Does
your good cause, charity or social enterprise operate within Portsmouth city
limits? Are you and your team working to shape our great waterfront city? If
the answer to those two questions is 'yes' - apply today for a small grant from
the Portsmouth Lottery.
You
can apply for support for a whole range of projects - two recent recipients
include Portsmouth Downs Syndrome Association who received a grant to fund
fortnightly drama sessions for children with Downs Syndrome and their siblings and PARCS who received money to provide counselling sessions for male survivors.
The
closing date for applications is Thursday 13 July - so don't delay.
Find
out more on the website.
The Portsmouth Lottery is a weekly online lottery, costing £1.00 per entry. Participants can win various cash prizes depending on the numbers they match. Winners can choose to donate their winnings to a local cause or to receive the prize themselves.
Currently the Portsmouth Lottery has 149 good causes registered. We're running a consultation to help us reach more people and ensure that people can access and play the Lottery in the way that suits them best. You can take part in the consultation here.
The Care Act 2014
placed a duty on local authorities to make sure that people have the
information and advice they need to make informed decisions about their care
and support.
This includes people
who wish to prevent their need for care and support later in life and people
who arrange their care and support privately.
To achieve this, we
have developed an Information and Advice Strategy. This sets out our vision for
information and advice in the city and the approach we'll take to get there.
The key part of our approach is to work with members of the public, people who
use services and organisations across the community.
As part of this work
we recently surveyed teams/venues who either order in leaflets from other
organisations or distribute their own leaflets in the community. The survey
looked at:
- the problems small organisations face in advertising
their services
- the impact organisations think it has on their ability
to provide information and advice.
You
can read the report on the results of the survey here.
Portsmouth
City Council offer support services to organisations across the South Coast. These are services such as Human Resources, Payroll, Legal and many more.
All
these provisions are provided by professional and experienced in-house teams, who have worked on managing multi-million pound projects through to supporting
small boutique businesses at a competitively priced rate.
Whatever
your organisation needs we're confident we'll have it covered, so please feel free
to get in touch with our Business Engagement Team on 02392 834 736 or email
toby.beale@portsmouthcc.gov.uk
Promoting your Brand in Portsmouth
Portsmouth City Council provide advertising opportunities to local businesses across the city.
There are numerous ways we can help to promote your brand including print,
outdoor advertising and sponsorship opportunities.
Our various platforms
offer advertisers a greater reach and higher penetration than any other service
in the Portsmouth area.
We can help you reach
your target audience across Portsmouth:
Over 200,000
Portsmouth residents and 90,000 homes
- More
than 6,500 city businesses
- 8,500
Portsmouth City Council employees
- Almost
20,000 students
- 100,000
vehicles in and out of the city daily
- Over
13 million annual visitors
For further
information email the council's advertising team on advertising@portsmouthcc.gov.uk
or phone 023 9283 4307.
The
Integrated Commissioning Service would like to advise you that a market
consultation opportunity has been published on Intend for the provision of an Out of Hours
Service for adults and children and families to provide a
comprehensive social care telephone service and on call
arrangements for face to face social work contact.
You
can register on the Council’s procurement portal In-Tend via the Council's
website through the following link:
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/portsmouthcc
As part of the registration you identify the types of services you would be
interested in providing – the purpose of this is that when any department in
the Council publishes a tender you will automatically receive an e-mail
notifying you. If you need any assistance with registration please contact
Corporate Procurement -
(023)
9283 4994 Procurement.Service@portsmouthcc.gov.uk
A reminder from the Charity Commission to submit your annual return for
2016
All charities
have a legal responsibility to send an annual return to the
Charity Commission. Failing to do so risks the public’s trust in your charity and its
reputation.
If you haven’t
filed your return for 2016 you have 10 months from the end of your charity’s
financial year to do so. If you are experiencing difficulties logging into the
system, it could be that the service is experiencing high demand at that time –
try it again later.
What you need to
submit depends on your annual
income.
If your
charity’s income is:
- under £10,000, then you
just need to submit your charity’s income and expenditure figures - the easiest
way to do this is through the annual return service
- between £10,001 and
£25,000, you need to complete an annual return form
- more than £25,001, you
must submit an annual return form with a set of annual accounts as well as an
independent examiners’ or audit report and a trustees’ annual report (TAR)
The Charity Commission's
guide to the accounting
essentials for charities will help you understand the type of accounts your
charity has to prepare, and whether they need an audit or independent
examination.
All Charitable
Incorporated Organisation’s (CIO) need to submit an annual return and annual
accounts. If your CIO has an income over £25,000 you also need to submit an
independent examiners’ or audit report along with a trustees’ annual report.
Public Health for Portsmouth City Council and Southampton City Council are inviting people
to tell them about pharmacy services in their area. They want to find out more
about local services you receive from pharmacies. Find out more information and complete the survey here.
The
first phase of the 'Your Big Health Conversation' process has been completed and analysis of the findings is now almost complete.
Altogether,
almost 2,000 people from across the wider Portsmouth, Fareham and Gosport and
South Eastern Hampshire areas took part in the process.
The
initial stage of the ‘Big Conversation’ was intended to start a ‘plain English’
discussion about the extent of the challenges facing the NHS locally and to
start gathering feedback as to how the health service could make positive
changes. Broad questions were asked about a range of subjects from seven-day
services to mental health care and easing pressure on GP's.
The
initial results which focused mainly on the Portsmouth area specifically can be
found here.
A fuller analysis of the ‘free text’ responses is still being completed.
A
second phase of the 'Your Big Health Conversation' will begin in the summer.
The
Community Connector Drop-in Lead role is based with the Independence and
Wellbeing Team at Portsmouth City Council.
The
role involves leading on an information drop-in, which will offer information to members
of the public about groups and activities happening in the Portsmouth
area.
The role will include the setup of the Community Connectors drop-in
at one of the venues across the city. The drop-in is part of the wider
Community Connector Service which works with adults (18+) who are
experiencing loneliness/social isolation and want to get out in the community
to engage more, but lack the confidence to do so.
Volunteers
will be fully trained and supported in their role by a Community Connector
member of staff.
If
you would like any further information please call Julie Roberts on 023 92
841762 for an informal chat or email her on julie.roberts@portsmouthcc.gov.uk
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