[Active Lincolnshire] have been awarded Together Fund funding from Sport England. The purpose of this fund is to support clubs, activity providers and community groups who have been negatively impacted by the pandemic. It needs to be invested to support people facing barriers to participating in activity to remove those barriers and provide opportunities to participate including people with long term health conditions, people with disabilities, disabled people and people from minority ethnic groups. If you could share across your relevant networks that would be appreciated: https://www.activelincolnshire.com/get-involved/funding/together-fund
Become part of Lincoln’s Dementia Friendly Community
Members of the Lincoln DFC will be at the Waterside Shopping Centre on Friday 20th May between 9am-5pm
Come along to speak to our dementia-friendly businesses and charities about how we can support people living with dementia.
Lincoln’s Dementia Friendly Community (DFC), formerly known as the Lincoln DAA (Dementia Action Alliance), is a collection of small local businesses and charities who are working together to make Lincoln a more dementia-friendly city. Chaired by Michele Jolly, CEO at Age UK Lincoln & South Lincolnshire, the Lincoln DFC meet quarterly to share ideas and best practice and to coordinate events, for example during Dementia Action Week each May. Moving forwards, this will be achieved with involvement from people living with dementia and their carers/loved ones, to help us to better understand the experience of living with dementia.
To apply to become a supporter of the Lincoln DFC, please contact the group’s administrator Alex Williams at lincolndfc@ageuklsl.org.uk. Once your application has been approved, your business or charity will be listed on our website as a Supporter and you will become part of Lincoln’s Dementia Friendly Community; giving you access to information and support, and demonstrating your commitment to supporting people in our community who are living with dementia. All we ask is that you take some small steps towards making your business or charity more dementia-friendly; for example by becoming a Dementia Friend, encouraging your team of staff/volunteers to become Dementia Friends, reviewing your premises to make them more accessible for people who are living with dementia, and attending DFC meetings where possible to update us on what you’re doing to make your business or charity, and therefore the city of Lincoln, a more dementia-friendly place. Please also feel free to email Alex at lincolndfc@ageuklsl.org.uk to let us know what steps your business or charity has taken, however small, to become more dementia-friendly.
We’ll be launching our updated Learning Together programme to continue the support of social prescribing developments across Midlands.
About this event
Who is this for?
The programme aims to support the activity providers who offer health and well-being sessions in their communities who want to be Socially Prescribed to. However, we find many other benefits from joining such as social prescribing link workers and system-wide stakeholders.
All are welcome, those currently on the programme and those just signed up or considering signing up. We encourage your active participation to make the most out of the programme opportunities.
The session will not be recorded for distribution, and therefore, it is essential to register for one of the welcome sessions.
What will the welcome session offer?
The welcome sessions will mark the revamped version of our Learning Together programme. You will get a chance to meet those who can enrich your work and hear about the latest developments.
If you have not registered for the programme yet you can do so by clicking here.
The Foundation has set up this Appeal to compliment the Disasters Emergency Committee appeal, so we can welcome refugees into Greater Lincolnshire. A Total Giving Page https://www.totalgiving.co.uk/appeal/LincolnshireCF-Ukraine) has been created to accept and facilitate monetary donations and every penny raised will go directly to help refugees. The Foundation will not deduct the charity’s running costs from any donation.
Lincolnshire Community Foundation has launched an appeal for Ukrainian Refugees hosted in Greater Lincolnshire.
ABOUT UKRAINE REFUGEE APPEAL
Following the recent lifechanging events in Ukraine, Trustees at Lincolnshire Community Foundation felt it only right to launch an appeal to support refugees arriving in Greater Lincolnshire to ensure they receive the support they need, ensuring individuals and families feel welcome and able to re-settle here. The call to action from local communities has been astonishing, people have clearly demonstrated they want to help ease the suffering of those Ukrainian people who are fleeing their homeland. What the Foundation would like to do, along with partners, is be prepared to welcome refugees as and when they arrive in Lincolnshire.
Money raised will be used to provide essential items, not already covered by National or Local Government, including giving refugees the opportunity to choose for themselves what they need to make their lives better, as they come to terms with their new environment. Funds may also be distributed to local community groups, charities and organisations delivering vital, practical and meaningful support to those who need it, including the cost of removing language barriers, teaching English skills and essential living expenses and will be delivered alongside partner agencies to avoid duplication, so we can be confident money is reaching those who really need support.
The number of refugees arriving in our county is, as yet, unknown, but it’s important we are ready to offer immediate financial assistance now and in the future. The fund will offer a lifeline to many who will arrive in the UK with little or few possessions at all.
Lincolnshire Voluntary Engagement Team (LVET) have gained funding through NHS Charities Together (includes monies raised by Captain Tom) to support people who have, or had, Long Covid or those that care for them, in Lincolnshire.
In December 2021, we worked with people affected by Long Covid together with health professionals (Lincolnshire Long Covid Co-production Group) to develop a survey. We asked people to tell us about their experience of Long Covid and to let us know their thoughts and ideas for how the funding would be best spent.
Again working through the Long Covid Co-production Group, we want to ask more questions about people’s experience of Long Covid and what is needed. Whilst funding is limited, we will use the results of the initial survey, and of this one, as contributions to the development of support for people with Long Covid.
The deadline for completion is 31st May 2022 however responses received after this date are still welcome. Findings will be made available, after analysis and reporting, on the LVET website – https://lvet.co.uk/
(includes the recent Gallagher leadership series – while these are interviews with leading directors of rugby, some very transferable lessons in terms of shaping culture, setting expectations and inspiring excellence)
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Let’s Talk! Putting Communities First. Now is the time for a conversation about how The National Lottery Community Fund can best support UK communities to prosper and thrive going forward. As part of our ongoing commitment to putting communities first, today we launch our Strategic Renewal process to help shape how we invest in communities in the future – and we want you to get involved!
Why now? Thanks to National Lottery players and our grant holders, we have made a significant difference to communities, including through the pandemic.
Now, as the UK emerges from the pandemic The National Lottery Community Fund has a critical role to play in supporting communities to unleash their energy and potential so they can get to where they want to be.
Communities across the UK are facing fresh challenges and opportunities and have new hopes and aspirations. This is an exciting and inspiring time, and we want to hear from you to help us understand how we continue to effectively support communities across the UK.
As a result of the conflict in Ukraine, increasing numbers of the population are leaving the country for safety reasons and seeking sanctuary in UK and other European Countries.
The UK Government has set up immigration arrangements which include:
Ukraine Family Scheme – if refugees came to the UK to join the household of a family member, it is important to note that this was done by mutual agreement and personal arrangement. The expectation is that refugees will continue to reside with their family for as long as they need that safe place to stay, or if they are able to source their own accommodation. Whilst the local authorities are not involved in that arrangement refugees may find some of the welcome information useful during their stay here.
Homes for Ukraine Scheme – those who offer a home to people fleeing Ukraine, are called a “sponsor”. They have registered their interest in being a sponsor with the UK Government. The sponsor’s offer of room(s) or a property is for a minimum of 6 months, but ideally for as long as “guests” need a safe place to stay. Guests will be able to live and work in the UK for up to 3 years and access benefits, healthcare, employment, and other support, some of which will be provided through the Voluntary & Community Sector and Faith Groups in the County.
People from Ukraine have now started to arrive in Lincolnshire and are being accommodated in one of these two schemes which are now operating in the UK.
To support the resettlement of refugees in Lincolnshire, the County Council has set up a multi-agency Countywide Ukraine Coordination Group to plan resettlement support arrangements working with Sponsors, Refugees, Refugee Groups, other Statutory Agencies, Community and Faith Groups.
The Ukraine Coordination Group has commissioned Lincolnshire Voluntary Engagement Team [LVET] to formalise an approach which has a focus on developing communications, ensuring suitability and security of groups offering support, providing available & accessible countywide information & advice services, with requests for donations of financial support rather than goods, providing space for refugees to settle here and maximising their strengths and abilities. A Delivery Plan to support this approach is currently being developed to co-ordinate the work that Sponsors, Community and Faith groups are doing to support refugees to ensure there is a coherent and cohesive approach which avoids duplication.
The purpose of this communication is to:
Provide an update on the work that LVET has been asked to do working in partnership with Sponsors, Community and Faith Groups and statutory agencies in Lincolnshire involved in the resettlement of refugees in the County.
To obtain a comprehensive picture of what is happening in the County with Community and Faith Groups supporting refugees.
Ask Voluntary and Community Sector and Faith organisations to provide us with information about what they are doing/proposing to do to provide support to refugees by completing the pro-forma below and returning it to the LVET email address.
For further information please contact Emily Ward, Project Development Manager on/phone [07888 330294] and email [emily.ward@lvet.org] and if you know of any other Voluntary and Community Groups or Family Sponsors that might benefit from this communication can you please pass this onto them and provide us with details in the pro-forma below – many thanks.
Integrated Health and Care – How well do Health and Care Services work together?
Healthwatch Lincolnshire is working closely with the Care Quality Commission (CQC)* to learn more about how Health and Care Services are working together to best support our residents.
To support Healthwatch in this work, it is important you tell them what your experience is like of how Health and Social Care Services work together, services such as GP practice, Hospital, Community Health or Social Care.
Healthwatch are specifically looking for people who have experience of using multiple services across health and social care.
For example, you may have been referred by your GP practice to the hospital and as a result, require the need for home care support. Your responses to the questions will help shape future inspections and regulations of these services.
If you require any support to complete this survey or require it in another format, please contact info@healthwatchlincolnshire.co.uk or call 01205 820 892
You can help make Health and Care Services better by sharing your experiences and ideas.
Our Funding Ready Workshops are back for 2022 both virtually and in person.
These workshops, created and delivered by Voluntary Centre Services and Lincolnshire Community & Voluntary Service and supported by Lincolnshire County Council are designed to help voluntary sector groups and charities improve their bid writing skills and information sources to increase the number of successful funding applications.
The online workshops take place over 5 morning sessions whilst in person sessions take place over 2.5 days.
The dates are as follows:
Workshop 1: Getting Your Organisation Ready for Grant Funding / Knowing Your Beneficiaries
Online via Zoom: Wed. 27th April 2022 at 9.30am – 12.30pm
In Person @ Lincolnshire Action Trust, 37-39 Newland St, Lincoln, LN1 1YA : Wed. 8th June 2022 at 9.30am – 12.30pm
Workshop 2: Evidencing Need and Identifying Funding Sources
Online: Wed 4th and Wed 11th May at 9.45am – 12.30pm
In Person @ Lincolnshire Action Trust, 37-39 Newland St, Lincoln, LN1 1YA : Wed. 22nd June 2022 at 9.30am – 4pm
Workshop 3: Proving Outcomes and Writing a Successful Bid
Online: Wed. 18th May & Wed. 25th May 2022 at 9.45am – 12.30pm
In Person @ Lincolnshire Action Trust, 37-39 Newland St, Lincoln, LN1 1YA: Wed. 29th June at 9.30am – 4pm
Register below so you don’t miss out on a place because space is limited. We hope you’re able to join us!
