Job Title: Bookkeeper Organisation: South Northants Volunteer Bureau (SNVB) Location: Towcester and Daventry (Hybrid options available) Hours: Part-time (typically 15–20 hours per week, flexible schedule) Reports to: Chief Executive / Board of Trustees Skills & Experience Essential: Proven experience working as a bookkeeper or accounts assistant, ideally within the voluntary or non-profit sector. Solid […]
Happy at Home is our Elderly Befriending service which supports older residents in the postcode areas NN1 – NN5. Our Report can be viewed here Elderly isolation (and as a direct result vulnerability) has increased across the UK by 47% since 2014. Our own Director of Public Health Report states: Within West Northamptonshire the population […]
West Northamptonshire Council have issued their latest round of Discretionary Community Grants. The details can be found here: Fresh grant funding available to power community impact across West Northants | West Northamptonshire Council These Grants are available to all VCFSE Groups and organisations with a maximum value per Grant of 15K. All application forms must be […]
VIN is reporting on a superb piece written by Northamptonshire’s former ICB chair, Naomi Eisenstadt, who now supports Resolve Poverty. This piece is about two issues: the language used to describe low-income families, and the way data is sometimes presented about families in poverty. Both the language and the data can lead to discriminatory assumptions […]
The ICB Cluster of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland (LNR) have just released their new 5 Year Plan as they move into the role of Strategic Commissioners. Their stated Commissioning objectives are: • Elective care – improving access and reducing long waits, modernising pathways, reducing unwarranted variation and delivering more care closer to home. • Urgent and […]
VIN launchers its new short-term strategy entitled Managing Change. The Strategy can be found here Russell Rolph, the CEO of VIN states: VIN launches its new short-term strategy at a time when the VCFSE is under more pressure than ever. VIN is not immune from these challenges and must find a new way of ensuring […]
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Lucy Rigby the MP for Northampton North visited VIN last week to celebrate National Volunteers Week. Volunteers from VINs Elderly Befriending Project (Happy at Home) and our Car Scheme were in attendance to explain the importance of volunteering and what works well for them. Lucy was particularly interested in the barriers to increased volunteering, especially […]
West Northamptonshire Council are embarking on the Big Conversation regarding Adult Social Care Provision. They are reaching out to the VCFSE for support and help in spreading the word. Why the VCFSE? As a voluntary or community organisation, you hold trusted relationships with people the local authority may not always reach. You understand their […]
The Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism collaborative have produced a Triple Squeeze Report which can be read here It paints a picture of funding restrictions, increased demand and the pressures faced by charities because of the increase in both the minimum wage and national insurance contributions, legislated in the last Government budget. Our Northamptonshire […]
