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Awards

URL: www.grantnet.org.uk/headers/Greenwich_Co

Enter Guardian awards to win £1,000 + PC + expert advice by 31st July The winning charities receive a cheque for £1,000, a new PC donated by Jigsaw Systems, a half-day consultancy support free of charge (including follow-up support for up to six months) from NCVO and media services from Media Trust
URL: www.guardian.co.uk/charity-awards-2009

Volunteering is an important part of day-to-day life in the UK, and the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service helps recognise the outstanding contributions made by voluntary groups in all areas of the UK.
URL: www.queensawardvoluntary.gov.uk/

Employee of the Year Award Have you or one of your colleagues done exceptional work in the past year? If so the Third Sector Excellence Awards' Employee of the Year award offers a chance for your hard work to be recognised. The awards celebrate the work of the third sector in all its forms and there's still time to apply for the Employee of the Year award before the application process ends on 30 June. The awards ceremony takes place in central London on 24 September. The Employee of the Year award recognises a member of staff who has proposed and had adopted an idea that has improved the work of their organisation.
URL: www.thirdsectorexcellenceawards.com

BME Third Sector

Voice4Change England Voice4Change England (V4CE) is a national policy body dedicated to strengthening the Black and Minority Ethnic Third Sector as a positive force for change and building a thriving future. It provides co-ordinated policy advocacy for BME groups at local, regional, and national levels to all types of policy-makers. You can learn more about V4CE and its current activities from www.voice4change-england.co.uk Please contact Martin Ball on 020-7843 6131.
URL: www.voice4change-england.co.uk

Children & Young People

On 11th March 2009, the Members agreed to change the Association’s name to ‘Young Lancashire’ (also referred to in this document as the Association) formerly Lancashire Youth Association. Our current file server and network systems require some upgrading work to improve efficiency and allow for growth. To prepare us for the evolving services we will be providing and to facilitate the domain change to www.younglancashire.org.uk
URL: www.lancashireconsortium.org.uk/

Community Groups

Healthier and more active people and communities This is 1 of the 4 outcomes which the Big Lottery funded Awards for All programme targets Projects which deliver this outcome will help us to save a million years of life so NHS East Lancashire would like to remind colleagues in the VCF sector about the availability of the Big Lottery funded Awards for All programme which aims to help improve local communities and the lives of people most in need. The programme offers grants of between £300 and £10,000 for voluntary and community groups, schools and health organisations, parish and town councils.
URL: www.awardsforall.org.uk/index.html

Lancashire Wide Network for Minority Ethnic Women
URL: www.lwnmew.org.uk

Community safety

The Research Development and Statistics (RDS) website, includes a range of research and statistics relating to crime, policing, immigration, drugs, and other areas of Home Office responsibility.
URL: rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/

Community Safety Statistics and information on crime and prevention in your area.
URL: www.saferlancashire.co.uk

Consultations

Drugs: Our Community, Your Say Take part in this national consultation - open to all. Closing date for consultation is 19 October 2007.
URL: www.drugs.gov.uk/publication-search/drug

STAYING SAFE: A CONSULTATION DOCUMENT On 18 July, Ed Balls, the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, launched a major consultation on children and young people’s safety. Staying Safe provides the opportunity for the government to consult with parents, children, young people, our partners and the children's workforce on children's safety. To download the consultation document log on to www.dcsf.gov.uk/consultations
URL: www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/stayingsafe

Hyndburn Borough Council - Current consultations open to the general public. Click on the link, this will take you to the list of consultations on Hyndburn Borough Council's website. Hyndburn Parks User Survey Hyndburn Parks - What activities do you want to do? What would you like to see in Hyndburn Council's Equality Scheme? Community Safety, Opportunities in Hyndburn and Sustainability Haworth Art Gallery Your opinions on Memorial Park, Great Harwood
URL: www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/roundabout/opencms

Hyndburn Borough Council The latest public consultations can be found at this link.
URL: www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/site/scripts/docum

Lancashire County Council - consultation on changes to adult social care.
URL: www.lancashire.gov.uk/acs/wellbeing

Lancashire County Council Consultation on NHS Dentistry
URL: www.lancashire.gov.uk/corporate/consulta

Disability

A link for the OUCH newsletter which is about disabilities.
URL: www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/news/

Education

Accrington and Rossendale College
URL: www.accross.ac.uk

Trafford Hall is the home of the National Communities Resource Centre, a registered charity (1005555), offering training and support to people living and working in disadvantaged communities in the UK, to develop their skills, confidence and capacity to tackle problems and reverse poor conditions.
URL: www.traffordhall.com/

Equality and Diversity

Commission for Equality & Human Rights UK Governement reference site
URL: www.cehr.org.uk

Home Office - Promoting equality and diversity is a duty
URL: www.homeoffice.gov.uk/equality-diversity

IDeA Working for local government improvement
URL: www.idea-knowledge.gov.uk/idk/core/page.

URL: www.prestonrec.org.uk/contact_us.html

Faith

The website for the faith communities in England’s Northwest.
URL: www.faithnorthwest.org.uk

Information explaining the holy month of Ramadan
URL: www.ramadan.co.uk/index1.php?page=others

Fire Safety

Fire Gateway is a web portal which has been developed to enable you to access, and interact with, an array of fire-related services online. It has been funded by Communities and Local Government and developed with the involvement of English Fire and Rescue Services. As well as providing easy online links to local Fire and Rescue Services, the Fire Gateway also has a wide range of fire-related advice and links to useful sites. You can complete an online interactive questionnaire about fire safety in your home to help you plan how to reduce the risk of fire occurring. You can also conduct an online self assessment to discover if you have the attributes required to become a fire-fighter. You can also use Fire Gateway to submit requests for services, such as home fire safety visits and support for dealing with young fire setters, direct to your local Fire and Rescue Service. Care professionals and people with elderly relatives can make applications on behalf of others, thereby assisting fire and rescue services in addressing the needs of those who are most at risk from fire.
URL: www.fire.gov.uk

Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service This is the website for Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service. Here you can access information and services on offer from Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service. You can also apply online for a FREE Home Fire Safety Check or ring free on 0800 169 1125. This site is also an excellent way of keeping up to date with Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service activities.
URL: www.lancsfirerescue.org.uk/lfrs/home/def

Funding

Disability Funding Funding support for voluntary and community organisations to help them become more effective
URL: www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/prog_basis?reg

A comprehensive database of company support available to voluntary and community organisations. This link contains all those companies in The Guide to UK Company Giving, as well as newly discovered large givers. Over 500 companies are featured on the site, giving over £290 million in cash donations and more in other forms of community support.
URL: www.companygiving.org.uk

Funding Central is a free smart website for the whole voluntary and community sector, including social enterprise, providing access to thousands of funding and finance opportunities, plus a wealth of tools and resources supporting organisations to develop sustainable income strategies appropriate to their needs.
URL: www.fundingcentral.org.uk/

This site is your online portal to grants for the voluntary and community sector from the following funders: Local Authorities Regional Government Central Government Independent Grant Administrators European Sources
URL: www.governmentfunding.org.uk

These trusts collectively have £362 million available each year. The content has featured in A Guide to Grants for Individuals in Need and its sister publication The Educational Grants Directory. First published in 1987 and 1988 respectively, they have for many years been seen as the standard reference guide on charitable funds for individuals in need. They have been very popular with Citizens Advice, school/university welfare offices, other welfare organisations, libraries and other reference points. We aim to include all publicly-registered charities which give at least £500 a year to individuals, although most give much more than this.
URL: www.grantsforindividuals.org.uk

All LCTP Latest News Item: Access to Comic Relief - Grant Applications
URL: www.lancashire.gov.uk/corporate/enewsvie

The fund has been established to support community projects on climate change, these projects can either be aimed at 'reducing greenhouse gas emissions', or helping communities to 'cope with the impacts of climate change'. The fund is shared across all the 12 districts in Lancashire, and grants of £500 - £15,000 are available. Next deadline for applications is 30th October 2009. This fund is due to close in March 2010. Applications will not be accepted after 31st January 2010.
URL: www.lancashire.gov.uk/environment/climat

£1,000 bursaries available to small charities Third sector organisations with an annual turnover of between £150,000 and £750,000 are invited to apply for a £1,000 bursary from the government’s Modernisation Fund Grants Programme, before 17 July. The bursaries will allow organisations to buy at least two days of advice and support to explore how they can become more resilient and work more closely with others, including through collaboration or merger.
URL: www.modernisationfund.org.uk

Trustfunding details all trusts featured in DSC publications including the Directory of Grant-Making Trusts and the Guide to the Major Trusts Volumes 1 & 2. It is updated regularly throughout the year.
URL: www.trustfunding.org.uk

General

Accrington Market Web Site
URL: www.accringtonmarket.com