Wednesday November 18, 2009

Step Up Enterprise Network Event

Organised by the new Step up Enterprise team within CBMDC, this informal and informative networking breakfast is designed to celebrate the success of existing good work in the enterprise education arena, as well as provide an opportunity for you to engage with colleagues passionate about using enterprise to raise the aspirations of young people in your remit.

The event will have several zones to focus your discussions, with the opportunity to exchange ideas, needs, wants and offers in a very informal setting. The zones include:
• Enterprise within the primary curriculum
• Enterprise within the secondary curriculum
• Business Engagement
• 14 - 19 Entitlement
• NEET
• Community & Social Enterprise
• Capturing Enterprise
• Step up Enterprise Market Challenge

Date: 3 December 2009
Time: 07.30 - 09.30 hours (Drop in or stay for the duration)
Venue: Hilton Hotel, Bradford

To register your interest please contact toni.wilson@bradford.gov.uk on 01274 385538

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Artsplan Events in Bradford

Creative Consultation with Young People

18th November 2009, 10 am - 4.15 pm, Kala Sangam, Bradford
Artsplan, the training and publications department of Artswork and in-house training provider for ENYAN (English National Youth Arts Network), is delivering the one day course ‘Creative Consultation with Young People’ on 18th November ‘09 at Kala Sangam, Bradford
This one-day creative workshop has been developed in partnership with a range of organisations across 9 English regions who have submitted case studies demonstrating creative consultation techniques they have used with young people. The course is therefore suitable for anyone who is looking to consult with young people through engagement in creative participatory activities.

All participants will receive a certificate of attendance upon successful completion of the course and a wealth of practical resources. Prices for each course, which include lunch and refreshments, range from £150 to £110, with limited bursaries available. Please also remember that ENYAN members can request a 5% discount on all Artsplan publications and training

For more information on these courses or to book a place, please contact the Artsplan Team via: artsplanbookings@artswork.org.uk or call 02380 682535. To subscribe to ENYAN visit www.enyan.co.uk

Evaluating Youth Arts Projects

3rd February 2010, 10.00 am- 4.15 pm, Kala Sangam, Bradford
This one-day training course explores the benefits of meaningful evaluation of youth arts projects. Beginning by addressing preconceptions around evaluation (constructive exercise or chore?) the course will progress to examine methodologies, structured approaches and case studies using a series of collaborative exercises and tutor led presentations. Informative and practical, this course will help you develop your own individual approach to creative evaluation and the confidence you need to engage with evaluating youth arts projects.

All participants will receive a certificate of attendance upon successful completion of the course and a wealth of practical resources. Prices for each course, which include lunch and refreshments, range from £150 to £110, with limited bursaries available. Please also remember that ENYAN members can request a 5% discount on all Artsplan publications and training.

For more information on these courses or to book a place, please contact the Artsplan Team via artsplan@artswork.org.uk or call 02380 682 535.

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Art in empty spaces: turning vacant spaces into creative places

Arts Council England’s £500,000 initiative to help artists turn vacant high street shops into artistic and vibrant places is now open for applications.
Artists are now able to apply for grants to support artistic activity that will transform empty retail units into creative spaces - anything from an art gallery to recording studios or family arts workshops - which the whole community can enjoy.
The programme, ‘Art in empty spaces’, which was announced in April, will run in partnership with the Department for Communities and Local Government’s scheme ‘Looking After Our Town Centres’ which will invest £3 million to reinvigorate ailing town centres during the recession.
The role the arts can play in economic regeneration can already be seen across the country, where the innovative use of empty shops is already helping to prevent high street decline.
More information about the scheme and how to apply can be found at www.artscouncil.org.uk/artinemptyspaces

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Third Sector ERDF Access Fund

Yorkshire Forward has created the Third Sector ERDF Access Fund, offering grants of between £2,000 and £10,000 to help third sector organisations prepare themselves to make bids for larger sums to the European Regional Development Fund.

Through ERDF, Yorkshire Forward is offering projects costing £1 million and above the chance to apply for a grant to cover up to 50% of the total cost.

The smaller grants from the Access Fund will help with preparatory tasks such as the carrying out of feasibility studies, exploring possibilities of collaborative working with other local organisations and gaining expert advice on the preparation of bids.

Successful bids for the larger sums from ERDF must be based upon the Fund's Priority 3 objectives:

part capital (buildings/refurbishment), part transport
business support
social enterprise support
IT development/knowledge

The grants come from the ERDF operational programme for the Yorkshire and Humber 2007-2013, which had over £500 million available for investment in the region. Over £100 million of this was earmarked to support the programme's third priority of sustainable communities, which is of particular relevance to third sector organisations. For more information on the programme, visit
http://www.yorkshire-forward.com/sites/default/files/documents/erdf-operational%20-programme-revised-2009.pdf

To register an interest in the Access Fund, email South Yorkshire Community Foundation at admin@sycf.org.uk.

For more information, visit http://www.sycf.org.uk/apply_for_a_grant/third_sector_erdf_access_fund/ or call (0113) 242 2426.

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Newlands Enterprise Professional Services Small Grants

Newlands Enterprise has been awarded the professional services contract with Enterprising Bradford and will have small amounts of grant available to provide professional services for third sector organisations (eg social enterprise, community groups etc).

Newlands Enterprise, a social enterprise itself, is based in north Bradford and delivers infrastructure support to third sector organisations. This new ‘professional service’ will provide practical and professional assistance in areas like IT, marketing and training to new and growing third sector organisations within the Bradford district. Newlands Enterprise will target this assistance at third sector organisations in deprived communities (10% most deprived super output areas) focusing on:

BAME groups
50+
graduates
women and people at key life points
These organisations will create enterprising opportunities and extend the social economy.

Newlands Enterprise will draw up a directory of approved suppliers and aims to launch the scheme in January. In the meantime, organisations can use the attached pre-qualification questionnaire to register an interest. PQQs can be returned by email to julie.dawson@newlandsenterprise.org

For more information visit http://professionalservices.newlandsenterprise.com/ or call Anita Bolland on (01274) 610222, email anita.bolland@newlandsenterprise.org

For details of the professional service needs or organisations in Bradford district see http://professionalservices.newlandsenterprise.com/questionnaire/results/newlands-enterprise-professional-service-questionnaire-report.pdf

 

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Health Work and Wellbeing Challenge Fund

The Health Work and Wellbeing Challenge Fund will offer SMEs and local partnerships grants of £1,000 to £50,000 to carry out new initiatives to boost staff health and welfare. Local partnerships can include private, public and third sector organisations and trade unions.

The funding can be used to deliver a range of activities including:
 

• reducing stress and improving other mental health conditions
• providing healthy activities
• ensuring work-life balance
• supportive management
• Projects to improve mental wellbeing in small businesses will be a priority.

The fund is available over two years with two bidding rounds. The first deadline is Thursday 31 December 2009 for awards in the 2010/11 financial year and bids can be submitted between September 2010 and December 2010 for awards in the 2011/12 financial year. Organisations or partnerships which are successful in the first year can apply for continued funding in the second year.

Organisations should submit an expression of interest 'as soon as possible' to determine eligibility. They will then be sent a full application form for completion by 31 December.

For further information, visit http://www.workingforhealth.gov.uk/initiatives/ChallengeFund/default.aspx

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The Youth of Today - Scaling Up

The Youth of Today - Scaling Up

The second round of The Youth of Today - Scaling Up is now open for applications.

The grants aim to:
 

• help more young people to take on leadership roles in their community
• create more opportunities for young people to influence the decisions affecting them
• raise the quality of youth leadership opportunities
• enable small organisations to grow

There are up to 30 grants of between £5,000 and £20,000 to help groups to take their work to the next level. The grant should be used to develop and expand youth leadership programmes – including delivery costs, staff costs and small capital items (up to 20% of the grant awarded). Youth of Today is looking for innovative projects that are unlikely to find funding from other sources.

The next deadline is 12pm on Friday 11 December 2009.

For more infromation please visitv http://www.theyouthoftoday.org. The deadline for applications is Thursday 19 November 2009.

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Small Money Big Change

Small Money Big Change gives grants of up to £2,000 for youth-led projects and activities.

Groups must consist of three or more young people aged 13-19 (or 13-25 for young people with disabilities). All the members must live in the Bradford district and an adult or organisation must support the project, which should benefit young people or members of their community. The project must meet at least one of the five Every Child Matters outcomes of:

• stay safe
• be healthy
• enjoy and achieve
• achieve economic wellbeing
• make a positive contribution

The project must be the group's own idea. For further information, contact the Small Money Big Change team on (01274) 432440 or email mark.kellett@bradford.gov.uk. The deadline is 5pm on Friday 27 November.

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Environmental Sustainability

Would you like to use resources more efficiently?

Bradford Environmental Action Trust (Beat) are providing training workshops, energy audits, action planning and resource packs focusing on improving water and energy management in community buildings

To find out more about how you can benefit from the support on offer contact James Robinson at Bradford Environmental Trust (BEAT) on 01274 253440 or email waste@beat.org.uk

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Fit 4 Funding Training in Bradford

Contracting and Tendering Accredited course
Friday 10th December 10am to 4pm at Mabel Booth room, Bradford CVS

Cost: £40 for voluntary and community groups (inc. social enterprises). £80 for statutory organisations.

This is a ten-hour accredited course which provides an introduction to contracts and tendering for voluntary and community organisations. In particular, it will explore the advantages and disadvantages of this type of funding and how to get your group "tender ready".

The course is delivered as a full-day workshop followed by several hours of online learning (e-learning) - this can be done at a time that suits you. Therefore you will need access to a computer and internet connection and have some basic IT skills to complete the course. Accreditation is via the Open College Network at Level 3.

The course will cover:

The advantages and disadvantages of contracts for the supplier
How to become "tender-ready"
How contracting fits into the wider funding context
Participants can achieve one 10-hour credit by analysing their own organisation's strengths and weaknesses in relation to both applying for grants and bidding for contracts."

For further information or to book a place visit the bsupported website http://bsupported.org.uk/courses/how_to_book_on_a_course/ or contact Diane at CVS Training on 01274 722772

Applying for Smaller Funders
Friday 14th January 10am to 1pm at Mabel Booth room, Bradford CVS

Cost: £20 for voluntary and community groups (inc. social enterprises). £40 for statutory organisations.

From the bsupported training programme: "This session is aimed at groups looking for small grants of up to around £10,000 to help run and expand their activities and services.

We will look at identifying appropriate funds (such as local council pots, Awards for All and charitable trusts) and how best to approach them.

The session will cover:

Identifying small and local funding sources
What the funders want to know about your work
Completing application forms
What funders will expect from you if you get the money

For further information or to book a place visit the bsupported website http://bsupported.org.uk/courses/how_to_book_on_a_course/ or contact Diane at CVS Training on 01274 722772

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