Vote for Action West London to secure funding from NatWest Skills and Opportunities for Enterprise! Vote here
Long standing CLINKS member Action West London (www.actionwestlondon.org.uk) is a charity and social enterprise helping young and adult offenders, and other disadvantaged individuals, change their lives through providing Employment, Education, Training and Enterprise opportunities.
TheyÂ’ve been shortlisted for the Natwest Skills and Opportunities Fund – their project will help people start up in self- employment and business–including becoming a Market Trader at their innovative Acton Street Market. The funding will enable them to hire qualified, experienced staff to deliver free self-employment, financial capability training and business start-up support for socially disadvantaged people.
Please cast your online vote for Action West London. Every vote matters. Thank you!
Archives for October 2018
BLF Digital Fund
The Digital Fund is a new UK wide £15 million funding programme to support charities and community organisations. It is about helping the charity and voluntary sector to use digital tools and approaches to support people and communities to thrive.
You can submit outline proposals from 22nd October 2018 until 5pm 3rd December 2018. There will be further opportunities to apply in 2019
For more information click here
Early Help VCS Survey
London Borough of Hounslow is co-ordinating a new multi-agency Early Help Strategy. As part of this work, they are looking to define and advertise the early help offer to families more clearly. In order that they can fully capture the VCS in the offer, please indicate the following:
Name of service and contact details:
1)Does your service meet both of the following criteria:
- targeted at children and young people with additional needs specifically – i.e. not routinely available to all children regardless of need, and not targeted at those with very complex needs
- provides direct work with children/young people (would not include provision of food and/or equipment with no direct work)
 Yes/No
 If yes:
2)Which age groups do you support?
 3)How can families and practitioners access your service? Does your service have a referral form?
 4)How many children, young people or families do you have capacity to work with each year? Do you hold a waiting list?
 5)Are you happy for them to advertise your service as part of the Hounslow Early Help Offer?
Please return responses to Claire Bridge, LBH Interim Early Help Transformation Lead, Claire.bridge@hounslow.gov.uk, by 30th November.
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Crowdfunding workshop 6 November in Brentford
Got an idea that will benefit your local community? Want to get up to £5,000 to support your project? Ready to submit a project idea by 10 December?
Our Hounslow is the borough’s own crowdfunding initiative connecting project ideas with resources and the crowd to help make them a reality. From community gardens and street murals to festivals and sports facilities, if you want to enhance your neighbourhood, improve your local park or play area, or simply bring people together, Our Hounslow enables you to get your project off the ground through crowdfunding.
If you are interested in becoming a project creator or want to find out more about how Our Hounslow can be the programme to get your project off the ground, then come along to this free workshop.
When/Where: 06 November, 18.00- 20.00, Watermans Arts Centre, 40 High St, Brentford, London, TW8 0DS
Free registration: Register here
Whether this is your first time creating a project, you’re a seasoned community organiser, you’re from a local business who wants to get involved, or you simply want to play a part in improving Hounslow, please join us.
Learn more about Our Hounslow here.
New HVSSS Funding Officer
Mustafa Arrale has had to leave HVSSS and is no longer the Funding and Group Development Officer in Hounslow. The new Funding and Group Development Officer is Iain Elliott who knows the borough well, having supported Hounslow Community Network for the past few years. You can contact him on iain@ealingcvs.org.uk
Freshwater Foundation
‘We are the Freshwater Foundation, a small grant-making charity based in West London and our new grant round is now open for applications, deadline 28th January, 2019.
We are aiming to support small to medium-sized voluntary and community organisations in Ealing and Hounslow with grants for small-scale projects, infrastructure spending and any other charitable work.
We would strongly recommend early submission of applications. Demand for funds is likely to greatly outstrip supply so only the strongest applications are likely to succeed. Even if a proposal is very worthy, it is likely to falter if not well argued and documented. Early application means that we will have time to help you with this and to present the strongest case possible for your proposal. If you are thinking of applying, then your best first step is to contact us at info@freshwaterfoundation.org.uk and we can arrange to discuss your application on the phone and give it the best start possible.
We are also looking at offering advice and tuition on various management, technical and legal topics of interest to voluntary and community groups and so would be glad to hear of your needs in these areas.
Visit our site at http://freshwaterfoundation.org.uk/grant-applications/ for more information
