Sole trustee? Custodian Trustee? Management committee Trustee? Member for the Parish Council team? – What is your role in relation to the Village Hall, Recreation Ground, Parish Council Building?
Wednesday 3rd July 2pm – 4pm, Charvil Village Hall, The Hawthorns, Charvil, Reading RG10 9TR
It can be very confusing to know who is responsible for what and why and this makes working/volunteering relationships challenging. Come along to this short course run by Connecting Communities in Berkshire to get the facts and learn about how everyone can work together for the good of the community.
This training is supported by West Berkshire Council Adult Community Learning
14th October 2019, from 9.30am to 3.15pm The Berkshire Community Foundation Symposium is free to attend and will take place on 14th October 2019, from 9.30am to 3.15pm at Green Park in Reading. Places need to be booked via EventBrite and there is a limit of 150 places which will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
A full programme will be offered on the day, with speakers covering topics such as a ‘Staying positive in the face of big challenges’, Public Speaking, a Finance Update and a Legal Update from Blandy and Blandy. There will be some networking opportunities where groups will have the chance to talk to other voluntary organisations and discuss issues impacting on their work. Blandy and Blandy and Green Park are kindly sponsoring the event, which includes lunch
Open to the public (attendance only by prior enquiry to publichealthandwellbeing@westberks.gov.uk) 3rd July at 10:30 for 1.5 hours. Venue : St Marys Church hall, 18 Church Street, Kintbury, Hungerford RG17 9TR.
There has been very positive feedback from people who have previously attended a Falls and Frailty Awareness session. Topics that may be covered include:
• The prevalence and impact of Falls on clients
• Assessment of the client at risk of falls
• Falls prevention and management strategies
• An introduction to frailty as a syndrome, its effects on clients and its management
• Home hazard safety awareness
• The current evidence base and literature regards falls and frailty.
If interested, please contact: publichealthandwellbeing@westberks.gov.uk
PPEPCare has been designed to
help staff in primary care, education
and other professionals to recognise
and understand mental health difficulties in children and young people
and offer appropriate support and
guidance to children, young people and their families using
psycho-education and relevant psychological techniques (e.g. using a cognitive behavioural framework). Training
consists of didactic teaching, experiential learning, group discussion and DVD
material and is delivered by appropriately qualified and supported staff from
local CAMHS and local authority services.
In partnership with involve Community Services, they are delighted to offer 4 separate sessions of PPEPCare training. The dates and sessions are as follows:
Monday 22nd July 10am – 1pm Supporting young people who self-harm This training explores what self-harm is and how it might present.It explores why young people might self-harm and helps to challenge commonly held assumptions. The session includes guidance around how to talk to young people who may be self-harming, confidentiality, dealing with your own feelings and supporting young people with alternative strategies. To book on this course please click here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/involve-ppepcare-training-supporting-young-people-who-self-harm-tickets-63566146054
Monday 22nd July 1.30pm – 4.30pm Supporting young people with low mood This training explores what depression is, how it may present in young people, and how it may differ from ‘normal’ adolescent mood difficulties. The session looks at how low mood and depression may be maintained and explores some useful techniques (specifically behavioural activation) that can be used to break the maintenance cycles. To book on this course please click here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/involve-ppepcare-training-supporting-young-people-with-low-mood-tickets-63567167108
Tuesday 23rd July 10am – 1pm Supporting young people with anxiety This training explores the presentation of anxiety in adolescence and how to talk with young people about this. It highlights the difference between appropriate levels of anxiety and when additional help might be needed. It explores what might keep anxiety going and provides an overview of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (an evidence-based treatment for anxiety) as well as a number of useful techniques which can be adapted for the primary care or school setting. To book on this course please click here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/involve-ppepcare-training-supporting-young-people-with-anxiety-tickets-63573777881
Tuesday 23rd July 1.30pm – 4.30pm Resilience This training looks at whole school and individual approaches to wellbeing and resilience. It offers and develops understanding of the importance of resilience in managing the challenges and conflicts in life. The training explores ideas about the brain, feelings and thoughts to promote resilience and utilises practical and visual resources to provide a shared language to describe emotions and mental health in everyday ways. To book on this course please click here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/involve-ppepcare-training-resilience-approaches-to-wellbeing-tickets-63574229231
All courses will be delivered by
Lisa Thomson, Berkshire Training Lead on PPEPCare, Lisa is also a Family &
Systemic psychotherapist/Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist.
The training will take place at
the Wokingham Town Hall, Market Place, Wokingham, RG40 1AS – note there is no
parking available at the venue but there a number of public car parks around
the venue.
Teas and coffees will be
available to attendees and each session has up to 25 places available – these
are available on a first come first served basis.
Note: The training is not designed to turn you into psychological therapists, nor are they designed to replace existing CAMHS services. However, they do provide development opportunities to:
enhance primary care consultations skills so that children and young people receive better quality, integrated care and so that professionals can make more effective use of brief consultation sessions
enhance knowledge and skill of staff working within theschool/health setting to help them more readily identify mental health issues in their students and support them and their families
The training is FREE and you are welcome to attend as many of the sessions as you like OR just the sessions that you are interested in. But you will need to book each place separately.
Please arrive 15 minutes before
your session starts.
New courtesy of Slough CVS, Involve Wokingham & Bracknell, Reading Voluntary Action and West Berkshire Volunteer Centre.
Segro Community Fund
The SEGRO Community Fund is part of a three year partnership between SEGRO and Berkshire Community Foundation (BCF) to help tackle barriers to work and education and help local people into employment.
The SEGRO Community Fund will tackle barriers to work and support those suffering from disadvantage who require help to get into, or return to, the workplace through skills training, apprenticeships and educational activity to boost their chances of employment. The funding will focus on supporting, but not be exclusive to, young people and those suffering from mental health difficulties, physical disabilities, language barriers or a criminal background.
This Fund will award at least five grants of up to £5,000 and local groups from the Slough, Reading or Bracknell areas are eligible to apply.
The Alec Dickson Trust supports young people in the UK who want to use volunteering or community service to do brilliant things in their communities.
We think that young people are amazing and that they have the potential to make the world a better place through volunteering. So, we provide grants of up to £500 to individuals or groups of young people aged 30 or under, to help them put their ideas into action and run projects that benefit the lives of others – particularly the most marginalised and disadvantaged.
Grants of £300 to £10,000 are available from Sport England’s small grants programme for not-for-profit organisations to help more people get active. Projects must involve adults and young people aged 14 or over and meet one or more of the aims in Sport England’s “Towards an Active Nation” strategy.
The application form has now been simplified and they have relaxed a few rules about what cannot be funded. The focus of the application should be what difference the project will make, not what you purchase to make it happen. Projects can last up to three years, and can be part of a bigger scheme
They will also be doing more to support organisations who traditionally do not seek funding from them but who are able to support inactive people become active.
Grants are available to charities, Community Land Trusts and housing co-operatives for projects that tackle a housing problem in local communities in eligible parts of England.
Nationwide Building Society Community Grants
Grants are available to charities, Community Land Trusts and housing co-operatives for projects that tackle a housing problem in local communities in eligible parts of England.
The Nationwide Community Grants programme awards grants of up to £50,000 to local housing projects that will strengthen local communities by supporting the most vulnerable by:
Preventing people from losing their home
Helping people in to a home
Supporting people to thrive within the home environment
Nationwide believes doing what is right by their members and their communities is at the heart of what it means to be a building society. Following a member vote in 2007, Nationwide invests at least 1% of pre-tax profits to support good causes each year.
The fund is open across the UK: to find out more please click here:
Thursday 18
July, 6:30pmat Westmead Day Service
Could a donation of around £200 make a difference to your Wokingham-based
project or cause? If so, apply now to pitch at a Wokingham Soup event.
Wokingham Soup is a crowd-funding event for local people and local projects.
The only condition is that your project must aim to benefit the Wokingham
community.
How does Wokingham Soup work? • 3 local community projects are invited to pitch at each event. • Attendees vote for their preferred cause, in a secret ballot. • The winning project receives all of the proceeds taken on the door that evening. Optalis will also match fund the donations made by attendees, up to £250. Who can apply?* • Any charity, social enterprise or community project based in the Wokingham borough. • Your services or project must support people, communities or environments • Your idea can be brand new or an existing project. * Applicants that meet the basic criteria will be entered into a draw to pitch at the event www.optalis.org/wokinghamsoup
Stop
Loan Sharks Community Funding 2019-2020
The England Illegal Money Lending Team (IMLT) has funding available for groups that want to raise awareness of the issues of illegal money lending. The money available has come from the proceeds of crime taken from convicted illegal money lenders. The aim of this funding is to give groups the opportunity to raise awareness of the issue, in their community in a different way. www.stoploansharks.co.uk/proceeds-of-crime/Deadline for applications is June 30th 2019.
Funding
for Projects that Fight Poverty & Discrimination
Charities and community
groups can apply for grants of £500 – £20,000 for projects to help people with
the skills, opportunities and rights to improve their lives. Projects should
focus on: The prevention of poverty, Promotion of human rights or Combatting
discrimination for vulnerable groups. See for more information.
Community Organisers has made available £100k to support its members to form Local Organising Groups.
Local Organising Groups are made up of a minimum of 21 people who will work together to listen to people in the community, build their collective power and develop community led solutions to the issues that matter most to them.
Since 2015, Community Organisers has grown its membership to over 1,200 people across England. This fund, which is part of the Community Organisers Expansion Programme funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, aims to support the development of 20 Local Organising Groups who will each develop and deliver their own community organising action plan.
Skills for Positive Futures Funding – open until 3 July 2019
The Berkeley Foundation is launching Skills for Positive Futures, a funding programme which will support vulnerable children and young people aged 8 to 14 years, to develop the life skills they need to thrive and make positive choices. Two grants sizes are available for a three-year period on a full cost recovery basis:
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