Entries by Sophie Negus

West Northamptonshire Place Board Presentations

The West Northamptonshire Place Board continues to meet every 2 weeks and VIN keeps a watching brief over Discussions and Presentations.   Recently tabled were the Police Plan for 2025 – 2028 which can be viewed here.   The West Northamptonshire Active Lives Strategy can be seen here.   An update on the NSport Sport […]

Council pledges ongoing support for community activities

West Northamptonshire Council (WNC) remains committed to supporting community-led events and activities across the area. The Council, which has a new political administration led by the majority party Reform UK following last month’s elections, continues to give its backing to a busy  and varied local community events calendar for the year ahead, providing resource and […]

Volunteers Week 2025

Volunteers Week 2025 began on the 2nd of June. It’s an important week where the value of volunteers can be truly recognised. We all know the powerful impact that volunteers provide: Without them many VCSE organisations would be unable to deliver the innovative and creative services they do. Whether it’s as a volunteer Trustee, or […]

Community Engagement Facilitator

We have recently been awarded a grant from the Compton Fund. An element of this funding involves outreach to the local community (The Mounts). To meet this need we require the services of a Community Engagement Facilitator. The successful candidate will work Freelance on a short-term contract. Project Duration will be from April 2025 till […]

Consultation on changes to charity accounting rules

The Charity Commission and its sister bodies in Scotland and Northern Ireland have launched a public consultation on the next version of the charities accounting and reporting framework. This framework, known as the charities’ Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) is the sector standard for accounting and reporting for charities that are companies or have an […]

Health Inequalities & Community Cohesion Conference 31 March

Connect Northamptonshire co-funded the North Northamptonshire Health Inequalities Conference this week that was attended by over 100 delegates.  For those of you that missed it, here’s the Slide Deck from all the speakers that gives a great oversight from the day’s fruitful conversations.  It was really lovely to see the Service User Friendly Forum developing […]

Lloyds Bank Foundation Racial equity programme

This programme is aimed at registered charities and CICs which are led by and working with people who are experiencing economic inequity because of their race or ethnicity. Your organisation will be led by the communities you serve, working with people over the long term to help them break free from poverty and achieve their […]

Russian Leaflets

COPD Asthma Breathlessness Feeling Lonely  Low Mood Stress Anxiety CYP Emotional Wellbeing CYP Mental Health Services CYP Mental Health Support    You can view the videos in Russian here

Polish Leaflets

Asthma  Breathlessness COPD Stress  Anxiety Feeling Lonely  Low Mood CYP Mental Health Support   CYP Emotional Wellbeing  CYP Mental Health Services    You can view the health videos in Polish here