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£1 Million Available to Support Youth Projects (UK) Young people are being given the chance to claim a share of £1 million to help tackle the dangers of drugs, crime and play a positive role in their community. The Royal Bank of Scotland Community Cash Awards will see £1 million of grants being distributed by youth charity "The Prince's Trust" to young people who want to run community projects in some of Britain's poorest areas. The Awards, worth £250 to £5,000, are available to disadvantaged 14 to 25-year-olds who want to transform their area and learn practical skills. Projects could range from improving local youth facilities to tackling teenage pregnancy or drug misuse. Projects must: · be run and managed by people between the ages of 14 and 25 · clearly benefit the local community · benefit the people running the project · be a new or developing project. Previous projects supported include; an amateur boxing project to give young people greater confidence; and a media project to promote community cohesion and greater understanding between the local community and asylum seekers. Applications can be made at any time.

community development foundation@ can you ask for the pdf? this is a guide to developing communities and empoering them into partnserships and action. I gather from skimming blurb. could be wrong

This one needss some inspector gadget work - National institue of health report assessing community engagment approaches - including collaborative methodologies and community champions

local govt. communities of practice - check out info. this is wher a lot of conversation is happening with govt. bods.

Community Journalism ;-) Angels just starting off - good to talk to Brighton & Hove. Eliz try via twitter: http://twitter.com/BrightonHoveCC See how they're developing. Angels could have a tater for Journalism. You could link this to Literacy, persuasive text, etc. ;-) So Angels could do courses and link these "revisions" to filming, documentary projects to do social action ;-) fundraising ;-)

"Skills - Third Sector's online forum now live 10/11/2009 Are you involved in learning and development within your organisation? If so, Skills - Third Sector's online forum needs you! Skills - Third Sector is the new independent, sector-led organisation for the sector, which has been established to enable people in third sector organisation to develop their learning and skills, so they can make an ever growing contribution to their communities. The new website at www.skills-thirdsector.org.uk is about to officially launch and we would welcome any feedback you had. The site offers the ability to search for the right learning, training and development resources for your needs. The site's forum is a place for you to network, ask questions and discuss latest developments - and we need your help to get this started!"

Check this out really inspirational - link etrategy to employees values in serving community. Well, this is what i read between the lines as I take the business concept into a community context ;-) It also links to the publishing element we've discussed time and time again. You'll love it ;-)

Adventure Capital Fund: Business Development Grants - 11 days (1st round) left to apply in this round! - next round in May! The Adventure Capital Fund (ACF) offers a range of investments and support to develop stable and sustainable community based enterprises.

Get some dough for your charity - check out blurb and website ;o)

The materials link to Every Child Matters outcomes and focus on four areas: * community cohesion (including neighbourhood participation, community safety (especially issues around guns), gangs and knives) * health and wellbeing (including sport, healthy eating) * arts and culture (including encouraging reading, museum work) * sustainable development (including global trade, sustainable living).

There is a scheme of work for a scrap booking course that looks like a good place to start - thinking Paula

The make lounge is a concept that can be copied for the skills you impart. You could create collectives that creates stuff - then learns to teach stuff (to the community for small fee) - collaboratively make it, and then sell it either as part of a charity auction or as part of your "portable charity shop" ;-) For Bunny Ideas: >Develop a puppet kit... all the bits they need, instructions, ideas on paper element and an invitation to: >> send you their puppet creation photos (to go into a book!!!) >>send you their puppet movie to be put on your youtube channel (most viewed would be put onto DVD and sold - Vanity factor!!! >>donate their first puppet to go into a puppet catwalk or puppet "celebrity" - voted by people (in a celebration event?) >Develop animation kit... perhaps animation kit that learners can use on the day then buy to take home and practice. They then could be invited to: >>Share/send their story for the corresponding book >>Share/send their animatin for inclusion in the youtube channel For Xtine & ELiz, what could you think about for your activities? >Story sack kit & instructions? >character cakes? (dalek, etc.?) >what else?

Thanks, Will. Some really useful language and phrases to nick! I like social inclusion through ICT... waiting to hear back from CVS if Reaching Communities is the fund for our project.

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How is our organisation going to adapt to changing climates in the future? Don't know? - well why not use the 'Scenarios' process, to develop a positive outlook to the future, a negative outlook and a neutral outlook. Bring on board the factors that contribute and affect the dynamics in your area of discpline or expertise and see how you could plan for the challenges which the three scenario paths present.

What is STAN? STAN is a membership network for second tier advisors in London. Who can join? - £35 per year though... Membership is open to all second tier advisors working in greater London. When we say 'second tier advisor' we mean anyone who spends the majority of their work time advising voluntary and community organisations: You might be a Small Groups Development Worker, a Capacity Builder or a specialist Funding Advisor - no matter what your job title you are welcome to join. We also accept membership from those who aren't advisors but who might be interested in second tier advice; for example Grants Officers, Managers and Training Officers. These individuals are classified as 'STAN Friends' and can access all the network's services apart from some advisors only Learning Sessions. Membership of STAN is on an individual basis and costs £35 per organisation per year.

Meet the Funder Lessons from The City Bridge Trust programme Delegate fee: FREE SEL warmly invites you to a FREE learning conference on achieving financial sustainability within community groups. Supported by The City Bridge Trust, over the last year SEL has run an innovative programme of support with 36 organisations to enable them to develop financially sustainable practices. The aim of this conference is to disseminate the learning from that programme. There will also be an opportunity to meet the Deputy Head of Grants at The City Bridge Trust, so if your organisation could benefit from a greater focus on financial sustainability then make sure you come along.

An example of an GlobalGiving's film festival presentin films about projects. You too could develop your documentaries, and films to show what a difference you are making.

Look at how Nokia is embracing the Co-Designs of new products