Charity and Voluntary Sector

BIG: A partnership of forces charities and mental health organisations, led by the Confederation of British Service and Ex-service Organisations (COBSEO), has been given the green light to push ahead with the formation of the £35m lottery-funded Forces in Mind Trust

The Big Lottery Fund has announced COBSEO as the ‘preferred candidate’ to set up the independent Forces in Mind trust, supporting former UK military personnel and their families over the next 20 years.
 
The focus will be on addressing a range of problems that some ex-service personnel and their families can experience back in civilian life, such as poor mental health, family breakdown and alcohol-related problems. COBSEO will now begin work to set up the Trust using a development grant of up to £200,000 from BIG.  It is planned that the remainder of the £35m Lottery award will be transferred to the partnership by the end of summer 2011, when the Trust will become operational.
Press release ~ BIG: Forces in Mind Trust ~ Confederation of British Service and Ex-service Organisations (COBSEO)
 
Newswire – CWDC: The National Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS), with funding from Children's Workforce Development Council, have launched a Share & Learn Grant Scheme to support voluntary & community sector (VCS) front-line organisations delivering services to children, young people & families to share their experience of supporting and developing their staff & volunteers and enable other front-line organisations to learn from their practice. 

The scheme will sign-up 13 Workforce Development Champions across England, who will share information about their work and host learning visits.  A small number of grants are also available to 26 front-line organisations (known as Learning Partners) to take part in learning visits.  Other organisations will be able to learn from the good practice examples the Champions will produce. Application deadline for Champions is the 16 December 2010 and for Learning Partners the deadline is 14 January 2011.
Press release ~ Share and Learn Grant Scheme ~ Children's Workforce Development Council
 
EHEnglish Heritage's proposals to transform the setting of Stonehenge and the visitor experience received a major boost from the Heritage Lottery Fund last week with a grant of £10m.
Press release ~ Stonehenge
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