Charity and Voluntary Sector
UKOC: UK online centres know that every penny counts for your centre at the moment, and they are delighted to be able to announce 3 new funding rounds for UK online centres, available now.
These small grants are all designed to help you expand your work, enhance your offer to your consumers & communities and add value to your current activities:
* Network support fund - 30 minute application
* Start something fund - 10 minute application
* Community How To Advocate fund - 20 minute application
VSO: The story of Asma, a woman from Bangladesh, is just one of the inspiring stories that an audience at VSO’s London carol concert heard this week. Asma was disfigured in an acid attack by a man she refused to marry at 13. VSO has supported her through access to healthcare, education & training.
The international development charity, which works through volunteers placed with local partners in the world’s poorest countries, invited Monira Rahman, CEO of its Bangladesh partner the Acid Survivors Foundation (ASF), to speak at the event last Thursday 6 December at St Martin’s In the Fields church.
AUK: If you know an amazing councillor who has worked hard to listen to older people and improve their neighbourhood then Age UK want to hear from you. Nominations are now open for the Age UK award which forms part of the LGiU and CCLA C'llr Achievement Awards 2013. This is an award for Councillors who have put older people at the heart of their work, bringing about long lasting change for older people in their communities.
Nominations can be made by members of the public, councillors and council officers, but councillors cannot nominate themselves. You will find everything you need to make a nomination on the LGIU website. The deadline for applications is 30 December 2012, and the successful winner will be announced in February 2013 at an awards ceremony in London.
