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WMCA: Shared Prosperity Fund – June update

June 21, 2022

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West Midlands Combined Authority

Shared on behalf of the West Midlands Combined Authority: UK SPF for at Risk Voluntary and Community Sector Organisations As set out in the UKSPF prospectus, the initial focus of the UKSPF programme in 2022-23 and 2023-24 will be on communities and place and local business interventio

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Charity Commission: Changes of Charity Classifications

June 07, 2022

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Charity Commission for England and Wales

As you all know at BSSEC we aim to keep you in touch with National Policy and changes pertinent to the social economy and we have been informed that last week the Charity Commission launched user testing of its revised charity classification with charities – and they n

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Big Giveaway from BVSC

May 03, 2022

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BVSC is on the move and has announced a massive #giveaway of office and conference furniture and equipment… all of it free to #charities in #Birmingham!Items currently available include: ⭐️ Conference Tables (33 straight, 33 trapezium, 14 half round, 2 l

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Engage for Good sets up new Ukrainian solidarity network

April 25, 2022

Engage for Good, Birmingham’s voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) network facilitated by BVSC, has established a Ukrainian solidarity network, to bring together all organisations that want to be able to support the humanitarian effort. Apologies for the sho

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News from the Crown Representative’s VCSE Advisory Group

February 17, 2022

For some time now Sarah Beaumont has sat as a member of the VCSE Advisory Group convened by the government’s Crown Representative for the VCSE, Claire Dove CBE. This group is designed to act as an intermediary between government and the voluntary and social enterprise sectors an

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Open 4 Community — BVSC launches new funding search portal

January 31, 2022

BVSC has just announced that it is launching a new funding search portal called Open 4 Community. The newly designed funding search tool will enable charities, voluntary organisations, community groups and social enterprises to search hundreds of funding opportunities from government,

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Virtual networking event for social enterprises in the health and wellbeing sector

January 27, 2022

iSE is offering another free online networking event for social enterprises and trading third sector organisations — this time, for those active in the health and wellbeing sector. Date and time: Wednesday 23rd February 2022 • 10:00am-11:30am. → Book your

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Roots HR CIC celebrates over 1,000 downloads of its free toolkits

January 26, 2022

On the 1st July 2021, specialist social sector HR provider, Roots HR CIC, launched the first of a series of free HR toolkits, as part of its social value offer to the sector. We covered that story here. Throughout last year the company issued one toolkit every month — packed wit

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“Covid-19 Omicron wave – getting the sector prepared” — BVSC open letter

December 20, 2021

BVSC’s chief executive Brian Carr has just published an open letter calling on Birmingham’s third sector organisations to use their communications channels to promote key public health messages in advance of the mid-January point when cases of the Omicron COVID

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Online briefing to explain West Midlands’ £53m share of Household Support Fund

November 22, 2021

On 30th September the government launched a £500m Household Support Fund to provide winter support to families and vulnerable households with food, fuel, bills, household items and essentials between October 2021 and March 2022. This funding is being issued to local authorities to add

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BVSC State of the Sector survey 2021 is now live

September 27, 2021

There is still time to complete BVSC’s State of the Sector survey 2021…but the survey will end soon. Please see below. BVSC has just announced that its State of the Sector survey 2021 is now live and will run until the 15th October. The State of the Sector survey generates

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There’s A Better Way — new campaign promotes giving and joined-up action on homelessness and rough sleeping

September 14, 2021

Birmingham City Council has just announced the launch of the There’s a Better Way campaign (Birmingham City Council blog and news), a new initiative to encourage people to donate to Change into Action, a charity supporting the region’s homelessness and street outreach char

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Birmingham City Council launches new Match My Project portal

August 16, 2021

For some while now Birmingham City Council has been considering methods for making it easier for businesses to support local community projects — whether they wish to do this as part of their CSR commitments or in pursuit of specific Social Value pledges a company may have made

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BVSC wants your feedback on what this year’s ‘state of the sector survey’ should include

August 12, 2021

BVSC’s State of the Sector 2020 survey underwent an almost complete redesign last year in order to focus on gathering as much data as possible about the state of the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise sector as it went into the pandemic and as it began to emerge f

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WMCA & BVSC join forces on homelessness prevention toolkit

August 09, 2021

In the wake of the the metropolitan Mayors of the West Midlands, Greater Manchester, and Liverpool City Region jointly calling on the government to continue funding the Housing First pilot scheme to help vulnerable people off the streets, the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) in

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Online public health briefing with Dr Justin Varney to focus on VCFSE — 29th July

July 26, 2021

Thursday 29th July, 2:00pm-3:00pm: BVSC is hosting an online briefing with Birmingham’s Director of Public Health Dr Justin Varney who will be providing an update on the current Covid-19 situation. The event will have a particular focus on the voluntary, community, faith and soc

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iSE & Witton Lodge offer new work, wellbeing and enterprise programme

July 14, 2021

Employment support

iSE and Witton Lodge Community Association are now delivering a new ESF-funded employment and enterprise programme called the WOWED project — which stands for World of Work, Wellbeing and Enterprise Development. The project offers: Basic skills support Confidence/assertiven

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Free online help for the reopening of community buildings

July 12, 2021

BVSC has just announced that in conjunction with Acivico, the design, facilities management and built environment consultancy, it will be offering two free online workshops in July, aimed specifically at those responsible for the safe reopening of community buildings. The workshops in

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New project to boost digital literacy and inclusion in Northfield & Edgbaston

July 08, 2021

Northfield Community Partnership, Age UK and Gateway Family Services are just starting a new project focused on improving digital literacy and inclusion amongst the over-50s in Northfield and Edgbaston. The project is seeking to recruit 2 x Digital Literacy Project Workers. These are

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Welcome Change CIC opens community hub in Lea Village

July 06, 2021

Councillor Marje Bridle has officially opened a new Community Hub in Lea Village in east Birmingham. The hub is run by BSSEC member, Welcome Change CIC. It has been supported by a grant of £500k from the National Lottery Community Fund, securing its future for the next five years. The

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