Highlights
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Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives; The Camden Commission; Disabled Access Day; Leighton Education Project Coffee Morning; Crowdfunding Workshops with Hubbub; Camden Business Sustainability Awards; How Do You Write a Successful Grant Application? Elfrida Rathbone AGM; Health and Safety Training; Torriano Meeting House Exhibition; The Budget; Edge Fund; Ageing Better in Camden Contracts + funding, jobs, volunteers, events, training, offers and resources.
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Feature
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Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives |
Camden ’s Health and Wellbeing Board convened an interesting meeting recently to look at tackling obesity and low levels of physical activity among residents in the borough. We started with presentations (pp 10, 11) on the situation in the borough (a surprising number of the over 65s and primary school age children are overweight). We then worked in groups looking at what we could do. For more background there are some national guidelines on developing local strategies here. We looked at what the various sectors could contribute and in particular what the voluntary and community sector could contribute around activity, healty eating and wellbeing in general, discussing some examples of what has been done in the sector already and what more could be done. You can read more here.
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NEWS & POLICY
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Camden
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The Camden Commission would like to hear from you Disabled Access Day 2017 – Drop in at Wellcome Foundation Leighton Education Project Coffee Morning Crowdfunding Workshops with Hubbub Camden Business Sustainability Awards Workshop: How Do You Write a Successful Grant Application? Elfrida Rathbone AGM 30th March 2017 2 – 4.30pm Health and Safety Training 21st March 10.00 – 1.00. Torriano Meeting House Camden Carers Service Centre 404 Events Diary Camden Patient Participation Group – Elections and News Healthwatch Camden Camden Capacity Building Bulletin Ageing Better in Camden Refugee Therapy Centre, SHAK, Kentish Town Community Centre, Colindale Community Trust, Camden CCG, Opening Doors London, NHS Community Navigators, VAC, Kings Cross Construction Centre and Camden PA are recruiting. See Jobs and Volunteers section below. You can join in on Facebook. Like us if you like us. Follow all the Camden Voluntary Sector news on OneCamden on Twitter. You can read more about all of these stories on our news page at www.vac.org.uk/new |
National
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Spring Budget 2017 According to NCVO this was billed as a ‘quiet budget’ the chancellor benefited from an unexpected £12bn underspend in the government finances. But Mr Hammond chose to bank the vast majority of the windfall in anticipation of leaving the EU. The overall context for charities remains one of austerity well into the next parliament, with a further £3.5bn of departmental cuts due to be announced later in the year. There remain serious long term challenges around health and social care, local authority funding, pensions and wage growth that may begin to be addressed through the many consultations announced today. £4.6bn has been taken out of the social care budget recently. So after intense pressure in recent months, the chancellor announced a further £2bn for social care over three years. While significant, it’s less than the £1.5bn the cross-party Communities and Local Government Committee recently found was needed this year alone, with the annual funding gap expected to reach £2.6bn by 2020 according to the LGA. The chancellor also announced a much called-for review of social care funding in the form of a green paper later this year – it will be important that charities make their voices heard in the consultation process. He also announced additional capital funding would be made available in the autumn budget for the NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plans currently in development. Sadly the chancellor did not head NAVCA’s plea for full mandatory rate relief for charities. However, a further £300m of transitional business rates relief was announced, which will be allocated to local authorities according to a DCLG formula, and distributed by them according to their priorities. Charities that expect to see large rate rises may wish to approach the local authority to discuss their circumstances. Charities and other organisations who work to combat domestic abuse have been awarded an additional £20m by the Chancellor in today’s Budget. With only three mentions of the word charity the sector has been left divided by this budget. Full details of the rest of the budget can be found at the BBC. |
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FUNDING |
See the Funding pages on VAC’s website for all the latest information. Edge Fund – Social Justice Funding for Grassroots Groups Three Crowdfunding Opportunities Three Ageing Better in Camden Contracts Crowdfunding initiative launched to tackle poverty and inequality in London UCL Grand Challenges Small Grants Scheme Team London small grants programme now open for applications – deadline 8th February |
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VAC EVENTS |
Health and Safety Training 21st March 10.00 – 1.00. How Do You Write a Successful Grant Application? Governance in the Voluntary and Community Sector Crowdfunding |
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OTHER EVENTS |
Age Allies Camden Adult Community Learning Service Health & well-being event – Get Involved Ageing Better in Camden invites you to the launch of Concerns and Gaps Scheme (CAG) Sustainability and Transformation Plans Spare Tyre presents Safe – Take risk away, and what’s left? Free Family Activities at the British Library January – March 2017 Rethink Mental Illness Mental Health First Aid courses Recovery College Free HR training workshops for Camden voluntary and community groups Don’t forget that Camden TDS run a full programme of course which are subsidised or free for voluntary sector partner organisations. There is a link to a list of partner organisations on the home page. Find more Training Opportunities at www.vac.org.uk |
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JOBS AND VOLUNTEERING |
Healthwatch Camden seeks Chair . The Refugee Therapy Centre seeks Administrative Assistant. Kentish Town Community Centre seeks Youth Projects Coordinator Opening Doors London seeks Social Opportunities Facilitator Voluntary Acton camden – Trustee Vacancies Community Navigator SHAK seeks Wellbeing and Employment development worker SHAK seeks Community Engagement Manager Kings Cross Jobs Volunteers are needed in GP practices! Are you looking to employ an assistant to help with your care needs? CamdenPAs can help Find Jobs and Volunteering opportunities at https://www.vac.org.uk/ |
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OFFERS, RESOURCES & ANNOUNCEMENTS |
CIP on One Map The Abbey Community Centre has rooms for Hire Camden Consultations FREE VAC Membership for Unfunded Groups: Voluntary Action Camden Small organisations with no paid staff and a turnover of less than £1,500 can now join for FREE. To take advantage of this offer just fill in the membership on the online form here. |