CAS – Community Action Southwark

Launch of a new innovation fund.

Day opportunities for adults with long term mental health needs.

 Southwark Council’s Health and Community Services department is inviting applications for a new innovation fund launching today.  The fund will be awarded to organisations that can propose innovate ways to support people with long term mental health needs in the borough who are eligible for services under the Fair Access to Care Services (FACS) criteria.

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Southwark Council’s Health and Community Services department is inviting applications for grant funding for local voluntary and community organisations for services that support older and disabled people to regain and maintain their independence. Deadline is on Monday 9th of January 2012.

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Our Panel  of guest speakers on Innovative and sustainable funding bring to Southwark a wide range of expertise about Collaboration and mergers, commissioning, social enterprise, premises, personalisation, building relationships with corporate partners.

A chance to explore innovative funding opportunities with experts in their field and think outside the box to ensure the sustainability of your organisation in this challenging funding environment!  The panel talked about sustainability, culture change, challenges and opportunities, strategy, skills needed, good practice, cashflow and innovation. [...]

Re: DWP Innovation Fund – Round 2: Opportunities to achieve positive outcomes for young people

The DWP Innovation Fund aims to achieve improved employment and education outcomes for young people aged 14-24 with a particular focus on areas of high need and harder to help groups such as refugees, children in care/leaving care and children with learning difficulties or disabilities. To achieve this the DWP is looking for intermediary/investor organisations such as A4e to work with delivery bodies to develop new services for young people.  These services must be innovative and not replicate existing, funded provision. [...]

During CAS Trustee conference, we had a chance to meet local and national funders to hear about their funding priorities. Watch the videos below to understand what funders are interested to fund, hear their hints and tips for successful funding applications and  find out how to avoid the bin!!!

We filmed representatives from the Big Lottery Fund, United St Saviours, Team London Bridge,  Trust for London, Capital Community Foundation, the Prince’s Trust and London Catalyst. Don’t miss the Q and A session at the bottom of the page!

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LVSTC (The London Voluntary Sector Training Consortium) is running a workshop on Evaluation Frameworks which is open to all voluntary sector organisations.  The workshop is being held in Tower Hamlets.  You can book directly with LVSTC if you are interested in attending this workshop. [...]

The Healthy Communities Small Grants Programme is now open.

The People’s Health Trust is a registered charity which funds projects addressing health inequalities across England, Scotland and Wales.  The Trust is funded by 51 local society lotteries and the good cause money they raise through The Health Lottery. [...]

RE: NOTIFICATION OF FUNDING DECISIONS FOR 2012/13

 

Last year the council wrote to all funded voluntary sector organisations outlining the council’s process for decisions on funding for the current year.  At that time, because of the central government timescale for announcing our financial settlement, we were not in a position to be able to give you as much notice as we wanted on funding decisions for the current financial year.  [...]

Southwark Council Funding Process For Financial Year Beginning April 2012

You can find here the documents relating to Southwark’s Community Support Programme for the Financial year beginning 2012.

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