w/c 10th July

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Jul

Eating Disorders group Beat, launches new online support group

Beat is delighted to announce the launch of a new, daily online support group, the Nest. The Nest is a confidential, inclusive and welcoming space for anyone wanting to share their eating disorder experiences. The Nest runs every day from 6-7pm. The room is available for open discussion about your recovery from an eating disorder, and on Fridays the room is specifically for people supporting someone with an eating disorder. Find out more

Beat Helpline Hours Extended

Beat has extended its Helpline opening hours by an extra hour. The Helpline and Youthline are now open 3pm - 10pm 365 days a year!

You can contact the Helpline on 0808 801 0677 and the Youthline on 0808 801 0711. Both numbers are free to call from all phones.

Big Lottery Fund's new programme to support partnership working

This week the Big Lottery Fund announced a new programme to bring together organisations across the charity sector to support partnership working. 

With the King’s Fund and Comic Relief they’ve launched the Cascading Leadership programme to improve access to support and development opportunities for charity and voluntary sector leaders.
 
The programme’s just opened and they’re now encouraging VCS leaders from organisations that focus on health and wellbeing to apply. There are initially 80 places available, it’s free to attend and the training is worth £3,000.

The King’s Fund website has more information also as well as details on how to apply at https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/leadership/cascading-leadership-programme

Developing Young People’s volunteering – are you interested?

VOYC is on the hunt for local partners!

VOYC Devon has been working with Active Devon and DYS Space to access new resources for  Devon to bring the benefits of volunteering and sport/physical activity to a new young people’s audience. The expression of interest we submitted earlier this year was successful and Sport England have asked the partnership to submit a full application by the middle of August.
 
Our aim will be to use the principles of social action to work with young people who have not previously had the opportunity to volunteer through programmes in Schools, National Sports Governing Bodies or existing work in Youth Organisations. We want to develop a network to deliver the project and this will be through a combination of the DYS Space network of eight “Youth Hubs” and members of VOYC, over the next three years with resources to support this.
 
We would want the activity to be identified and chosen by the young people and the sort of things we were anticipating were; local community projects, sports tasters, intergenerational activities outdoor activities/pursuits or inter club events.
 
If your organisation is interested in knowing more about this opportunity please contact me at the VOYC Office on 01392 250976 or email me

More about the fund:

POTENTIALS FUND

Sport England want to create opportunities that get people helping others from an early age. Many of those who take part in social action regularly started when they were as young as 10. 

Sport attracts many young people and can provide a springboard to social action. Just over half of young people prefer sport to any other volunteering pastimes.

They are keen to test bold new approaches with our Potentials Fund to get young people involved in social action that includes sport and physical activity – especially those who might not have been involved in sport before.

Take a look at the Volunteer Investment Guide

Torbay TechJam

The Torbay Tech jam  ( https://torbaytechjam.org.uk/ ) is a monthly event held at Paignton library on the second Saturday of each month. It's primary aim is to inspire children to code,  however this goes beyond that, as they cover hardware, software and try and provide resources to help people They also do demonstrations and hold talks that can are designed to be useful and informative,

They are open to all age groups,this means that adult representatives,teachers, parents can attend to ask for help advice too! Some of the younger members of the tech jam team,  are currently working on a new website.   

Improving safeguarding practices in Devon using inter-agency ‘Walkabouts’

The DSCB is looking to find out what is working and what is not working in terms of safeguarding arrangements across Devon at the front line.
  • To provide learning and development opportunities across the partnership
  • To provide opportunity to share good practice
Partners will visit a range of front line settings. It is proposed that there will be three different types of walkabout:
  • To quality assure safeguarding arrangements
  • To follow the journey of the child
  • To pursue particular themes
It is proposed that the ‘Walkabout’ will be undertaken by senior staff from partner agencies. Members of the DSCB Executive are encouraged to undertake the ‘Walkabouts’ but senior staff from across the services will also be encouraged to make their contribution to the safeguarding agenda by completing them too. Senior managers may choose to take a practitioner from their own organisation with them – this will give the advantage of both exposing that practitioner to some other agency working and ensure an operational focus is maintained.
More information HERE