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The Queen's Jubilee 2022
News and information about the Queen's Jubilee 2022 from Cllr Terry Wood of Sutton Coldfield.
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An Eye on Migration
Dealing with the consequences of Migration became a priority for the EU institutions in the past years. Being a primary concern for EU citizens, humanitarian organizations & governments, the European Union launched several activities in supporting the migrants, their integration and their living conditions. Despite these actions, migration is a continuous movement and in order to be prepared for future changes the EU launched a new data tool.
The EU as a global actor created a tool, an Atlas on Migration with a reference book for 2021. The data from the Atlas are publicly available worldwide with continuously updated information from 198countries and territories. Specifically it has the following Key features:
Worldwide coverage of data for 198 countries and territories: EU member states and 171 non-EU countries and territories
Overviews for the five continents, the European Union as aggregate and 18 subcontinental regions complement country factsheets within their regional contests.
Brings together harmonised, validated global data from 15 international sources
For non-EU Countries and Territories, it covers 34 indicators on demography, migration, asylum, international legal frameworks, drivers of migration such as social conditions, political context, education and labour market and some implications of migration, such as remittances, compared with other financial inflows.
You can find more on the atlas and its purpose on the EU website: https://knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/atlas-migration_en
Follow the MiCare project on Social Media:
https://www.facebook.com/MiCareProject
https://twitter.com/micareproject
www.linkedin.com/company/micareproject/
Household Support Fund - latest news for urgent attention
Update: 21st February 2022
Due to extremely high levels of demand, the hardship grants available from the Household Support Fund are currently closed to new enquiries from 00.00 on Monday 21st February 2022.
Please be advised if you have already made contact with your locality lead or a trusted partner before 23.59 on Sunday 20th February, there is no requirement for you to call or email your locality lead or a trusted partner. They will contact you directly to discuss your application.
Please wait for your locality to make contact with yourselves, as phone calls and emails sent direct to them will only increase the waiting time for everyone.
For any general enquires (not related to individual applications) please get in touch with us at hsf@bvsc.org
Health & Social Care Jobs Fair
Tuesday 8th March 2022 10am to 12 noon
Perry Common Community Hall, Witton Lodge Road, Birmingham B23 5JD
To book a place please call 0121 382 1930
Make the most of the internet
Getting more out of the internet can be easy and fun, and we can help you get started. If you'd like a helping hand doing a little bit more online, there's free and friendly support available from Age Concern Birmingham.
Doing just one new thing online will help you see just how much the internet has to offer and just how easy it is to take that next step.
No matter how confident you are - even if you've never been online before - our Digital Inclusion Officer, Joe Millington, is here to help.
Age Concern Birmingham are delighted to announce that
we will be a part of an exciting new project led by the Good Things Foundation,
with the intention to work with people of working age who wish to enhance
their technological skills.
The Digital Skills Pathway, as it is known, is available to people
between the ages of 18 and 65, who are currently unemployed, a carer or in an
insecure form of employment, is not enrolled in a current course, has no or low
digital skills, lives in the West Midlands and has not completed this course
previously.
This project aims to help participants to gain basic
digital skills, whilst enhancing their employability prospects or their ability
to progress to further learning.
If this sounds like something you or someone you know might
be interested in then contact Joe at:
Email- joe.millington@ageconcernbirmingham.org.uk
Phone - 07432739018 between Wednesday and Friday.
Our project is supported by the UK Community Renewal Fund through the Good Things Foundation and West Midlands Combined Authority.
Potential funding opportunities & support for Ageing Better Groups
Good afternoon all,
Please find
below a list of viable funders and other support structures that would be able
to support some of your Ageing Better groups around their sustainability. I have tried to
provide a concise description, but it will be worth you taking the time to
follow each link to think about what may suit groups that you support.
Support for groups / leads
BVSC has
launched a new funding portal called Engage For Funding. Organisations with a
turnover of under £1million can use it to search for funding. It is free for
BVSC member organisations to use. You may want to check if your organisation is
a member, but you are welcome to sign up as an individual also. This would be a
good tool to search for funding for your groups - https://www.idoxopen4community.co.uk/engageforfunding
BVSC offers
free Business Development webinars on a Monday. On Monday 28th February,
the focus will be on the portal and how best to use it. You can sign up for the
webinar and find other details here - https://www.bvsc.org/Event/business-development-and-funding-weekly-lunchtime-webinar
Our friends at
Digikick have set up a new online learning portal called Digi Quick to help
support people with some of the softer IT skills required - https://www.digiquick.org/
Funding
opportunities
There are
currently a number of opportunities on the Heart of England Community Fund
website ( https://www.heartofenglandcf.co.uk/available-grants/
) for Birmingham it might be worth looking at:
- The David East Fund - https://www.heartofenglandcf.co.uk/the-david-east-fund/
- Birmingham and Black Country
Fund - https://www.heartofenglandcf.co.uk/birmingham-black-country-communities-fund/
- The Birmingham Sports Fund - https://www.heartofenglandcf.co.uk/birmingham-sports-fund/
- The Peddimore Community Fund
(for NE Birmingham) - https://www.heartofenglandcf.co.uk/peddimore-community-fund/
Get Togethers / Plant and Share Month - £150 Is being made available for groups for planting materials - https://www.fflgettogethers.org/support/?utm_source=BVSC&utm_campaign=5461f596f3-EBULLTIN_11+February&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bc4542f056-5461f596f3-546138430&mc_cid=5461f596f3&mc_eid=2de9b425e1
National
Garden scheme –
Community Garden Awards – applications close on Feb 28th Funding
for gardening projects within local communities - https://ngs.org.uk/who-we-are/community-gardens-award/
Greene King
IPA (Proud to Pitch in)
– up to £3k available to community groups that support grassroots sports in
communities. You can nominate your groups to receive a grant - https://www.greeneking-pubs.co.uk/proud-to-pitch-in/
Home
Instead Charities –
Groups supporting isolation amongst people over 55 can apply. For
non-registered groups applications of £500 are welcomed. Registered groups can
apply for £1500 - https://www.homeinstead.co.uk/charities/apply-for-a-grant/
Alfred
Haines Charitable Trust
– Up to £2k for groups supporting communities across the WM region - http://www.ahct.org.uk/
LGBTQ+
Equity Fund – grants of
£100 - £25k for groups with a particular focus on older adults, deaf /
disabled, LBT+ Women, Trans and Non-binary people and BAME groups. Applicants
must be registered charities, CICs, CIOs, Not for Profits or unincorporated
charitable associations - https://www.consortium.lgbt/EquityFund/
Grants for
Good Fund – voluntary /
community groups with a bank account can apply. £10k distributed amongst 5
groups every 3 months - https://www.matthewgoodfoundation.org/grantsforgood/
National
Allotment Gardens Trust
– any groups who are are a registerted allotment association can apply for
£2000. For groups based at Allotments it might be worth encouraging them to
speak to their association - https://nagtrust.co.uk/
Gay &
Peter Hartley’s Hillards Charitable Trust – Grants of up to £1k for community voluntary groups (with
a bank account) - https://www.hillardstrust.org/
Richardson
Brothers Foundation –
applications welcomed from community groups to the trust - https://www.richardsons.co.uk/richardson-foundation
Stagecoach
Group – offer support
to groups. I cannot find anything about what they will and wont fund but there
is a simple application form (link below) which also contains the main point of
contact e-mail address so may be worth e-mailing for details - https://www.stagecoachgroup.com/~/media/Files/S/Stagecoach-Group/Attachments/pdf/request-form.pdf
The Alpkit
Foundation – support
including funding to grassroot community groups - https://alpkit.com/pages/foundation#apply
Clubs in
crisis fund - £2k
available to sports groups needing support however groups are required to be
registered - https://www.madebysport.com/clubsincrisis
Wakeham
Trust – grants of £150
to £2,500 specifically to community groups, especially those struggling to
secure funding from larger funders - https://thewakehamtrust.org/
Arnold
Clark Community Fund –
community groups can apply for up to £1k. However, a focus needs to be on food
banks, poverty / relief or housing / accommodation. https://www.arnoldclark.com/community-fund
Vegetarians
for Life – grants of up
to £3k to groups supporting vegetarians and vegans and or older adults - https://vegetarianforlife.org.uk/resources/grants
Barchester
Healthcare Foundation –
grants of up to £5k for community groups with a specific focus on supporting
older adults. Groups will need a sponsor to apply, this can be a charitable
organisation such as the organisation you work for but please ensure you speak
with your manager about this if this is an option - https://www.bhcfoundation.org.uk/
Allen Lane
Foundation –
Applications welcomed from community groups. Applications between 500 and
15,000. Applications set to re-open during summer 22. https://allenlane.org.uk/
Amal
Connects Grants Programme
– up to £25k grants for established community groups for 1 year. The purpose of
the grant is to increasing understanding of Britain’s Muslim communities to secular
groups / other faith groups and foster a stronger sense of belonging in the UK
amongst Muslim communities - https://amal.org.uk/apply/apply/
Tudor Trust – Grants of up to £10k for groups with
a constitution and bank account in place. The deadline for applications is
March 31st - https://tudortrust.org.uk/
Phil
Done
Relationship
and Contracts Manager (Communities & Older Adults)
Virtual Dementia Bus Experience
01 March 2022
Free Virtual Experience
Join a FREE virtual Dementia experience aboard a specialised bus and experience what its like to be living with dementia.
The bus will be located on The Harvester car park in Boldmere and a 1 hour de-brief session will take place within the Harvester afterwards.
The whole experience will last 2 hours. Free refreshments will be available for those attending the bus experience. Places are limited and are available on a booking only basis.
For more information and to book your place on the bus- please contact Julie Knight Contact Number - 07876 826006
MiCare Platform
The MiCare Project was launched in December 2019 with the goal of providing training for migrants who are interested in caregiving. The project was targeting two social issues, the ageing population of the EU and thus the increasing need for caregivers and the migration issue that has been intensified in the last years
within EU member states with migrants facing issues of marginalisation. This project's objective was to help migrants with either previous experience in caregiving or the ones interested in getting into the specific field as means of integration and employing their skills in the specific sector.
To do that the partners initiated a number of activities and outputs to fulfil the objectives. Specifically a Research and a State of the art-report on the requirements of the countries, the sector and required knowledge for caregivers, a Train the Trainers module and finally an online educational platform for both Trainers and Trainees. This platform is the final output of the project and carries all the educational material produced for the project and interactive training modules for trainees.
The Online Platform (and Toolkit) provides networking opportunities between relevant labour market actors,migrants, and contains a basic caregiver toolkit. The toolkit is available in all partner languages, English, Greek, Spanish, German and Italian. The design of this fully functional Online Platform was based on user requirements analysis for optimum design of the user interface and the training modules.
The online platform will be available throughout Europe, connecting migrants, employers and other relevant actors. This will offer the opportunity to users/migrants to be informed about job opportunities in all EU countries, consequently migrants who have already attended the training course on caregiving provided by the project will be able to search for a job in another European country.
Through the platform a European and International network of partners will be created, encouraging the creation of synergies and the implementation of additional measures throughout Europe in order to address the increasing needs of Europe in the labour market and encourage the smooth integration of migrants in the local societies.
Trainees who register on the platform will have a flexible training program accessible from wherever they are due the flexibility provided by the technology and fulfil all required modules in their own pace.
The three main modules are Language, Caregiving and Skill Enhancement. Participants will use this material as a stepping stone for acquiring the basic knowledge before taking the practical course and acquiring the caregiving certificate.
Register onto MiCare platform https://micareproject.com/ and start your training today
Food For Life Get Togethers : Interested in bringing people together over good food or through growing food?
Food for Life Get Togethers are regular community activities that connect people from all ages and backgrounds through food. See below on how you or your local group can get involved
Sign up to receive free one to one support from our local teams; access growing, cooking and sharing resources such as free online growing and cooking training.
Join our digital community to get inspired sharing good food recipes, growing tips and more with like-minded people all over the UK
Plant and Share Month is 20th April- 20th May and is a celebration of growing your own food – and friendships - with the community (here)
To find out more, click here or contact Vicky Hemming for more details on 078 1077 5959
Embedding the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise sector into Birmingham and Solihull's Integrated Care System
Following on from the initial place-based meetings held in December, we are holding the next sessions for Birmingham on Monday 7th, Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th March. As part of the initial discussions, there were lots of insights and learning shared to kick-start the important work of embedding the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise sector (VCFSE) into Birmingham and Solihull’s Integrated Care System.
At the next meetings, we will discuss and explore the following:
- Update around the Integrated Care System (ICS) – recent developments for Birmingham and Solihull.
- Recap of December’s meetings – focus around existing health inequalities and priorities of the voluntary. Community, faith and social enterprise sector.
- A look at what is happening in each place – new initiatives.
- Discuss representation for the VCFSE Dynamic Network/Leadership Alliance – the overarching group that will feed into the ICS and the place-based networks.
- Review and agree the Terms of Reference.
- Next steps/plans for the next quarter.
You do not need to have attended the initial meeting to join. These meetings are open to ALL voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise organisations - everyone is welcome!
Each of the 5 places in Birmingham are based on the double constituency model – view the map here, to see which wards are within each of the constituencies.
To register for one of place-based meetings, please follow the links below. All meetings will be held virtually via Zoom , for 1 hour and 30 minutes.
Erdington and Sutton Coldfield Place-based meeting – 7th March
Hodge Hill and Yardley Place-based meeting – 7th March
Hall Green and Selly Oak Place-based meeting – 8th March
Edgbaston and Northfield Place-based meeting – 8th March
Ladywood and Perry Barr Place-based meeting – 9th March
What are Integrated Care Systems:
- Integrated care systems (ICSs) are geographically-based partnerships between the organisations that meet health and care needs across an area, to coordinate services and to plan in a way that improves population health and reduces inequalities between different groups.
- They are part of a fundamental shift in the way the health and care system is organised, away from competition and organisational autonomy and towards collaboration.
NHS England and NHS Improvement created a helpful video with subtitles, explaining more about the aims and ambitions of Integrated Care Systems: “One of the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic is that people need support which is joined up across local councils, the NHS and voluntary and community organisations. This video explains how Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) embed this collaboration, helping local services to respond to the challenges of the pandemic and beyond. We want to make ICSs as strong and effective as possible in every part of England, with partnership working with the ambition to tackle health inequalities, help communities thrive and achieve the very best for everyone.”
Connect & Create Arts & Health networking event change of date - aimed at arts and health organisations
Following on from some of the highlights that BCC’s Arts & Health agenda has achieved since 2018, you are invited to attend the 4th Arts & Health networking event at Midlands Arts Centre MAC, Cannon Hill Park, on Friday 20th May 2022, 10-4.
Click here for the Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connect-create-birminghams-arts-health-networking-event-4-tickets-228837909347
Those highlights include:
Prevention &
Communities (ASC) cultural commissioning impact study
Arden Gem (BCU) were commissioned to undertake an impact study
of Prevention & Communities commissioning where arts and culture have been
used to meet prevention outcomes. The findings have been used to inform further
commissioning strands to ensure the quality, reach and purpose of commissioned
activity moving forward.
Arts & Health
activity mapping per constituency
No11 Arts were contracted to undertake a city-wide mapping
exercise to ensure as much arts and cultural activity contributing to
prevention outcomes is mapped and included on the Connect2Support website
(managed by Neighbourhood Network Schemes).
Evaluation
toolkit
An
evaluation toolkit has been developed with the sector to provide a standard set
of health and wellbeing measurement tools for all Birmingham arts organisations
delivering arts & health activity which can lead to mass data analysis of
the impact of delivery across Birmingham and inform further programming /
investment.
Arts & Health Referral Framework
(UoB)
The creation of a Birmingham Arts
& Health activity referral framework for both arts organisations and
referral agents which outlines roles and responsibilities and levels of support
per participant need/requirement plus accountability for participant welfare.
Training and Supervision for lead artists
Birmingham Centre for Arts Therapy has been commissioned to develop
training and supervision sessions for lead artists to aid identification of
health/welfare indicators in participants who may be requiring further support
plus support the artist’s own welfare when leading activity in challenging
situations.
Academic Partnerships
Developing academic partnerships (BCU and UoB)
which create opportunities to align with this cross-sector work to support with
activity evaluation and analysis plus feeding into peer review journals.
Connect & Create:
The event has been organised by the BCC Arts & Health
working groups which reflects both sectors and needs.
Themes of the event will include:
- National Academy of social
prescribing: on being social prescribing ready on and offline / making
reciprocal contacts with your local SP’s and artists / creating better
links with social care workers / creating better links with your local
arts orgs etc.
- Thriving Communities: how the
programme has been delivered in Birmingham / what has worked well /what
hasn’t / what were the difficulties and opportunities to take forward
- Birmingham’s referral
framework: Articulating different levels of referral need / what next /
sector support to adopt the framework
- Event evaluation: pulling
together findings from this event with other West Midlands’ arts &
health events to form a regional arts & health impact report
- Future funding opportunities
- Taster sessions / venue tours /
surprise activities
- Refreshments / lunch / break
out, quiet rooms
Please follow link to the Eventbrite page and further details of the event. Please also share with colleagues and contacts.
MeaningFull days in March from Birmingham Centre for Arts Therapies
Booking and payment essential
MeaningFull Days in March – full day provision for autistic adults and/or
adults with learning disabilities. Requires payment.
See attached posters for more
information about the provision offered by 2 community micro-enterprises.
Birmingham Centre for Arts Therapies and Dance4U offer a careful referral process and work with carers to ensure the provision offered is meaningful and beneficial.
Please contact richardmole@bcat.info
or emilydance4u@gmail.com for more
information and to make a referral, booking and payment. See attached posters
for further details.
Direct Payments accepted.
Please share this information with your families/contacts/carers etc.
Midland Mencap working in partnership with Macmillan
Macmillan and Midland Mencap would like to hear from:
Citizens with a learning disability who have experienced a diagnosis of cancer.
Family carers and paid carers who have supported somebody with a learning disability with a diagnosis of cancer. Age 18+
Macmillan and Midland Mencap would like to hear from:
We want to capture the real-life experiences of your cancer journey and how you were supported individually and as a family. Contact can be by phone, face-to-face meetings, and video calls. We acknowledge that this is a sensitive subject and anything that is disclosed will be treated in the strictest of confidence.
If you would like to find out more information:
Phone:07912268965
Email:Erin.Lacey@midlandmencap.org.uk
Facebook:MidlandMencap
Train the Trainer Events - MiCare a European project for trainee carers from migrant communities
The MiCare project, which aims to train migrants in order to work as caregivers for older people and people with care needs, will organise six Train the Trainer events to introduce the training package developed to trainers. One training will take place in each partner country facilitated by the partners of the consortium.
The project partners have developed a Training Package for migrants who wish to work as caregivers for older people and people with care needs which will include courses in Caregiving, Language and Skills Enhancement.
The Caregiving course covers different caregiving aspects including both theoretical and practical sessions focusing on the provision of basic care, first aid, domestic support, daily living and personal assistance among others. The language course includes basic grammar and vocabulary related specifically to caregiving, focusing on common occupational specific phrases and words for caregivers. Last but not least, the skills enhancement includes basic information and on time management, digital skills and other important subjects.
The training package is available on the MiCare online platform and contains both exercises for self-learning and additional exercises and case studies that can be implemented with the help of trainers.
The Train the Trainer events will present the training package and provide basic training and guidelines to the trainers. CTAO members will lead all train the trainer events.
Follow the MiCare project on social media to be informed about the development of the training package and online platform:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MiCareProject/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/micareproject
Wellbeing Matters - Weekly sessions at Falcoln Lodge Community Hub
More information from Dominie on 07917970290
Sutton Coldfield NNS Want Your Feedback!
The Sutton Coldfield Neighbourhood Network Scheme (NNS) are calling volunteers, carers and members of groups and activities to give their feedback on the Additional Needs Pilot.
As many will know, the NNS has been helping many groups and individuals
across the city with funding, capacity building and promotion for activities
aimed at people over 50. As this was proving to be hugely fruitful, in Hodge
Hill and Sutton Coldfield an Additional Needs Pilot was rolled out.
Additional needs refers to anyone who needs support and
assistance with things like access, communication, care needs, independent
living, mobility and health, including people who identify as disabled people.
The pilot has consequently been aimed at adults with additional needs between the
ages of 18-49.
At the fulcrum of all the good work that the NNS has done in
recent years are the local community and assets, and this is no more apparent
than in the Sutton Coldfield constituency.
With the hope that the Additional Needs pilot will be
extended to the other eight constituencies, the Sutton Coldfield NNS team feel
it is crucial to find out from those who have received support from the scheme,
or those who may receive help in the not-too-distant future.
A questionnaire, therefore, has been composed to find out
more about the experiences of people with additional needs in the community and
what can be offered in the future to continue what has proved to be a
successful project thus far.
This includes gaps which people may find, such as a club or
activity that they would like to be a part of which is currently unavailable,
or if people feel the current provision for certain groups is not yet fully
developed. Your views will be used to mould this citizen-driven project, as the
NNS continues to work alongside other community support services.
In this questionnaire, your responses can be given in
confidence. This questionnaire also includes a box at the end for you to provide,
in as much detail as you like, your thoughts on anything relating to your past
experiences in the community or developments that you wish to see be made in
the future.
Whilst the focus is primarily on the experiences of people who live,
work or attend a club in Sutton Coldfield, any feedback could also prove
critical in shaping support throughout the city if, as expected, the pilot is
extended beyond this constituency and Hodge Hill.
We are extremely grateful for your time and effort in
filling out the questionnaire, which can be found here:
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