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 | Have Your Say Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude and Minister for Civil Society Nick Hurd have written an open letter to the voluntary, community and social enterprise sectors asking them to share their ideas about how they can help reduce the deficit directly with the Office for Civil Society (Last updated 02/08/2010) |
| Communications Network New network set up for communications staff working for chartities, voluntary groups and social enterprises in the North East of England. (Last updated 12/07/2010) |
| COUNTY DURHAM PARTNERSHIP FRAMEWORK Information provided from the development and improvement group. (Last updated 08/07/2010) |
| IMPACT Directory IMPACT is an internet directory of social activities which are taking place across County Durham and Darlington. (Last updated 08/07/2010) |
| Housing Strategy and Co. Durham Plan Consultation Event Invitation As you may already be aware the Council is currently preparing a Housing Strategy and County Durham Plan (Local Development Framework). They are undertaking an extensive joint consultation in relation to the recently published Issues and Options Papers which relate to these; and would like your views. (Last updated 07/07/2010) |
| Labour Markets Consultation Durham County Council welcome any comments by the 23 July 2010. (Last updated 29/06/2010) |
| The Refresh of the County Durham Compact The County Durham Compact is a partnership agreement between the public sector and the third sector (the voluntary and community sector) in County Durham. Its purpose is to identify and agree to ways of improving working relationships between the two sectors. (Last updated 29/06/2010) |
| Are you considering or in the process of refurbishing or redeveloping a building? Would you benefit from expert support and guidance? (Last updated 29/06/2010) |
| Need free advice on dealing with debts? Download the information poster for the Citizens Advice Telephone helpf line. (Last updated 29/06/2010) |
| What does the new Government mean for the voluntary sector? The Conservatives’ Big Society agenda has been thrust up-front and centre, but how will charities, voluntary and community groups prevail in the face of extensive public spending cuts? Find out the key issues we think will dominate voluntary sector debate in the coming months. (Last updated 02/06/2010) |
| Are you worried about the long term future of your Community Building? Then why not attend DRCC's latest event Community Buildings ‘The Big Debate’ (Last updated 21/04/2010) |
| Provision of Services to People with a Learning Disability - Framework Agreement Durham County Council has published a contract entitled: Provision of Services to People with a Learning Disability - Framework Agreement. (Last updated 13/04/2010) |
| The Think Big Programme Initial £300 grants with potential follow-on grants of £2500 for successful applicants (Last updated 12/04/2010) |
| Governance bursary NCVO is accepting applications for its latest round of the Cracking the Code bursary scheme. (Last updated 12/04/2010) |
| Successful Commissioning guidance The National Audit Office has launched a new guide, Successful Commissioning: How to secure value for money through better financial relationships with third sector organisations. (Last updated 12/04/2010) |
| New VAT helpline to help charities save money A new helpline to assist charities mitigate the cost of irrecoverable VAT has been launched through a new partnership between NCVO and the Saffery Champness Charity VAT team. (Last updated 12/04/2010) |
| National Compact The refreshed National Compact launched 16th December 2009. (Last updated 08/02/2010) |
| New Department of Health funding model opens up volunteering The Health and Social Care Volunteering Fund, will pave the way for a renewed focus on volunteering projects in the NHS and social care. (Last updated 15/12/2009) |
| One Voice Network Conference - Papers Available to Download What We're Made Of: A Celebration of the Voluntary and Community Sector in County Durham (Last updated 24/11/2009) |
| Influence and Engagement Evaluation Toolkit Evaluating the working relationships between the Voluntary/Community and Statutory Sectors in Co Durham (Last updated 17/11/2009) |
| Supporting VCS Beneficiaries Through the Recession: Follow-up VONNE agreed to produce a Frequently Asked Questions-style document outlining some of the mainstream recession support services available to voluntary and community sector organisations. (Last updated 07/10/2009) |
| Third sector representatives on City Region partnerships– expressions of interest wanted As part of Pentagon Partnership’s work to facilitate third sector involvement in the evolving City Region partnership structures, vacancies have arisen for third sector representation on two new partnership groups. (Last updated 07/10/2009) |
| Still Surviving? Take the survey Impact of the economic downturn on the North East's third sector (Last updated 07/10/2009) |
| Leader networking project tender specification This project will focus on village halls and community buildings in the East Durham Leader Area. The overall objective is to achieve a comprehensive assessment of the needs of the groups who run community buildings in the area, to support those needs and to address the potential for future sustainable development of local services delivered by community buildings. (Last updated 01/10/2009) |
| Health Innovation Partnership Pilot Scheme- FINAL CHANCE TO APPLY The Health Innovation Partnership is looking for INNOVATIVE ideas and will contribute up to £50,000 for you to run a 6-month pilot scheme (Last updated 27/07/2009) |
| Lead the Field- management programme for workers from the charitable and statutory sectors. The autumn edition of Lead the Field 2009 starts with a Strategic and Business Planning course on the 2nd of September (Last updated 13/07/2009) |
| Criteria for the new £16.7m Hardship Fund announced This year's Budget saw the announcement of a £16.7m Hardship Fund for the sector, building on the £42.5m Real Help for Communities action plan. (Last updated 11/06/2009) |
| New £3 million Government fund to boost volunteer management over the next two years Capacitybuilders released details of a new grants programme to provide support to people who manage volunteers, helping to ensure that volunteers get the best possible experience. (Last updated 11/06/2009) |
| Safer Homes Fund The Home Office have launched a new fund to increase home security and reduce burglary rates. (Last updated 11/06/2009) |
| Have your say on City Region Employment and Skills and Transport issues Are you... A deliverer of employability or skills provision? An employer? A community transport operator? An advocate for better transport? (Last updated 01/06/2009) |
| Children in Need launches new grants scheme £3m Fun and Friendship programme will fund projects for disabled young people (Last updated 29/05/2009) |
| The North East Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Awards 2009 Sponsored by Business Link North East and hosted by Women Into the Network Ltd (Last updated 27/05/2009) |
| Business Link Offer Free Workshops Built to Achieve - A programme of free workshops to help social enterprise develop and grow (Last updated 20/05/2009) |
| Surviving NOT Thriving: North East Charities feel the crunch Charities and voluntary groups across the North East are struggling to survive according to a report out today. (Last updated 20/05/2009) |
| Charities could benefit from EU contracts legislation Charities that feel they have lost out on public service contracts because the bidding process was unfair could be given the right to appeal for the contracts to be cancelled. (Last updated 14/05/2009) |
| Welcome, and Goodbye, to One Voice Network staff The One Voice Network Secretariat now has two new members of staff - Sue Graham and Linzi Ford who both started on the 1st May 2009. (Last updated 12/05/2009) |
| One Voice Network Countywide Conference 'Rising to the Challenge' (Last updated 01/04/2009) |