YLC e-bulletin 17th July 2023
18 July 2023 at 09:25
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WF-I-Can 16+ Area Now Live!
This is a great opportunity for local organisations to submit information to this area about their offer for young people, events and even blogs/ pieces from young people you're working with!
Check out the 16+ area here and keep checking back as it continues to grow: https://wf-i-can.co.uk/16-area/
Got a question about this? Email info@ylc.org.uk
Funding
Funding for places of worship
Tom Tugendhat, Security Minister has announced that places of worship will receive £28 million in funding to help keep them and their attendees safe.
The funding is available this year through two schemes:
- Places of Worship Protective Security Funding Scheme
- Protective Security for Mosques Scheme
The funding is part of the government’s commitment to ensure that faith communities in England and Wales are protected from the threat of hate crime and terror attacks, and can practise their faith freely and without fear. The money is for physical protective security, such as CCTV, intruder alarms and secure fencing to help protect mosques, churches, temples, gurdwaras and other places of worship. Mosques will also be able to access a new security guarding scheme later in the year.
To apply for funding, applicants should submit evidence of their vulnerability and experience of hate crime.
The application process is open from 21 June 2023 until 15 August 2023 at: https://www.homeofficesurveys.homeoffice.gov.uk/s/powapply23/
Muslim places of worship and their associated faith community centres will be allocated to the Protective Security for Mosques Scheme. All other faiths, except the Jewish community, will be allocated to the Places of Worship Protective Security Funding Scheme. A separate funding scheme is available to provide security measures for the Jewish community.
2024 GSK IMPACT Awards & new GSK Health Inequalities programme - open for applications
2024 GSK IMPACT Awards & new GSK Health Inequalities programme – core funding and free training for health charities - open for applications.
- The GSK IMPACT Awards are for charities with total annual income between £150,000 and £3 million. They are funded by GSK and provide core funding and free training for charities doing excellent work to improve people’s health and wellbeing. Up to 15 awards will be made, ranging from £4,000 to £50,000, plus free training and development valued at a further £9,500. Closing date Friday 1 September 2023.
- The new GSK Health Inequalities Programme supports small charities with total annual income between £20,000 and £150,000. Up to 15 charities will receive up to £10,000 in unrestricted funding plus access to free training and development valued at £2,700. Closing date Monday 14 August 2023.
To apply and find out more go to: www.kingsfund.org.uk/gskimpactawards
The King’s Fund has been tweeting about GSK IMPACT Awards and GSK Health Inequalities Programme using #GSKIMPACTUK – if you tweet, we would really appreciate a mention or retweet.
Million Hours Fund
- launched on 3 July 2023 will provide additional opportunities through the summer holidays 2023 for children and young people primarily aged 11 to 18 (and up to 25 for young people with special educational needs and disabilities).
The first round of The National Lottery Community Fund’s (TNLCF’s) Awards for All England programme Million Hours Fund has opened for applications. This funding is part of the Government’s Anti-Social Behaviour Action Plan to help youth organisations offer additional opportunities through the summer holidays. The initial funding will provide more chances for young people to play sport, take part in arts and develop life skills this summer. This is the first phase of funding of the Million Hours Fund, which totals £11 million up to March 2025.
Link to more information, guidance and how to apply https://www.westyorks-ca.gov.uk/policing-and-crime/commissioning/funding-opportunities/
News
V.I.P webinar
The number of children and young people vaping is increasing across the Wakefield district. As you may be aware, smoking remains the single biggest cause of preventable illness and death yet around a quarter of children and young people in Wakefield are exposed to smoking both in and around their own home.
Wakefield Council’s Public Health Team is hosting an informative FREE webinar for those with an interest in tackling the issues of youth vaping & smoking with an aim to be ‘proud to be smokefree’
The webinar will take place on Monday 25th September 2023 @ 3.30pm-5pm.
The three topic areas of focus are:
- Vaping
- Illegal Tobacco
- Proud to be Smokefree
This is a fantastic opportunity for Wakefield organisations and practitioners to find out more about current trends and facts about vaping, how partners are tackling vaping and smoking locally. Information about support for children, families and how your organisation can get involved will be promoted throughout the session.
New Autism Central Website
The new national Autism website has been set up by nine leading not-for-profit organisations in the UK and commissioned by NHSE, the aim is to offer parents and carers of autistic people easy access to autism education, training and support.
There are useful links on here, there is a directory and you can search if you are a parent, YP, professionals etc. There are resources and information on diagnosis, eating challenges, people stories etc. It is new and if you have any feedback please contact Juliet McGilligan Juliet.mcgilligan@hee.nhs.uk
www.autismcentral.org.uk
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Our Training/ Workshops
Upcoming SafeTALK Training Sessions Across the Wakefield District:
- Wednesday, 19th July, 09:30-3:30, Airedale Library
- Wednesday 18th October, 9:30-1:30, Samaritans Charlotte Street, Wakefield
Know what to do if someone is thinking about suicide by following the easy to remember TALK steps - Tell, Ask, Listen and Keep-safe.
These practical steps offer immediate help to someone having thoughts of suicide and help you both move forward to connect with more specialised support.
·Identify people thinking of suicide.
·Overcome barriers in talking about suicide.
·Identify reasons we may miss, dismiss or avoid suicide.
·Practice using the 4-step model of suicide alertness.
·Connect people at risk of suicide with further appropriate help.
‘’SafeTALK is informative, clear and concise I feel much more confident to ask people if they are thinking about suicide and know how to help them.’’
Places are free for those that live, work or learn in the Wakefield District. Including Hemsworth and District, Normanton, Castelford, Pontefract, Knottingley, Havercroft and Ryhill.
To book your free place visit our Calendar
Basic Awareness in Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults Training
- Saturday, 23rd September, 09:30-12:30, Salvation Army, Castleford
- Thursday, 12th October, 13:00-16:00, St Mary's Community Centre, Pontefract
Free safeguarding for VCFSE Groups
Do you want to learn more or to refresh your awareness of safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults?
This course raises awareness of the signs and symptoms of abuse and what to do if you are worried.
The course is designed for those delivering projects, activities or services to children, young people and vulnerable adults in the voluntary, community, social enterprise sector. For example people running and volunteering within community organisations.
For further information please contact info@ylc.org.uk
To book your free place visit our Calendar
Introduction to the Wakefield District Resilience Framework Training- increase confidence in using the framework (3-hour condensed and full day sessions)
- Friday 22nd September, St Swithun's Community Centre, Wakefield
- Friday 10th November, Wakefield suite, ground floor, Wakefield one
3-hour condensed sessions:
- Tuesday 10th October half day, Lightwaves Leisure Centre, Wakefield
The session will enable you to:
- Increase confidence in using the framework- Recognise how it can complement your work- Identify and overcome barriers to using the framework- Share best practice
By the end of the session the learner will:
1. Understand The Resilience Framework approach to working with children and young people and how it can be applied in to their own working practice.
2. Be able to use the Resilience Framework and its support tools to communicate effectively with children and young people.
3. Increase confidence to develop and use creative strategies (resources provided, new and existing interventions and activities) to build Resilience competences in children or young people.
4. Understand how the Resilience Framework can support practitioners in the assessments and processes to support children and young people be heard.
Please note that this training is delivered with Public Health, as such your details will be shared with Wakefield Council for the purposes of booking you on the training.
To book your free place visit our Calendar
Risk & Resilience Website training
- Friday, 20th October 23 1pm-3pm St Marys, Pontefract
- Friday, 3rd November 23 1pm-3pm St Marys, Pontefract
- Friday, 17th November 23 1pm-3pm St Marys, Pontefract
This is an amazing opportunity to further develop your knowledge of the Risk and Resilience, newly updated website.
Areas covered will include: how to make a questionnaire, promote new resources, explore our session plans and much more.
From Harm to Hope: Achieving a generational shift
in demand for drugs in Wakefield
The national drug strategy, From Harm to Hope, sets out the government’s long-term ambition to reduce overall drug use towards a 30-year low. The strategy acknowledges the Independent Review of Drugs led by Dame Carol Black which identifies:
- Heroin and crack cocaine market has been overtaken by the countylines model, driving increased violence in the drugs market and the exploitation of young people and vulnerable drug users.
- Young people and children have been pulled into drugs supply on an alarming scale, especially at the most violent end of the market.
- There are strong associations between young people being drawn into county lines and increases in child poverty, the numbers of children in care and school exclusions. Social media has played a facilitating role.
- Increased use of powder cocaine has been driven by those under 30. The demand for these drugs is strongly linked to the night-time economy and alcohol.
- There is a considerable increase in children using drugs, after a long period of a downward trend.
- Disinvestment in drug treatment and a growing level of unmet need.
More details coming up soon.
Please check our new website for updates.
Jobs
We are hiring two new Community Panel Coordinators
We are excited to share that we are hiring two new Community Panel Coordinators.
One will bring together six parent and carer community panels across Wakefield District, one in each Family Hub cluster area, making sure each panel serves the needs of local parents and carers.
The other will bring together a pool of volunteers from across Wakefield and the surrounding district to form a new community panel of people who have experience using local mental health support services.
Over the last few years, our panels and partnerships have gone from strength to strength, engaging and involving local people who are using services and connecting them to decision-makers. If you want to make a difference and are experienced and enthusiastic, take a look at these fantastic opportunities.
If you have any questions about the process, or you would like to have an informal discussion about the post, please contact our Chief Executive Officer, Gary Jevon, by telephone at 01924 787379.
Please visit Opportunities/ Job opportunitiesfor application packs.
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