What's New at CVA?
Temporary Reprieve granted on Council Funding
The latest news is that Croydon Council has decided to extend their current funding arrangements for a period of 3 months while they carry out impact assesments on the proposed cuts. This will offer some much needed breathing space to many organisations in the borough. See the attached letters for a more complete understanding of the conversations we have been having with the Council on your behalf.
Best wishes.
Yours sincerely
Steve Phaure (Chief Executive, CVA)
Croydon Local Involvement Network
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Croydon
Local Involvement Network (LINk)
Annual Report 2009 – 2010
Grassroots!!!!
A new initiative called The Evening Standard Dispossessed Fund is launched today, Tuesday 20th July!!!
Part of the Grassroots Programme has been about raising money in an endowment fund – Croydon Commitment has been working on this in Croydon and the new initiative is to encourage more donors to come forward in the final few months of the project (which ends in March 2011) – every £1 donated is matched £1 by £1 by the Government to create a fund to be distributed once the grants part of the programme has ended. To “read all about it” or to donate to this follow the link www.theeveningstandarddispossessedfund.co.uk
What are Croydon Summer Play Days?
National Play Day is the first Wednesday of August and we want to make every Wednesday in August a Play Day for local children, families and communities: 4th, 11th, 18th and 25th.
The Summer Play Days Grants Programme intends to support Croydon’s community groups and voluntary organisations in hosting 20 Play Days across the borough in local neighbourhoods. The Days are an opportunity to celebrate play using the many outdoor play spaces throughout the borough, some of which have been recently improved through Playbuilder and the BIG Lottery. The Play Days are a way of marking this achievement and the improvement of local community resources.
The Grants Programme is being financed through the Croydon Extended Schools funding and managed by Croydon Voluntary Action.
The maximum funding for one Play
Day is £500, organisations can apply to hold more than one Play
Day.
Application deadline: Monday 31st May 2010, you will be notified of funding
decisions within two weeks.
Grassroots Grants up for grabs!
CVA has £422,000 in small grants to distribute from now until 2011 to small voluntary and community organisations in Croydon. CVA is distributing the grants on behalf of the Government’s Office of the Third Sector. more...
Apply for Office Space at the New CVA Resource Centre
The application form, selection criteria and information on charges, for
office space at the CVA Resource Centre can be downloaded here.
Selection
Criteria
Application Form
Tariff Sheet
Licence Terms
If you are interested in office space please contact Folake on 8253 7080
Completed applications along with supporting documents should be submitted
to:
CVA Resource Centre Application
Croydon Voluntary Action
97 High Street
Thornton Heath CR7 8RY
Questions
If you have any questions, please contact Bhupendra Solanki on 020 8684
3862 or bhupendra.solanki@cvalive.org.uk