Sirius Minerals Foundation – Job Vacancy
Sirius Minerals Foundation is recruiting a Grants and Programmes Manager.
The role will support the Chief Executive to develop and implement the charity’s grant-making programmes, processes and policies. The role holder will research local needs, explore options for addressing issues, shape and deliver open grant rounds and other programmes of work.
This role will seek to understand the local voluntary sector, work collaboratively with wider stakeholders to shape a well thought out role for the Foundation, and ensure our funding decisions are evidence-based and advance the Foundation’s charitable objectives.
It’s an exciting time to be joining the Foundation and is a chance to help shape our 10 year strategy.
£28,000 to £34,000 p.a. based on experience
Full time 37.5 hours per week or part-time 30 hours over 4 or 5 days
Hybrid working – office days in Scarborough and Redcar, home working and travel across Foundation’s area of benefit.
A Candidate Recruitment Pack, including information on how to apply, can be found on our website:
https://www.siriusmineralsfoundation.co.uk/
The closing date for applications is 10am on Monday 29th November 2021 and interviews will be held on Monday 13th December 2021.
If you would like a conversation about the role, or have queries, please contact Leah Swain on 07724 832982 or leah.swain@siriusmineralsfoundation.co.uk.
Rubies – Job Vacancies
Rubies is a small local charity focused on empowering girls in Middlesbrough and Redcar & Cleveland. We are based in South Bank.
We currently have 3 jobs available:
Primary Schools Co-Ordinator (£20,475 pro rata 16 hrs pw – initially 12 month fixed term contract)
We are looking for a new member of staff to take the lead in delivering our 8 week self-esteem courses in primary schools across Middlesbrough and Redcar & Cleveland. This is mainly with Year 6 girls but there may be scope to work with younger girls as the charity develops.
Job description & Person specification
Girls Group Co-Ordinator (£20,475 pro rata 5 hrs pw – initially 12 month fixed term contract)
We are looking for a new member of staff to lead and develop a weekly Girls Group for secondary school age girls. The Girls Group Co-Ordinator will build supportive, appropriate relationships with girls from a range of backgrounds and will be responsible for planning an engaging programme to provide them with a safe space to relax, learn and grow in confidence. They will also co-ordinate a small team of volunteers to ensure the sessions are well run and consistent throughout the year.
Job description & Person specification
Admin & Finance Officer (£19,500 pro rata 8 hrs pw – permanent)
We are looking for a new member of staff to help oversee the day to day running of the charity. The admin and finance officer will support our CEO and trustees to develop financial and administrative processes that enable Rubies to continue to grow. They will ensure the organisation’s finances are administered efficiently and correctly and provide some general administrative support. Initially the role will be for 8 hours per week with a larger proportion of time spent on financial processes than on administration. There may be scope for the hours to be increased in future.
Job description & Person specification
Closing date for applications – 9am Monday 15th November 2021
Please email us for an Application Form – admin@wearerubies.org
Or contact us on 07307 848057
Postal Address – Rubies : 14 Middlesbrough Road, South Bank, Middlesbrough
We’d love to hear from you!
Catalyst – Safeguarding Training
As part of the Safer Culture North East project, we have some upcoming safeguarding training and we thought that organisations in Middlesbrough might be interested in. People can sign up using the links below.
Understanding Safeguarding for Trustees:
Monday 8th November, 1:30pm – 3:00pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understanding-safeguarding-for-trustees-within-the-voluntary-sector-tickets-190483129167
Wednesday 10th November, 5:00pm – 6:30pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understanding-safeguarding-for-trustees-within-the-voluntary-sector-tickets-190485797147
Introduction to Safeguarding :
Thursday 25th November, 6:00pm – 7:30pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introduction-to-safeguarding-tickets-198909021237
Monday 6th December, 1:30pm – 3:00pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introduction-to-safeguarding-tickets-198923644977
Safer Recruitment:
Thursday 23rd November, 2:00pm – 3:30pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/training-development-safer-recruitment-tickets-188495143047
Thursday 9th December, 5:00pm – 6:30pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/training-development-safer-recruitment-tickets-188497510127
Association of Mental Health Providers – a Helplines Fund with Bupa Foundation Launch
Association of Mental Health Providers is pleased to announce the launch of the third round of grants: a Helplines Fund with Bupa Foundation. The fund will open to applications on Monday 15th November 2021.
This fund will be used to provide grants of up to £5,000 to support the sustainability of mental health voluntary, community, and social enterprise helpline provider organisations, who have been operational/registered for 2 years+ with turnover of less than £250,000.
Helplines have always been an important part of mental health service provision by the VCSE sector. As such, we are looking at funding costs that can positively impact the sustainability of an helpline organisation – specifically those that are supporting the mental health and wellbeing of communities disproportionately impacted by Covid-19; with a focus on organisations that are led by and/or are supporting Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic communities. We will also be considering applications from organisations supporting other disadvantaged groups such as the homeless community, those in contact with the criminal justice system, children and young people, women and girls, victims of domestic violence etc.
You can read more here in the documents linked; and also sign up to our FAQ webinar on Wednesday 17th November 2021 at 1pm, which is an opportunity to meet members of the Programme team and ask any questions that are not covered by our FAQ document.
Please do share this with your wider networks to ensure the organisations needing support at this time are able to apply. Please find below a suggested tweet to post on your social media and you can also retweet our announcement:
📢@AssocMHP will soon be launching the #Helplines Fund with @BupaFoundation to support small-medium #VCSE #MentalHealth providers working w/communities disproportionately impacted by #Covid19.
💷Grants up to £5k
⏰Applications open 15 Nov & close 3 Dec
🔗https://amhp.org.uk/our-work/mh-sustainability-programme/helplines-fund-with-bupa-foundation/
Cleveland Police – “Evil Santa” Cyber Crime Awareness Post
Evil Santa
A recent Facebook post has been causing concern for parents relating to YouTube kids and ‘Evil Santa’.
The Facebook user posted a message on 1st November to warn parents about an upsetting encounter that had taken place. The parent states their 5 year old child was watching YouTube kids when the ‘evil Santa’ appeared on screen.
The video allegedly features Santa telling the child to harm themselves in order to receive presents for Christmas and the more people they hurt the more gifts they will receive.
The child was told not to inform their parents and that if they did ‘Evil Santa’ would come get them in their sleep.
The parent states the video appeared on YouTube kids even with parent controls enabled, which she states she pays an extra fee for.
There is no evidence of the video online at this time. We have carried out research including on YouTube Kids and found no videos relating to the Facebook post.
Whilst the video cannot be located at present, the hype is being caused by the re-sharing of this post. The original post was close to 90,000 shares but appears has now been removed. The term ‘Evil Santa’ has begun to spike on Google trends.
A spokesperson for YouTube said:
“We’ve not received evidence of there being videos on YouTube kids showing or promoting the content described in this post. Additionally, on YouTube kids, we provide parents with free tools to customize the experience for their kids and to control what content their child can and cannot see”.
The YouTube kid’s app has a set of parental controls for you to customise your child’s individual experience. You can decide what content to make available for them to watch. Please visit – https://www.youtube.com/intl/ALL_uk/kids/parent-resources/
ADVICE
Parents are advised to talk regularly with their children about their online presence, and reassure them they can share anything with you no matter how delicate the nature is.
We recommend the following to help keep children safe online:
- Set parental controls on devices
- Always use privacy settings on social media and online games
- Don’t trust any unknown numbers
- Block unknown numbers
- Don’t click on any unidentified links
- They should not do anything that makes them feel uncomfortable
- Change passwords regularly
- Keep account and personal information secure
- Keep your computer software up to date
- Use antivirus software
- Make sure your child knows their options if they are suffering any type of cyber crime
There are many online resources that can give some excellent advice on how to keep your child safe online:
- www.getsafeonline.org
- www.internetmatters.org
- www.net-aware.org.uk
- www.saferinternet.org.uk
- www.ceop.police.uk
Cleveland Fire Brigade – Have You Say Survey
