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NEWS AND
POLICY
1. Street
Stars
2. Charity Commission warning about
fraudulent direct debit payments
TRAINING AND
EVENTS
3. Volunteer Recruitment
Fair
4. Café Politique: Is Formal
Education Enough?
FUNDING
5. Lloyds TSB
Foundation
6.
JOBS AND VOLUNTEER
OPPORTUNITIES
7. The Youth of
Today
8. Volunteering with
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NEWS AND
POLICY
1. Street
Stars
This is an
exciting new programme for Ouseburn Trust. Street Stars will work with
volunteers to go out into the East End community to talk to people about what
issues are affecting them and help the to get engaged with local decision
making. They are going to be:
- Running
community events
- Hosting meets
for local businesses
- Distributing
newsletters
- Appearing at
local events to get your views
- Running the
new Ouseburn Welcome Centre
The Ouseburn
Welcome Centre will be opening within the next few weeks at
2. Charity Commission warning about
fraudulent direct debit payments
The Charity
Commission has been made aware of a number of instances where fraudulent direct
debits have been set up from charity bank accounts. To help prevent this they
have issued the following guidelines:
- Prevention -
write to your bank and tell them that no direct debits should be set up
without the approval of named personnel
- Detection -
ensure that you regularly check bank statements and that they reconcile with
your records. Any unexplained or unusual direct debits should be
investigated.
- Redress -
under the direct debit guarantee scheme a charity can reclaim any money taken
wrongly form the bank. Than it is the banks responsibility to reclaim this
from the supplier.
Advice from
BACS:
Organisations
setting up direct debits must verify the identity of the Payer before collecting
any money. For organisations providing goods and services BACS makes a list of
stringent verification measures available in a secure area of its
website.
Organisation
collecting by direct debit must also confirm in writing the instruction given by
the customer within 3 days of setting up the direct
debit.
For more
information on direct debits visit the BACS
website.
TRAINING AND
EVENTS
3. Volunteer Recruitment
Fair
Middlesbrough
Volunteer Development Agency’s Volunteer Centre in partnership with Redcar and
4. Café Politique: Is Formal
Education Enough?
Does our education system set us up for what life throws at us?
Tony
Jeffs
teaches community and youth work at
The event takes place on Monday 1sy February 7.00 - 9.00pm at The
Urban Café, Dance City, Newcastle, seating is limited so early arrival is
advised. For more information email l.sweeney@ippr.org
FUNDING
5. Lloyds TSB
Foundation
The
Lloyds TSB Foundation funds local, regional and national charities working to
tackle disadvantage across
Their
grant-making programmes are:
- The Community
Programme - funds core work that helps disadvantaged people play a fuller role
in the community
- Matched
Giving Scheme - for employees of Lloyds Banking Group who are involved in
charity fundraising or volunteering
How to
Apply
There are three
steps to apply:
- Step 1 -
Review the funding criteria to see what they do and do not
fund
- Step 2 -
Complete the eligibility questionnaire, a short on-line questionnaire with 3
parts
- Step 3 - If
your charity is eligible someone will contact you to discuss
this
For more
information or to apply contact the Grant Manager on 07802 337841email
northeast&Cumbria@lloydstsbfoundation.org.uk or visit the Lloyds TSB
Foundation Website.
6.
Newcastle Brown Ale Fund is looking for applications
from organisations working across the West End of Newcastle, Byker or Longbenton
who can show how they are working with young people aged 18-25 to be more
healthy, improve their well being and increase their confidence and self esteem,
particularly through education, training or physical activity. Grants of up to
£5,000 are available for direct project costs, activities and equipment. For
more information email Lisa Cappleman on lc@communityfoundation.org.uk
JOBS AND VOLUNTEER
OPPORTUNITIES
7. The Youth of
Today
The
Youth of Today recruitment is now open for 2010; if your organisation has any
young people aged 13-19 who have shown leadership potential Changemakers would
love you to nominate them for this prestigious opportunity.
The
Youth of Today fellowship is a government programme to identify and support
community leaders. The young people involved will get support to set up or
continue running a community-based project around something they feel
passionately about, as well as networking and socialising opportunities with
other young people across the country.
They
are looking for 30 young people from the Tyne and Wear area and 30 young people
from the
The
application form can also be accessed from the Youth of Today
website and the deadline for applications is Friday 26th February.
For more information, please contact Jonathan Simpson on 0191 226 7330 or email
jonathan@changemakers.org.uk
8. Volunteering with
Are you
interested in visiting GP Surgeries, hospitals, residential care homes and other
health and social care services?
Newcastle LINk
is looking for volunteers to join their ‘enter and view’ programme. The
volunteers visit certain premises in order to look at good practice or to see
how services could be improved.
Anyone can be
an ‘enter and view’ volunteer once they have passed the recruitment process; the
process includes:
- Application
form
- Interview
- Training
- Enhanced
CRB
- Registration
with the Independent Safeguarding
Authority
You can apply
by email, post or telephone, deadline for applications is Monday 15th
February. For more information or for an application pack contact Rachel Head on
0800 7569528 email rachel.head@cvsnewcastle.org.uk
or visit the Newcastle LINk
website.
Regards
Julie
Information and Data
Officer
North
East Volunteers Programme Co-ordination Unit
Novas
Scarman Group
C/O
ETEC
1 Moor
Terrace
SR1
2JH
Tel:
0191 514 6156
Tel:
0191 514 6150 (main reception)
Email: julie.dawson@novasscarman.org