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Vision for Volunteering, a collaboration across the voluntary and community sector, led by NAVCA, NCVO, Volunteering Matters and Sport England, are looking to engage voluntary and community groups to shape a new vision for volunteering. Through a series of workshops and a call for submission […]

Fellow VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance members Locality, with Power to Change, are working with NHS England and Improvement and other Alliance members to learn how community organisations and businesses, and the wider VCSE, can work better with their local PCNs to deliver high quality, […]

The Faith and Belief Forum in partnership with Culham St Gabriel Trust, the Open University and Inform have launched a survey on the parental experience of your child’s learning of RE. The survey aims to find out: How you found their experience of RE What […]

The government is now inviting responses to the details on the proposed certification regime which could be introduced as part of Plan B of the 2021 Autumn/Winter Plan. The policy is still being shaped, and responses on the workability of the proposed policy may still […]

The UK Commission on Bereavement is an independent commission set up to review the experiences of, and support available for, people affected by bereavement, and to make recommendations to key decision-makers. The commission is independent of government and supported by a steering group of charity […]

The Christian Social Impact Network has relaunched this month. It inspires Christian leaders of social impact organisations to achieve their full potential. At each meeting there are guest speakers and member sessions, where members meet confidentially in a workshop–style environment, share and discuss their goals, […]

FaithAction is a member of the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance; The Alliance will be relaunching their newsletter on 12th October. Brought to you by the Department of Health and Social Care and co-produced by system partners and members, you will receive updates about the […]

Good Things Foundation, a fellow member of the Health and Wellbeing Alliance have produced a report ‘Digital Exclusion and Health Inequalities’. The report provides an overview of digital exclusion and its relationship to health, social and economic aspects of people’s lives. You can download it […]

Linking Lives are holding a four-day conference ‘Streams in the Desert’, taking place Monday 13 to Friday 17 September. The conference will be exploring together ways in which groups can support each other and others in our communities as we collectively adjust to latest developments […]

The Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) Health and Wellbeing Fund 2021/22 is now live. The funding is focusing on providing support to families and children’s services due to a predicted increase in paediatric respiratory viral infections during autumn and winter this year. Funding is […]