T.E.E.S Trustee Volunteer Opportunity
Trustee Volunteer Opportunity
T.E.E.S are currently looking for volunteers to be a trustee to join a growing charity. The primary purpose of this role, as a member of the Board of Trustees, is to carry the collective responsibility for ensuring the organisation is governed correctly and is compliant with Charity Law and other internal and external guidance, while also striving to ensure that the charity maintains its sense of mission in line with its primary aims and objectives.
We are looking for trustees with a background in finance, governance and compliance. The commitment would be a monthly meeting and a few hours a month of research and implementing polices. We tackle period poverty, clothing poverty, incontinence poverty and are moving into the furniture up-cycling and are now taking over a building to offer more services to the community.
This role would be suitable with experience in governance and compliance or finance. An interest in up-cycling would be an advantage.
If you would like to know more about the role, or interested in becoming a volunteer please contact Carole Marshall Carole@rcvda.org.uk Tel; 07849 847678
Healthwatch Community Champions
Community Champion Volunteer
We are the independent champion for people who use health and social care services. Our sole purpose is to understand the needs, experiences and concerns of people who use local health and social care services, and to make sure that those running services, put these views at the heart of care.
About the opportunity
Volunteers are at the heart of Healthwatch – we believe your skills, experiences, and the knowledge that you have of your local community are extremely valuable to our work.
We are looking for ‘Community Champions’ to be our eyes and ears on the ground, collecting ‘Community Intelligence’ about people’s experiences of local health and social care. We want to know about any positive or negative experiences relating to health and social care services, that are shared with you or that you may pick up day-to-day.
Community Champions will be based in their local community, gathering intelligence from those they engage with either through their job, their position in the community or their family, friends and neighbours.
Our offices are based in Middlesbrough and Redcar where in the future, Champions may be invited to attend team meetings, however due to the current circumstances, any correspondence and meetings will be held virtually.
The Community champion role is flexible in regards to gathering information and feeding this back to Healthwatch. We hold monthly (virtual) meetings which will be held during the working week. Supporting Healthwatch South Tees when hosting and attending events would also take place during working hours.
If you would like to know more about the role, or interested in becoming a volunteer please contact Carole Marshall Carole@rcvda.org.uk Tel; 07849 847678.
Polyhalite mine charity creates Covid response fund
The Sirius Minerals Foundation, the charitable arm of Anglo American’s Woodsmith Project being built near Whitby and on Teesside, has launched a new round of funding aimed at helping local charities and voluntary groups on the North Yorkshire coast recover from the coronavirus crisis.
A total pot of £250,000 is being made available to help local voluntary, community and social enterprise groups with their costs as they adapt their ways of working to the new and challenging environment created by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Awards of between £500 and £15,000 are available for the development of new digital services needed as a result of the pandemic, or to help cover funding gaps caused by the economic effects of the pandemic.
“Covid-19 has affected everyone in one way or another, but none more so than the charitable sector, who have seen their funding dry up while demand for their services has continued, if not increased,” said David Archer, Chairman of the Sirius Minerals Foundation. “We want to help them to help our communities, because they’re needed now more than ever.”
Charities can apply for one of two schemes, a ‘Digital Success Programme’ and a ‘Regroup and Rebuild Programme.’ The former is designed to improve the digital capability and capacity of groups to deliver their services through digital platforms, for example through the purchase of new IT equipment, virtual office infrastructure, or online services. The latter is aimed at helping groups with their core outlays, such as or premises costs or skills development and support for staff.
“Frontline workers in the NHS have attracted much of the attention of the media during the pandemic, and rightly so for their heroic work, but many don’t realise how many community health and support services are provided by the voluntary sector,” said David Archer. “And because of the economic downturn the pandemic has caused, many of them are now facing a struggle for survival. The whole point of the Foundation is to make a positive difference to local people’s lives, so it seemed only right that we help organisations who make a tangible difference on a daily basis.”
The Foundation is funded by Anglo American, the company which is building the multi-billion-pound polyhalite mine in Whitby and associated infrastructure in Teesside. It was established to share some of the economic benefits of the project, with Anglo American currently injecting £1 million per year. Longer term, the Foundation will be funded by a revenue royalty when polyhalite production begins.
Interested voluntary groups should apply online via www.siriusmineralsfoundation.com, where the full funding criteria and guidelines are available to read. The closing date for applications will be 12 noon on Tuesday 15th September 2020 and decisions on funding will be announced by the 19th October 2020.
Welfare Benefits Advice
