| Tuesday August 24, 2010 Welcome.... to our latest Enterprising Communities newsletter. We are pleased to announce that we have been awarded The Social Enterprise Mark which identifies us as trading for social and environmental purposes. SESC joins other ethical businesses that have been recognized by being awarded the Mark such as the Eden Project, Hill Holt Wood, Bristol Wood Recycling Project and the Co-operative Group South & West. The Social Enterprise Mark builds off the pilot run by RISE, the voice for South West social enterprise. Further information can be found here on our website Back to top Grimple's Green Grants Grimple's Green Grants is a new grant scheme launched in August 2010 by The Green Insurance Company. It has up to £20,000 to give away to environmentally friendly projects and is offering funds of up to £2,000 to small projects and organisations. It is looking for projects with creativity and imagination, from creating a community garden to reduce food miles to growing your own vegetables or a wildlife garden to encourage biodiversity back into our gardens. The closing date for applications is midnight on Sunday 29 August. For further information visit http://www.greeninsurancegiving.co.uk/grants.php Back to top Adult Mental Health Capital & Revenue Small Projects Fund Bradford Council are inviting applications under the Adult Mental Health Capital and Revenue Small Projects Fund, which allows for revenue grants of up to £5,000 and capital grants of up to £50,000 to be made to organisations for one-off funding of schemes and projects of direct benefit to people with mental health needs and their carers. The deadline is 12 noon Thursday 30th September 2010. The fund is open to organisations within the voluntary and community sector in Bradford district that work with people with mental health needs and their carers, or service user groups working in partnership with a voluntary or statutory sector provider. This year the application process is being run in partnership with bfunded. Groups seeking support with their application should contact: Lynn Leadbeatter – bfunded advisor for Keighley, Ilkley, Shipley and Bingley lynn@keighleyyvs.org Tel: 01535 665258 or Michele Hudson – bfunded advisor for Bradford michele.hudson@bradford.gov.uk Tel: 01274 431366 In addition, Linda Peacock from Bradford Council Department of Adult and Community Services, will be holding two drop-in sessions where slots of up to 30 minutes can be booked to discuss the application process in more detail, including guidance on completing the application form. The ‘drop in’ days will take place on: Tuesday 7th September 9:00am – 5:00pm Monday 13th September 9:00am – 5:00pm To book a slot please contact Linda Peacock on 01274 432997 or via email: linda.peacock@bradford.gov.uk Back to top Futures North: 11th Sept, Leeds Futures North is about setting new directions. Looking to 'Big Society' and beyond, Futures North brings together some of the key people and the ideas to deliver practical cooperative solutions enabling communities to create a greener, fairer, and happier future for us all. Joined by Dame Pauline Green, President of the International Co-operative Alliance, Peter Couchman, Chief Executive of the Plunkett Foundation; and have a wide range of workshops and exhibitors. The full programme is now online. There are some free places available, so please book as soon as possible. Back to top Business Action on Homelessness- Could You Provide a Placement? Business Action on Homelessness' 'Ready for Work' programme has been designed to support people who have experienced or been at risk of homelessness gain and sustain employment. This is done through a combination of pre-employment training, a work placement and job coaching. The programme runs in over 20 cities across the country and lots of clients are placed on placements with social enterprises. BITC would like to hear from Bradford social enterprises which would like to be involved and which could offer a 2 week unpaid work placement to clients on the Ready for Work programme, enabling the client to gain new skills, something up to date to add to their CV and a reference to then take away with them in their search for employment. There is also an opportunity for clients involved in social enterprises who are looking to get back or into to mainstream work to be referred onto the programme. If you are interested in joining the programme please contact Vicky Ing at Victoria.Ing@bitc.org.uk Back to top Government Review Statutory Right for Time off for Training The Apprenticeship, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 introduced the new statutory right for employees (who have a minimum of 26 weeks’ service) to apply for time off to undertake study or training and took affect from April 2010, this statutory right applies to Employers with 250 or more employees. It is now currently scheduled that this right will be extended to all other employers with effect from April 2011. However, the Government is carrying out a review as part of it’s aim of reducing the regulatory burden on business. The Government has published a consultation asking employees, businesses and other interested parties for their opinions on the right to request time off to train. More details can be found at: www.bis.gov.uk/time-to-train The consultation period will be shorter than the normal 12 weeks and will close on 15th September. This is to allow all representations to be made prior to the September 17th deadline for submissions to the next meeting of the Reducing Regulation Committee. Back to top UnLtd Engage UnLtd Engage is an awards scheme aimed at individuals or informal groups with an idea for a project which will:
- inspire self-belief and wellbeing in an older population (health and wellbeing, social and community involvement, recreation)
- make the most of opportunities (working, volunteering, innovative approaches to getting older, making changes)
- value shared wisdom and experience (reducing isolation and loneliness, positive perception, breaking down inter-generational barriers)
- UnLtd Engage is looking for 30 entrepreneneurial individuals with a passion and an idea which will bring about positive change in attitudes and approaches to getting older.
It will make 30 start-up awards of £2,500 with dedicated development support to provide a launch pad for new ideas. At a later stage it will make three development awards of £15,000 to three UnLtd Engage award winners to facilitate scale-up and replication of their ideas. It will grow an UnLtd Engage Fellowship, a movement for lasting change to a population living longer. The deadline for start-up award applications is Thursday 30th September. For more information, call 0845 850 1122, email annabelsampson@unltd.org.uk or 077794 72296 or click here or to download an application form please click here Back to top Applying to Larger Funders Bsupported is organising a training course aimed at groups that are considering applications to larger funders such as the Big Lottery Fund, larger charitable trusts, European sources and government funding streams. The session will give participants an understanding of: - eligibility and criteria
- the application procedure and assessment
- key questions including monitoring, evaluation and costs
- sustainability issues.
It will be held at the Mabel Booth Room, Bradford CVS from 10am-1pm on Tuesday 12 October. The trainer is Fit 4 Funding. The course costs £30 for voluntary and community organisations and £60 for statutory organisations. For more information and to download a booking form please click here Back to top Good Deals 2010: The UK Social Investment Conference Monday 15 and Tuesday 16 November IET London: Savoy Place, London Shaping the social investment marketplace SPECIAL BURSARIES AND EARLY BIRD DISCOUNTS ON OFFER NOW! Good Deals 2010 is the third annual UK social investment conference held in association with both National Ethical Investment Week and Global Entrepreneurship Week. This year the conference will be held over two great days and the programme has been expanded to bring in speakers from the worlds of mainstream investment and corporate business, as well as looking at leading examples of innovation in social investment from around Europe. Confirmed speakers for 2010 include Sir Ronald Cohen, chairman of the Portland Trust, the Social Investment Task Force and the Commission on Unclaimed Assets, Colin Grassie, UK CEO at Deutsche Bank, Mike Barry, head of sustainable business at Marks & Spencer, Liam Black, co-founder of Wavelength, Antony Ross, executive director at Bridges Ventures, Caroline Mason, COO of Investing for Good and Charity Bank, Catherine Howarth, CEO of FairPensions, James Vacarro, Managing Director, Investment Banking at Triodos, Peter Day, presenter of BBC In Business and many more. Delivered by Social Enterprise magazine in partnership with NESTA, the Royal Bank of Scotland, CCLA, Triodos Bank, UKSIF and Investing For Good, Good Deals will bring the biggest names in social investment together. They are currently offering delegates the Early Bird Discount offer. If you book your ticket before 17.00 on 30 September 2010 you will receive a £50 discount off the standard ticket price. There are also five FREE and five half-price places under our bursary scheme, available for individuals and small organisations with an annual income of less than £100,000. To apply for the bursary scheme, please email a brief overview of your organisation, your job role and why you think you deserve the bursary ticket to good-deals@socialenterpriselive.com. Please apply for the bursary scheme no later than Friday 15 October 2010. If you are a Social Enterprise magazine subscriber you will receive an additional £40 discount off the ticket price, taking your potential saving to £90. To subscribe to Social Enterprise magazine call +44 (0)20 8533 8892 now. For ticket prices and booking details visit the website: http://www.good-dealsuk.com/ Back to top Securing Your Business Idea Event Date: 07/09/2010 Event Time: 09:30 Event Ends 12:30 Venue: Bradford Chamber Description: Learn about intellectual property and the various ways you can protect your ideas, inventions and innovations. Learn what is meant by copyright and how you can protect the written word and pictures. To book or for more information please call Bradford Chamber on Tel: 01274 354750 Back to top Black Training and Enterprise Group small grant programme
The Black Training and Enterprise Group has launched a small grant programme to help local voluntary and community groups working with Black boys and young men across England. The REACH Programme: Community Engagement Project is offering £500 grants to 40 local groups that can host events which encourage and inspire young Black males aged 11-25 to succeed in education and work.
Organisations will need to have at least a year's experience of running programmes for Black boys or and/or young men. The project must help to inspire young Black boys and/or young men in the areas of: - education
- employment
- enterprise
- community development/empowerment
For more information and to download the guidance notes and application form, visit http://www.bteg.co.uk/reach_project.html The deadline is Friday 10th September.
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