The National Youth Council for Voluntary Services (NYCVS) has published the 5th edition of the Funding Guide for Workforce Development. The guide is aimed at employers, training providers and learners who work with children, young people and families in the VCS. A new addition this year is a section devoted to funding schemes for training providers.
For more information go to http://www.ncvys.org.uk/Funding.html
Starbucks, working in partnership with UK Youth and the Irish Youth Foundation, is offering the Youth Action Grants scheme as a means “to encourage and inspire a generation of young people to take action and create positive local change.”
The scheme offers young people (aged 16 to 24 years) who have great ideas of how to improve their communities, £2,000 in seed funding and volunteer time from local Starbucks partners (employees) to bring their projects to life.
Groups working with young people must be based and working in one of the following areas: Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Dublin, Edinburgh, Greater London, Leeds, or Manchester.
The deadline for applications is 5 March 2012 (9am).
Royal Exchange, Manchester
The Truth about Youth Festival will take place at the Royal Exchange from 16 – 29 July 2012. An imaginative explosion of talent and energy, the TaY Festival is fourteen days and nights of brand new theatre, music, art, cooking, film, workshops, dance and great debate… made by and with 1,000 Manchester teenagers. Made for everyone.
With only 5 months to go, we are now looking to recruit over 200 young people aged 14 – 21 to work with us to staff, promote and create work for the Festival.
There are opportunities in the following areas…
If you would like to apply for any/all of these opportunities, then please email education@royalexchange.
We will let everyone know what project(s) they have been offered by Friday 16 March.
Youth Dance England and South East Dance are looking for fresh new dance films made by or featuring young people that are less than 10 minutes in length for screening at U.Dance 2012 at Southbank Centre in London in July 2012. If you have a dance film made in the past two years, which you would like to be considered for inclusion in the event, please submit your film to us.
Deadline for entries is Friday 30th March 2012
To apply:
Download the application form following the link below and Email a completed form along with a link to your dance film online and send us two high quality images from your film (minimum of 300 dpi) in JPEG format to: emily.james-farley@
A screening fee will be available to applicants whose films are selected for inclusion in U.Dance 2012 subject to a license agreement. All entrants must hold all the relevant rights to agree distribution of the entered film. Preview copies will not be returned unless a SAE is supplied on entry. Entries may also be considered for other screening opportunities.
Fresh Takes is a South East Dance initiative delivered and co-produced with Youth Dance England for U.Dance 2012.
For more information and to download an application form, go to http://www.u-dance.org/main.cfm?type=FRESHTAKES
Nexus Community Links CIC is looking to fill a number of positions. Could you, or someone you know, be the person to join our team?
We are looking for staff who have a passion for people and the community, but who also are aware of the daily challenges facing a small social enterprise.
Our company is built on the ethos of co-production and our work in the community is carried out through the timebanking system.
If you feel you could fill the the role of;
please contact the Nexus office or e-mail b.kerks@nexuslink.org for more details and an application pack.
