WCVA Update - 3 December 2018

This week's updates from WCVA

03 December 2018 Hello and welcome to this week's newsletter. After trawling through all your brilliant applications, the panel selected Isla Horton, head of community gardening organisation Grow Cardiff, as the second ever winner of the Walter Dickie Leadership Bursary! The bursary was presented to Isla at WCVA's Annual General Meeting at the Wales Millennium Centre on 22 November. Isla is going to use the £2,500 to further her knowledge of community gardening by visiting some innovative schemes on the other side of the globe… Do you think your organisation and the wider third sector will thrive after Brexit - or will it be a struggle to survive? WCVA is looking to hear members' views on Brexit to help shape and influence our activity over the coming year. The survey actually closes tonight at midnight so make sure you get your opinions over to us as soon as possible! Thanks for reading, we'll see you again next week!

Volunteering Volunteering Data – lessons learnt at Tenovus Cancer Care Your organisation may well gather data on the age and gender on volunteers, (and perhaps other Equal opportunities characteristics too), analyse these and examine the trends over time.

WCVA general Join our Impact Peer Network! Inspiring Impact in Wales aims to support organisations to improve their impact practice by increasing their knowledge and skills and enabling them to connect with each other. Bursary sows the seeds of success for leader of community gardening charity The head of a charity that supports local people to create and sustain community gardens and green spaces in Cardiff has become the latest recipient of WCVA’s Walter Dickie Leadership Bursary.

Third sector general Welsh charities encouraged to apply for Weston Charity Awards Do you want to increase the impact of your small charity and safeguard its future? The Weston Charity Awards offer a year’s strategic planning support and a core grant of £6,500 to the winning charities. It’s time for a Big Conversation about creativity Voluntary Arts has launched its annual survey about participation in creative activity.

Funding New round of Tampon Tax Fund now available A total of £15 million is available to charities working with vulnerable women and girls. The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust Funding is available for registered Charities operating in the UK in the fields of the advancement of the arts, health and medical welfare and environmental protection or improvement. Sport Wales Development Grants Funding is available to Sports Clubs or Associations, Youth Clubs and Community Groups who are looking to establish a new team, develop new training facilities or purchase much needed equipment. Women’s Mental Health Peer Support Programme: enabling provision for women Mind are re-opening one strand of the Women’s Mental Health Peer Support Hub in Wales for applications.

Training and events Evidence Matters Webinar What is evidence, and why does it matter for your organisation? Training skills Where the trainee becomes the trainer – learn the skills to plan, prepare and deliver great training sessions. Wales Civil Society Forum on Brexit Next meeting 5 December - open to all third sector organisations

Policy and politics New Code of Conduct for grant recipients published UK Government have said they expect organisations ‘to speak out, without fear of consequences, when a grant-funded project or activity is unlikely to succeed because of our behaviours or a lack of good governance’. Majority feel uninvolved in local authority decision-making The National Survey for Wales 17-18 has revealed several key findings about people’s views of their local authority.