| ONE HULL Update 2008 - Issue 3 |
| 18/11/2008
CONTENTS
1) ONE HULL News
a) Executive Group (EG) Meeting Round-up (August)
b) Hull Partnership
c) Sustainable Community Strategy
d) Local Area Agreement 2 (LAA2)
e) Working Neighbourhood Fund (WNF)
f) ONE HULL Communications
g) ONE HULL Performance
2) Round the Themes Update
3) Standing Advisory Groups (SAG) Update
4) ONE HULL Forum News (Business and VCS)
5) General News
a) Multi Area Agreement (MAA) Consultation
b) Name Change for Hull PCT
6) Key Links and Downloads | More details>> |
| Charities urged to bid for share of £2m |
| 30/10/2008
A £2.33m funding pot is available from H M Revenue & Customs for charities and community organisations in the UK who help vulnerable people reduce debt and get the right benefits and tax. You have until 12 November to make a bid. | More details>> |
| ONE HULL VCS Forum - Hull CVS Statement |
| 30/10/2008
Hull CVS' official response to the ONE HULL VCS Forum tender. | More details>> |
| Grassroots Grants |
| 15/09/2008
Hull CVS has been awarded a three year grant to become a Grassroots Grants Local Funder by the Community Development Foundation who manage the fund on behalf of the Office of the Third Sector. We will be working alongside York and North Yorkshire Community Foundation who have been awarded a similar grant to deliver Grassroots Grants in the East Riding of Yorkshire. | More details>> |
| E-news Bulletin 2008 - No 9 |
| 15/09/2008
Details of the e-news bulletin sent out September 2008 | More details>> |
| Nominations for the Hull Compact Volunteering Pioneer Awards 2008 |
| 13/08/2008
National Compact Week takes place between 1st to 7th November 2008.
To promote Hull Compact Week as well as recognising and celebrating the contribution that volunteers make in Hull, nominations are now invited for the Hull Compact Volunteering Pioneer Awards 2008.
| More details>> |
| Hull Core Strategy issues, options and suggested preferred option, June 2008 |
| 05/08/2008
Please find below a link to a copy of the above concerning the long term future of the city and the ‘spatial expression’ of the One Hull Community Strategy. We would like your views on this important document. Forms are available for you to respond or you can make comments online by following the link:
http://hullcc-consult.limehouse.co.uk/portal/planning/csdpd/
| More details>> |
| NEW BODY TO EXAMINE HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SERVICES |
| 21/07/2008
Hull City Council has awarded Hull CVS a three-year contract to develop Hull’s new LINk (Local Involvement Network). CVS are now recruiting local people and groups to join the LINk.
Hull LINk will be an independent network of individuals and voluntary and community groups looking at health and social care services provided by the NHS, City Council, private companies and charities. | More details>> |
| HUMBERSIDE POLICE AUTHORITY NEEDS YOU! |
| 26/06/2008
Independent Members Wanted
Closing date for Applications 25 July 2008
The Police Authority are seeking three independently-minded people to join them in their challenging role of ensuring that the people of Humberside are served by a police force that is responsive to their needs and expectations. The Authority work with local people, senior officers, local authorities, businesses and community and voluntary groups to ensure Humberside has an efficient and effective police service. | More details>> |
| Response from Hull City Council Streetscene to Hull Community Network Recycling Questionnaire |
| 25/06/2008
In January 2008 Hull Community Network presented a report to the council based on members’ views on recycling in the city. Views were collected through a questionnaire to members which asked for their ideas on how to improve Hull’s performance on recycling. | More details>> |
| Platform2 Programme |
| 23/06/2008
Platform2 is a unique opportunity for 18-25 year olds in the UK to volunteer in a developing country for 10 weeks and then come back and creatively express their experience in the UK. | More details>> |
| ONE HULL Community Engagement Framework and Toolkits |
| 11/06/2008
The Government is increasingly emphasising the need to involve residents and community groups in decisions that affect their lives. The 2007 Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act makes it a statutory duty to engage the people they serve in decisions about their area.
To meet these requirements, Hull Community Network took the lead with partners of ONE HULL to develop a Community Engagement Framework. This was adopted by ONE HULL in December 2006. | More details>> |
| Help Yourselves Awards |
| 09/06/2008
Save the Children and British Gas are pleased to announce the next funding round of the Help Yourselves Awards. You tell us what would change the lives of children and young people in your community and apply for a Help Yourselves Award of £1,000. | More details>> |
| VCS Equality and Human Rights Network Yorkshire and the Humber |
| 09/06/2008
The Regional Forum is currently the supporting the development of the VCS Equality and Human Rights Network Yorkshire and the Humber. This is a regional Voluntary and Community Sector network ensuring that excluded groups can influence developments in the region through having a united voice. | More details>> |
| E-news Bulletin 2008 - No 7 |
| 09/06/2008
Details of the e-news bulletin sent out June 2008 | More details>> |
| Hull Citizens Advice Bureau - Flood Advice Project |
| 09/06/2008
Hull Citizens Advice Bureau are pleased to announce an extension to the Flood Advice Project which has been working in partnership with Red Cross, Hull CVS and Hull City Council Flood Team. | More details>> |
| E-news Bulletin 2008 - No 6 |
| 06/06/2008
Details of the e-news bulletin sent out June 2008 | More details>> |
| Compact Awards 2008 |
| 30/05/2008
The Compact Awards demonstrate the Compact in action, recognising and celebrating the excellent partnership working taking place between the third sector and the public sector on a local, regional and national level. | More details>> |
| Hull Development Framework Core Strategy: Consultation on the Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report |
| 30/05/2008
We will shortly be consulting on Issues and Options for the Core Strategy of the Hull Development Framework (HDF). The Core Strategy will need to be accompanied by a Sustainability Appraisal (SA) which will assess the likely social, economic and environmental effects of the strategy. The first stage of the appraisal is the preparation of a ‘scoping report’ that sets out the range of factors that the appraisal needs to consider. A draft Scoping Report for the Core Strategy has been prepared by the consultants Arup. We are consulting on this Scoping Report to ensure that it covers all the relevant factors. | More details>> |
| The Yorkshire and the Humber Regional Empowerment Programme |
| 01/05/2008
As part of the Government’s Community Empowerment Action Plan, the National Empowerment Partnership (NEP) has been established to improve the quality, co-ordination and evidence of empowerment across England. | More details>> |
| Network Website Update |
| 30/04/2008
Hull Community Network's website has had a major update. | More details>> |
| Hull City Council Recruitment to Citizens' Panel |
| 28/04/2008
Hull City Council is looking to recruit 5000 people of all different ages, from different areas and ethnic backgrounds to form a huge citizens' panel, which will help improve council services. | More details>> |
| Community Empowerment Network (CEN) Research |
| 24/04/2008
Urban Forum has published research which details the current state of Community Empowerment Networks (CENs) in England. It shows that up to 40 per cent of CENs are set to lose funding and that quarter of CENs are doing less empowerment work at the same time as empowerment is rising to the top of the Government's policy agenda. | More details>> |
| Be a Member of the Hull Teaching Primary Care Trust (PCT) |
| 18/04/2008
The PCT is paving the way to become one of the first organisations of its kind in the country to operate a Membership. | More details>> |
| Hull Community Network - To continue |
 | 14/04/2008
Statement from Hull CVS about the future of Hull Community Network. | More details>> |
| E-news Bulletin 2008 - No 5 |
| 08/04/2008
Details of the e-news bulletin sent out in April 2008 | More details>> |
| Hull Citizens Advice Bureau - Risk of Closure |
| 03/04/2008
You may have seen in the media that Hull Citizens Advice Bureau is at risk of closure due to the
introduction of a Community Legal Advice Centre (CLAC). This will be funded by the Hull City Council and the Legal Service Commission which aims to deliver advice in the city primarily through the councils own customer service centres.
| More details>> |
| E-news Bulletin 2008 - No 4 |
| 03/04/2008
Details of the e-news bulletin sent out in April 2008 | More details>> |
| ONE HULL - Recruitment to New Executive Board |
| 12/03/2008
ONE HULL are recruiting through an open advert, two business and two voluntary/community sector representatives to the new Executive Board.
Deadline for applicants 12th March 2008 | More details>> |
| Your one-stop shop for free professional and practical assistance |
| 06/03/2008
Information about ProHelp and Hull & Humber Cares.
A scheme co-ordinated by Business in the Community. | More details>> |
| E-news Bulletin 2008 - No 3 |
| 29/02/2008
Details of the e-news bulletin sent out in February 2008 | More details>> |
| Are you involved or receiving care services? If so we would like to hear from you!! |
| 06/02/2008
‘We are inviting people to share their experience, knowledge and expertise!’
| More details>> |
| The Future of Hull Community Network |
| 06/02/2008
As you may know, following a review by Akronym consultants as part of the third sector infrastructure review, the ONE HULL Board on 11th December decided to terminate the funding for the work of Hull Community Network on 31st March 2008. This means the Network office on Beverley Road will close down and all staff will be made redundant. | More details>> |
| E-news Bulletin 2008 - No 2 |
| 01/02/2008
Details of the e-news bulletin sent out in February 2008 | More details>> |
| E-news Bulletin 2008 - No 1 |
| 01/01/2008
Details of the e-news bulletin sent out in January 2008 | More details>> |
| Are You Looking For Funding? |
| 14/12/2007
Kingston Upon Hull 4 Community can help you find what you are looking for and it is free to use.
A comprehensive database of funds available in the Hull area, simple and easy to use.
Simply click on www.hullcc.gov.uk
Then click on "Community funding2 in the left hand side menu. Then click on Hull 4 Community.
An easy access, user friendly, free website service provided by Hull City Council. | More details>> |
| **Important Announcement** Delivery Board Decision on Future Funding for Hull Community Network |
| 14/12/2007
Following the meeting of the ONE HULL Delivery Board yesterday afternoon (11th December), the One Hull Board’s decision about the above is as follows.
The Board were presented with two recommendations, and chose to leave the notice served upon HCN in late September in place. This will mean that funding for HCN will cease on 31 March 2008.
| More details>> |
| Working Neighbourhoods Fund (WNF) |
| 12/12/2007
The Government have announced details of a new Working Neighbourhoods Fund to turn around long term unemployment in the most disadvantaged communities.
| More details>> |
