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Social & Community Capital Coronavirus Response Fund
Social & Community Capital is a charity funded and supported by Ulster Bank to help social enterprises and community businesses.
It launched its £1m Coronavirus Response Fund earlier this week for organisations that employ people from vulnerable or disadvantaged groups.
Grants of between £5,000 and £50,000 available.
For more info visit the RBS website
Charities Fund
The Charities Fund continues to be available for charities that have exhausted all other avenues of support and are facing imminent closure.
It will provide financial support to charities that are unable to cover unavoidable costs until September 30th 2020.
For more information, check the DfC website
CFNI Community Fund
This fund was launched a few months back but is still open for applications and has no deadline. Grants of between £1000 and £10,000 have been made available.
See the Community Fund NI website for details.
We can also be contacted on Twitter @devtrustsniWebinars & Online MeetingsHow to Create A Successful Virtual Event
In the last few months many conferences and meetings have been moved permanently online. To accommodate this, Zoom has made substantial new upgrades to its online platforms and new platforms have been created.
This free workshop on Wednesday July 1st by Island Innovations will teach you how to choose the right online platform, how to recreate conference networking.
There are limited spots available. Click here to save your seat.
Design Thinking and Critical Problem Solving Workshop
Social Enterprise NI is teaming up with The Lens, a social enterprise based in Scotland, to deliver this workshop on Tuesday 30th June, 12 to 13:30pm.
The workshop will help you grapple with the challenges of adapting the support and services you provide for customers during lockdown and includes:
Social Value Sessions
Social Value Engine is partnering with Social Value UK to deliver a webinar on how to measure impact while taking account of the COVID-19 pandemic – July 8th, 10am-12pm.
Speakers include;
Pam Warhurst (Incredible Edible) will reflect on how the impulse towards more local trading and trusted networking as a means of exchange will change the way local economies work.
Professor John Shepherd (Birkbeck University) will reflect on how new approaches to home working and online retailing will change the nature of towns and cities and the way people relate to them.
‘Sara Bordoley (NHS England and NHS Improvement) will consider how the NHS can deliver social value in recovery and post-crisis; supporting levelling up and reducing health inequalities’.
Dominic Driver (Natural Resource Wales) will consider the environmental impacts of the virus and their longer-term implications.
To register your interest in this webinar click on this link http://www.socialvalueuk.org/social-value-engine-and-social-value-uk-announce-place-based-webinar-measuring-the-impact-of-covid-19/
Facebook
A new private DTNI Member Facebook group has been created as a forum where we can share ideas, links to resources, or just have a chat. For our part, we will keep you posted with relevant news from the sector and share the emerging practice from our sister networks in England, Scotland & Wales.
Join the DTNI Member Facebook GroupNICVA Community Hub
NICVA has set up a community information hub at the Community NI website where you can find out how to get help in every council area. The resource is intended to be a centralised source for all services across NI.
The reliability of the hub will depend on the quality of information it is populated with, so it’s important that the entire community sector is aware of it and feeds into it, and we would recommend that DTNI members do likewise.
Follow the link https://www.nicva.org/article/share-your-covid-19-support-service-information to add your contribution. You will be able to amend any information at any time. If a particular service ceases, please remember to remove the listing from the website.
Susan Glass from NICVA has also offered to help you complete the form or, if necessary, complete it for you. You can contact Susan on 028 9087 7777 (ext 217).
Human Resources
This week’s HR update covers:
If there are specific issues for you, your colleagues or board that you wish to discuss, please get in touch with DTNI and we will endeavour to support you directly.
If you need detailed HR support, we will coordinate your query and link you in with BridgeHR.
Download the latest HR update here
South Eastern Regional College – Skills Intervention Programme
This FREE training programme has been designed for those at risk of redundancy, furloughed or who have already lost their jobs as a result of lockdown. It is an 8 week course, part time, and commences on June 29th 2020.
For further information contact Emma Tate: etate@serc.ac.uk; telephone 07919 597 734
Money Advice Service
Redundancy consultation periods are sensitive in nature as employers adhere to employment law practices and workers await the outcome. After the consultation period, it is important to provide your staff with support tailored to their individual needs.
The Money Advice Service offers free, impartial and confidential money matter advice and can provide resources to support your staff prior to leaving the organisation. This includes:
For details of these and much more besides visit the Money Advice Service website.
Other services can be tailormade for your business needs by contacting Partnership Manager Margaret McCloskey: Margaret.McCloskey@maps.org.uk; 07766775753.