As a pilot initiative, the Staffordshire Safer Roads Partnership is providing, through a bidding process, £200k over the next 2 years in the form of the Road Safety Grant Fund.
The money has been made available to:
Staffordshire County Council is recommissioning it’s local Healthwatch service with effect from 1 April 2018. To support this we are exploring ideas for how Healthwatch Staffordshire could be delivered in the future to ensure it meets the needs of local people and influences the future of health and care services.
Every day we hear examples of people with dementia, carers, volunteers, professionals, fundraisers and others in the community who are making a real difference to the lives of people with dementia. This is especially true of groups, who are doing so much to make your communities dementia-friendly. That’s why, each year, there is the opportunity to celebrate their achievements at Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Friendly Awards.
The Coalfields Regeneration Trust has reopened the enquiry survey for the Coalfields Community Investment Programme providing funding up to £10,000. They also offer practical help to organisations/groups operating in the former coalfield areas in England.
The School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE) will support 100 community businesses through the Community Business Trade Up Programme, in partnership with Power to Change.
They're looking for people leading the organisations that put their local area at the very heart of what they do: the restaurants, community centres, bakeries, farms, sports clubs and pubs that are run by and for local people (to mention just a few!).
The programme supports the leaders of early-stage community businesses with:
Having recently done some very successful partnership-working to support volunteers at Disability Solutions in Stoke On Trent, National Careers Service is now inviting other Voluntary and Community Organisations throughout Staffordshire to benefit from our free services.
This month has seen the launch of the new fundraising preference service headed up by Lord Grade. The service is in large part a reaction to the terrible circumstances surrounding the death of Olive Cooke who was found to have been bombarded by begging letters from dozens of big charities in the months before she took her own life. There was no causal link but it left a very bad taste in the mouths of many willing charity donors and government seized on it to bash the sector over the head with another blunt instrument.
Independent Custody Visitors (ICVs) are volunteers who check on the welfare of detainees and the conditions in custody
ICVs check on the way police officers carry out their duties with regard to detainees
ICVs make unannounced visits to the custody suites across Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent
ICVs observe, comment and report on the welfare and conditions of people in custody
Interested?
https://www.staffordshire-pcc.gov.uk/independent-custody-visitors/
First Aid at Work – 3 Day course
Disability Solutions West Midlands is holding a course at their offices in Stoke-on-Trent on Tuesday 8th – Thursday 10th August 2017 9am-4pm.
Would like to become a qualified first aider?
Who should attend?
This course is designed for people who want to receive most thorough first aid training.
The course syllabus includes:
Support Staffordshire received a boost this week with confirmation of £10,000 of grant funding from the Big Lottery Fund.
