January 4th, 2012 
Tippa Naphtali 
Chris Grayling, the employment minister, has indicated that voluntary organisations are eligible to apply for subsidies to employ young people as part of the government’s new £1bn Youth Contract. The three-year scheme will give employers subsidies worth £2,275 per person to take on 160,000 18 to 24-year-olds for six months.
November 30th, 2011 Tippa Naphtali 
A website that rewards users with a ‘social currency’ for sharing, volunteering or donating to charity launched earlier this week. People can sign into the Blue Dot website using their Facebook account and then earn dots through activity on social networks such as ‘liking’ a charity and sharing on Twitter. The dots can then be used to gain access to exclusive offerings from celebrities and online content.
Posted in Funding & Resources, Internet & Cloud 
Tags: Funding & Services, Social Enterprise 
No Comments » November 30th, 2011 Tippa Naphtali 
Charities and Trusts provide funding towards the high cost of disability equipment, holidays, housing, days out… in fact anything above and beyond the normal costs of everyday living.
October 19th, 2011 Tippa Naphtali 
Featured in this article:
1) The Community First Neighbourhood Matched Fund is the new government fund which will enable small grants to strengthen local communities.
2) Birmingham Transforming Local Infrastructure is a bid for £600,000 of government funding to improve support for frontline civil society groups in the city.
Posted in Birmingham Networks, Funding & Resources Tags: Active Citizens, Funding & Services No Comments » October 18th, 2011 Tippa Naphtali 
The Reclaim Our Streets Fund was launched by the trustees of the Charity supported by Express Newspapers and Northern and Shell PLC. The Fund has been awarded to the Community Foundation Network for local Community Foundations to administer, to support those who were affected by the recent riots in August 2011; Birmingham & Black Country Community Foundation is administering the fund locally.
