Erewash Voluntary Action News

 

Linda Brown Retirement

The Board of directors and charity Trustees of EVA wish to place on record their appreciation of the dedication, hard work and long service of Linda Brown. We firmly believe that the support and training on offer to our valued volunteers - YOU - was the best in Derbyshire, the East Midlands and probably in England.

Erewash has a very high level of volunteering – at one time the highest in Derbyshire and this success can be attributed to the hard work by Linda and the staff at EVA over many years. Linda came to EVA when it was formed in 1998 having served with the Volunteer Bureau located at the side of Community House. She regularly reminded us of the difficult conditions experienced in those early years. When EVA moved into the Parklands premises we had a separate Volunteer Bureau in rented premises on Derby Road near the Job Centre.

I have memories of Linda dancing on the table at an event in the late 1990’s and squeezing both her and Rosemarie into the back of a small Suzuki Jeep for a lift home. When I joined EVA as Chief Executive in 2002 she was and remained a senior staff member until retiring. We faced many challenges along the way including a move out of Long Eaton to Ilkeston for a period before having the funds to purchase and renovate our current premises on Granville Avenue.

Volunteering also went through many changes including changing from a Bureau to a Centre - having to pass regular quality checks to ensure that we remained a nationally accredited Volunteer Centre. Even that accreditation system is undergoing change as I write this.

The board took the opportunity arising from Linda’s retirement and approved a number of new posts and changes in duties that will be implemented when the new staff team is in place. Full details of the staffing teams will be circulated shortly. Our aim is to maintain the current level of services to the clients in Erewash and to provide a full range of quality services to retain our quality accreditation. We will do our best to broker a wide range of volunteering opportunities for Erewash residents. At present our main funding appears safe until next year but there has been no change to the funding of services like befriending which was cut by 50%. We have however seen and used new money for activities to support people during Covid and Linda made her usual valuable contribution recruiting for those tasks.

We wish Linda a very long, happy and healthy retirement after some 36 years in post and I am sure that each of you will also have fond memories to cherish and similar sentiments.

A final thankyou.   

Pete Edwards EVA Chair

 

Job Opportunities

 

Erewash Voluntary Action is looking to develop its work to support local voluntary and community action.

We have some exciting opportunities for you to join our team.

Each role will be on a one-year contract.

Communications Officer

The postholder will develop two-way communication with communities and individuals, mainly around Covid 19 messaging. They will also develop a communications strategy to promote positive messages about the work of the organisation. This role will involve working with partner organisations.

Hours 22 hours per week     Salary £24,000 pro-rata.

Volunteer Manager

The post holder will develop volunteering opportunities across Erewash, including our direct services. They will manage the volunteering team and our volunteers who provide a wide range of services. This role will involve working with partner organisations.

Hours 22 hours per week       Salary £26,000 pro-rata

General Office Manager

The postholder will provide support to the Chief Officer, managing the payroll and accounts systems. They will take minutes at our network meetings and produce management reports.

Hours 22 hours per week.      Salary £19,500 pro-rata

GP Link Support Worker

This post will support the Social Prescribing team in the delivery of a wide range of tasks including coffee mornings, assisting individuals to access groups and provide administrative support.

Hours 18.5 hours per week.    £21,164 pro-rata

Shopping/Befriending/Buddy Coordinator

The postholder will coordinate our direct services, which provide vital support to residents of Erewash.

Hours 25 hours per week        £21,164.00 pro-rata 

Volunteer Support Worker

The postholder will provide administrative duties for the volunteer team. They will also meet, greet and welcome visitors to the site.

Hours 15 hours per week       £17,143 pro-rata 

 

Application packs and information can be found on our Erewash Voluntary Action website www.erewashvoluntaryaction.org.uk or email lee@erewashcvs.org.uk for an application pack.

For an informal chat about any of the posts, call Stella Scott Chief Executive Officer on 0115 9466740

Closing date for all vacancies is 16 April 2021.

Communications Officer

 

Communications Officer

At Erewash Voluntary Action we are now actively recruiting for an exciting new part time role that will support our work across the community and will be a key position in developing relationships, partnerships and linking to those hard to reach areas across Erewash.

We are looking for someone to join our team as a Communications Officer, who’s role will be to:

a)    Work closely with Public Health and other partners to develop the community messaging agenda to ensure our communities are receiving up to date and clear messaging as effectively as possible with a particular focus on the hard to reach areas, volunteers, businesses, and voluntary sector groups. This will also involve building a communication plan and process that will benefit the community of Erewash in the long term.

 

b)    Evolve and develop our communications to create a much stronger connection to our vision, mission, impact and the values of the organisation. This will be with an objective of developing and implementing processes to help us engage with our members and our local community.

 

This exciting new post

24 hours per week to be worked flexibly

Salary: £24,000 (pro Rata) fixed term to March 2022  (possibility to extend/increase hours dependent on funding)

Please download an application pack from www.erewashvoluntaryaction.org.uk

Or e-mail   lee@erewashcvs.org.uk

or send an A4 SAE (Large letter stamp) to

Lee Tivey, Erewash Voluntary Action, Granville Avenue, Long Eaton, NG10 4HD

 

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: 11^th March 2021 4PM.

INTERVIEW DATE:  17^th March 2021

This post requires a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Development Worker – Mental Health and Suicide Prevention

 

Development Worker – Mental Health and Suicide Prevention

 

Development Worker – Mental Health and Suicide Prevention

To work on a new project to raise mental health awareness with a range of voluntary and community groups including sports organisations across Derby and Derbyshire.

35 hours, including some weekend and evening working (for which Time off in Lieu will be given)

Salary: £24,050 (Pro Rata) 12 month contract

Are you enthusiastic about empowering people to promote good mental health and suicide prevention awareness within the voluntary and community sector including sports groups? 

We need a new Development worker who will engage with a range of identified organisations and enable their workers and volunteers to:

• Understand the need to promote mental health across their contacts
• Access training, develop mental health policies and action plans
• Signpost to ongoing advice and support

 

A commitment to the promotion of good mental health and an interest in supporting groups  is essential. Our target groups will be local Voluntary and community groups, football clubs, gyms and boxing clubs and identified workplaces.

You will need excellent communication skills, and an aptitude for learning. You must be self motivated and able to work independently within an agreed framework. You will be self-supporting so must be fully computer literate. You will need to be able to work flexible hours and to travel across Derby and Derbyshire. Posts will be based at our office in Long Eaton with the possibility of hot-desking with a partner organisation in the north of the county.

Please email lee for an application pack e-mail: lee@erewashcvs.org.uk

or send an A4 SAE (Large letter stamp) to

Lee Tivey, Erewash Voluntary Action, Granville Avenue, Long Eaton, NG10 4HD

 

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: Thursday 4^th March 2021 4PM.

INTERVIEW DATE: Thursday 11^th March 2021

This post requires a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

 

Winter Newsletter 2020

 Our latest Winter Covid 2020 Newsletter is now available to read. 

Please click on the link to read

The Commissioner’s Vulnerability Fund

 The Commissioner’s 

Vulnerability Fund

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The 'Vulnerability Fund' has been set up by Derbyshire's Police and Crime Commissioner Hardyal Dhindsa. The focus of the PCC's Vulnerability Fund is on policing and crime, community safety and helping to create safer and stronger communities.

Applications should consider alignment to the Police and Crime Plan priorities and broader community safety objectives in local communities. Consideration may be given to contributing to broader health and social care programmes but only where match funding is already agreed from other partners and there are linked crime and policing-related outcomes which make individuals or communities safer and stronger.

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The Commissioner will be looking for projects:

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• which help individuals to live safely and without fear of crime in their homes.

• which empower the local community to tackle problems in their neighbourhood areas.

• are organised by (and involving) community/neighbourhood groups.

• can demonstrate that they can make a difference to local communities.

• that take a new and sustainable approach to tackling long term problems.

• that foster good relations between partner agencies and communities and do not work in isolation.

 

There are two funding strands to the Vulnerability Fund

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Micro-grants from £50 to £1,000
Micro-grants can be applied for from Erewash Voluntary Action CVS. For an application form and criteria contact the Development Worker Catriona Paterson by email catriona@erewashcvs.org.uk   

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Applications can be made up until 1 March 2021

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Large grant from £1,000 to £25,000

Larger grants of between £1,000 and £25,000 will be available for communities, charities, voluntary and non-profit organisations to make a real and lasting difference in their areas. This may include projects providing support for vulnerable people coming out of lockdown; services, advice or self-help groups offering emotional and practical support to prevent people from becoming victims or perpetrators of crime and those that help and encourage vulnerable people who have lost their jobs or income during the pandemic to get back into work or training to minimise their risk of becoming involved in crime.

For more information and to download an application form, visit the following website www.derbyshire-pcc.gov.uk/VF

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The application deadline for large grants is 13 November 2020

 

Important Information concerning the fund

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The Vulnerability fund:

• is Derbyshire-wide including Derby City

• can be used for meeting capital or revenue costs

• is available to the voluntary and community sectors, charities and non-profit making associations on behalf of the individuals and communities they work with.

 

Are you eligible?

 

• Your group/organisation must have a set of rules, memorandum of understanding or Constitution (governing document)

• Your group/organisation must have an active management team/board of Trustees of at least three people who are unrelated

• Your group/organisation must have a bank account in the name of the group with at least two unrelated signatories.

CONNECT EREWASH - TELL US YOUR VIEWS

 

CONNECT EREWASH

TELL US YOUR VIEWS

Erewash Voluntary Action is leading the Connect Erewash project on behalf of Derbyshire County Council Public Health.

Connect Erewash is a project to reduce isolation and loneliness, and to work with communities and groups to identify activities to help improve or reduce isolation in communities. 

We would like to find out how you connect with other people, barriers you experience and if you would like to get more involved in your community.

Please complete the Connect Erewash questionnaire using the online link to the survey. The questionnaire is short and will only take a few minutes to complete.  All completed questionnaires will be entered into a prize draw for a £25 supermarket voucher.

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/F2QPDZP

If you would like a copy of the questionnaire emailed or sent in the post, contact Lee Tivey at Erewash Voluntary Action email lee@erewashcvs.org.uk

Connect Erewash contributes to the Community Wellness approach ensuring people live happy and healthy lives and know where to get help when required. Four Erewash Community Networks have been established in Sawley, Kirk Hallam, Petersham and Cotmanhay.

For further details about Connect Erewash contact Catriona Paterson at Erewash Voluntary Action email catriona@erewashcvs.org.uk  Tel: 0115 9466740