Future Engagement with the Integrated Care System (ICS)

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Engagement over The Live Your Best Life aspirations, the ICB 5 Year Forward Plan and the ICP Strategy will be coming soon. It will be delivered through 2 distinct phases.

Phase 1 is engagement and consultation within the system (so this includes ICS Partners and of course the VCSE sector as well as the Health and Wellbeing Boards North and West. The system also plans within Phase 1 to engage with LAPS (Local Area Partnerships) and CWF’s (Community Wellbeing Forums). What this will look like, and what form it will take is unclear, and more details will follow.

Phase 2 is the more Public facing campaign and will aim to reach the general population and Hard to Reach Groups.

The VCSE will have a role in both Phase 1 and Phase 2, but the extent of the what and the how is yet to be determined. Check back to this website on a regular basis for further updates.

 

New Governor

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David Ross Education Truss are looking for a new governor. If you would like some more information, please  click on the link below.

David Ross Education Trust – Become a Governor (dret.co.uk)

Lloyds Bank Foundation – Specialist programme

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The Foundation has a focus to support small, local, specialist charities with an income of between £25,000 & £500,000 where their three-year unrestricted £75,000 grant can make the greatest impact. They will support charities that understand the complexity of the issues people face and are best placed to make a genuine difference to people’s lives.

This year the Foundation will be able to fund 70 charities across England and Wales that are delivering frontline services around eight themes (addiction, asylum seekers and refugees, care leavers, domestic abuse, homelessness, offending, sexual abuse and exploitation, trafficking, and modern slavery).

Unrestricted grants from the Lloyds Bank Foundation will allow charities complete flexibility to use the funding however they see fit, including to cover salaries, rent and utilities, which have become ever more challenging due to the cost-of-living crisis. Through long-term funding, development support and influencing policy and practice, the Foundation helps charities make a life-changing impact, building a more just and compassionate society.

This funding programme incorporates lessons learned from the last five years, which the Foundation recently published in its Lessons for Funder Practice report. These include how offering unrestricted grants and tailored capacity building support to small frontline charities allowed for stability and growth; how having lighter touch processes and streamlining does not sacrifice due diligence; and how relationships and collaborations unlocked new opportunities and educated the Foundation on when to lead and when to follow.

For more details on the Specialist programme head to the Lloyds Bank Foundation website.

The Northamptonshire approach to Place Development – Place Structures Roadmap May 2022

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Take a look at the Northamptonshire Health and Care Partnerships document for more information about the approach to place development.

 

Northamptonshire Health and Care Partnership Vaccination Programme Programme ongoing resourcing 24th February 2021 (vcse-ics.co.uk)

Being a charity trustee

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The Charity Commission have some fantastic resources on various aspects of Governance within Charities (for both Trustees and staff). Take a look at the link bloew for more inforamtion.

Advice and guidance for Charity Trustees – Getting the most out of being a charity trustee