T3SC and Volunteer Centre Tameside have secured £337,645 as part of government’s Transforming Local Infrastructure funding programme.
The funding starts in April and covers 18 months. The money will build new opportunities and help T3SC and VCT better support and meet the changing needs of Tameside’s volunteers, groups and communities. It will ensure they are valued and supported locally ensuring their growth and development.
The project, called GIFT – Great Infrastructure For Tameside – includes three main elements:
- To establish Community and Voluntary Action Tameside (CVAT), the new organisation to be formed from the joining of T3SC and Volunteer Centre Tameside. Other local infrastructure organisations will also consider whether they join CVAT during the lifetime of the project.
- To develop ‘Tameside 4 Good’. This will develop, encourage and make it easier for local giving, of time, money and resources to voluntary and community groups. It will provide a focal point and brand to be able to approach companies to promote corporate social responsibility, employer supported volunteering, pro-bono support, and giving of resources on behalf of local groups. A virtual/online ‘shop window’ will encourage the ‘give locally’ message and will help small organisations. More detail about this will follow later in the spring.
- To enable groups to access an increased range of services. We will have a bursary fund which will help ‘buy in’ specialist support as needed by groups (for example legal advice, marketing or financial management support) and better linkages to other providers of support.
T3SC and VCT will be working with a number of partner organisations to develop and deliver this project. These include: The Charity Service, Tameside Association of Voluntary Youth and Community Organisation, Lesbian and Gay Foundation, Together Works and Oldham Community Accountancy Service.
T3SC Chief Executive, Tony Okotie, said, ‘We are absolutely delighted to secure this funding. It will help us, and our partners, improve the support we give to frontline voluntary groups to help them meet the challenges over the next few years.’
VCT Chief Executive, Sue Vickers, said, ‘The grant will really help to transform local infrastructure in Tameside and enable both VCT and T3SC to deliver more efficient streamlined services in support of volunteers and organisations.’
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Are you running training courses or community meetings?
Do you need childcare to support your event so that more parents and carers are able to attend?
St Peter’s Partnerships can deliver a mobile crèche at your chosen venue, to provide quality care, early learning and play opportunities for children. (All mobile creches are subject to venue suitability)
Or why not book your event at Cavendish Mill Resource Centre where we have a dedicated crèche room alongside a range of training and meeting spaces.
St Peter’s crèche staff are qualified early years professionals experienced in delivering childcare within local communities. All workers have undergone an enhanced CRB check and are familiar with Health and Safety regulations.
St Peter’s Childcare Service is a not - for - profit facility which makes a charge for crèche provision. Our rates are competitive and any surplus generated is reinvested into the provision to support local children and families.
Prices start from £34.00 per hour for a tailor made crèche delivered by two members of staff. We can provide care for longer than this subject to legal guidance and increased charges. Prices include a full risk assessment of the childcare space at the venue and snacks for the children attending the crèche.
To discuss your requirements or for more information please contact Catherine Bradshaw, Creche Coordinator, Tel: 0161 214 8470 Email: catherine.bradshaw@stpeterspartnerships.org
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We are delighted that at our ‘Challenges, Change and Collaboration’ event last week, the members of T3SC and Volunteer Centre Tameside unanimously endorsed the proposals to form a new, joint organisation, Community and Voluntary Action Tameside and to both merge into it. Work will now commence to make this vision a reality!
It was a fantastic event, and we are grateful to our members for their support. A short film of the event, including our key note speakers Steven Pleasant, Chief Executive at Tameside Council and Debra Allcock-Tyler, Directory of Social Change, is now on our homepage: www.t3sc.org
View images of the event on Flickr.
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Don't forget to send me your articles by Thursday 2 February for the Spring newsletter (covers March 2012-May 2012).
Due to space, articles need to be a max of 150 words and an image or two would be great, in jpeg format if possible.
T3SC’s newsletter focuses on news in Tameside’s voluntary and community sector, publicising voluntary, community and faith groups or providing information or news that is relevant to them. If you would rather our Community Reporter, Lisa Hannibal, to come out and interview you or a member of your group on any new developments/funding successes, etc. please contact me at info@t3sc.org or call 0161 339 4985.
The newsletter has limited space which gets filled very quickly so I’m afraid I can’t guarantee I will be able to use your article but I will try.
Here are the  Writing for T3SC publications - guidelines – basically keep it short clear and in plain English and try and think of how the reader can get involved.
To get more of an idea of the type of articles we publish see our  T3SC Winter 2011-2012 Newsletter
If you need any help please contact me.
Thanks!
Hannah
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More than one in four children live in poverty in Tameside and this is becoming more widespread, therefore it is a priority for the Tameside’s Children’s Trust. The strategy for combating poverty is now being refreshed. If you have any ideas as to what should be in this strategy, please contact veronica.hyde@t3sc.org
For more information: Child proverty needs assessment.
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Tameside Council working jointly with a range of local partners has been successful in a bid for £83k from the Department of Health’s Warm Homes Healthy People fund. In Tameside the number of people living in ‘fuel poverty’ (where they spend over 10% of their household income on keeping their homes warm) is higher than the national average.
Living in a cold house can have a huge affect on people’s health especially for young families, people with existing health problems and for older people. Working together the Council, NHS Tameside and Glossop, The Energy Saving Trust and local community organisations such as Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB), Age UK Tameside and T3SC will use this additional funding to deliver more services to help the most vulnerable. T3SC’s part in this project is to let as many voluntary community and faith groups as possible to know about the project and how it could benefit their service users.
For more information about how you can help the people you work with to ‘Kill the Chill’ including energy grants and free insulation please visit: www.t3sc.org/voiceprojects
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 Social enterprise is increasingly promoted by government and local authorities as a means of generating income and providing employment, particularly for women, in areas where there are few jobs. However, while social enterprise can have a role to play in helping women in disadvantaged neighbourhoods into work – and so out of poverty – it cannot be assumed to be the best or only option.
Conducted by Oxfam, this research looks at whether social enterprise can be an effective route out of poverty for women, and offers the following conclusions and recommendations. Findings are based on both desk research and direct study in the St Peter’s neighbourhood in Tameside, Greater Manchester.
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 A new publication from NCVO aims to give clear guidance to trustees on financial sustainability of their charity, and for them to feel confident about developing a 'mixed economy of funding' - grants, contracts and donations but also income from trading goods and services. Download 'Sustainable funding: a guide for trustees'.
T3SC are running a mini master class for Trustees on Sustainable funding on Thursday 1 March 2012, book your place.
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 Listen Value Invest (LVI) is a North West campaign which aims to highlight the real and current issues being faced by the voluntary and community sector and the wider communities it serves. It is more important than ever that our story is heard.
Voluntary Sector North West (VSNW) want to reflect the current position of the sector in the North West. They are inviting local groups and local or regional infrastructure organisations from across the North West to submit their ideas for Listen Value Invest 2012 case studies. VSNW are particularly interested in knowing about your work, how you are adjusting to the new environment, how your organisation is managing currently, and if you are working in new ways or with new partners to deliver your services.
To encourage a range of case studies, they are offering four prizes for the most engaging stories:
- Two prizes of up to a day of filming and editing by People’s Voice Media for your organisation and story. People's Voice Media will make a short video which you can then show and publicise, and the film will also be added to the Listen Value Invest website.
- Two prizes of a Flip video camera for two organisations with the understanding that you will film at least one video each with them. VSNW will then arrange for these to be edited and added to the LVI website with your information and background to the story.
To enter this competition, Send a maximum of 100 from your organisation, outlining the case study to Helen Walker (VSNW Information Officer) at: helen.walker@vsnw.org.uk or by post to Voluntary Sector North West, St Thomas Centre, Ardwick Green North, Manchester, M12 6FZ.
Deadline: Friday 10 Feb 2012.
For more information: Contact Helen on 0161 276 9303 or Martin Preston on 0161 276 9305.
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 Women’s Resource Centre launch report: ‘Hidden Value: Demonstrating the extraordinary impact of women’s voluntary and community organisations’, which reveals that women’s organisations can generate between £5 and £11 for every pound invested.
Based on two years of research using Social Return On Investment (SROI) techniques, the report recommends that government offices and commissioners who contract women’s organisations develop a much better understanding of the incredible value of such specialist services.
For more information: Tel: 0207 324 3030 Email: policy@wrc.org.uk
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