November 2011 e-news bulletin
Welcome to our monthly bulletin of news, events and updates.
Subscribe to this bulletin by sending your name, organisation and email address to info@citycomm.org.uk (and please allow emails from this address so our bulletin doesn't hide in your Spam or Junk).
Use our bulletin to advertise your community events and important news for the City's Voluntary Sector!
Help spread the Digital Switchover message
Seeking events and volunteers!
Very cheap office space available
Near Smithfield market and St Paul's, for small to medium sized charities
Organisational Development support
Step 1: Not sure if your organisation meets its legal requirements?
Find out here.
Step 2: Not sure about budgets and bookkeeping, business planning and full cost recovery?
Contact Emma at eplouviez@citycomm.org.uk if you need help with putting things right!
Step 3: Not sure if you have the IT resources to support your work?
Visit the Fossbox Blog
Step 4: Not sure where the money's going to come from?
Check out Voluntary Action Westminster’s easily accessible Funding Hub and Grants Directory.
Lord Mayor's Show, 12 November 2011
Check out the iPhone app too!
Guide to commissioning for trustees
At Your Bidding, a resource from NAVCA and the Local Government Association
Guides for BME and newly arrived migrant parents
Schooling in England and the British education system
Need help with fundraising, marketing and communications, graphic design, monitoring and evaluation, business planning, independent examination of accounts, or payroll services?
Voluntary Action Westminster now has a fee-based service - specialists providing you with "an extra pair of hands" for the times when you need them most.
Contact VAW on 020 7723 1216 or email general@vawcvs.org
How to challenge local authorities that cut without proper consultation
A NAVCA workshop on 7 December, £25.
Details of training courses run by Voluntary Action Westminster
Provided by CITY.COMM's parent organisation
Ofcom Community Radio Fund
Apply by 16 November 2011
Provision of Carers' Network
Procurement opportunity - Deadline: 25 November 2011
Global Poverty Action Fund
Tackling the Millennium Development Goals globally
Deadline: Thursday 24 November 2011
Grimple's Green Grants
For community eco-projects
Deadline: 30 November 2011
Sport for you - amateur sports club grants
From RBS and the Daily Telegraph
Deadline: 30 November 2011
Health and Social Care Volunteering Fund
Deadline: 21 December 2011
The Church and Community Fund
New themes for applications from 3 January 2012
Cadbury Foundation Funding
Apply anytime
