Boccia England получает грант для поддержки молодых людей с ограниченными возможностями

Опубликовано: 17 октября 2017

Boccia Англия получила грант в размере 37 000 фунтов стерлингов, чтобы помочь молодым инвалидам принять участие в спорте. Этот грант будет финансировать сотрудник по вопросам инвалидности, который будет поддерживать около 270 подростков-инвалидов из 48 школ в восьми регионах.

Эти молодые люди научатся играть в бокцию, игру, тесно связанную с чашами и петанк. Ссылки будут подделаны между школами и региональными клубами боччи и будут видеть шесть недель занятий в каждой школе.

Цель состоит в том, чтобы помочь молодым людям повысить уверенность в себе, улучшить свое здоровье благодаря большей физической активности и улучшить социальную жизнь.

Марк Скотт, менеджер по развитию Boccia England, сказал:

«Мы очень благодарны Ноттингемширским масонам за их щедрое пособие. Это позволит нам улучшить жизнь сотен молодых людей здесь, в Ноттингемшире и на значительных территориях остальной части страны ».

Барри Вудхед из Ноттингемшира Масонов сказал:

« Мы очень рад, что смог помочь Boccia England, которые занимаются выдающейся работой с детьми-инвалидами в нашем сообществе. Мы с нетерпением ждем встречи с Ноттингемширским клубом Boccia в их матчах Суперлиги.




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Age UK grant will help older people get online

Posted: 16th October 2017

Older people who have never learned to use the internet will be helped online thanks to a £66,000 grant to Age UK Leicester Shire & Rutland.

This grant will help Age UK recruit at least twenty “Digital Champions” to teach 2,000 older people to use communication tools like email, Skype and FaceTime; skills which younger people take for granted.

Digital Champions Project

The Digital Champions project aims to help older people to access online information on everything from benefits to bus timetables. With many services becoming digital by default, people who are not online face more hurdles in their daily lives to access both private and public sector services. There will also be an emphasis on online safety, and protection from viruses and fraud.

The project is supporting older people across  Leicestershire and Rutland with a focus on people in rural areas. It aims to combat loneliness by helping these budding “silver surfers” to keep in touch with family and friends online.

Age UK Leicester Shire & Rutland’s Digital Champions will be holding up to four sessions a week across Leicestershire and Rutland. Sessions for groups of around 15 people will be held in libraries, village halls and residential homes. One to one lessons will also be available.

Tony Donovan, Executive Director at Age UK Leicester Shire & Rutland said:

“We are very grateful to Leicestershire and Rutland Freemasons for their generous grant which will improve the quality of life for thousands of older people. More than four million older people nationally have never used the internet and we need to help them to benefit from all the advantages of a digital world that most of us take for granted.”

Leicestershire and Rutland Freemason, David Hagger said:

“We are very pleased to be able to support Age UK’s Digital Champions. As well as fighting loneliness and depression, getting older people online has great practical benefits. A household without internet access is on average £650 a year worse off.”

About Age UK Leicester Shire & Rutland

Age UK Leicester Shire & Rutland is an independent, local charity with a national name. The charity raises funds locally to support local older people with information, advice, services and support.

Age UK Leicester Shire & Rutland offers a wide range of services for older people with physical frailty, impaired mobility, mental health issues such as dementia and learning disabilities and for those who are at risk of social isolation, loneliness, fuel poverty or financial abuse. Many services are free at the point of delivery.




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Big Lottery Fund renews social entrepreneurs funding with £2.6m grant

The Big Lottery Fund has given the School for Social Entrepreneurs a grant of £2.6m, renewing its funding for social entrepreneurs.

The grant will support 1,300 social entrepreneurs over the next five years with grants of up to £10,000, building on the 1,300 already supported through BLF’s work with the Lloyds Bank Social Entrepreneurs Programme, in partnership with SSE, since the programme was launched in 2012.

Students also attend a year-long SSE learning programme to help them start up, grow or scale their organisation, and receive mentoring from Lloyds Banking Group.

James Harcourt, grant making director for England at the Big Lottery Fund, said: “Collaborations like this allow us to maximise the impact of our funding, and the entrepreneurial aspect of the programme aligns with our commitment to putting people in the lead and having a positive impact in communities across England.”

The sixth cohort of the programme will begin in October 2017. People interested in applying can register their interest at https://www.the-sse.org/lbsep

The local charities support organisation Localgiving is to host a series of webinars in the build-up to the launch of this year’s match-funding Grow your Tenner campaign.

The campaign begins on 17 October and runs until the match funding runs out or on 16 November, whichever is sooner. The focus of the 2017 campaign is monthly giving with Localgiving aiming to help charities and community groups attract long-term supporters.

Donors will be able to support a Localgiving charity or community group by either making a one-time donation which will be matched up to £10 or setting up a monthly donation. After a donor’s first six donations, the following six will be matched up to £10.

Localgiving said it will run four webinars for its member charities: Grow your tenner 2017 – an introduction; Reaching new audiences online; How to make the most of a match fund campaign, and; How to attract regular donors online between 21 September and 12 October.

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Contact the Elderly grant will help fund tea parties for older people

Posted: 10th August 2017

Isolated and lonely elderly people across Kent and the rest of the UK are being invited to a series of monthly Sunday afternoon tea parties with Contact the Elderly, thanks to our recent £75,000 grant.

Contact the Elderly is dedicated to tackling loneliness and social isolation among older people. Supported by a network of volunteers, the charity organises monthly Sunday afternoon tea parties for small groups of older people, aged 75 and over, who live alone.

Each older guest is collected from their home by a volunteer driver and is taken to a volunteer host’s home, where they join a small group for tea and companionship. The tea parties bring people of all ages together, develop fulfilling friendships and support networks, and give everyone involved something to look forward to each month.

This grant will play an essential role in long-term funding for Contact the Elderly’s National Support Officer, who helps run 55 of the charity’s tea parties benefitting around 450 older guests, as well as coordinating over 700 of the charity’s 10,000 volunteers who help make the tea parties happen every month.

The need for action to help isolated elderly people is clear from recent statistics showing that a million older people have not spoken to anyone in the last month. There is also mounting evidence about the effect of loneliness on mental and physical health and wellbeing, with lonely people having a 64 per cent increased risk of developing dementia.

Cliff Rich, Acting CEO at Contact the Elderly, said:

“We are incredibly grateful to West Kent Freemasons for their generous grant which will continue to help us to reach more lonely and isolated elderly people. The act of attending a tea party is simple but profound and can make an enormous difference to someone who might not have spoken to anyone for weeks.”

West Kent Freemason, Mark Estaugh, visited the charity to find out more:

“We are very pleased to be able to support Contact the Elderly with their wonderful work helping some of the most vulnerable people in our community. The isolation of elderly people is a very serious problem that’s set to get much worse as our whole population ages.”

Get in touch with Contact the Elderly

Local residents interested in attending Contact the Elderly’s tea parties as an older guest, referring potential guests, or volunteering to help, can contact the charity’s National Office on Freephone 0800 716543




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Young Carers in Herefordshire supported with £53,000 grant

Posted: 17th July 2017

Herefordshire Carers Support, which provides support and advice to children and young carers, has been awarded a grant of £53,692.

There are more than four thousand young carers within Herefordshire, looking after sick and disabled family members. They are often responsible for cooking, cleaning, personal hygiene and emotional support of one or more people. It can be a confusing and lonely role for a child or young person and can lead to social isolation and damage academic performance, which can have life-long consequences.

Herefordshire Young Carers is a dedicated team within Herefordshire Carers Support who help children and young people who look after someone in their family who is physically or mentally ill, disabled or has a problem with drugs or alcohol. This grant will fund the role of a support worker who will work with schools, families and young carers themselves.

Susan Brace, Young Carers Community Development Worker said:

We’re very grateful to Herefordshire Freemason for their generous grant. There are around 360 registered Young Carers in Herefordshire but the true number is likely to be much higher. We want these children to be able to live a full life, like their friends, which means they won’t be missing out on their childhoods or education – getting the help and support they desperately need.

Rev’d David Bowen, the Provincial Grand Master of Herefordshire Freemasons, visited the charity to find out more about the impact of their work.

We are very pleased to be able to help Herefordshire Carers Support. The work they do is hugely important and can make an enormous difference to the lives of these vulnerable children.




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Грант Суссекса Фримасона помогает Деменции Великобритании обеспечить сильное руководство для своей сестринской команды

Добавлено: 7 июля 2017

Деменция Великобритании назначает нового директора по клиническим услугам, чтобы возглавить команду Admiral Nursing, благодаря гранту от Суссекса Фримасонов.

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Новая роль приведет к стратегической цели благотворительности – собрать и оценить данные по Служба медсестры адмирала, продемонстрировав ценность этих медицинских медсестер-деменции, которые дают семьям эмоциональную поддержку, советы экспертов и практические решения, необходимые им для борьбы с деменцией с большей уверенностью и меньшим страхом.
Грант от Сассекса Масоны приходит через масонскую благотворительность Фонд, который финансируется масонами и их семьями со всей Англии и Уэльса.
Новый директор, Кей Аткинсон, присоединяется к благотворительной деятельности с 35-летним опытом работы в NHS, начав свою карьеру медсестры. Работал на руководящих должностях в национальных благотворительных организациях здравоохранения и социального обеспечения и в качестве должностного лица местного правительства.
Кей будет работать вместе с генеральным директором Деменции Великобритании и старшим адмиралом медсестрой д-ром Хильдой Хао, чтобы обеспечить клиническое руководство адмиралом 191 года

Кей Аткинсон, директор клинических служб при деменции Великобритании, сказал:
«Я очень благодарен Сассексу Масонам за их щедрое пособие, которое поможет мне внести свой вклад в развитие адмирала Уход через Великобританию и обеспечение того, что мы сможем увеличить наш уровень поддержки для тех, кто живет с деменцией как сейчас, так и в будущем ».

Крис Мур, глава Сассекса Масонов сказал:
« Мы Очень рад, что смог поддержать эту важную новую должность в команде медсестер «Дементия» в Великобритании. Эти медсестры оказывают жизненно важную поддержку семьям, страдающим деменцией, и это новое назначение поможет им стать еще лучше ».

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IoF gets Arts Council grant to expand its Cultural Sector Network

The £431,832 grant will cover a four-year period to support training, mentoring and peer-to-peer networking

The Institute of Fundraising has been awarded an Arts Council England grant of almost £432,000 to expand the work of its Cultural Sector Network, which supports fundraising in arts and culture organisations.

The funding of £431,832 will be awarded over a four-year period from April and will support a programme of training, mentoring and peer-to peer networking opportunities for arts and cultural fundraisers across England.

In a statement, the IoF said that arts and culture organisations played a vital role in communities and enriching people’s lives, but too many, especially those outside London, faced a daunting funding environment.

“By providing training and ongoing fundraising support, the network will help to ensure these important charities, groups and organisations are able to grow and flourish in the years to come,” the statement said.

The work funded by the grant will focus on linking fundraisers working for organisations based outside London, the statement said, to build up a national network.

The initiative will also help to connect cultural sector fundraisers with the IoF’s eight regional special interest groups and its black fundraisers and sole fundraisers special interest groups.

The IoF will also work in partnership with the Young Arts Fundraisers network on the project.

Martin Kaufman, chair of the IoF Cultural Sector Network, said: “This new funding from the Arts Council will make a huge difference to cultural organisations across England, many of which are struggling to find the funds they need.

“By greatly expanding the IoF’s Cultural Sector Network’s support to build fundraising skills and capacity, it will mean we will be able to support a highly diverse range of cultural organisations to raise the funds they need to continue and to grow their wonderful work across the country.”

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Association of Chairs receives £463,000 grant from the Big Lottery Fund

The three-year grant will enable the membership body to work with chairs to build their skills, knowledge and confidence, and to reduce their sense of isolation

The Association of Chairs has received a grant of £463,000 from the Big Lottery Fund to a support and development programme for chairs and vice-chairs of small charities in England

The association said that the three-year grant would enable it to work with chairs to build their skills, knowledge and confidence, and to reduce their sense of isolation and help them be more effective. 

The association said that under the programme it would consult with chairs and vice-chairs of charities with annual incomes of under £1m about the support they need. It would also run a series of workshops throughout England, offer webinars and online surgeries and open an online discussion forum.

The association said that it hoped to reach about 6,000 chairs and vice-chairs through the programme.

The association already receives funding from the Garfield Weston Foundation to support its work with medium-sized charities and said the latest grant would help it to reach many more charity chairs.

Ros Oakley, executive director at the AoC, said in a statement: “We are delighted that the Big Lottery Fund has not only recognised the key role of the chair and the need to support chairs to undertake the role effectively, but is also making a real investment in making it happen. From what we have learned in our three and half years working with chairs, we know we can make a difference to their confidence and approach to governance. This is a real endorsement of our progress to date.”

The association was founded in 2013 to help address the relatively little support chairs of charities receive.

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Groundwork receives grant to train unemployed people to restore goods for charities

Groundwork London has received £30,000 to train unemployed people in repairing domestic appliances to be sold by charities.

The charity’s REWORK project restores furniture and white goods at one of the UK’s best-equipped domestic appliance repair workshops. Through the project, items that would be sent to landfill are returned to full working order and given a new lease of life.

The workshop, based at the Smugglers Way waste transfer station in Wandsworth, employs people who have been on long-term job seekers allowance and trains them in electrical engineering and maintenance.

Last year, the project’s 29 paid trainees refurbished and sold over 4,500 domestic appliances and 2,700 items of furniture.  The repaired items are then provided for resale through charity shops in London and across the country.

London Freemason, David Lawrence, visited the project to see the apprentices in action:

“We’re very pleased to be able to support this excellent scheme which provides practical training for long-term unemployed people, helps the environment and provides a cheap source of refurbished appliance for charities to sell.”

Ben Coles, director at Groundwork London, said:

“We’re very grateful to London Freemasons for their generous grant which will help us continue giving people the skills to find jobs in the capital’s growing retrofit sector. The project is a great example of Groundwork London tackling unemployment while protecting the environment.”

Groundwork London

Groundwork London is a social and environmental regeneration charity that works with communities across the UK. The charity supports them to create better places, live and work in a greener, more sustainable way and to improve their economic prospects.

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