News
Calderdale Compact
The latest version of the Calderdale Compact Toolkit is now available.
Compact Toolkit
Partnership Plan for Safer Stronger Communities
Partnership Plan for Safer Stronger Communities is out for review, any comments passed back to Glenda Swallow, as below by 12 October. Any comments will help inform the strategy for next year.
Partnership Plan
Calderdale Owner Occupier Service
Referral Form
Calderdale Council Transfer of Assets
Calderdale Council are looking at ways to give local people a greater say in how public buildings are used. They think that land and property (assets currently Council-owned and operated) might, in certain cases, be owned and operated more effectively by the people who use them regularly. Calderdale Council want to help community organisations find the best means of delivering the vital services they provide, to help them better engage with residents, and to help them bring neighbourhoods together.This might mean giving those organisations effective ownership of buildings by renting them to them on a long term basis. It might even mean community organisations become outright owners of certain assets. Calderdale Council are drawing up a framework to help them improve the way they do this.This framework will ensure that the buildings and land made available for community ownership are suitable, and that the community groups who wish to own a particular building or piece of land have the ability to do so successfully.
Transfer of Assets leaflet
Transfer of Assets document
From NCVO's Foresight Team
It feels like it's been a long time coming but today the UK is technically in the grips of the 'R' word for the first time since 1991. Gross domestic product fell by 1.5% in the last three months of 2008 after a 0.6% drop in the previous quarter which represents the biggest quarter-on-quarter decline since 1980. This means that the widely accepted definition of a recession - two consecutive quarters of falling economic growth - has been met.
NCVO have been dutifully posting news and updating our drivers to reflect and analyse the effects of the changing economic climate on the VCS since the crisis started last year.
Below are some of NCVO's most useful links to help you think through some of the opportunities and risks for your organisation and navigate your way through the recession. NCVO in conjunction with the Centre for Charity Effectiveness and the Regional Forum are also running a training day for development workers which will explore which drivers are relevant to your organisation and how to use them effectively in planning during a recession - for more information and to book click here: www.ncvo-vol.
Updated drivers
* Economic downturn http://www.3s4.
* Credit Crunch http://www.3s4.
* Housing market http://www.3s4.
* Consumer spending and confidence http://www.3s4.
* Interest rates http://www.3s4.
* Consumption culture and personal debt http://www.3s4.
* Labour market http://www.3s4.
* Stock market performance http://www.3s4.
News analysis
* Four scenarios for the global economic downturn http://www.3s4.
* What we know about what happens to the sector in a downturn http://www.3s4.
* More resources about the impact of the downturn on the VCS http://delicious.
* Summary from our seminar on the impact of an economic slowdown on the VCS http://network.
* Bank bail outs http://www.3s4.
* Impact on ethical consumerism http://www.3s4.
* Impact on giving http://www.3s4.
Third Sector Trends Study
A highly interesting document looking at the impact of changes in funding on the sector. The paper outlines the policy and research background to the new local study of the third sector in the North East and Cumbria, commissioned by the Northern Rock Foundation (NRF) in December 2007. With major changes taking place in the local third sector's funding environment and a lack of relevant, authoritative and comprehensive information on the local sector, NRF decided to commission a new study.
NRF Third Sector Trends Study
Common Assessment Framework
http://www.cwdcouncil.org.uk/whats-new/news/1485_get-involved-in-the-caf-and-lp-guidance-review
Community Spaces Fund
Guidance notes for the Community Spaces fund are now available. This fund allows community groups to improve green spaces and bring them back into community use for play, leisure, food growing and nature. Groups can apply off their own back, or groups can be with developing a funding application and project up, including landscape design, community consultation, etc if they have an idea about a community project. Download the guidance notes, and contact Glen Duckett (Community Regenaration Manager, Groundwork) for more information.
Community Spaces guidance notes
Glen.Duckett@groundwork.org.uk
Voluntary Action Calderdale Newsletter
The latest edition of the VAC newsletter includes articles on training, POPPS, volunteering, Refugee Week, funding and more.
VAC Newsletter Sept/Oct 09
VAC Website
Workforce Development and Learning
Many groups were interested in the Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults training that was held. Unfortunately there is no one at present to continue this training although individuals from VCS groups can access training through the Council. For details, please download the guide through the link below, and see page 36/7. Please note that each person needs to fill in the training application form. If you have any queries, please contact the Workforce Development and Learning Team on 01422 393371.
Workforce Development and Learning Guide