New Funds added; Apprenticeships info; Skills Funding Agency updates; Functional skills info; others
New funds include: Health and social care volunteering; Community Olympics events; NEET with Mental Health in Norwich; others
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New funds added
See our Funding page and scroll down to the fund holder title for the further information of each:
- Department of Health – Volunteering fund. To support health and social care organisations develop volunteering programmes to support longer term sustainability of their organisations.
- Legacy Trust – Deliver community events in celebration of the 2010 Olympics and Para Olympics.
- Suffolk County Council – Residential short break therapeutic services in Stowmarket for those with autism, challenging behaviours and learning difficulties associated with physical disabilities.
- LSC/ESF (City College Norwich) – NEET with Mental Health in Norwich. Project is up and running, looking for referrals and potential service providers.
- Football Foundation – Grow the Game. To support teams in developing, e.g. kit and volunteer support etc.
- Suffolk NHS - Integrated Healthy Lifestyles Service. BTCV are still looking for partners for this fund application.
Apprenticeships Page
We have recently updated our Apprenticeships page. Go to our Apprenticeships page to find out about an organisation that supports Third Sector organisations access the Apprenticeships scheme, as well as a survey to contribute to the third sector framework for Apprenticeships.
LSC changes
We have recently added some material re: The Skills Funding Agency to this page – see LSC Changes page for more information.
Functional Skills
See here for a Q&A put together by the LSC re: Functional skills.
Job vacancy
See here for details of a vacancy at Norfolk Coalition of Disabled People.
PTTLS etc. and Skills for Life surveys
A survey is being carried out on the impact of the new PTLLS, CTLLS and DTLLS qualifications. Niace would like as many people as possible to respond – see here for more details. See here for Skills for Life approach survey also being carried out by Niace.
Date Added: March 1st 2010
