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If you're a Nova member and would like to share your news, please email it over to info@nova-wd.org.uk.
Our Lead Community Mental Health Builder, Rachel Hale, has been meeting with colleagues from SWYPFT and West Yorkshire Police around Right Care, Right Person. This policy has raised some concerns within the VCSE sector relating to welfare checks, especially over the Winter Period.
Our House has become a lifeline for so many local LGBTQ+ people across Wakefield District, and they have welcomed over 3000 people through their doors in the short 18 months since they first opened. Now, they need our help!
West Yorkshire Violence Reduction Partnership are currently considering the potential delivery of a community leadership development programme to run from early 2024. Express your interest by Monday 8 January!
Grants are available through the Third Sector Framework to support VCSE organisations to deliver open access youth provision for children and young people aged 11 – 17 years (up to 25 with special educational needs and disabilities).
It's not long until we wrap up our work for 2023, so you can find our closing times here.
We asked our members, colleagues and partners what they thought of our celebration on Wednesday 6 December, here's what they told us...
YPO are kindly looking to donate a wide range of furniture to local VCSE organisations.
Wakefield Safeguarding Children Partnership (WSCP) are running a new district wide campaign on what it means to be professionally curious and challenging in the district.
Share your views with CAF by 20 December and be in with a chance of winning a £250 donation for your charity.
The Hub of Hope is the UK’s leading mental health support database.
SEYH represent, promote and connect social enterprise across the region. It's time for their annual awards!
Each month we showcase the amazing organisations that make up our membership and the important work they do across the Wakefield District. We hope you enjoy hearing from CoActive Arts!
Citizen Coin is now the place to advertise your volunteering opportunities in Wakefield District and reward your volunteers.
Grants of £10,000 to £25,000 per year are available through the Third Sector Framework, funding VCSE organisations that support communities with the highest deprivation and poorest health outcomes in Wakefield City Centre.
It’s becoming more and more challenging for VCSE organisations to keep delivering their services that support and enrich communities.
VCSE Advocates need your input so they can advocate for you and the local VCSE sector.
Are you passionate about justice and equality? Do you want to be part of a movement that creates real, lasting change?
Join our AGM to hear a recap of our year, explore the challenges our sector is facing, and network with Nova Members and partners.
Local VCSE organisations know what their communities need. We've opened another funding opportunity where they can decide what to fund.
Our partners have launched a new collaboration to make sure that every child in Wakefield District has a comfortable bed to sleep in.
An update from Kim Shutler, VCSE Lead for West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board & Senior Responsible Officer for Power of Communities.
AI is becoming part of everyday life – from using Google Maps to email software – so we were interested to see how it could benefit VCSE organisations.
Up to 850,000 pensioner households may be entitled to Pension Credit, but do not claim it. Encourage the people you support to check their entitlement.
£20,000 awarded to local organisations, who came together to present their pitch and decide what to fund.
This National Inclusion Week, NCVO's shares some top tips on how charities and voluntary organisations can make it easier for disabled people to volunteer.
Follow us to keep up with our latest news and opportunities, including funding, events, workshops and member spotlights.
We need your help to advocate for our sector. Opportunities closing on Wednesday 4 October.
This week, we've welcomed Mike Romano to the Nova team!
Free financial wellbeing support is available for everyone working and volunteering in health & social care in Wakefield District.
Our colleagues at Live Well Wakefield have a programme starting in October that may be helpful to you or the people you support.
Looking to level up your social media and make a bigger impact online? Catch up on this quick and useful workshop with Kat from Wordsmiths Unlimited.
Our Year – Wakefield District 2024 is coming, and you can be part of it!
Welcome to Wakefield provides information for those recently arrived or now settled in Wakefield. Find out how you can part of the welcome!
There are multiple opportunities to get involved in representation! These roles are not part of Nova's VCSE Voices project.
West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership have started with a simple question that they want to try to answer: what is their approach to co-production?
The 10th September is World Suicide Prevention Day.
Working with the VCSE sector, we want to make sure that residents can find support within their local community!
Each month we'll be showcasing the amazing organisations that make up our membership and the important work they do across the Wakefield District. We hope that you enjoy hearing from...
We want to promote the amazing VCSE services available and work you’re doing in Wakefield District that supports our workforce and community.
It's time to re-shape, re-imagine and re-purpose the group, and the new chairs want your input.
Nova wants to create a space for our members to come together and be inspired! So join us at our 2021-22 AGM for a morning of enterprising talks, networking and personalised funding support.
The Funders Fair in September brought together 10 local, regional and national funders and representatives from 45 VCSE organisations from across Wakefield District.
Thinking Differently is a brand new project with 5 Nova Member organisations
Each month we'll be showcasing the amazing organisations that make up our membership and the important work they do across the Wakefield District. We hope that you enjoy the new video format, where you'll be hearing from...
Each month we'll be showcasing the amazing organisations that make up our membership and the important work they do across the Wakefield District. We hope that you enjoy reading more about....
A real range of services will be using this new VCSE space which has come about through collaboration between Live Well Wakefield, Nova and NHS premises team.
Each month we'll be showcasing the amazing organisations that make up our membership and the important work they do across the Wakefield District.
Residents of the Warwick Estate began sharing recipes in lockdown and the food initiative now reaches 70 families, in a programme managed by Warwick Ahead.
Funding is available for voluntary organisations, non-profits, charities and CICs in the Wakefield District through fundraising website easyfundraising.
The £20 Universal Credit uplift ended at the end of September. Did you know that you could receive additional support and advice around the recent changes to Universal Credit? Find out more here.
The movement is part of an ongoing commitment to tackle structural and institutionalised racism, as well as addressing health and social inequalities across the area.
Community>Wakefield - the new place for services, activities, opportunities and events across Wakefield District.
Each month we'll be showcasing the amazing organisations that make up our membership and the important work they do across the Wakefield District. We hope that you enjoy learning more about....
The Nova team would like to thank volunteers for their inspiring and incredible work to support people and organisations across the Wakefield District.
We have asked community organisations to provide us with information and stories so we can highlight the brilliant work that volunteers are doing throughout Wakefield District during the pandemic.
13 projects have been awarded funding through the recent Live Well Wakefield Small Grants – Coronavirus Resilience Fund.
Our annual Community Anchor Network conference, #CANCon20 took place on 10 March 2020.
The Wakefield District Third Sector Strategy 2020 - 23 has now been published.