Are big charities becoming increasingly dominant?

There is a perception that the charitable sector has become increasingly concentrated, with the larger charities capturing an increasing share of total sector income. However, there is little substantive evidence about the nature of these changes. Therefore, we describe trends in the distribution of charitable income, using data on the population of registered charities in England and Wales from 1995 to 2007.

In paper 38 we address the longitudinal perspective, looking at the initial size of organisations and following their growth across the period. We ask the question 'have the initially big charities grown more than the initially small?'. Looking at social service organisations in particular, there is strong evidence for 'professionalization' – the preferential growth of organisations above a certain size. However, for these same organisations, there is less evidence to support the idea of ‘Tescoisation’, which would predict the highest growth for the very largest charities.

Paper 39 is concerned with changes in the cross-sectional distribution, i.e. is there a tendency for the biggest charities, as defined in a particular year, to account for a growing share of total charity income? Results suggest a complex story, especially when charitable sub-sectors are considered. However, depending on the measurements used, the share of total sector income going to the largest charities either remained stable or decreased.

Research contacts
Peter Backus
David Clifford

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Briefing paper 38, Are big charities becoming increasingly dominant?

Working paper 38

Briefing paper 39, Trends in the concentration of income among charities

Working paper 39

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Essential meetings in July

Click here to view the many meetings organised by the forum & others coming up in july - including David Woodhead talking about how the Health & wellbeing Profile 13 priorities will inform commissioning on 1st July,

Paul Asquith talking about Drug & Alcohol Funding at DAN on the 6th July.

Health Needs of Refugee & Migrant communities in hackney

THe Hackney Refugee Forum, in partnership with HCVS & their  Hackney Refugee Health Co-ordinator carried out a quick health survey to understand better the issues which impact most seriously on Refugee and migrants’ health living in Hackney.Click here to download the full survey

Responses to the Emergency budget and Public Spending Cuts

HCVS  have set up an area on their website with these resources here: http://www.hcvs.org.uk/en/pages/download/budgetimpact.aspx

Take part in the Big Lunch!

Sunday 18^th July 2-4pm

Stoke Newington old Fire Station

Bring your own lunch and come meet new people

open to all

Free entry

Contact Catherine for more information

Catherine Love
Disability Forum Coordinator

Disability Backup/ Hackney Family Backup
The Print House
18 Ashwin Street
London E8 3DL

Tel: 020 7275 0088 ext 209
Fax: 020 7241 6121
www.dbu.org.uk

The Rhinestone Rollers

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The Rhinestone Rollers

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The Rhinestone Rollers take on a whole new challenge for 2010.

Taking you on a journey from Elizabethan times through to chorus lines and line dancing – their favourite – the girls shake, shimmy and shuffle their way through time in their search for love. Will they ever break free and find the fame they’ve always dreamed of?

The Rhinestone Rollers are a unique power wheelchair dancing troupe.  Interpreting classic dances in their own extraordinary way – and with tongues firmly in cheek – the Rollers have taken London festivals by storm over the last two years. They are accompanied by Studley Dudley, their inimitable caller and audio describer, enabling blind and visually impaired people to engage with the shows, whilst signed singers translate songs into sign language for deaf festival-goers.

Hold onto your Stetsons as the Rhinestone Rollers wheel into town once more...

Dance Nations Dalston, Gillett Square, Dalston, E8

Saturday 3 July 2010 2:30pm
Part of The Barbican's Bite10 summer season of events.  More details.

Liberty Festival, Trafalgar Square, London

Saturday 4 September 2010
Co-funded by Arts Council England and the GLA, Liberty Festival is an annual celebration of deaf and disabled arts.

All performances are audio described and incorporate BSL throughout.

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Economics for a sustainable future - implications for local communities

Economics for a sustainable future;

implications for local communities

A Social Action for Health seminar

12^th July 2010

10am – 2pm

Ment House, 1b Mentmore Terrace, E8 3DQ

Aim of the day

Social Action for Health is hosting a seminar to consider the significance of the current economic recession for local communities.  

The aims of the day are to:

• To explore the implications of the current recession
• To consider how local communities should respond to a low-growth economy  
• To find out what is already going on in the local area  
• To meet others interested in this issue

The day will begin with talks from Jean Boulton and Mark Gater, who will provide some theory on the limits to growth and review the implications for local communities; a senior manager from Fair Finance; and an East End micro-credit scheme will follow, who will describe some practical ways in which finance can be made available for local schemes.

These talks will lead into workshops, where we can look at how we might organise so that we can weather the rough times ahead and become local social entrepreneurs.  

The day will also provide an opportunity to meet new people concerned about these issues.

Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Who should attend?

Anyone who is concerned about the implications of global recession, who wonders how consumerism can be limited, who has an interest in the way money works in these times when countries around the world owe more money to the banks than they can ever repay,  and wants to plan what we might do to reduce the risks to our communities locally. 

How to register

Spaces will need to be reserved on a first come first served basis. To book your place please contact Ross Stonier at Social Action for Health on:

Email: Rosss@safh.org.uk: Telephone: 020 8510 1970

Arts Council England implements £19 million cuts to 2010/11 budget

Arts Council England has given details of how it will implement the £19 million cut to its 2010/11 income from government, as announced by the Department for Culture Media and Sport on 24 May.

The cut follows another in-year reduction of £4 million in April 2009, meaning that the Arts Council’s original 2010/11 budget has been reduced from £468 million to £445 million.

The Arts Council state that they aim to protect and develop art, and the organisations that enable it to happen, to the fullest extent possible. The cut to regularly funded organisations’ 2010/11 income from Arts Council will, therefore, be limited to 0.5 per cent. This has been made possible through the use of £9 million of the Arts Council’s historic reserves, access to which was previously blocked by government.

The £19 million will be shared out as follows:

• £9 million form the Arts Council’s historic reserves, as explained above

• £1.8 million from revenue grants to regularly funded organisations (0.5% reduction)

• £1.8 million from the revenue grants of the two highest funded organisations not directly producing art (£1.6 million from Creativity Culture and Education and £0.2 million from Arts & Business – a 4% reduction)

• £0.4 million from further cuts to the Arts Council’s operating costs (bringing savings on operating costs to a total of £6.9 million this year)

• £6 million from savings due to the postponement of a major public engagement project, cuts to audience development plans, and to funds for partnership working with local authorities and the private sector.

The reduction to regularly funded organisations’ grants will be taken from the final payment of the year (in most cases the quarterly payment due in January 2011) in order to give them the maximum time to adjust their financial plans.

Arts Council England’s budget for the next three years (2011-14) will be decided in the government’s Spending Review, for which results are expected in the autumn.

For more information on the cuts, visit the Arts Council Press Office here.

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REfugee & Migrant Justice Centre - East London closes - Guardian article

These few who reached our shores for help face bureaucratic oblivion

In a Britain that helped create far more refugees than it takes in, the fate of a centre for asylum seekers speaks volumes

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At the Refugee and Migrant Justice centre in east London, people's fates lie strewn across the office, bound up by elastic bands in folders stacked on desks, stuffed in boxes or in piles on the floor. Each bundle represents a person, almost by definition a vulnerable person, attempting to navigate a labyrinthine system specifically designed and refined to exclude them. Each one contains potentially life and death information – documents, testimony, research and witness statements – that could make the difference between deportation and the right to remain. Barring intervention – legal, political, moral or financial (or possibly a mixture of all four) – by Wednesday, many of these files will be carted out of the door by receivers and cast into bureaucratic oblivion. Units of human misery about to become emblems of institutional neglect.

For the centre, which represents about 10,000 asylum seekers a year, was forced into administration on Wednesday. Less than a week ago these files were arranged in alphabetical order by case workers with detailed knowledge of their clients' stories; now they are being rearranged at great haste to be hauled away by administrators and, theoretically at least, reallocated to companies unknown.

That is the best-case scenario. Those who work here fear the worst. "The reality is that many of our clients will never see these files again," explains a Unite union representative at the centre, who didn't want to be identified. "We can't write to them explaining what has happened because we're not being told ourselves. The idea that files won't get lost is ludicrous. The majority of our clients can't speak English. Often they are given just a few days to respond or appeal to a decision. They're going to receive a letter they don't understand from people they don't know. Potentially people could get deported." If the administrators had their way, you wouldn't hear about it either. Last week as interest in the story grew, they ordered an end to the media coming into the building.

The centre's problem isn't that it does not meet a need and cannot provide for it, but that the government recently refused to pay for it properly and in a timely fashion. Whereas it used to receive legal aid paid at an hourly rate, it now receives a flat fee only once a case is finished. This is a result of Lord Carter's recommendations to "marketise legal aid", which were introduced in 2007.

The trouble is, while there is plenty of money to be made in trafficking and the privatised incarceration and deportation of asylum seekers, there is relatively little profit to be derived from representing their rights, as laid down by international law. Their cases are difficult and take a long time. The system moves slowly and deliberately – sometimes for good reason, sometimes through inefficiency. Many firms have stopped taking "difficult" asylum work because it simply doesn't pay. The RMJ isn't one of them.

So the centre is paid far less than it was, far slower than it used to be – and a great deal of that has not even been paid. They have been surviving on 40% less per client than they once did. And they are good at what they do. In 2008-09, the RMJ won 36% of initial asylum applications (one-third higher than the national average) and more than 50% of appeals (double the national average). It has established important case law in a number of areas from Zimbabwe to Iraq. "Far from saving money, allowing an organisation like the RMJ to decline will cost the government more money because they are losing a quality service provider," explains July Bishop, director of the Law Centres Federation.

The charity says the government owes it £2m for work it was contracted to do. Now it cannot make the rent. The staff got their June pay cheques early, the first sign that something was seriously amiss, but it may be their last. The justice secretary, Ken Clarke, blames the RMJ. "It's not a question of late payments," he told MPs last week. "Refugee and Migrant Justice was paid what was due, but they did not make the efficiency saving that other providers did."

This is simply untrue. A government report in June 2009 revealed: "Many providers told us that they had experienced severe cash-flow problems since the commencement of the fixed fee scheme." While "some providers [said] the system of fixed fees is creating 'perverse incentives' – encouraging behaviour which is not in the best interest of vulnerable clients". A survey by the LCF in 2008 revealed that in the wake of the introduction of the fixed-fee system, almost one in five law centres was threatened with closure and almost a half (49%) were in serious debt. "These difficulties aren't a matter of opinion. They are on public record at the ministry itself."

It's amazing under those conditions that the RMJ has been able to last as long as it has. These are modest people in modest buildings in London's East End. Nobody goes into asylum seeker and refugee legal work for the money. It has effectively been bankrupted by a state that finds its existence, let alone its work, tiresome and fears little outcry at its demise.

This is not a party political point. These changes came about as a result of policies ushered in by New Labour, borne of many years of pandering to populist demagoguery. Asylum seekers emerged during the mid-nineties as a confected scapegoat in the British polity – all the more easy to demonise since relatively few people had ever met one. "Minorities are the flashpoint for a series of uncertainties that mediate between everyday life and its fast-shifting global backdrop," writes Arjun Appadurai in his book Fear of Small Numbers. "This uncertainty, exacerbated by an inability of states to secure economic sovereignty in the era of globalisation, may translate into a lack of tolerance of any sort of collective stranger."

Framed as the global south's latest intrusive, plaintive and burdensome incursion in the west, they became cast as a category not only undeserving of protection under international human rights law but outside of humanity altogether. At a time when the borders went down between Europeans, the fortress went up to protect Europe against the world's poor.

The global reality, however, has long been exactly the opposite. With roughly 80% of the world's refugees in the developing world, the international obligation to house refugees falls most heavily on poor nations. Meanwhile, with almost half of refugees worldwide under the responsibility of the UN high commissioner for refugees from Afghanistan and Iraq, Britain has helped create far more refugees through war than it has taken in through compassion.

As the coalition government prepares to swing the axe in its budget tomorrow, this is worthwhile noting. Because what comes next represents a plot development in attacks on the vulnerable as opposed to a narrative step change. The Liberal Democrats had been one of the last parliamentary avenues for protest in situations like these. Now that they have been co-opted, no viable opposition to situations like this is going to emerge from within parliament.

If an organisation like the RMJ survives, it will be because the public rises to defend it. We must brace ourselves for a shift in scale and pace, but let us not fool ourselves that it marks a difference in kind. New Labour lit the torch, now George Osborne will turn up the heat.

Grassroots Grants gives way to new Communities First fund

By Kaye Wiggins, Third Sector, 22 June 2010

£130m grants programme will not be renewed next year as government plans begin to take shape

The government's new Communities First fund, which will provide start-up funding for community groups, will replace the Grassroots Grants scheme when it runs out in April next year.

The Office for Civil Society has confirmed that the £130m Grassroots Grants fund, which was set up by the Labour government to support small charities and community groups, will not be renewed.

Cabinet secretary Francis Maude announced the Communities First fund earlier this month. He said it would foster the creation of new community groups in deprived areas, but did not say how much it would be worth.

An Office for Civil Society spokesman said details of Communities First would be announced in December.

Charities minister Nick Hurd has indicated that government funding for Capacitybuilders and the volunteering charity v is also under review.

The OCS spokesman said all of the department's spending was potentially under review because of the need to reduce the national deficit.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO PROGRAMMES RUN BY THE OFFICE FOR CIVIL SOCIETY?

The 2007 Third Sector Review pledged £500m in 2008-11. After today's Budget, the figure for the next spending round is likely to be smaller

DECISIONS ALREADY MADE

Futurebuilders

Closed after all of its funds, totalling about £155m, were allocated to help 375 organisations bid for public service delivery contracts. Civil society minister Nick Hurd has said income from the repayment of its loans would be redirected to fund community organisers and neighbourhood groups. "We think that the future of loan finance delivery is through the Big Society Bank, and we want to encourage the traditional banking industry to meet the sector's debt needs," he said.

Grassroots Grants

£80m for small grants to community groups and £50m to match other funding of local foundations. Will not be renewed from 2011. No funding yet allocated to new Communities First fund for local start-up bodies.

DEFINITELY UP FOR REVIEW

V

Received £38.1m in government funding in 2009/10 and is due to receive £39m in 2010/11. Government plans to develop a national citizen service to offer volunteering opportunities to school leavers.

Capacitybuilders

Has a budget of about £90m in the 2008-11 spending round; came under criticism from the National Audit Office.

ALSO BEING CONSIDERED

The Compact

£6m in all was allocated to support the agreement between the public and voluntary sectors.

Strategic Partners

In 2008/09, £12.2m went to partners such as umbrella body Navca and CSV.

Community Assets

£30m fund for 2008-11 to transfer local council buildings to the voluntary sector.

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London is the most unequal city in the West says academic

CRB checks have cost sector £220m in eight years, study claims

Latest jobs

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Direct Marketing Manager - mat cover 12mnths (intl org), Flow Caritas

£40000 - £45000 per annum, Godalming

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£32000 - £37000 per annum, London

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£90000 to £95000 per annum,

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Piers Morgan supports disabilities charity Norwood

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Report from Manifesto Club says there have been four million criminal records checks since 2002

Carrying out Criminal Records Bureau checks has cost the voluntary sector £220m over the past eight years, according to a new study.

The report was carried out by the Manifesto Club, which has been campaigning against the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act since 2006.

It says that since 2002 there have been more than four million CRB checks on volunteers, mainly those who come into contact with children.

The number went up from 239,731 in 2002/3, to 756,905 in 2008/9.

The report says the vetting and barring scheme, under which staff and volunteers working with children and vulnerable adults would have to register to be checked by the Independent Safeguarding Authority and which was put on hold by the government earlier this month, would have cost the voluntary sector an additional £136m.

The report says the bureaucracy to which volunteers are subjected is "completely out of proportion to the informal and low-key nature of their activities" and cites examples of people being asked to complete CRB checks for activities such as flower arranging in a cathedral and listening to children read in a school.

It says some volunteers are resigning in protest, and other potential volunteers are deciding not to take up opportunities because they feel as if they are being treated with suspicion and subjected to "invasive procedures"

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Up to £50,000 to improve green spaces from Groundwork UK

Groundwork's Community Spaces scheme awards grants of £10,000 to £49,999 to community groups across England who want to improve or create green open spaces.

Several lucky London projects are seeing their projects up and running thanks to Community Spaces and yours could be next. Community Spaces is encouraging more applications from the London region so make sure you don't miss out. Find out more and apply today.

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Funding for gardening - and gardening training

up to £5k for promoting human dignity - refugees , prisoners, older people, people with mental healt

AB Charitable Trust

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 02:47 AM PDT

The A B Charitable Trust (ABCT) is offering grants of up to £5,000 for UK charity work that promotes and defends human dignity.

The Trust is particularly interested in charities that work with vulnerable, marginalised and excluded people in society, with a focus on:

• Refugees and victims of torture
• Prisoners
• Elderly people
• People with mental health problems.

In relation to the above, the following themes are of particular interest to the trustees:

• Women
• Homelessness
• Therapeutic art.

Applications must be sent at least 6 weeks ahead of one of the Trustees’ meetings. The Trustees meet four times a year, in January, April, July and October.

For more information, or to apply online, visit the A B Charitable Trust’s website here.

Grants large & small for range of groups of people inc BME; Prisoners; Disabled; Addicts; Violence

Woodward Charitable Trust

Posted: 25 Jun 2010 04:25 AM PDT

The Woodward Charitable Trust, which is one of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts, is inviting applications for grants. The fund offers grants of up to £5,000 through their small grants scheme and grants of over £5,000 through their large grants scheme.

Applications can be made by UK registered charities working with or in the following areas:

• Social and ethnic minority groups
• Prisoners and ex-offenders
• Homelessness
• Violence and abuse
• Arts outreach
• Disability
• Environment
• Addiction.

The next application deadline for small and large grants is 30 November 2010. For more information, or to download an application form, visit the Woodward Charitable Trust website here.

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Research into the future & how we can protect (or support to thrive) disadvantaged communities

oseph Rowntree Foundation Grants - New Insights

Posted: 25 Jun 2010 03:14 AM PDT

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) is seeking proposals for projects that help us understand the future we are facing, and suggest ways in which disadvantaged communities can be protected, or even supported to thrive.

The JRF accepts proposals from any organisation or individual and does not restrict its funding to any particular sector. Proposals must have relevance to JRF’s mission to search out underlying causes, demonstrate solutions and influence lasting change in one or more of the following themes:

• Poverty: to examine the root causes of poverty, inequality and disadvantage, and identify solutions

• Empowerment: to identify ways of enabling people and communities to have control of their own lives

• Place: to contribute to the creation and development of strong, sustainable and inclusive communities.

The JRF welcomes applications for both small and large projects, but is unlikely to fund any project with a budget of more than £100,000. The deadline is 2 August 2010. For more information, or to download an application form, visit the JRF website here.

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Sport Relief for 11-21 year old led projects £1k to £10k

CRASH - Support for the Homeless

CRASH supports organisations that help homeless people. They do this by helping with all aspects related to refurbishment of buildings and occasionally new build schemes.

There are 3 ways that CRASH can offer their support:

• Through the expertise of professionals such as architects, quantity surveyors, project managers and specialist engineers

• Through cash grants

• By sourcing building materials free of charge through their list of Patron or supporting suppliers.

What CRASH cannot do is take over and run your building project.

To be eligible for support from CRASH, your organisation must meet the following criteria:

• Your organisation must be a registered UK charity with the Charity Commission in England or Scotland

• Your charity must have a legal hold on the building in question, either freehold or a lease for at least 3 years

• The building must be used to deliver services to homeless people or a high percentage of people who are homeless or be related to the charity’s administrative functions.

There is no given deadline. For more information, or to download an application form, visit the CRASH website here.

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Comic Relief Older Peoples Programme

They are able to support applications from a range of organisations including self help and community groups, voluntary organisations, community interest companies and social enterprises who are targeting their work at older people aged 65 and over. We expect most awards to be between £15,000 and £40,000 per year depending on the size and nature of the project for which you are applying. No closing date .

Please contact: ukgrants@comicrelief.com or call us on 020 7820 5555.

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Forces in Mind BLF fund re transition of verterans to civilian life

Forces in Mind

Supporting the psychological well-being and successful and sustainable transition of veterans and their families into civilian life

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Summary of the programme

The aim of the Forces in Mind programme is to support the psychological well-being and successful and sustainable transition of veterans and their families into civilian life.

This programme builds on our previous support to veterans through programmes like Heroes Return and focuses on veterans from more recent conflicts. It will help ex-service personnel who struggle with the transition to civilian life, including those whose psychological well-being affects their quality of life and others around them.

We want to provide long-term help that supports and joins up with the valuable work already being carried out by a range of organisations. We think the best way to do this is to set up a new independent UK-wide Trust and give it £35 million to invest and spend over the next 20 years.

We are inviting proposals to set up a new Company Limited by Guarantee to act as the Corporate Trustee for a new charitable Trust, covering England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

We would like a partnership of organisations to come forward to develop the Trust. The partnership should reflect the full range of organisations that support veterans and their families across the UK and other organisations that have relevant knowledge, experience and expertise.

What to do next

• For further details about the application process please download the programme guide 
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• Further details about the programme can be found on our questions and answers page

If you are interested in sending us a proposal you should express your interest in the programme by 2pm on Tuesday 13 July 2010.

The deadline for proposals and requests for development funding is 2pm on Wednesday 22 September 2010.

We will announce the preferred candidate we have chosen by the end of October 2010.

Contact

For further information please call 0845 4 10 20 30 or email forcesinmind@biglotteryfund.org.uk

Guidance

You can get more information about Forces in Mind in the programme guide:

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£10,000 award for young entrepreneur

Shell LiveWIRE Awards

We offer two types of award for young entrepreneurs in the UK;

£10,000 Shell LiveWIRE Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2010

If you're aged 16-30 and have been running your own business for more than 3 months but less than 18 months, our annual competition could see you walk away with a £10,000 cash injection plus support from top PR agency Blue Rubicon at our award final taking place in London on 13th October 2010 (read more).

So, if you think you've got what it takes to be our Shell LiveWIRE Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2010, please login at the bottom of this page to apply.

Deadline for entries is 5pm on 6th September 2010.

£1,000 Shell LiveWIRE Grand Ideas Awards

If you're aged 16-30 and need funding to get your new business idea or project off the ground, the Shell LiveWIRE Grand Ideas Awards offers up to to 5 x £1,000 prizes each month to the most innovative or unusual ideas submitted by new businesses in their first 12 months of trading (read more).

You've got until the last day of each month to apply for the £1,000 Awards so please login below to access the application form.

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Transition Project manager - shoreditch

Working as a School Project Manager at The Place2Be...

This post is open to counsellors and therapists, with 2 to 3 years post-qualification experience and an understanding of working with children in need, including those in need of emotional and therapeutic support.

In this role, you will be responsible for the clinical work of The Place2Be counsellors in one primary school. You will assess and refer children, and provide clinical supervision for your team.

You will also be expected to form good relationships within the school community and to confidently promote the project.

Hub/Clinical Area Manager, Shoreditch

In this exciting role you’ll be responsible for launch, management and development of our operation in the brand new Shoreditch hub in London, which is involved in leading edge project-work in schools throughout the area.

We need an engaging and motivated individual who can both develop and maintain the valuable work we do. This will involve leading, supporting and providing guidance and direction to a team of qualified counsellors across the area.

With excellent interpersonal and negotiating skills, you’ll combine senior clinical and managerial experience with the ability to supervise a team remotely. Access to your own transport is essential.

Volunteer Centre Hackney Employability Advisor Officer – F/T

£27,000 - £29,000 p.a. Plus 5% Pension contribution

Depending on Experience

This role requires excellent information, advice and guidance skills, experience and an initiative approach towards achieving goals. The successful applicant must have an IAG qualification and experience, be resourceful with the ability to network, as well as establish and maintain good working relationships with all stakeholders. This is a temporary post - immediate start – call to discuss.  .

Please contact: www.hackneyvoluntaryactionaction.org, info@vchackney.org

Volunteer Centre Hackney Office Administrator – 17.5 hours

£9,000 Plus 5% Pension contribution

Depending on Experience . We are looking for people who are friendly, fun and adventure with their ideas with excellent team spirit, an in-depth experience and knowledge of customer needs and determination for success. This role requires excellent communicating and organising skills, determine approach to completing tasks.

Closing date: 9 July 2010.

Please contact: www.hackneyvoluntaryactionaction.org, info@vchackney.org

Unit Administrator

Job Reference:

 293-10560

Job Title:

 Unit Administrator

Area of Work:

 Regional Neurological Rehabilitation Unit (RNRU)

Employer:

 Homerton University Hospital NHS Trust

Department:

 293 Reg Neuro-Rehab. Unit

Location:

 London

Salary:

 Band 5 £25,415 - £33,041 pa.inc

Job Type:

Permanent  

Staff Group:

Administrative & Clerical  

Pay Scheme:

Agenda for change  

Pay Band:

5  

Working pattern:

37.5 Hours/Week 

Closing Date:

This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested. 

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Description

The Homerton is an innovative Foundation Trust providing a wide range of services to the local community of Hackney and specialist services on a national level. Located in the multicultural east end of London we are situated close to the heart of the capital.

The Homerton is the closest hospital to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games Park and is the designated hospital for the Park. The Hospital has easy access to the M11and Stratford International railway station, with major improvements to transport planned in the lead up to the Games.

ALL CANDIDATES MUST READ THE PERSON SPECIFICATION FOR THIS VACANCY AS THIS CONTAINS QUESTIONS WHICH MUST BE ANSWERED AS PART OF THE SUPPORTING INFORMATION. CANDIDATES WHO DO NOT ANSWER THE QUESTIONS AS DIRECTED WILL NOT BE PUT FORWARD FOR SHORTLISTING.

Unit Administrator
Regional Neurological Rehabilitation Unit (RNRU)

Band 5 £25,415 - £33,041 pa.inc

This is an opportunity for an experienced and enthusiastic administrator to take on the job of providing administrative support within the RNRU at Homerton Hospital. The Homerton RNRU is a well-established unit providing inpatient rehabilitation for younger patients with neurological difficulty after a brain injury or stroke which results in complex physical and cognitive difficulties.

As the unit administrator you will be responsible for the management and development of the daily operations within the unit. Your role will be vital to ensure that unit’s the multidisciplinary programme functions optimally which requires close working with patients, families, consultants and clinical staff. You will be responsible for wait list management and liaising with various external stakeholders to ensure that activity levels are reported accurately and within timescales. It will be expected that you provide direct line management to clerical staff working within the unit.

You would need to have excellent skills in word-processing and IT, an ability to manage patient information including on a database, reception duties, copy and audio- typing, as well as filing and other tasks as needed. We need someone who is efficient and well-organised, a good team player with a flexible and proactive approach to their work. As first point of contact and member of a multidisciplinary service you will need to have excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

If you have previous administration experience and wish to be a pivotal link in a highly skilled and motivated team we would like to hear from you.

For further information please contact:

For further information please contact, Mervyn Freeze, Assistant General Manager on 0208 510 5528 or mervyn.freeze@homerton.nhs.uk

We advise candidates to read all of the attached documentation prior to submitting an application.

Your supporting statement is used to determine your suitability for the post and should be used to demonstrate your relevant skills.

Once you have submitted an application it is essential that you check your email on a regular basis for updates and shortlisting information.

The Trust welcomes applications from candidates wishing to job share with or without job share partners.

Committed to Equal Opportunities.

Overseas candidates wishing to apply, who would require immigration sponsorship, can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for the post on the UKBA website.

Applications from job seekers who require Tier 2 sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, non-EEA candidates may not be appointed to a post if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled EU/EEA candidate is available to take up the post as the employing body is unlikely, in these circumstances, to satisfy the Resident Labour Market Test. The UK Border Agency requires employers to complete this test to show that no suitably qualified EEA or EU worker can fill the post. For further information please visit: UK Border Agency website.

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• Recruitment_Pack_Why_Homerton (129 KB)
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• Equal Opps document (132 KB)
• Remploy Leaflet (50 KB)

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• Homerton Website
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Unit Coordinator - LBH

Directorate Children & Young People’s Service Service Area Children's Social Care Salary £25,515 - £27,009 Shift Pattern Full Time - 36hrs, Monday / Friday Closing date for applications 4 July 2010

Reclaim Your Career - Reclaim Social Work The Role Permanent role   We are adopting new ways of working which encourage professional skill and confidence and lead social workers back to doing social work. We have created small units each of which will include a Unit Coordinator and we are currently recruiting the right individuals to these essential roles. The Requirements The Unit Coordinator will often be the first point of contact with the family and will play an incredibly important role, so an understanding and awareness of the importance of the work the unit does is key. We need enthusiastic, pro-active people to provide the organisational foundation within the units. The role is highly varied and the successful applicants will manage a range of tasks at any one time - from organising a meeting with a family to updating a social workers diary, and from liaising with colleagues in partner organisations to accurately recording confidential information. The Individual Demonstrable experience of your ability to think, plan and communicate clearly, is critical, as is experience of prioritising and multi-tasking. Your tact and diplomacy are vital as is a genuine interest in the responding to the needs of children and families with whom the unit works. These are crucial and exciting roles, they offer the right individuals the opportunity to develop an insight into working with children and families, while contributing to reclaiming social work in Hackney - sound interesting … why not find out more? Please upload a personal statement to be considered for this role.   An enhanced Criminal Records Bureau Check is required. Additional Website Information Please note we are also recruiting to maternity cover and 3 year fixed term contract positions. Please attach your application to these roles if you would like to be considered for them.

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Lead Teacher with ICT or English

Hours 37.5 hrs p/w term time only

LifeLine has an excellent track record of running and managing schools for young people who do not have a place in mainstream education. Our area of operation is East London, with a particular focus on the boroughs of Hackney and Barking and Dagenham. Our Institutes provide a safe, positive and supportive alternative education for these young people.

LifeLine is recruiting a Lead Teacher for one of our schools; preferably with the ability to teach ICT/English Foundation Learning Tier (i.e. equivalent to English/ICT level 2). You should relate well with young people and colleagues, be up for a challenge and excited about the opportunity to impact young people at a transition point in their lives.

Successful candidates will take on a senior role, assuring the smooth and effective running of the school. The Lead Teacher will provide appropriate education and development for students, and manage and coordinate staff to achieve this.

Due to the nature of this post an Enhanced CRB Disclosure will be required.

For an application pack email the job title and your contact details to careyluke@lifelineprojects.co.uk or phone 0208 597 2900.

This post may close early subject to circumstances. Please note that only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Previous applicants need not reapply.

ICT / English Teacher

Hours 37.5 hrs p/w term time only

LifeLine has an excellent track record of running and managing schools for young people who do not have a place in mainstream education. Our area of operation is East London, with a particular focus on the boroughs of Hackney and Barking and Dagenham. Our Institutes provide a safe, positive and supportive alternative education for these young people.

LifeLine is recruiting an ICT / English Teacher to teach KS4 students. As member of the teaching staff you will facilitate the smooth and effective running of Lifeline’s Alternative School (the Institute), ensuring the appropriate education and development of students.

The successful candidate will be a qualified teacher, competent to teach English up to GCSE level. With experience of working with young people who may have challenging behavioural issues and be able to teach in an enthusiastic and imaginative manner in order to engage students who are out of mainstream schooling.

Due to the nature of this post an Enhanced CRB Disclosure will be required.

For an application pack email the job title and your contact details to careyluke@lifelineprojects.co.uk or phone 0208 597 2900

This post may close early subject to circumstances. Please note that only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Previous applicants need not reapply.

Meaningful Occupation and Client Volunteering Worker

• Employer: PROVIDENCE ROW
• Posted: 25 Jun 2010
• Contract: Permanent
• Hours: Full Time
• Salary: £24,000 – £25,000

Providence Row is an innovative and established charity working with homeless people in the East End of London. We provide a range of daytime services and activities, as well as short term night accommodation. Our goal is to help people find a pathway out of homelessness, wherever they are in their journey.

This is an exciting position working 1:1 with clients to develop the opportunities for client participation, training and employment.

The post is varied and will involve the needs assessment of individual clients and the development of an integrated programme of client volunteering and training, both internally and linking in with external organisations and providers. Your aim will be to enable clients to progress towards their aspirations for employment, training or personal development and well-being.

You will need to have excellent client engagement skills and be confident in your ability to represent the Charity to a range of external agencies.

Experience with street homeless or vulnerable clients, and with supporting people into meaningful occupation is essential.

www.providencerow.org.uk

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Are you ready for personalisation? LBH- HCVS Training programme agreed

 Please note some dates may be subject to change - contact Jo McGlynn for latest details  Jo.McGlynn@hackney.gov.uk

What does the programme give you?

Business development skills:

Procurement seminar – September/October 2010

This half day seminar to help voluntary sector organisations develop and submit winning tenders to public sector bodies. This seminar will give participants an insight into tender specifications from the commissioners perspective and how to write a tender for the forthcoming re-contracting process.

How to write a tender – 15^th September 2010

Contract negotiation skills – 06^th October 2010

This half day workshop will help groups negotiate both with lead agencies and with funders.

Effective partnership skills – 28^th July 2010 and 11^th November 2010

This one day workshop will enable delegates to learn components necessary to make a successful partnership. They will also have the opportunity to network with organisations who currently work or want to work in partnership.

Consortia tendering skills – 13^th, 14^th and 15^th October 2010

This three day workshop will enable delegates to identify competitive tendering opportunities and to write competitive bids and proposals.

Being a lead agency – what does it mean? – 04^th August 2010

This half day seminar will help providers explore the implications and responsibilities of being a lead agency.

Selling yourself as a sub-contractor – 10^th August 2010

This half day course will help participants to deliver a sales pitch as part of a competitive tendering process with confidence.

Prevention, health and well-being – how could it affect my business? – 07^th July, 03^rd November 2010 and 02^nd February 2010.

This seminar will outline Hackney’s health and well-being profile and the key priorities for services provided by voluntary, private and statutory sector providers/ partners.

Management development:

Employer’s responsibilities - tbc

This half day seminar will help providers to address their employment law responsibilities as they respond to personalisation in Hackney.

Full cost recovery – 20^th October and 24^th November 2010

This one day course will enable delegates to understand Hackney’s approach to full cost recovery, get ready for the new changes in funding and learn how to present budgets to funders by incorporating the real cost of a project - including overheads, like management time and office resources. 

Finance for non-financial managers – 06^th September 2010 and 12th January 2011

This 1-day course will give help providers:

·         understand the impact of strategic decisions on funders’ value for money criteria

·         improve communication with people who work in finance

·         contribute to financial decisions,

·         evaluate a project's financial attractiveness from the funders’/shareholders' perspective.

PQASSO – 02^nd and 30^th November 2010, 25^th and 26^th January 2011

This 4-day course will give delegates an overview of PQASSO (Practical Quality Assurance System for Small Organisations) through practical sessions so that they may begin to work to implementing quality in their organisation.

Marketing with a community focus – 01^st and 30^th September 2011

This one-day workshop will help providers better understand what marketing is, create a marketing strategy that considers market analysis, customer analysis and develop a menu of services and communicate to your target market.

Community Project – planning and development – 19^th January 2011

This 1-day course aims to help delegates to:

·         understand the ways in which changes and ideas develop into projects

·         know when and how to develop a project

·         know how to manage a simple workplace project

·         know when and how to exit a project

Understanding the distinctiveness of small scale, third sector activity: the role of local knowledge

‘Below the radar’ has become a short-hand term for small community groups who are either not registered with the Charity Commission or other regulatory bodies and/or lack a regular, substantial annual income. Much of the existing research into the Third Sector has focused on formal, larger, organisations leaving gaps in the knowledge base around the nature and function of small groups and more informal activities which happen at a community level.

The following working paper is based on interviews with representatives from national community sector organisations, development agencies, members of policy fora and academics with a background in community based research. It explores the scale, scope and functions of ‘below the radar’ activity in the Third Sector, why people become active within their community and the factors which both help and hinder community based action. Finally the paper explores the strengths and weaknesses of ‘below the radar’ action, issues of accountability. It asks the question – are there features that make more informal community organisation and activity distinctive?

Research contacts
Angus McCabe
Jenny Phillimore
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Briefing paper

Working paper

Source Third Sector Research Centre 

Cuts watch

Chief executives body ACEVO has set up a new Cutswatch website, at http://www.cutswatch.org.uk, "to provide guidance and support to third sector organisations through public spending cuts". It will provide news, case studies and other information on how to cope with cuts, and is open to further suggestions on what to include.

Ideas and guidance on planning for the future

The Management Centre has created a website where sector experts can contribute their vision of how the not-for-profit sector might look in 2020. They hope this 'scenario planning' will stimulate discussion about the opportunities and challenges to come in the next decade and get organisations doing their own.

The site also gives some guidance on undertaking scenario planning, which should be an effective way of anticipating and adapting to future uncertainty. At http://www.scenariosforchange.com.

(Source: UK Fundraising)

Voluntary News

Whats behind the Big Society?

The Policy Team at umbrella body NCVO has produced a briefing on the government's Big Society concept, giving a short background, a summary of the key elements of the Big Society agenda and a short discussion of some of the emerging themes. Download in pdf, 123KB.

How can we get middle aged men more active - tell mens health forum

Men's Health Week 2010 snap survey

The Men's Health Fourm has set a challenge for Men's Health Week 2010: get a million more middle aged men active by 2012.

Nearly one in four men in England and Wales die before they reach 64. With lack of exercise as risky as smoking something needs to be done. All the maths behind the number 1,000,000 is on the MHF site - we didn't just make it up - but what do you think? Can we do it?

Can we get one million middle-aged men more active by 2012 - and how? Tell us here.

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