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Historic England Everyday Heritage Grants: Celebrating Working Class Histories- Deadline on 23 May 2022
8 March 2022
Historic England has announced its Everyday Heritage Grants: Celebrating Working Class Histories which will fund community-led and people-focused projects that aim to further the nation’s collective understanding of the past. The Everyday Heritage Grants of up to £25,000 will fund projects that aim to celebrate the built or historic environment of working class communities. These grants ...
Support for Ukraine – what you can do
3 March 2022
How charities and civil society can support Ukraine NCVO have published a blog on the devastating and urgent situation in Ukraine and what charities and civil society can do to help. Read it here: How charities and civil society can support Ukraine. Disasters Emergency Committee: Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal The Disasters Emergency Committee brings together 15 leading UK aid ...
Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service consultation – open until 28 March 2022
3 March 2022
Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service is asking people to consider how their fire and rescue service responds to emergencies across the County as part of a public consultation. The consultation will run until Monday, 28 March 2022 (running for 10 weeks in total) and focuses on how they respond to Automatic Fire Alarms in lower-risk, ...
Design a poster for Berkshire Archaeological Society
3 March 2022
Berkshire Archaeological Society Poster Competition The invitation is to design a poster that inspires and informs and shows your enthusiasm and interest for the archaeology of Berkshire. A selection of the entries will also be displayed by the Society at its events and meetings and used in its publicity material. The deadline is 30 April 2022. A ...
Free places for 8-16 year olds to join RABBLE Young Company
3 March 2022
RABBLE Theatre are a local theatre company which delivers high-quality professional theatre and provides an extensive range of outreach and educational work to young people and the community. RABBLE runs a Young Company for young people aged 8-16, which takes place every Saturday morning, term time. Our Young Company provides young people with the opportunity to: Engage ...
The UK Youth Fund: Thriving Minds – deadline 20 March 2022
2 March 2022
UK Youth and Julia and Hans Rausing are working in partnership to offer funding to youth organisations seeking to be better equipped to respond to and support young people’s mental health in their communities. Who can apply? To be eligible to apply your organisation must: Be based and operate in the UK, and have been operational for at ...
Thames Water x Backyard Nature Microgrants – deadline 8 March 2022
1 March 2022
Thames Water has launched a new community fund to support grassroots action in partnership with nature campaign This fund particularly is aimed at those supporting families in areas of high deprivation to reduce the barriers around spending time outside in nature. There is £12k funding available for community projects in areas serviced by Thames Water. What are ...
Reminder: Reading Covid Support Fund – deadline 5pm on 4 March 2022
28 February 2022
Reading Borough Council has allocated £220k for grants to the voluntary and community sector for the year 2021/22 from the ‘Reading Covid Support Fund’. The funding is available to support the infrastructure and/or additional capacity needed by voluntary and community organisations to expand existing services, deliver services in a different way or to develop new ...
Could your organisation support Reading residents disproportionately affected by health inequalities? Funding announcement from RBC soon
23 February 2022
Update on 9 March 2022: Reading Health Champions and Vaccine Fund – deadline 1 April 2022 Could your organisation support Reading residents disproportionately affected by health inequalities? Reading Borough Council will shortly be allocating 50k for grants to the voluntary and community sector to be used by July 2022, from funding received from the Department for Levelling ...
Your Place Our Place urban room – programme for March 2022 announced
23 February 2022
What is Your Place Our Place? Your Place Our Place is one of the first pilots of the Community Consultation for Quality of Life (CCQOL) project. It involves community consultation through activities at an Urban Room and a digital mapping tool. What is an urban room? Urban rooms are spaces in towns and cities which offer local communities ...
Masonic Charitable Foundation: Children and Young People grants
23 February 2022
The Masonic Charitable Foundation (MCF) builds better lives by enabling opportunity, advancing healthcare and education and promoting independence for freemasons, their families and the wider community. This programme is open to national and local charities helping disadvantaged children and young people to overcome the challenges they face. The grants support disadvantaged and vulnerable children aged 0-18 and ...
Masonic Charitable Foundation: Later life inclusion grants
23 February 2022The Masonic Charitable Foundation (MCF) builds better lives by enabling opportunity, advancing healthcare and education and promoting independence for freemasons, their families and the wider community. The Later Life Inclusion grants programme is open to local and national charities that are working to reduce loneliness and isolation in later life. The grants support socially isolated and ...
Help to review the SEND Local Offer
18 February 2022
The Family Information Service and SEND Local Offer need your help! They are looking for parent carers who can spare a little time to help review the SEND Local Offer. Reading Families Forum, parent carers, Family Information Service/SEND Local Offer, and other services supporting SEND meet up online every 2 months to review and look at sections ...
Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families – new resources
18 February 2022
The Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families have launched a number of new resources Growing together toolkit and podcast discussing racism and mental health in schools To celebrate Children’s Mental Health Week 2022, their schools team have created a Growing together toolkit which celebrates diversity in all its forms and they have also launched a new podcast ...
University of Reading Internship Scheme open for applications
18 February 2022
Are you a non-profit organisation looking to hire a high-quality student intern? Then the Reading Internship Scheme (RIS) might be for you! The University of Reading’s flagship RIS programme connects you to our undergraduate students through 4–8 fully-funded internships. It is an opportunity aimed at providing value both for you as an employer and for our ...
Time to Flex: embracing flexible working – report by ACEVO and NCVO
16 February 2022
Flexible working practices are fundamental to the future of work within charities, helping us deliver more for the people and communities we support, says a new report from ACEVO, NCVO and Starfish Search. Time to Flex draws on conversations with colleagues across the voluntary sector and explores the various benefits and barriers to embracing flexible working. ...
Review of the Accessible Information Standard – respond by 28 February 2022
16 February 2022
2022 Review of the Accessible Information Standard A review of the Accessible Information Standard (AIS) is running until March 2022. NECS are working with NHS England and Improvement to carry out the review. The AIS Review will undertake a detailed examination of the Standard building on the findings from previous reviews and working with a wide ...
Community Gardens Award – deadline 28 February 2022
16 February 2022
In 2011 the National Garden Scheme set up an award scheme in memory of Elspeth Thompson, the much-loved garden writer and journalist who died in 2010. National Garden Scheme Community Gardens Award provides funding to amateur gardeners from community groups in England and Wales to create a garden or similar project (such as an allotment) ...
Windrush Day Grant Scheme – deadline 18 March 2022
16 February 2022
The Windrush Day Grant Scheme is led by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC). National Windrush Day and this scheme forms a part of the government’s commitment to level up opportunity across diverse communities, help build greater trust in public services, improve outcomes for everyone and forge a greater sense of belonging. The ...
Employment law: changes to statutory rates of pay from 1 April 2022
15 February 2022
If your charity employs individuals, please consider and prepare for changes to statutory rates of pay that will come into effect from 1 April 2022: Increase in National Minimum Wage – summary from ACAS Increase in other statutory entitlements, such as Statutory Sick Pay, Statutory Maternity, Paternity, Adoption pay – rates and thresholds from HMRC for 2022/2023 Increase ...