Share The Love this Valentine’s Day
Why not share the love this year and show your loved one how much you care with this virtual heart. Just £2 per heart and the more hearts you have, the more chances you have to win. We have teamed up with two local restaurants in Staffordshire to help Share The Love as we head […]
The Nature Hubs Fund
The Nature Hubs Fund: creating and enhancing green spaces
Recent Hubbub polling found that spending time in nature makes three-quarters (78%) of people feel better1. Despite this, a third of people in the UK (36%) spend less than an hour a week in nature. The Nature Hubs Fund is designed to help change this.
Together with Starbucks, Hubbub is offering around 50 groups up to £6,000 of funding to develop green space initiatives and increase access to nature. Groups will be connected with a local Starbucks store, who will support projects in a number of ways. We will support groups to create or enhance green spaces. Applicants must meet the eligibility criteria and relate to any one or more of these four themes:
- Increasing Access
- Bringing People Together
- Upskilling the Community
- Building Climate Resilience
Visit their website to read the application guidance, FAQ\’s and access the application form to apply
National Lottery Grants for Heritage
In late July 2023, the National Lottery Heritage Fund published the first three-year delivery plan for its new 10-year strategy, Heritage 2033 that aims to invest £3.6 billion across the UK.
Key points:
- In the next three years, £870 million will be invested through the National Lottery Grants for Heritage and a further £140 million strategic initiatives.
- In partnership with departments in England and Wales, NLHF will also distribute more than £43 million in government funding in 2023-24 alone.
- The funding plans amount to a total of £1 billion between now and 2026.
- The National Lottery Grants for Heritage application process will be simplified, making it more proportionate to the amount of money being requested.
- Recognition of rising costs. The upper grant limit has been raised to £10 million, and the lower grant threshold will be raised to £10,000 in January 2024.
- In Autumn 2023, announcement expected of the first nine of 20 location across the UK where NLHF will invest through its Place initiative.
- In Winter 2023, details of partnership to deliver urban nature recovery through Nature Cities and Towns initiative expected.
The funding will continue to support a broad range of heritage projects and activities, such as industrial sites, castles and historic places of worship, to the stories and memories of communities, and through to public parks, natural landscapes and native wildlife.
Priority will be given to heritage projects that:
- Promote inclusion and involve a wider range of people (mandatory outcome)
- Boost the local economy
- Encourage skills development and job creation
- Support wellbeing
- Create better places to live, work and visit
- Improve the resilience of organisations working in heritage
Two levels of funding are available:
- Grants from £10,000 to £250,000 (applications have temporarily closed but will reopen in January 2024 with new Heritage 2033 guidance.
- Grants from £250,000 to £10 million (development round applications have temporarily closed but will reopen in January 2024 with new Heritage 2033 guidance; expressions of interest and delivery round applications remain open).
How To Apply
All relevant document relating to priorities, application guidance, help notes and revised outcomes are available from the NLHF website. Applicants should read these documents before starting the application process.
Catch up on the Green Conversations
The Staffordshire Green Network is a new network for community and voluntary groups in Staffordshire to support each other in moving towards sustainability. You may be interested in the environment, in food security, energy, creating a healthy place to live, improving active travel opportunities and much more – the Green Network will provide opportunities to […]
SUPPORTING THE SOCIAL ECONOMY IN THE MOORLANDS
New year, new help for community businesses and social enterprises in the Moorlands Staffordshire Moorlands District Council is funding Support Staffordshire through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) to help people in the Moorlands who are running or planning to set up social enterprises and community businesses. Sarah Roberts is Support Staffordshire’s Social Economy Development […]
Welcome to 2024 and very Happy New Year
First things first. A complaint was received by Support Staffordshire, from Mr Richard Grosvenor on 13 October 2023 regarding the contents of the Support Staffordshire Chief Executive blog entitled ‘A Cautionary Tale’, published on 9 May 2023. Investigation into this complaint concluded that while perceptions of the events, the intention of the blog and explanation may […]
Volunteering Opportunities in Lichfield, January 2024
Happy New Year from Support Staffordshire everyone!! We hope your Holiday break was lovely and refreshing, now is the time to look forward into 2024 and prepare for what new things this year will bring. And with the new year come new resolutions, and why not have yours be to Volunteer this year? If it is, let us at Support Staffordshire help you find a role you\’ll enjoy! Take a look at a short list of groups looking for help below!
Healthwatch Staffordshire, Enter and View Volunteer
You’ll be helping to make life better for people by using the insight to make tangible differences to health and care services. You’ll meet a wide range of people who rely on health and care services. You’ll gain valuable experience which may support your job aspirations. You’ll meet new people, be part of the Healthwatch team who act as the public champion for health and care and make a difference for your local community.
Citizens Advice South East Staffordshire, Advice Assistant / Reception Volunteer
What will you do? ● Complete an introduction to Citizens Advice and training for your role. ● Welcome all clients and other visitors to the local Citizens Advice. ● Explain to the client how long they might be waiting and what will happen and give out a form for clients to fill in. ● Type up information from the client form onto a database. ● Answer the telephone, reply to emails and post.
Staffordshire Pathway Project, Fundraiser
Supporting our community engagement officer by helping at events, setting up, covering stalls, talking to the public about the work we do at Pathway
Researching potential funders, and event opportunities
Helping to sort through items donated
Attending meetings on behalf of Pathway
Victim Support (Staffordshire), ASB Volunteer
– Contacting and meeting ASB (Antisocial Behaviour) victims, either over the phone, at the victim’s home or another mutually agreed location and clearly explaining the role of Victim Support and empowering victims to overcome the emotional, psychological and practical effects of ASB.
– Helping people explore how their experience of ASB has affected their lives and identifying ways to enable them to recover from the experience, by helping people to identify their individual needs and helping them to choose options they feel are right for them.
Kendall & Wall Charitable Trust, Minibus driver
Kendall and Wall is a Lichfield-based charity taking elderly and infirm local residents on day trips to local venues e.g. garden centres, restaurants, canal boat trips and many more using our small fleet of minibuses.
If none of these roles interest you at this time, please consider checking out our search engine here and seeing what else is available. Any training required for the role shall be provided!
Once again, Happy New Year to everyone and let us all do everything we can to make 2024 the best year it can be! Hope to speak with some of you soon!
Mitchell Dodd, Volunteering Officer for Lichfield District and Tamworth.
Volunteering Opportunities in Tamworth, January 2024
Happy New Year from Support Staffordshire everyone!! We hope your Holiday break was lovely and refreshing, now is the time to look forward into 2024 and prepare for what new things this year will bring. And with the new year come new resolutions, and why not have yours be to Volunteer this year? If it is, let us at Support Staffordshire help you find a role you\’ll enjoy! Take a look at a short list of groups looking for help below!
Kendall & Wall Charitable Trust, Minibus Driver
Kendall and Wall is a Lichfield-based charity taking elderly and infirm local residents on day trips to local venues e.g. garden centres, restaurants, canal boat trips and many more using our small fleet of minibuses. Drivers should have a clean driving license with a D1 category on their license.
Citizens Advice Mid-Mercia
Citizens Advice is looking for Volunteers to help in multiple roles within the Tamworth area, please take a look at two of these roles below!
Trainee Volunteer Generalist Adviser
Do you have a passion for volunteering in the heart of your local community and are driven by making a difference? Then Citizens Advice Mid Mercia is the organisation for you.
Healthwatch Staffordshire, Healthwatch Enter & View Volunteer
Why should you be a Enter and View Volunteer?
You’ll be helping to make life better for people by using the insight to make tangible differences to health and care services. You’ll meet a wide range of people who rely on health and care services. You’ll gain valuable experience which may support your job aspirations.
Staffordshire Pathway Project, Fundraiser
Supporting our community engagement officer by helping at events, setting up, covering stalls, talking to the public about the work we do at Pathway.
Victim Support (Staffordshire), ASB volunteer
Contacting and meeting ASB (Antisocial Behaviour) victims, either over the phone, at the victim’s home or another mutually agreed location and clearly explaining the role of Victim Support and empowering victims to overcome the emotional, psychological and practical effects of ASB.
Tamworth District Scout Council, Deputy Treasurer/Book-Keeper
The first thing to say is that this role is open to anyone with the required attributes, whether you are already in Scouts or not. No Scouting experience is necessary.
We’re looking for a Deputy District Treasurer/Book-keeper to work behind the scenes with our District Treasurer. You will also work closely with our Lead Volunteer, District Chair, and District Secretary.
Community Together CIC
Community Together are looking for Volunteers for their Helping Hands Café! This is a big goal for them in 2024 and there are plenty of roles available, please see two of these roles below!
Our aim is to enhance the lives of individuals, families and communities using early intervention to support them to Grow well; Live well; Age well.
If none of these roles interest you at this time, please consider checking out our search engine here and seeing what else is available! Once again, Happy New Year to everyone and let us all do everything we can to make 2024 the best year it can be! Hope to speak with some of you soon!
Mitchell Dodd, Volunteering Officer for Lichfield District and Tamworth.
Awards for Local Voluntary Sector Celebrate the Dedication of Charities and Community Groups
In January 2024, charities, voluntary organisations and community groups in Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire will be rewarded for their hard work in local communities. The Totally Stoked Awards 2024 is a celebration of the local Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector in Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire. Together with local partners and sponsors, VAST will […]
Tesco Stronger Starts
The Tesco Stronger Starts programme (formerly Community Grants) supports local good causes across the UK. Since it launched in 2016, the programme has supported more than 50,000 community groups with more than £100 million in grants. The scheme aims to make a positive difference to Tesco communities. The grants programme is administered by the community […]
