed any courses on the current system, available through the SaferNEL website with Virtual College, you will need to ensure that any certificates have been downloaded or printed by this date, as records will not be transferred over to the new system and you will be required to register on the new system from 23 November onwards.
There will be no break in availability of this online learning. Please continue to access the online safeguarding training on the SaferNEL training page here, from 23 November.
Courses are currently free to access, providing they are completed within 21 days, otherwise we will charge a £50 non-completion charge per person per course.
When self-registering, you will be asked to select a group, similar to previously. Please select the group that is most appropriate, ie ‘Academies/Schools and Other Learning Providers’
We have chosen courses from an extensive catalogue but have only been able to purchase 500 licences, so please consider this when choosing courses and check that they are appropriate for you to access. Virtual College have reviewed and consolidated some courses so the titles may now be different, as well as applying levels to some courses now.
* Please note that the course levels listed below, ie Safeguarding Children Level 3, have been produced according to intercollegiate competence levels and do not align to our current SCP training levels. This course most closely aligns to our SCP Level 1 training.
The following courses will be available for you to access, as appropriate to your role:
Previous Course Title
New Title on New System
Awareness of Child Abuse and Neglect – Core
Safeguarding Children Level 3* (aligns to our SCP Level 1 Introduction to Safeguarding Children Training)
Safeguarding Everyone – Protecting Children, Young People and Adults at Risk
Safeguarding Everyone Level 3*
An Introduction to FGM, Forced Marriage, Spirit Possession and Honour Based Violence
FGM and Abuse Linked to Faith or Belief
Awareness of Domestic Violence and Abuse
Awareness of Domestic Violence and Abuse
Awareness of Forced Marriages
Awareness of Forced Marriages
Trafficking, Exploitation and Modern Slavery
Modern Slavery and Trafficking
Separate courses: Parental Mental Health Domestic Abuse Hidden Harm
Now combined into one course: Toxic Trio
Working with Children with Disabilities
Working with Children with Learning Difficulties and Disabilities
Safer Recruitment
Safer Recruitment
Child Sexual Exploitation
Child Sexual Exploitation
n/a – new course
Gang Related Issues and County Lines
n/a – new course
Supporting Teenagers and Young People
For details of the content of all courses listed above and further courses for you to purchase separately, please see the Virtual College website.
If you have any queries, please contact Emma Wragg, Learning and Development Advisor, Safeguarding emma.wragg@nelincs.gov.ukor Tel: 01472 325531.
The Charity Governance Awards is an exciting not-for-profit initiative created to celebrate outstanding governance and trusteeship in charities across the UK
The Charity Governance Awards are open to any charity registered in the UK; entries are free and can be submit online, and accepted between November and January each year.
The winner of each category will receive a £5,000 unrestricted grant as a prize. Runners-up will receive cash prizes for the first time (£1,000 each), and all shortlisted charities will be offered a paid one-year membership to the Association of Chairs for their board as well as a complimentary place on a Cause4 Trustee Leadership Programme for a new trustee.
The government have published information on working in the civil society sectors (including charities, social enterprises and voluntary organisations) from 1 January 2021.
The website will tell you what you’ll need to do from 1st January 2021. It will be updated if anything changes.
Grants of up to £10,000 for organisations working in early years; financial wellbeing; mental health and wellbeing; and sexual abuse and domestic violence.
This grant provides an opportunity to :
Advance your skills and knowledge
Learn from experts and take part in a design process where you explore various approaches to potential digital solutions
Share experiences and ideas with your peers
Be part of designing an approach or solution which has a meaningful impact on the sector you work in, and the communities you support
