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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!
VCSE organisations are central to developing a neighbourhood approach to tackling the climate emergency, by bringing communities together to work towards common goals.
Need some catering for an event? Consider supporting a local VCSE organisation, like The Prince of Wales Hospice.
This will make it easier to support and work with local VCSE organisations and increase health spending in our local economy!
Wakefield District Sight Aid have a bunch of yellow collection boxes that they're kindly offering for free to a good home!
It’s time for a fresh focus on strategy, collaboration, and unity.
A helpful short resource for any of our members working to prevent and reduce gambling harms.
Today, Locality launched its latest report as part of their work on the government’s VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance.
We’re excited to announce that the form for applying for the Framework has moved online, and it’s now live and ready to use!
Groundwork Yorkshire are delivering a retrofit outreach service funded through the West Yorkshire Combined Authority & the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero.
Pro Bono Economics (PBE) is a charity which can provide other charities, voluntary organisations and community groups with quick, easy, probono support from a dedicated volunteer economist to help with ad hoc data needs.
“Mapping Anti-Muslim Discrimination and Information Manipulation, and its Impact on Humanitarian Aid and Development" is a new report that touches on the issues hindering the work of Muslim-led charities.
Plinth have released an AI tool to help charities write grant applications, find grants and check their eligibility before they apply.
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.
Some VCSE organisations currently based in The Ridings are looking for new premises - can you help?
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 you enjoy hearing from Heavy Metal Therapy!
It was brilliant to see so many of you at our first in-person AGM since 2019! Here are some highlights from the event.
Our teams got together in December for a very important cause - making sure that children in care and their families received gifts over the festive season!
We're pleased to announce we have a new Chair of Trustees, Chris Bann, and a new Vice Chair, Simon Topham.
A new report has been released - Third Sector Trends in England and Wales 2022: employees, volunteers, diversity and investment in people.
It's not long until we wrap up our work for 2022, you can find our closing times here.
We're thrilled to have launched VCSE Voices, an initiative to recruit VCSE Advocates from our sector to attend district-wide decision-making boards to influence policy and create positive change.
An all-new Citizens Advice service has opened its doors in Pinderfields Hospital.
We're really proud of what we achieved in 2021-22, see what you think!
There's a range of information below for you and people that engage with your organisation's activities and services.
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.