Grants available: Unrestricted grants of £15,000 – £50,000 per year for up to 3 years

Purpose of funding: To improve mental health support and provision for young people and youth workers. To ensure grantee organisations have the resources needed to properly engage with the UK Youth Fund – Thriving Minds programme to implement and instigate learnings to improve their mental health provision.

Eligible organisations: UK based charitable and not for profit organisations with an annual income under £500,000 whose primary purpose is to benefit young people aged 8-25

Deadline: 20 March 2022

More information and apply 

Social Enterprise Support Fund

Grants available: £10,000 - £100,000 

Purpose of funding: To help social enterprises rebuild from COVID-19. It is established in partnership by The National Lottery Community Fund and five social enterprise support agencies.  The fund aims to reach the most marginalised communities and to promote inclusion, to support social enterprises that are helping communities affected by COVID-19 to recover, and to help social enterprises themselves to recover and rebuild their trading.

Eligible organisations: Social enterprises in England that have been incorporated for at least a year whose annual income was between £20,000 and £1.8 million pre-COVID-19 or in their last financial year. The social enterprise should be substantially reliant on income from trading (e.g. sales and contracts) to deliver social impact. If your trading has been affected by COVID-19, you should have a clear plan for growing or returning to substantial trading income.

Deadline: 24 March 2022

More information and apply

St Georges & Priorslee Parish Council seeks a highly motivated and enthusiastic person to take on the post of part-time Deputy Clerk.  The ideal candidate will have strong administrative and organisational skills and an interest in local communities and their well-being and development.

For an application pack or to find out more about the job please call 01952 567700 or email: clerk@stgeorgesandpriorslee-pc.gov.uk

Closing date: 5 p.m. on Monday 14^th March 2022

Interviews: during the week commencing 4^th April 2022

Volunteer Co-ordinator: Environmental post

This full time post will lead and co-ordinate volunteering schemes that contribute towards the Council’s Pride in Our Community Programme - delivering against the Council’s priorities in relation to the local environment. This includes the Street Champion and Snow Warden schemes.

Read more

Health & Safety for Community Building Managers If your organisation runs a building, then building safety is the responsibility of all senior officers/ Trustees/ Directors etc. The Community Services team have organised a Health and Safety course for community building managers / people who have responsibilities around caretaking and key holding for your facility.

The course takes place on Tuesday 15th March 2022, 1.00 – 3.30pm Online (Microsoft Teams)

The course will provide an overview for Community Building managers’ legal responsibilities for health and safety, how to carry these out and the assistance available to do this.

The course will provide an overview for Community Building managers’ legal responsibilities for health and safety, how to carry these out and the assistance available to do this.

Course participants will learn:

• A building managers legal responsibilities for health and safety
• Health and safety building management for the site/building you operational manage
• The support available to the building manager.
• Policies, risk assessment, monitoring, record keeping, training, accidents, emergencies and ill health.
• Building health and safety risks
• Health and safety audits and building checklists

To book a place please contact cpt@telford.gov.uk  by Tuesday 8^th March 2022

If you’re running an event for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, then there is a training opportunity to help you run your event safely

Event Safety takes place on Thursday 24^th March 2022

12.30pm – 4.30pm Online (Microsoft Teams)

Learning Objectives:

This course will enable Event Organisers to:

• Understand any legal responsibility for running events
• Be able to identify and manage safety risks
• Implement advice given by the Emergency Services
• Understand what documents are required to run a safe event
• Know where and who to go to for further safety information

Again to book a place please contact cpt@telford.gov.uk