Brent Cross Town’s £40,000 Community Fund Now Open

Local groups and initiatives based in and around Cricklewood, Childs Hill, Golders Green, and West Hendon can apply for grants of anywhere between £500 and £5,000.

To support applications Brent Cross Town, together with Action Funder, are hosting two workshops. 
Securing funding for your non-profit with the Funding Doctor will be held on 26th May between 10 am-12:45 pm.

Brent Cross Town Community Fund Q&A session will be hosted on 24th May from 5pm-6:30pm

Both being held at The WorkShop, Brent Cross Town, Claremont Way. 

Deadline: Friday 10 June 2022.

All information on how to apply to the Brent Cross Town Community Find can be found on the Brent Cross Town website.

Barnet Vaccine Confidence Grant - Round 2 

Your bids must seek to engage at least one of the following target communities, where covid vaccine uptake in Barnet is currently low.

• Young people (12–30-year-olds), their carers or schools (as appropriate to the age of the target population)

• Wards with high deprivation and low vaccine uptake - Golders Green, Hendon, Childs Hill, Colindale, Burnt Oak, West Hendon, Cricklewood

• Ethnic minorities with low vaccine uptake - Eastern European, Black Caribbean, Black African and other Black communities

• Faith Groups – Ultra orthodox Jewish, Muslim, Evangelical Christian

• Marginalised/inclusion groups – asylum seekers and the homeless population

• Pregnant women

• Residents with serious mental illness

• Residents with learning disabilities and their carers

Two levels of funding:

Option 1, up to £20,000
Option 2, between £500 -£2,000

For more information

Closing Date: 5pm, Friday 17 June

Awards Confirmed  by 1st July 2022

Better Community Business Network

This initiative will distribute a one-off grant award of up to £3,000 per charity or to small but credible community projects, which are able to demonstrate their positive impact on the communities they aim to serve. 

Application deadline 15th July 2022 for awards on 18th August 2022

Application deadline 11th November 2022 for awards on 7th Dec 2022

City Bridge Trust - Small Grants

Grants up from 1k to £10k for organisations with an annual income of less than £100,000. This fund is for those working on:
- greening and growing projects which bring communities together and improve the local environment
- projects which enable disabled people and/or older people who are disadvantaged to actively participate in the arts, sports and health and wellbeing opportunities.

You can access a recording Caspar and Veronica from City Bridge gave for Barnet VCFSEs about this fund.

Rolling deadline

News: Mental Health and Universal Credit

Dan Norris, Head of Advice and Rights at CPAG has kindly written a guest blog for Barnet Togethering providing insights on Mental Health and Universal Credit drawn from their report which found the UC system is routinely letting these people down.  

This Guest Blog provides highlights on this topic and signposting to further resources. Read it in full.

Training: FREE adult safeguarding training

Barnet's Adults and Health  Directorate - Workforce Development / Quality in Practice are offering the following courses via Blue LMS eLearning for our Voluntary Sector Partners and their staff.

• Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
• Mental Capacity Act 2005
• Safeguarding Adults - Level 1
• Safeguarding Adults - Level 2

To register for the training, click here and to go to ‘Self Register’. Once activated, you will receive an email with your login details and you will be able to access the online courses.

News: Physical health is just as important as mental health

The Barnet Wellbeing service are supporting Barnet GP Federation to encourage people living with mental health conditions to have regular annual health checks via their GP. NHS England recommends that those living with a mental illness condition receive a physical health check at least once a year to reduce the risk of developing physical ill health.

At a physical health check, the GP will:

1. Check blood pressure.
2. Measure height and weight.
3. Test blood glucose for risk of diabetes.
4. Check blood cholesterol levels.
5. And ask some questions about any smoking or alcohol habits.

Barnet Wellbeing will be at various locations in Barnet to engage with the public, promoting the importance of this message. Please email their Health and Wellbeing Manager Kolsum if you have any questions or would like to support this project in any way.

Training: Rising costs, rising demand: Managing the cost of living crisis

With inflation expected to peak around 8.7% this year, the cost of living is a major concern for charities and and the people they support. Join NVCO's special online event to share your experiences and questions with their policy team and fellow charity leaders. If you are a NVCO member book your free place.

Wednesday 15 June, 10am

For Barnet Together, Inclusion Barnet has put together a blog on local and national support people struggling to the Cost of Living Crisis. If you are aware of any further local/national support please do let Ellen know. 

Consultation: How can the National Lottery Community Fund best support UK communities to prosper and thrive?

The National Lottery Community Fund has launched a consultation as part of the new UK-wide strategy.

They want input from individuals, organisations, and informal groups to help set their future direction and ensure funding meets the challenges, hopes and aspirations of the communities it serves.

Deadline: Friday 20 May

Consultation: Adult Social Care Employment and Supported Employment Project

Do you have views on accessibility into employment & supported employment?

If you have experience of mental health, autism, learning disability your feedback will help improve services.

More information contact: engage.adults@barnet.gov.uk

Meetings being held on 24 May or 25 May, 10am

Register your interest 

Opportunity: FREE Yoga Sessions for Barnet Health professionals and sign-posters

As part of International Yoga Week, Thierry from Barnet Yoga Circle is offering a FREE yoga session to thank you for all the wonderful work you do for the community and to encourage you to recommend their free yoga classes to those you are working/supporting. 

The classes will held at the Salvation Army, 1-4 Brampton Grove. NW4 4AE.

The class will be taught at a beginner level and each attendee will be offered a home-made detox juice after the class.

•    Tuesday 21 June, 3-4pm 

•    Wednesday 22 June, 3-4pm

•    Thursday 23 June, 3-4pm

Book here

Volunteers Needed: Home Visiting Volunteers at Home-Start -  Farsi/Dari/Arabic/Albanian speakers particularly needed 

Home-Start believes that the earliest years make the biggest impact. Our work is with families who have (at least) one child under five and that are facing challenges such as loneliness, postnatal depression, or multiple births. We train volunteers to visit the family once a week, supporting them in a variety of emotional and practical ways. This is for 2 to 3 hours a week, one day per week.

Find out more

Job: Touchpoint Peer Worker at Inclusion Barnet

We are looking for a passionate individual with their own lived experience of disability, an understanding of the social model of disability, and a commitment to our wider aims to:

• Work with people to help them lead more independent lives
• Provide people with advice and information and proactively refer them to support services
• Help people overcome and prevent crises
• Liaise with other services to ensure that people’s outcomes are met
• Use their own lived experience of disability or a long-term condition to tackle barriers to participate

Fixed term 6 month contract (with the possibility this may be extended)

Salary: £27,750 pro rata, actual salary £22,200 per annum

Working hours: 28 hours per week

Location: Hybrid (Barnet, NW9 & home working, plus borough meetings)

Application Deadline: 5th June 2022

Job: Project Co-ordinator, East Finchley Town Team
Fixed fee/term (self employed)

The East Finchley Town Team has secured funding to boost use of the High Road over the next year. They are looking to appoint a consultant with appropriate experience in curating and delivering engaging community events to support us to scope, plan and deliver this project.

Contract length: 90 hours, to be delivered between July 2022 and March 2023.

Contract value: £3,150 payable in 3 instalments on completion of each event.

The coordinator will be expected to work from home, and to attend monthly Town Team and related meetings as required. Travel will be focussed within the East Finchley area.

Deadline: 5pm, Wednesday 1 June 

Find out more

Job: Peer Communications and Engagement Officer at Inclusion Barnet

Are you great at connecting with people?  Are you looking for a great opportunity to showcase and develop your writing and engagement skills? If you have lived experience of disability, which could include a long-term health or mental health condition, then you could really thrive at our inclusive organisation. 

We are looking to recruit a Full-Time Peer Communications and Engagement Officer role to work closely with our Comms Lead to help bring a fresh energy and greater capacity into our commucations team.  Part of this role will include working on the Barnet Together twitter, and editing this newsletter.

£25,000 per year

Contract, 12 months, extendable subject to funding.
Based NW9, London (Hybrid)

Deadline 30 May 2022

More information and to apply

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The aim of the Manifesto is to create better understanding and deeper cross-sector collaboration between organisations working within Barnet. 

If you are a representative of a group, service provider or business based in or serving Barnet, then you can sign up to the Barnet Voluntary Manifesto.

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