Charity and Voluntary Sector
CO: The second Access to Volunteering fund grant round closes on 8 February 2010. The £2m fund aims to increase the number of disabled people volunteering through giving grant funding to volunteer-involving organisations. It is currently piloting in three areas: London, the West Midlands and the North West. The fund operates between Autumn 2009 & Spring 2011 over five grant rounds.
MLA: A host of prominent public figures are supporting the campaign, launched by The Art Fund charity, to raise the £3.3m needed by 17 April 2010 to save the Anglo-Saxon treasure for Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery and the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent.
Historian Dr David Starkey has made a public plea for funds to ‘save the Staffordshire Hoard for the West Midlands’. The Art Fund’s new Director, Dr Stephen Deuchar, kick-started the public appeal by announcing an Art Fund grant of £300,000 and by unveiling the official donation website.
Over the next 13 weeks events & activities will be taking place throughout the West Midlands to raise funds to keep the Staffordshire Hoard in the region. More than 80 of the most significant artefacts from the Hoard, including items never seen before, will be on display at the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent between 13 February & 7 March 2010.
Press release ~ Donation website ~ Potteries Museum & Art Gallery ~ Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery ~ MLA: PAS and Treasure annual report 2007 ~ Portable Antiquities Scheme
VSO: Teacher’s Got Talent is a new fundraising challenge from international development charity, VSO, working in partnership with education recruitment specialist, Randstad Education (the new name for Select Education). The challenge will raise vital funds for developing countries and provide schools with an exciting new way to teach the Global Citizenship curriculum and the chance to win resources & support.
Teachers will nominate themselves to learn a skill, whilst students put themselves forward to share one of their skills. The skill could be anything from keepie-ups, playing an instrument or speaking a foreign language to rapping or a cultural dance.
Everyone pays £1 to vote for which teacher they would like to learn which skill. Schools that get their donations in by 19 March 2010 will be eligible for 2 prizes provided by publisher HarperCollins and education recruitment specialist Randstad Education.
VSO: International development charity VSO has launched an ambitious campaign to recruit 500 exceptional individuals to take up the VSO challenge in 2010. VSO placements usually last between one to 2 years and focus on achieving long-term change for poor communities.
Volunteers are involved in a range of different activities from improving education systems so that generations of children will get a better start in life, to training local midwives, doctors & nurses in new & life-saving skills and helping women & those who are most disadvantaged to set up businesses so they can earn an independent living.
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