Due to demand we have booked 4 additional 45minute Training & Tea sessions with AWD Development Solutions; spread across October and November 2022.
Use this link or scan the QR code to have your say on what topics this training should cover & to register your email to receive an alert when booking opens for these popular sessions – www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/TrainingTeaChoices22
Save the dates now. Wednesdays. 9.30am – 10.15am –
5th October
19th October
9th November
23rd November
FREE for Community & Voluntary Third Sector organisations or groups in Chesterfield & NE Derbyshire* AND staff / students of the University of Derby – funded for you by Community Chesterfield.
£20 for everyone else*.
These sessions are interactive online bitesize training sessions – perfect alongside a cuppa! Places are limited.
Voting deadline is the 5th August 2022. Thank you!
Do you want the opportunity to work for a successful, dynamic and innovative organisation that champions the work and changing needs of the health related Voluntary and Community Sector in Derbyshire?
We are a lovely collaborative team who are passionate about the project and look forward to welcoming a marketing and communications officer to join us.
We are seeking an exceptional person to join the project team for COMMuniTY CHESTERFIELD, an innovative partnership project between Derbyshire Voluntary Action and the University of Derby. We are looking for an ambitious person who will take our project to the next level. They will be creative and collaborative to increase the project’s reach within our varied target audiences, to ensure that we are delivering the maximum benefit to those who need it. Excellent written skills and an eye for design will be essential, but we’ll also be looking for someone who can build and maintain relationships with key partners and a strategic thinker who will be keen to explore new ways to engage and inspire our current and future supporters.
DVA is an independent charity, which strategically represents and champions the work of the health and care voluntary and community sector. We provide vital support to a diverse range of local charities and community groups through our work and also connect people and resources to projects and ideas. Salary: £25,418.98 FTE Hours: 22.5 hours per week, 2 Year contract until 30th June 2024 with possibility to extend subject to funding. Pension: 5% pension contribution Responsible to: Community Chesterfield Project Manager Read our role profile here. Closing date for applications: 9am Monday 25th July Interview date: Wednesday 3rd August
For more information please contact Community Chesterfield on community@dva.org.ukor 01246 555908 (select option 2 for Community Chesterfield).
There are a few spaces still available for the ladies only ‘The Power of YOU’ Wellbeing & Empowerment Workshop this Saturday 9th July at The Green Enterprise & Training Centre, Loundsley Green, Chesterfield. The session runs from 10:00am until 5:00pm. This workshop is free and has been funded by The National Lottery Community Fund. The session includes an interactive journal, positivity postcard pack and light lunch. All that attendees need to bring along is a notebook and pen/pencil to make notes.
If you would benefit from taking part – it is not too late! You could be feeling isolated, lonely, struggling with mild to moderate mental health issues, struggling financially, recovering from domestic abuse, at a crossroads and need inspiration. Just a few examples of who ‘The Power of YOU’ can help!
Derbyshire County Council are in the process of launching a share productive teams group for anyone who wants to support them, be informed and contribute to the Mental Health & Suicide prevention in Derbyshire. The group will be hosted on Microsoft team (or can sign up to a mailing list) and is hosted by the Mental Health & Suicide Prevention team in Derbyshire County Council. If you work, volunteers within anything relating to mental Health or suicide prevention or even if you are passionate and a resident of Derbyshire, they are inviting you to join!
If you would like to join please fill in the forms link below or scan the QR code on the attached poster.
Today is the launch of Derbyshire County Councils “Let’s Chat Derbyshire” bench signs campaign.
These signs are to encourage conversations, encourage people to get out and about visiting new locations, as well as providing information around Mental Health Support and isolation.
Derbyshire County Council have been working in partnership with local councils, communities and partners including Chatsworth right across Derbyshire to get the signs up and map them across the County.
From the 4th July DCC have commissioned Tony Fisher, a local and professional photographer to capture pictures of the benches and them being used, from this they will be creating an exhibition across the winter to support in bringing the campaign indoors.
If you have a bench in Chesterfield or North East Derbyshire and would like a bench sign, you can collect one from The Hub @ Low Pavement (61-63 Low Pavement, Chesterfield S40 1PB, generally open Monday – Thursday, 10am – 3pm) or email info@dva.org.uk to arrange collection.
We would be very grateful if you would take a few minutes to let us know what you think about our work over the past year or so (from April 2021 to June 2022) and the services and support we have offered you through our core work.
The questions are broad, but please be assured we will look at your responses carefully and take account of them in our future interactions with our funders, as well as including them in our annual review and reports to stakeholders.
The survey closes on Friday 15th July. Thank you for your continued support.
Crisis Cafés are one of three ‘Mental Health Crisis Alternatives’ which aim to ensure that people in Derby city and across Derbyshire can access a range of services to receive support and prevent crisis out of hours.
A 24 Hour Helpline, run by P3 in partnership with NHS Clinicians and a Safe Haven, run by The Richmond Fellowship, are already up and running. A Crisis Café provides a warm and welcoming space in the evenings and at weekends for anyone who feels they are approaching a mental health crisis. It will be staffed by trained mental health workers and have access to NHS Clinicians.
Crisis Alternative Development Workers, Naomi and Claire, have been learning from other regions that already have Crisis Cafés and are talking to organisations that may want to offer a Crisis Café in Derbyshire. They are keen to have conversations with anyone that has a view on what a good Crisis Café would look like and to talk with organisations that might want to provide the service, as a single provider or as part of an alliance.
A short survey has been created to gather the sector’s views on what support would be needed from statutory services to ensure that Crisis Cafés are safe and accessible for all. You can complete the survey in 5 minutes by following this link. The survey will close at 5pm on Friday 8th July.
Feeling Connected in North East Derbyshire and Chesterfield
Social Connectedness Action Plan
‘Feeling Connected Fund’
Call for Proposals Projects in the range £501-£5,000 Submit by 5.00pm on Thursday 28 July 2022 to info@dva.org.uk
What is the Feeling Connected Fund for?
The aim of the Feeling Connected Fund is to fund work in the community that will help to break down the barriers people experience which stop them from feeling connected to others. These barriers include:
The Social Connectedness Action Group wants to commission new project work in North East Derbyshire and Chesterfield which will address one or more of these barriers – or indeed any other barriers you have identified in the course of your work. Projects should be complete by 31 March 2023.
Please send a short proposal (no more than 2 sides of A4) outlining:
WHAT: a description of the work you would like to do
WHERE: where your work will take place
WHO: the people who will benefit from your work (a community of interest or a geographical community).
HOW MANY: the number of people your proposed project will help.
WHEN: start and finish dates (projects should take no more than 12 months)
HOW MUCH: an outline budget of the funds you need to enable your project to happen.
THE NATURE OF THE BARRIER(S) YOUR PROJECT WILL ADDRESS: a description of the barrier(s) and an explanation of how your project will help.
OPPORTUNITY TO WORK IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OTHERS: detail any opportunities for joining up your work with the work of others.
Send in your proposal at any time over the next five weeks (from 23 June to 28 July) to: info@dva.org.uk. Our Social Connectedness Funding Panel will assess the proposals during w/c 1 August. We’ll follow up the proposal with a more in-depth discussion with the applicants we are able to support (15-26 August) and put in place a short service-level agreement for the delivery of the work by 15 September. We will highlight the successful projects in our communications during Feeling Connected Week (26-30 September 2022).
For more information contact Julia Cook on 07716 737397 / 01246 555908 / julia@dva.org.uk or James Starky on 07743 514934 / 01246 555908 / james@dva.org.uk.
