Job Vacancy: Consortia Coordinator
Do you understand the needs of the voluntary sector locally? Do you want to see support services to front line voluntary organisations and community groups enhanced and impro...

Funding Central: Online Funding Search
Funding Central is a free smart website for the whole voluntary and community sector, including social enterprise, providing access to thousands of funding and finance opportunitie...

Sustainable Funding Project Workshop
Is your organisation dependent on short-term, one-off grants? Do you spend more time chasing funding than actually delivering services to your clients and beneficiaries? Might th...

Worcestershire County Council Choice and Control Provider Surgeries
Worcestershire County Council Adult and Community Services is inviting service providers to one of a series of Choice and Control Provider Surgeries.  The aim is to help servi...

The Economic downturn: 15 questions trustees need to ask
The Charity Commission has published a new checklist  for trustees to use as a tool to help them review how their charity is managing as a result of and in response to the eco...

Thinking the unthinkable? How mergers can work for charities.
Following the Charity Commission's recent survey, which showed that while 64% of UK charities with an annual income of over £1m are concerned about the economic downturn, onl...

Modernisation Fund Grants Programme
Online application now open for £1,000 bursaries From 1 June to 17 July, frontline organisations with an annual turnover of between £150,000 and £750,000 are inv...

Village SOS News Flash
On the One Programme (Monday 1st June BBC1 7pm) the Village SOS Programme was launched. This is about £3m of funding from the BIG Lottery Fund to support the development o...

Energy cost savings for Community First customers
Community First has teamed up with Make It Cheaper to help its customers benefit from the best available energy prices on the market. Click this link for more information ...

Short courses at Fircroft College
Fircroft College of Adult Education in Selly Oak, Birmingham runs a number of short courses throughout the year, focused on some of the most important aspects of working in the vol...

How resilient is your organisation?
The Centre for Charity Effectiveness at Cass Business School has developed an online self-assessment tool to help you check whether your organisation has the basic capacity for res...

Board Matters: a review of charity trusteeship in the UK
95% of people in the UK are unaware that they can support a charity by becoming a trustee. Looking at this figure, it seems no surprise then that nearly half of charities have vaca...

National Survey of Third Sector Organisations
The National Survey of Third Sector Organisations, in which nearly 50,000 charities, social enterprises and voluntary organisations took part, has now been published. The main foc...

Short courses at Fircroft College
Short Courses, prices start from £70 per person Fircroft College of Adult Education in Selly Oak, Birmingham are running a number of three day residential short courses. ...

Funding Fair
A funding fair at the Bradbury Centre Worcester, is to take place on Friday 15th May from 11-2. For more information please contact Sally Ellison on 01905 24741.

Small organisations are struggling for funding
More than 70 per cent of CVSs are planning increased collaboration. More than 80 per cent of councils for voluntary service think the funding environment for small and medium-si...

£20m Hardship Fund for charities announced in Budget
Darling pledges support for charities helping people worst hit by recession and funding to create 'socially useful' jobs A £20m Hardship Fund for charities delivering serv...

Rush to beat ‘In It To Win It’ deadline for ITV Central People's Millions
Community groups in the ITV Central region have less than a month to beat the deadline and enter The People’s Millions TV contest to secure the chance to win a Lottery award ...

The impact of the economic downturn on the voluntary sector
Is your organisation feeling the impact of the recession?  Are you having to make difficult decisions as a result of a reduction in funding and/or an increase in demand for yo...

Calor village of the year: Last chance to enter!
The 2009 Calor Village of the Year Competition is now open for applications. The Calor Village of the Year competition gives the UK’s smaller communities the chance to put t...

Heroes Return 2; New Funding Programme
Second World War veterans across the country are today signing up for a new multi million pound commemoration scheme that will provide financial support to make anniversary trips a...

Awards for All: major changes to funding from 1 April 2009
Awards for All has been run by the Big Lottery Fund, with the other main National Lottery distributors (Sport England, Arts Council England and the Heritage Lottery Fund) putting a...

Worcestershire County Council launches Round 3 of its grants for the voluntary and community sector.
Round 3 Community Grants, for one year or one-off activity, were launched on Monday 30th March and the closing date is Friday 15th May at 4pm. First Base Community Arts grants a...

New VCS Funding Round W.C.C
In Round 3 W.C.C are offering Community Grants for one year or one off activity. First Base Community Arts To show how the arts can have a positive impact by bringing com...