The Joanies Trust was set up in 2003 in memory of Joan Simpson and Joan Hughes. It awards grants from the income generated by the investment portfolio created by part of their estates.

Local funders across England have been selected to give out grants as small as £250 to grassroots third sector organisations as part of the Government’s £130m Grassroots Grants programme.

Business Link Yorkshire have published their latest seminar programme. This includes many on aspects of social enterprise.

The recent Empowerment white paper has created a lot of discussion in the voluntary sector airwaves.

UKonline Centres are saying goodbye to the e-Skills passport on 01 August 2008 but they are being replaced by the our new Skills checkpoints.

If you are a UKonline Centre, Funding and Bid Writing webinars are now available for your centre to book free of charge.

The Department of Health is changing its main grants scheme for the voluntary sector.

 

The Charity Technology Trust (CTT) have announced the addition of cttGRANTfinder to their CTX Programme.

This is of particular interest to Infrastructure organisations.

 

The BBC is doing well in our part of the world. It is delivering social as well as economic benefits to the local community.

Location: York

Closing Date: 16 Jul 2008

Salary:  - £19,695

Three more myguide courses have gone live this morning:

Yesterday Voluntary Action Sheffield launched their web-based database management system. CVSs, Voluntary Actions and other Infrastructure organisations from far afield attended including people from the Fens, Manchester and Cheshire.

WYLDA have produced a document which shows the details of the Projects that have won Capacitybuilders funding in the region.

a £70m funding programme to strengthen community organisations and social enterprises has been announced by Communities secretary Hazel Blears.

One the final reports to come out of the work of the ICT Hub is now published.

“ICT Support for the Third Sector: Is Social Enterprise the Solution?”  was commissioned by the ICT Hub to answer the following questions:

Charities and community groups across the UK are being invited to apply for cash grants through TalkTalk’s Innovation in the Community Awards 2008.

Futurebuilders England has launched a new interest-free loan fund for third sector organisations struggling to meet the cost of tendering for public sector contracts. The £1m Tender Fund is intended to help third sector providers win contracts where prohibitive tendering costs would otherwise make it difficult for them to bid.

Microsoft is to develop added specialist features for charities to its UK Accounting package. 

GlaxoSmithKline’s IMPACT Awards are designed to recognise and reward charities that are doing excellent work to improve people’s health. They are managed by The King’s Fund, a leading independent health charity.

BBC technology today reports that almost half the online population is at risk because users have not installed security updates to their browsers.

The National Social Exclusion Event: “Tackling Social Exclusion Through Partnership - Removing The Barriers” takes place on 22nd October 2008 at the QEII Conference Centre, Westminster. It is supported by the Social Exclusion Task Force, Cabinet Office. (See below for full outline and details):

www.insidegovernment.co.uk/other/social_exclusion/

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