Wiltshire County Council & Wiltshire PCT Review of Working Arrangements & Funding Mechanisms with the Voluntary and Community Sector
CVS North Wilts recently held a consultation meeting (September 20th at The Grove in Calne). This gave voluntary and community groups a chance to have their say to Julian Wakefield, the independent consultant who is carrying out a review of working relationships and funding mechanisms on behalf of the County Council and PCT. This is being done with a view to making recommendations for ways in which to strengthen and develop working relationships between the two sectors. Over 20 organisations were represented and their views collected on feedback forms. To read on and find out some of the responses click here.
“Your Annual Report - What Should It Contain?” Together with the CVS AGM & Canapé Buffet
We look forward to welcoming our members and colleagues to our 2007 AGM. Come along to find out what information should be included in your Annual Report. Wednesday 10th October 2007, 12noon - 2pm, Corsham Community Centre. Guest speaker Alan Clarkin, Information Outreach Manager, with the Charity Commission.
All charities must maintain financial records and prepare accounts. Trustees of charities must also prepare an Annual Report. Alan Clarkin will talk about the content of the Trustees' Annual Report, its purpose and its impact. It is not a talk about accounts or balance sheets. Alan will also give a brief update on the implementation of the Charities Act. To book your place at this FREE and informative event please email beth@cvsnw.org.uk or call 01249 654089.
Community Lunch, Rudloe
Organised by CVS North Wiltshire, Community Lunches offer a chance for voluntary organisations, community groups and other representatives from the community to network over a good lunch with other people in the area and share information about their organisation, project or local event. Thursday 18th October, 12noon-2pm. Please email beth@cvsnw.org.uk or call 01249 654089 to register your interest in this event. Mary Waters, our Funding Advice worker will be at Rudloe from 10am on the day, if you would like to see Mary before the lunch just let us know!
Voluntary Sector Forum for Wiltshire & Swindon
Wednesday 21st November, 12noon - 2pm at Bridge House, Trowbridge. The Compact, what does it mean for you? Guest Speakers: Chris Lau, Voluntary Action Swindon, Damien Hasjees, Wiltshire County Council & James Moody, North Wilts District Council. Followed by a networking lunch and information sharing! Click here to download the flyer & booking form.
New Hypnotherapist at the Wellbeing Centre
Hilary Norris-Evans has been working at The Well Being Centre in Chippenham since Friday 21 September. She works as a hypnotherapist, hypno healer, NLP practitioner, stress manager and coach. For those of you who don’t know much about hypnotherapy, it is a safe, effective therapy with no negative side effects and uses the positive power of your subconscious mind to help you make the changes you want in your life.. Hypnosis itself is an altered state of consciousness, a state of deep relaxation but often with heightened awareness. In hypnosis you are not asleep nor in a coma nor unconscious and the hypnotherapist can only give you the suggestions you want to accept. You are actually in a state of hypnosis every night just before you fall off to sleep and just after you awaken in the morning. We are in a light hypnotic trance when we are so focused or concentrated that we don’t notice time passing and we often drive along a familiar road in a light hypnotic trance... Click here to read on.
Family Welfare Association, Mill Race Centre, Calne - Open Day
The Family Welfare Association Mill Race Centre, in Calne, will be holding an open day on the 30th October between 10.30 a.m. and 3.00 p.m. The day will give people in the community, whether prospective attendees or carers, and local organisations the opportunity to see what the centre provides and view some of the service users’ work and staff and service users will be available to talk to visitors. Tea and Coffee will be available. For further information please contact Anita, millracecentre@fwaprojects.org.uk.
School Facilities, Hall for Hire in Chippenham
St Nicholas School in Malmesbury road, Chippenham is opening the school out to the community and letting the hall as part of the Extended Schools Project. They want to hear from any groups or clubs who might be interested in using the school facilities. It would be great if the club includes (or can include) some children from the school. The age range is 4yrs to 19yrs so there is a big age group. If you are interested please contact Pauline Randall on 01249 650435 or email paulinerandall@st-nicholas.wilts.sch.uk.
Community Evening for Chippenham & the Villages Hosted by ChAP
You are invited to attend a community evening being held on Tuesday 9th October, 6pm - 8pm in the Neeld Hall, Chippenham. Complimentary light refreshments will be served. The event is being hosted by ChAP, Chippenham Area Community Partnership. Come along to here about progress on projects from the Community Plan, Chippenham 2020, News of exciting new projects for the area, results of the transport survey for the area and an opportunity to talk about local issues. If you would like to attend please email asutcliffe@northwilts.gov.uk or call 01249 706448. Click here to download the latest newsletter from ChAP.
NEW Sound Healing Meditation Sessions at the Wellbeing Centre
Sound Healing Meditations help your body, mind and spirit. Sound helps remove physical blockages, experienced as pains or discomfort, bringing balance and alignment to your whole energetic system, which regularly becomes out of balance and affects the immune system. Sound rebalances your meridian lines & chakra system, bringing wholeness and energy. It eases the mind; even if you experience difficulty relaxing, sound helps ease away all stress and anxiety, bringing calmness and clarity, insight and spiritual awareness. It helps your spirit to become calm, focused and brings stronger awareness. You need to bring a mat, cushion and blanket, and the session lasts 11/2 hours. Experience bliss, some people report the sensation of loss of time! Thursdays 7pm to 8.30 pm £10. For further information, contact Wendy Scott on 01225 705625 www.combinationtherapies.com
Companies Act - Changes from October 2007
There are several changes taking place with the Companies Act from the 1sy October, click here to find out more.
Project SPEAR Closure
Big Takes Views on BASIS Priorities
Third sector organisations are to have their say on what the focus of funding will be in the second round of the Big Lottery Fund’s BASIS programme. A 12-week consultation has been launched to identify funding priorities for phase two of BASIS, which awards grants to organisations supporting the third sector. Through round one of the programme, over £100 million of the £155 million programme has been distributed to increase the effectiveness of voluntary and community organisations. In phase two, funding will be more tightly focused to ensure it strengthens the areas that need addressing most. Click here to find out more.
Co-operatives South West Newsletter
Click here to download the latest newsletter from Co-operative South West.
Socially Excluded Groups and Headway
Ali Bazely is the Regional Co-ordinator in the South West for the Charity Headway, which supports people with an acquired brain injury, their families and carers. There is a Headway Group in every county in the region, all autonomous and affiliated to the national umbrella organisation Headway the Brain Injury Association. They all provide day care services for survivors offering rehabilitation, advice and support. In addition to this they also offer support respite and support services for Carers and families. We are very conscious of the fact that there are a lot of people who are not aware of our services - socially excluded groups and BME groups in particular do not appear to be accessing our services in many parts of the region. Anyone can suffer from an acquired brain injury (ABI) and we very much want to support as many people as we can within the South West from every group and background who is a survivor and their families too. If you are interested in finding out more about Headway please download this leaflet with contact details for Ali.
Skills for Social Enterprise - Free Seminar
In this free all-day seminar, lead by Co-operative Futures, in Devizes on 10th October and then in other venues throughout Wiltshire, we shall be covering some important aspects of running a social enterprise as well as relaying current information to help community organisations increase their earning potential. Topics covered will include current funding and finance options, latest legal structures info, selling to the public sector and marketing a community business. There are some other dates and venues throughout the county please click here for more information.
Are You Looking After Your Wellbeing?
On Saturday, October 6th 2007 the Wellbeing Centre at 3-4 New Road, Chippenham, will be holding an open morning to tie in with World Mental Health Day on October 10th. This is an opportunity for you to call in to the centre, hear short talks about the different therapies and treatments available, meet the practitioners who work at the centre and try out a free taster session or two. This will take place between 10 am and 1 pm and there is no need to book in advance - just come along and bring your friends and family. Light refreshments will be available for a small donation which will go towards the Centre’s hardship fund. ALL WELCOME. You can download a poster advertising the event here. Perhaps you'd like to print one and display it for your colleagues and clients to see? Would you like us to come and talk to your group? If you would like us to provide you with a speaker on stress management or the promotion of health and wellbeing, why not contact us and invite us along to your meeting or event? We should also be delighted to submit articles for your in-house or client newsletters. The Wellbeing Centre promotes affordable complementary therapies and offers permanently reduced rates to those in the voluntary and community sector. For more information about the Wellbeing Centre, please see our website www.wellbeing-centre.org.uk or call Karen Scott on 01249 654089.
Wiltshire Community Web Training Sessions
There are still places available for the WCW Training Sessions. Sessions dates and locations: The PACT Centre, Pewsey - Wednesday 31st Oct - 6pm & Chippenham Library - Monday 12th Nov - 6pm. Sharon Leney from Community First will be on hand to introduce you to Wiltshire Community Web and help you through the simple instructions. Creating a site, Adding news, diary items and jobs, Examples and discussion, Adding documents and images, Creating a link to an existing site, places are limited so please contact Sharon Leney to book your place on 01380 722475 or email info@wiltshirecommunityweb.org.uk.