NEWSLETTERSeptember 2006ISSUE 4 |
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SAVAGE Team |
Please click or hover over the names for email addresses. Chief Executive: Keith Morris |
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Many thanks to all who attended our conference in Winchester on 28 September. Without your participation the day would not have been as successful at it was. With over 100 people in attendance the day enabled us to meet up face to face with our members and supporters. John Holmes, SAVAGE Chair, opened the conference with the good news that membership of SAVAGE is now FREE! He also took the opportunity to launch the organisation's business plan, which contains details of exciting developments of new services being offered by SAVAGE. Some of which were available to delegates on the day as training workshops. These were well received and judging by the feedback very informative and useful. If you did not manage to attend we are running further workshops across the South East and South West in November and December. We have already received bookings for these from delegates who were at the conference which shows how popular these future events are likely to be. Workshop information and a booking form: www.savage-europe.org.uk/events/index.htm. Details of FREE membership: www.savage-europe.org.uk/membership.htm The SAVAGE Business Plan 2006/08: www.savage-europe.org.uk/news.htm Once again thank you to all those who attended and your helpful suggestions in ways in which we can meet the needs of our members in the months and years to come. We hope to meet more of you in the future workshops across the region in the coming months. |
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Devon and Cornwall LSC |
The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) has released a co-financing tender for the Bristol Objective 2 area and will cover the following programme: Bespoke Skills Training for Priority Sectors. There will be a Workshop to coincide with this invitation to tender, to be held on Friday 13 October at 10.45 am in Bristol. Deadline: 12 noon Thursday 9 November 2006 |
SOUTH EAST |
REMINDER - Jobcentre Plus - “Special People, Special Places” |
Jobcentre Plus is seeking to award contracts to providers who are able to successfully deliver a programme appropriate to the lone parent client group in the following locations: Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, Kent, Surrey and Sussex. The deadline for responding to the invitation to tender is 12 noon Friday 6 October 2006.
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SEEDA Draft Disability Equality Scheme and Consultation |
The South East England Development Agency's (SEEDA's) Draft Disability Equality Scheme (DES) is available for comment on the website below. This will enable them to proactively and effectively address Disability Equality across SEEDA's entire remit as a Regional Development Agency (RDA). If you are a disabled person, work for a disability organisation or have an interest in disability, SEEDA will be holding four sub-regional focus groups throughout October/November 2006. These dates will be published on the SEEDA website shortly. Deadline for comments is: 24 November 2006. |
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BI-REGIONAL NEWS and FUNDS |
Help Yourselves |
Save the Children and British Gas have a new round of the ‘Help Yourselves’ Awards to fund projects that help make where young people live healthier, more engaging and safer. Help Yourselves aims to support adults and young people working together involved in dynamic and lasting community projects. Projects must run from January to the end of May 2007. Deadline: 20 October 2006. |
The Big Lottery Fund has launched its new programme “Family Learning”. £40 million of National Lottery good cause money has been made available to increase high quality family learning opportunities across England; making them more accessible to families who face barriers on learning and helping those who lack confidence helping their children to learn. They will fund projects that involve adults and children learning together and produce clear learning outcomes for both children and parents. Grants of between £10,000 and £500,000 will be awarded to successful projects lasting between one and five years.
The programme is looking for projects that encourage:
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GlaxoSmithKline IMPACT Awards 2007 |
The GlaxoSmithKline Community Health IMPACT Awards recognise and reward charities in the UK who are doing excellent work to improve people's health. The annual awards are funded by GlaxoSmithKline and run in association with the King's Fund. The awards are open to registered charities who are at least three years old, who work in a health-related field in the UK and have a total annual income of less than £1 million. The overall winner will receive £30,000, with nine further winners receiving £20,000 each. Up to 10 highly commended organisations will receive £5,000. You do not need to present a new project. The awards are designed to recognise success and achievements in existing work. The charities decide how to best use the award money! Last year’s award winners included a children and families community health service, men’s health organisation, emergency service for road accidents, cancer support service, sexual health and HIV service for minority ethnic communities, rape and sexual abuse service. Deadline: 5.00pm Thursday 19 October 2006 |
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Free Internet-Ready PCs |
This is a nationwide award scheme by BT Community Connections that connects local Voluntary Community Organisations (VCOs) to the Internet. Since 2000, the scheme has awarded more than 4600 Internet-ready PCs to VCOs. In 2006/2007, over 1300 awards will be made to groups who can demonstrate how a PC and Internet connection will benefit their work and the local community. Successful applicants in the past include elderly silver-surfer groups, disability groups, music groups, refugee support groups, youth groups, environmental groups, victim support groups, cultural groups, family support groups and sport groups. There are two rounds of the award scheme and applications should be submitted prior to the closing dates of: Thursday 26 October 2006 and Thursday 15 February 2007. |
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Structural Funds |
The European Commission has published the final figures showing how much EU Structural funding each Member State will receive yearly for the next seven years. The Decisions also confirm Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly as eligible for EU Convergence funding, due to their GDP of less than 75% of the EU average.
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The Nationwide Foundation works towards a just and caring society by encouraging people to take part in building better futures in their communities. They have launched a new initiative to support a limited number of charities over the longer term and have a major impact on the work they do. The overreaching theme of the programme is Supporting Families. Current focusing is on young people who are or have been involved with the criminal justice system with a rehabilitation programme designed to obtain the skills, confidence and personal support networks to enable them to lead fulfilled and successful lives. |
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Southern Association of Voluntary Action Groups for Europe (SAVAGE) Email: Head Office Enquiries SAVAGE cannot accept responsibility for any inaccuracies or omissions contained herein. |
Page last updated 02-Oct-2006 |
