Want to save money on your heating oil? SO DO WE!
Shropshire Rural Communities Charity has been bulk buying heating oil for over 8 years, reducing the heating costs of those living off gas in rural Shropshire. We are delighted to announce that we have recently expanded our area and can now offer these discounts to Staffordshire residents.
BabaBaboon.co.uk is a promotional hub which helps people make the most of Stoke-on-Trent, Newcastle-under-Lyme and Staffordshire.
It is a platform for communities to share, it is also a tool for businesses to not only reach out to their target audience, but also to connect with those hard to reach audiences.
BabaBaboon acts as a guide to show what is great – all in one place!
Voluntary and community groups are able to promote and host details of their events and activities on the Baba website for FREE
Localgiving are delighted to announce that Magic Little Grants 2019 is now live -thanks to an award of £550,000 from Postcode Community Trust, funded by players of People’s Postcode Lottery.
Village Hall Improvement Grant Fund is now live
The Autumn 2018 budget announced that, to mark the centenary of the Armistice, government would support several initiatives, including making available grant funding to support improvement projects for village halls.
European Social Fund (ESF) Community Grants are financed through the European Union and are designed to develop the capacity of the community and to meet local needs. Part of this strategy is to help people increase their chances of finding work. Applications are open to organisations based or working within the county of Staffordshire. A full criteria can be found below along with a breakdown of the grants application process, which must be read and fully understood before making your application.
You can apply for a grant of up to £20,000.
AEDdonate are in the process of launching a new ambitious local campaign called Staffordshire1000 on 1/5/19 in Staffordshire, which coincides with Staffordshire Day.
The campaign is to boost the number of community access defibrillators in Staffordshire and increase community awareness of the locations and knowledge of what to do in a cardiac arrest emergency. Aspirationally we would like to get an additional 1000 defibs installed in the communities of Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent, and support from Support Staffordshire Members would be hugely beneficial in our goal.
Up to 61% of working age adults do not have adequate literacy skills to routinely understand health information (Rowlands et al 2015). They will find it more difficult to manage their health and wellbeing on a day to day basis; they will have the poorest health outcomes; they will be more likely to be ill more often and be more likely to die younger.
The NHS in Staffordshire is changing, and it needs your help.
The Government is investing an extra £20bn a year in the NHS as part of the NHS Long Term Plan. Now you can help our local NHS invest in the right support in Staffordshire by sharing your ideas with us.
Healthwatch Staffordshire has launched ‘What Would You Do?’ to gather feedback from the public on ways to improve local NHS services.
Your views matter.
Following our call out to members with an interest in Drug and Alcohol Services, we have been approached by member organisation BAC O’Connor (better known to many as Burton Addiction centre) who are working closely with Addaction to put forward a VCSE led tender application. We would therefore encourage our wider members to also consider this option as follows:
