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Sage Foundation launches $1million Enterprise Fund to back the brightest ideas from charities

The Sage Foundation has launched its new open grants Enterprise Fund The Sage Enterprise Fund is designed to support organisations who are looking to create new initiatives, generate further income or enhance existing and proven activity.
  • Build Upon Success - Creating new initiatives that build on your existing success and support your overall mission.
  • Strengthen your organisation - Finding ways to generate further income to make your organisation stronger and able to develop new work.
  • Support growth - Growing proven and existing activity so that the work you do will have an impact on more people's lives.
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VONNE Briefing: Universal Credit

This new briefing by VONNE explains what Universal Credit is and why any voluntary organisation engaged with working-age people on means-tested benefits will need to know how it works.
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The Great Get Together- get involved

The Great Get Together is a national series of events being organised by the family and friends of Jo Cox and coincides with the anniversary of Jo's death taking place on 17-18 June this summer.
The Great Get Together hopes to be a national moment of unity with people and communities coming together to share food in barbecues, bake offs, street parties and more.
The Great Get Together already has the support of a growing coalition of organisations including The Big Lunch, The Women's Institute, Girlguiding, The Scouts, The Premier League, The Royal British Legion, The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Chief Rabbi and other faith representatives.
Four ways your organisation can get involved (PDF)

An Advocate for I, Daniel Blake

Advocacy Centre North have started a crowdfunding fundraising campaign inspired by the film I, Daniel Blake. They need your help to raise funds to provide a new Welfare Advocate to support people like I, Daniel Blake.
The I, Daniel Blake team and Ken Loach (I, Daniel Blake Director) have been supporting them by re-tweeting the campaign and the centre would like your support too.
See the campaign

Tender opportunity - Tees Steel Bridging the World Partnership

Groundwork NE & Cumbria have a tender opportunity, to work with the Tees Steel: Bridging the World partnership, funded through the Heritage Lottery Fund's Resilient Heritage programme. Deadline 20th March 21017.
Read the tender

Events


Making Social Investment work for the North East

23 March 9:30-11:30

BALTIC, Gateshead
North East Social Investment Company invites you to a networking event reflecting on what has been achieved over the last two years and what could be achieved in the North East.
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Fundraising courses in Newcastle for small charities

23 March 9:30-4:30

The FSI is running a one day programme of fundraising courses for small charities and community groups. Full day, half day and workshops are available so that local small charities can access the skills they need to become self sustaining.
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Community centred and asset based approaches

28 March 9:15am-4pm

County Durham Cricket Club
This Public Health England event aims to:
  • Provide an update on the evidence base for community centred and asset based approaches to improve health and wellbeing
  • To consider the role of community centred and asset based approach for different sectors
  • To showcase the benefits of peer support and volunteering to improve health and wellbeing across the region
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Civil Society and the Northern Powerhouse – whose powerhouse is it anyway?!

30 March 10am-5pm

Newcastle
A free-to-attend event for people from the third sector and wider civil society to share ideas and learn about:
  • The opportunities and threats posed to civil society organisations by devolution and the Northern Powerhouse agenda
  • How to engage with new structures such as combined authorities and metro-mayors
  • New campaigns and movements for a fairer North
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Investment Readiness for Social Investment

29 March 9-12:30

Durham
Key Fund’s workshops are aimed at anyone who is looking to apply for social investment and has not previously applied. The workshops will help improve understanding of what social investment is and what you need to do in order to apply.
These free sessions are open to social entrepreneurs and social enterprises looking to start up, grow or develop or purchase equipment or buildings for their social enterprise through loan finance
More details

Leaders Network: Building Collaborative Places – infrastructure for system change

5 April 4:45-8pm

Newcastle University Business School
The next Leaders Network event is on 5th April welcoming guest speaker, Henry Kippin, Director of Collaborate. Henry will be launching Collaborate’s new report: ‘Building Collaborative Places – infrastructure for system change’ in the North.
There will also be the opportunity to create new collaborative action groups, and to build relationships with other Leaders in the Network.
More details

Let's Talk Good Finance North East

4 May Gateshead

This event brings together charities, social enterprises and organisations with social investors and intermediary bodies to network, share information and discuss latest issues relating to social finance.
The event will include:
Market Updates and Case Studies - Updates from Big Society Capital and local and national social investment organisations
Hear from a Peer - ​Case studies of organisations who have been through the social investment journey
​Hot Topic Half Hour - Find out about what is the new news in this space
Over to you – the networking session that’s all about you and good networking. Come armed with a question, a challenge you need help with, a connection you need to make and with the help of the crowd we will see.
More details
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Jane Hartley attended a roundtable meeting at Number 10 recently on the topic of 'fresh thinking for civil society'.
Read her blog on how they didn't hold back on sharing the current challenges the sector faces and some positive announcements heard.

The token Northerner, service logic and system insanity


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Below are just a few of the jobs advertised. Take a look at our website for the full listing and sign up for our free weekly jobs ebulletin.

Paid Roles

Volunteer Development Officer

Family Lives
£23,448.41 pro-rata

CEO Job Share

Women's Health in South Tyneside

Supported Volunteering Development Officer

North Tyneside VODA
£23,945 pro rata

Through the Gate Support Officer

The Wise Group
£17,013 - £25,785

Healthcare Tutor

Building Futures East
£22,443 - £23,945

Work Coach

Building Futures East
£22,443 – £23,945

NCS Youth Support Workers

Headliners (UK)
Up to £1400

NCS Senior Youth Mentors

Headliners (UK)
Up to £1800

PROJECT CO-ORDINATOR

Children North East
£25,901 to £28,430

Part Time Receptionist

Disability North
£8,410pa

Advice Worker x 2

Citizens Advice Northumberland
£16.067

Behaviour Change Practitioner

First Contact Clinical
£18,000 - £21,000

Lead Advice Worker

Citizens Advice Northumberland
£18,197

Volunteer Co-ordinator

Changing Lives
£19,300

Project Co-ordinator

East Durham Trust
£22,000

Dementia & Wellbeing Services Co-ordinator

Age UK North Tyneside
£20,561-£22,616

Recruitment Adviser

National Citizen Service
£17,200

Project Worker, Help to Rent

Oasis Aquila Housing
£17,345 - £18,184

Project Team Leader

Oasis Aquila Housing
£22,537 - £24,005

Independent Advocate

Advocacy Centre North

Information and Communications Coordinator

HealthWORKS Newcastle
£19,378

Support Worker

Action Foundation
£15,457 - £18,769 + 6% pension

General Manager

Generator North East
£30,000 - £33,000

Supported Volunteering Project Support Assistant

Northumberland CVA
£9694

Young People’s Therapist & Lead Practitioner

Middlesbrough & Stockton Mind
£27,500 to £32,000

Receptionist/Office Assistant

Rape Crisis Tyneside and Northumberland

Talent Match Youth Coach

South Tyneside TEN
£22,000

Services Manager - County Durham

Alzheimer's Society

Bid Writer

Changing Lives
£17,905 - £25,680

Quality & Compliance Manager

£24,545

Case Manager

Finchale
£24,545

Operational Admin Support

Finchale
£15,705 - £16,792

Fundraising Manager

The Children's Foundation
£25,000

Wise Steps Coach x 2

South Tyneside TEN
£24,759

Research and Learning Executive

The Wise Group
£21,000

Governance Executive

The Wise Group
£25,134 - £28,000

Project Accountant

The Wise Group
£25,134 - £39,122

Employer Engagement Advisor

The Wise Group
£17,013 - £25,785

Head of Wellbeing, Confidence and Connections

University of Sunderland Students' Union
£32,526 - £34,979

Care Support Worker

Daisy Chain Project
£9,792 - £11,424

Training Officer

Daisy Chain Project

Digitally Connected Assistant

Meadow Well Connected
£13,500 - £16,575

Deputy Treasurer

Rape Crisis Tyneside and Northumberland

Community Engagement Co-ordinator

East Durham Trust
£23,500

Church Community Centre Manager

Woodhouse Close Church Community Centre
£24,500

Senior Finance & Operations Manager

New Writing North
£25,719 pro rata

Play Facilitator

Nepacs

Male Personal Assistant Vacancy

£9.25 per hour

Relief Project Workers

Oasis Aquila Housing
£17,345 - £19,233

More jobs on website

Trustee Roles

Volunteer Co Chair

Inclusion North
Voluntary

Trustee

Age UK North Tyneside

Non Executive Director Board

EveryDay

Treasurer

Young Women's Outreach Project

Enterprising Trustee

The Toby Henderson Trust

Trustee

Citizens Advice Northumberland

More Trustee Roles on website


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