Last week, the Caribbean and African Health Network, in collaboration with CORE organisations, held the CORE COVID-19 Vaccine Event, a panel discussion addressing concerns that Black and Asian communities may have related to Covid-19 vaccines.

If you missed the event you can still watch it back via CAHN's YouTube channel.

Over the last year, we have all experienced loneliness in ways that we could never have imagined. Research has shown that it’s been especially hard on young people. Students isolated from their families and friends at university, young people unable to see their peers during critical development phases.

In response to this 42nd Street have launched Lost and Found: an interactive experience that aims to open up a conversation around and increase understanding of youth loneliness.

The Charity Commission has launched a new set of simple, easy to understand guides to help trustees.

The new guides cover five key aspects of charity management - a ‘core syllabus’ covering the basics that the regulator expects all trustees to be aware of. This ‘gateway’ level guidance will make it easier and quicker for all trustees to check what is expected and to find more detailed information if needed, which is all the more important as charities respond to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Paul Streets, Chief Executive of Lloyds Bank Foundation has written a blog for NAVCA on their latest Small But Vital research, which found it is small charities' distinctiveness that makes them best placed to respond to this crisis. 

In the blog, Paul shares their research report findings that small charities have faced, and will continue to face, significant challenges due to the crisis and that they are seeing a growing complexity and demand in services because of the pandemic.

At this year’s elections on Thursday 6 May, voters will choose representatives for the City Mayor of Salford, all 60 Salford City Council seats and the Mayor of Greater Manchester. Salford City Council is currently making provisions to ensure that voting at polling stations will be as safe as possible during the current covid-19 situation. However, the council wants to ensure everyone can participate in a way that maximises personal safety so are encouraging residents to consider postal voting. It’s quick and easy to sign up with a registration deadline of 5pm on Tuesday 20 April.

On 6th May 2021, the people of Greater Manchester will elect their Mayor.

The Mayor has significant decision making powers over budgets and priorities across the city region. They will have a significant impact on the future of all VCSE organisations and our ambitions.

This hustings on Wednesday 14 April, 2021 12pm - 1.30pm  is your chance to put questions and requests to the candidates ahead of the Mayoral election on.

Disabled people have been disproportionately impacted by lockdown, with a greater deterioration in physical and mental health and increase in feelings of worry and isolation.

Empower You is an approach commissioned by Salford CCG, which works with communities to support disabled people to lead healthy and active lives. The programme offers eight weeks of support to disabled people in Salford and helps participants to set lifestyle goals, identify activities of interest and work towards achieving these goals

The Violence Against Women and Girls call for evidence has been reopened to reflect the recent public discussion and to provide an additional opportunity to feed into the consultation.

Views are sought to help inform the development of the government’s next Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy. They are particularly keen to hear from people who may feel underrepresented in previous strategies or who feel their circumstances were not supported by existing services.

Wednesday 31 March 1.45pm - 3.15pm

We Can’t Breathe: Gary Younge in Conversation with Zubaida Haque about Race, Class and COVID
The Coronavirus pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests have thrown issues of racial and class inequality into sharp relief. Join Gary Younge and Zubaida Haque for a conversation on the impacts of COVID and the Black Lives Matter movement for ethnic minorities in Britain.

The Centre for Ageing Better have curated the first free library showing ‘positive and realistic’ images of older people in a bid to challenge negative and stereotypical views of later life. The images, like the photo to the left, show a more realistic depiction of ageing and old age – to provide alternatives to the commonly used pictures of ‘wrinkly hands’ or walking sticks.

Thanks to NAVCA for highlighting this blog from charity comms pro Madeleine Sugden. When the pandemic hit things were changing so fast that creating 'images of text' for important messages was a way to fit as much information in one place as possible. However, this also meant that this information was inaccessible for people who couldn’t view the images - not just people using screen readers but those with low bandwidth, small screens and data limits. 

NHS Salford CCG has produced several films made by Salford GPs in different languages encouraging people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities to get vaccinated. We have included links to the videos on our resource page, where you will also find information on the new British Red Cross vaccine campaign.

The Boost Choose Now Change Lives programme offers community grants, managed by Groundwork, to help groups make a difference in their local areas and to truly facilitate change that will benefit communities for years to come.

Community sports clubs, community action groups, youth work, music groups and food banks are invited to nominate themselves for a chance of a stake of the £20,000 grant fund.

Each year the trustees of the Woodward Charitable Trust set aside funds for summer playschemes for children between the ages of 5-16 years.

The trustees only fund programmes that run for a minimum of 2 weeks or 10 days across the summer holidays. Most grants awarded are in the range of £500 to £1,000. Around 35 grants are made each year. Deadline for applications this year is 8 April 2021.

Applications for the Local Restrictions Support Grant (LRSG) and Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG) close on 31 March.

The LRSG is to help businesses that are registered as liable for business rates and have been legally required to close or directly affected by restrictions being put in place to manage coronavirus. The ARG  is to help further businesses impacted by restrictions.

We have signed a pledge to always Show The Salary when we advertise new roles. The #ShowTheSalary campaign aims to start to close the pay gaps that exist in our sector and give all candidates a more equal chance of a fair wage.

We are committed to promoting pay transparency, so we only advertise roles that state a salary (which meets the accredited Living Wage rate) and we encourage you to sign up and pledge to always Show The Salary.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Salford CVS to support our grants and investments programme. The post-holder will provide administrative support for all aspects of the grants and investments lifecycle. 

Our chosen candidate will be a well organised administrator with excellent attention to detail.