News: New funds added; Have you benefited from Norfolk Unites?; Training and events

Community Grants available again and other useful items as mentioned above

Please circulate this to any other groups/networks/individuals who you feel could benefit from any of this news!  

If you have a questions or enquiries about any of these news items, contact us and we will be pleased to either respond directly or find you someone who can help you more.

New funds added

See Funding page and scroll down to fund holders of more information in any of the below:

• LSC/ESF Community Grants.  This is a second additional round due to left over funds. Up to £12,000 available for each organisation. An excellent opportunity!
• Tesco Small Grants - £1,000 - £4,000, for groups specialising in disabilities, elderly children and families
• Social Care Institute for Excellence – Funding for IT to support adult care providers, both to support staff and service users
• Children’s Workforce Development - a number of current tenders: research; training childcare staff; outreach work.

Norfolk Unites leaflet

We are pleased to present our new flyer! If you were aware of Norfolk Unites but not quite sure of how or why, please read here!  We have also updated our About us page.

Have you benefited from Norfolk Unites?

There is a regional event in Cambridge on March 22nd looking at Learn East members (Norfolk Unites being one) and presenting the work to Prime Contractors and local authorities. We are looking for a case study or two where people feel they have benefited from Norfolk Unites. If it is that you can’t attend but would like to give us a little quote then please email us!  If you are interested in giving a short presentation to this group, then also please contact us!

Skills Funding Agency

If you are interested in finding out about how the Skills Funding Agency funding is to be allocated, please see here.

Skills for Life Support Programme

The Skills for Life Support Programme is offering training for those who are currently teaching or supporting maths and numeracy on a range of and focuses on numeracy teaching and learning and learner progression and will be delivered by trainers who are experienced regional numeracy experts.  See here for more information and flyer.

NEET sport course

A new 5 day programme focusing on outdoor activities with embedded team work will lead onto an E2E Sport programme that will run for 10 weeks. The course is aimed at 16-18 NEET young people and we are running an open morning on 15th February from 10-1pm for young people to have a go and sign up for the course.  See here for more information.

Third sector success in delivering to the LSC

Please see here about a new report detailing 5 years of third sector work with the LSC, clearly demonstrating how the third sector has worked well with communities and supporting people back into employment.

Meet the new agencies – TSNLA event

See here for details of a London event were you can meet the new agencies taking over from the LSC - Skills Funding Agency, Young People’s Learning Agency and Local Authorities.

Date Added: February 8th 2010