Insurance can play a key role in protecting your charity or community organisation and the income it needs to generate. Some types of cover may be essential and can be a legal requirement for a charity with staff. Other types of insurance safeguard a charity’s finances by insuring property, indemnity or liability risks. 

Whether you run a community project or a niche counselling service, charities come with unique risks. That’s why we’ve partnered with third sector insurance broker Ladbrook Insurance to run a free, online workshop on the subject of risk and insurance for Nottingham’s Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector. 

The Nottingham City Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) has been running since June 2019 but what has it achieved so far and what role does it play in the city's voluntary and community sector?

Through a series of articles, we’ll be providing an overview of Nottingham City ICP and its current priorities, as well as exploring the role we, at Nottingham Community and Voluntary Service (NCVS) play as a partner organisation, and how the voluntary and community sector can become more involved in the ICP to help shape and develop it.

Our first article provides an introduction to Nottingham City ICP and its priorities, read it by clicking on the button below.

There's still time to book your place on our next Leaders of Volunteers Network (LoVN) meeting.

The meeting will take place online via Zoom on Wednesday 12 May 2021, from 10am-12pm.

This online event is open to anyone with an interest in managing, supporting or leading volunteers.

More info about what to expect from this session is available on our website.

Tuesday 13 April 2021, 2pm-3pm

This one-hour online session looks at methods that have proved to be effective in volunteer leadership, including the best ways to plan, involve, support and retain volunteers.

This session will be helpful for those who are new to working with volunteers or those who want to improve or gain new ideas for their group's volunteer management processes, making it a useful refresher for more experienced leaders.

Cost: £10 per participant

Wednesday 28 April 2021, 10am-11am

In this one-hour online session, we will identify some of the barriers that potential volunteers face to becoming involved in your organisation and share ideas to remove these barriers.

From a language barrier, time commitments and transport through to disability, mental health and age, this session helps to spot the things that prevent volunteers joining us.

Together, we will look at ways to overcome those barriers and give the volunteer and the organisation a rewarding, fulfilling and effective volunteering experience.

Cost: £10 per participant

Tuesday 20 April 2021, 10am-11.15am

For organisations and community groups who are new to applying for funding, or for those in need of a refresher. Relevant for groups applying for Covid-19 funding and recovery support as well as other general funding.

This session is suitable for staff, volunteers, community activists and management committee members/ Trustees/ Directors with responsibility for writing funding applications, who want to start something new in their community or who would like to develop these skills.

Cost: £10 per participant

Wednesday 14 April 2021, 10.30am-1.45pm

An online course giving a basic understanding of roles and responsibilities in the safeguarding of adults and how to respond to concerns.

This interactive course is delivered over one session, but divided into two parts, allowing for a 45 minute break and reflection between part one (10.30am-11.45am) and part two (12.30pm-1.45pm). You are required to complete both parts.

A certificate of attendance will be issued following completion of the course.

Cost: £25 per participant

Wednesday 21 April 2021, 10.30am-1.45pm

An online course giving a basic understanding of roles and responsibilities in the safeguarding of children and young people and how to respond to concerns. 

This interactive course is delivered over one session, but divided into two parts, allowing for a 45 minute break and reflection between part one (10.30am-11.45am) and part two (12.30pm-1.45pm). You are required to complete both parts.

A certificate of attendance will be issued following completion of the course.

Cost: £25 per participant

The PDU aims to promote and facilitate collaborative learning and the sharing of good practice among professionals and volunteers from all sectors, in Nottingham and neighbouring areas, who work with people experiencing multiple disadvantage (understood as a combination of mental ill-health, substance misuse, homelessness, offending and domestic abuse, among other issues).

Contact our coordinator Filipa Santos for more information by sending an email to enquiries@pdunottingham.org or calling 0115 934 8428 or 07483 354 441.

Join our free online hub www.pdunottingham.org

Follow us on Twitter @NottinghamCVS #PDUNottingham.

The PDU offers a unique opportunity for voluntary and statutory sector workers who support people experiencing multiple disadvantage across Nottingham and neighbouring areas, to connect, learn collaboratively and share good practice and expertise.

By participating in our events, you will have the chance to develop your knowledge and skills and extend your professional network by making links with other local organisations.

Attendance to PDU events is free of charge, but advance booking is essential. Follow the relevant links below to register your place at our upcoming events.

Please note that it is PDU policy that people with lived experience are invited to participate in our events.

Thursday 13 May 2021, 10.30am to 11.30am

Online via Zoom

Join us for an online event exploring the role of specialist multiple disadvantage workers, often referred to as navigators. This event will reflect on the skills and competencies required for these specialist roles, as well as what support is needed for these workers to be effective, including:

• A presentation by CFE Research of the findings from their recent Fulfilling Lives national evaluation briefing on workforce development: “What makes an effective multiple disadvantage navigator?"
  
  
• Insight from Opportunity Nottingham, a specialist multiple disadvantage service
  
  
• Hearing from people with lived experience of multiple disadvantage and receiving support from Opportunity Nottingham
  
  

Audience: This webinar is aimed at services who have or are looking to develop specialist multiple disadvantage roles within their organisations.

Nottingham-based charity Equation has launched a new campaign aimed at helping a friend who may be experiencing domestic abuse.

The #HelpAFriend campaign provides four simple steps you can take to help a friend in need, these are:

• Learn to spot the signs of domestic abuse
  
  
• Learn the right things to say if someone tells you they're experiencing abuse
  
  
• Learn safety tips, so as not to put you or your friend at risk
  
  
• Learn where to go to get help

Together with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), The Young Foundation is conducting new research to understand the various ways in which volunteers have been (and continue to be) active within local authority areas across England during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Volunteers have played a pivotal role in the community response to Covid-19. DCMS are conscious that these efforts have not only been largely co-ordinated collaboratively at local level, but that they continue to evolve as local partners adapt to the different phases of lockdown and local needs they are addressing. As a result, a variety of different volunteer models, ways of working, and approaches are becoming noticeable.

This research seeks to understand the ways in which volunteer groups have worked and developed in relation to the range of different challenges and contexts faced locally. It will help inform future volunteering-led responses and to better-understand the contribution volunteering (and the infrastructure enabling it) makes to the resilience and civic life of a local area.