Fundraising Manager

Learn English at Home are looking for a dedicated individual to who will work closely with the Director to shape the organisation’s future fundraising strategy and business model across multiple income streams. You’ll be at the heart of our growth and development as you play a key role in delivering our plans to drive sustainable income growth and diversify our income streams.

For more information click here https://www.leah.org.uk/vacancies

Director Learn English at Home are looking for an exceptional individual with strong strategic skills, experience of managing change and motivating people, self-motivated and with drive and initiative to develop and promote their strategy. The successful candidate will provide strategic guidance to the work of the Fundraising Manager and Manager and will have the communication and networking skills to promote our activities locally and nationally. Skills and experience of motivating and leading a virtual group of dedicated and committed individuals and a track record of finance management and developing sustainable services are essential.

For more information click here https://www.leah.org.uk/vacancies

£35,000 FTE
Contract, 12 Month Contract, Full-time
Closing date: Closing date 16th June 2022 at 17:00

For the recruitment pack click here Recruitment pack – ActForEaling Project Manager

Please send CV’s to Irfan, email: irfan@ehcvs.org.uk

More community groups will be able to rescue prized local assets, such as sports clubs, music venues and historic buildings, following the expansion of levelling up funding.

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has published the prospectus for the second round of its £150 million Community Ownership Fund. Building on the successful launch of pilot finding last year, which saved 39 assets across the UK, changes to the fund will ensure it is more inclusive and flexible, following feedback from previous applicants. The first bidding window commencing 10 June 2022

Allocations from the first round of funding included £1 million for Bury fans to rescue Gigg Lane stadium, £90,000 for The Queen’s Ballroom in Tredegar, Wales, and £96,000 for The Racehorse Inn Community pub in rural Suffolk.

Changes made for the second round mean even more community groups will be able to take control of venues and other assets in their area that are at risk of being lost forever. This is all part of the government’s drive to level up local communities across the country, creating more jobs for local people, boosting local businesses and building up local economies as a result. As a part of this, the recent introduction of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill, presented plans to transform struggling towns and cities, supporting local leaders to take back control of regeneration, ending the blight of empty shops on their high streets and delivering the quality homes that communities need.

The prospectus sets out updated, widened, eligibility criteria. This includes removing the requirement that assets have had a use within the last 5 years and will now consider any asset which has had a previous community use, massively expanding the projects eligible to apply. Applicants who have a minimum of a 15-year lease on an asset would now also be considered for funding. Previously, leases were restricted to a minimum of 25 years.

The first round of successful projects was announced at the Spending Review in autumn last year. Applications to bid for round 2 of funding through the Community Ownership Fund will open in June this year.

For the prospectus click here https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/community-ownership-fund-prospectus

For the guidance notes click here https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/new-levelling-up-and-community-investments#the-community-ownership-fund

For more information click here https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/new-levelling-up-and-community-investments

Webinars

In order to promote the fund and to explain to any prospective applicants what is required in order to submit a strong bid, officials at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities will be hosting webinars on Wednesday 8th June and Thursday 16th June. If you are interested in attending one of these events, please complete the following form here https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=EGg0v32c3kOociSi7zmVqLXwFDTckQdPuyZtS-lNwH5UMFRUNTlMWEcyQzBNNUxRNkpSMVZONElOOC4u

The council is inviting applications from individual voluntary sector organisations to provide a programme of sustainable community-based activities for local people of all ages. Individual grants of up to £25,000 are available to fund activities which:

·       Strengthen communities by building local networks linking communities to each other, and to relevant community, voluntary and statutory provision

·       Deliver key health and self-care messages and activities to increase health and wellbeing

·       Reduce isolation by engaging residents in their local communities

·       Increase activity and independence by raising awareness of existing resources and services and developing new initiatives together, including securing external funding to establish and sustain new projects.

The activities should be delivered in one of three areas within the borough – Central Ealing, Acton, or Greenford, Northolt and Perivale. The intention is to award up to two grants per area. Please note that this funding does not apply to the Southall area as there is already an existing Community Connections programme in the area led by Southall Community Alliance.

Application form, criteria and service delivery plan template

Applications should be returned to vcsfunding@ealing.gov.uk by 5pm on Monday 27 June.

Community third-sector organisations are receiving over £1m in free funding this month. This is funding that their volunteers and supporters have raised for them simply by shopping online with leading online retailers, through the free to use easyfundraising platform.  Your organisation can also benefit from this unrestricted revenue stream that complements existing fundraising activities – find out more: http://efraising.org/FRigOUgnXA