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Are you using or developing digital services for your customer or client groups? Do you struggle to know what to do to make it as easy as possible for them to use or access a digital version of your service? The VCSE Health and Wellbeing […]

NDTi are pleased to announce they have just been awarded a contract with NHS England to continue organising and hosting the Older People’s Sounding Board. Their aim is to have 25 older people (over 50) from a variety of backgrounds who will meet monthly and […]

The £25.5m VCSE Energy Efficiency Scheme scheme is now open to help voluntary, community, and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations in England improve their energy efficiency. It is part of the package of over £100 million of support announced by the Government at the Spring Budget […]

National Voices is committed to tackling racial inequalities in healthcare, health status, within organisations and across the charity sector. They have conducted a recent study that shows African/Caribbean women are four times more likely to die around pregnancy than other ethnicities and that African/Caribbean babies […]

Locality have recently launched a manifesto at their annual Convention in Bristol. It sets a ten-year vision that calls for a “community power revolution”, predicated on knowledge that local communities are best placed to transform lives and create a fairer society. It calls on the […]

Theos, Good Faith Partnership and ChurchWorks want to find out about and evidence the scale and scope of faith engagement in social prescribing across England in order to inform and promote future collaborations between faith groups and those working in social prescribing. FaithAction is supporting […]

The National Academy for Social Prescribing has launched The Power of Music Fund, supported by Music for All, Arts Council England and other donors, including members of the public, and has been kickstarted by a £1 million donation from The Utley Foundation. Music can be […]

Sands & Tommy’s Joint Policy Unit have started to consider how well the UK research environment is functioning for research related to pregnancy loss and baby deaths. Over the past months they have surveyed researchers and carried out a review of the available evidence. They […]

NHS England have announced a £10 million programme that will provide grant funding and tailored support to around 15 local systems to develop volunteering infrastructure within healthcare. Volunteering for Health will help deliver the recommendations of the NHS Volunteering Taskforce published in June this year. […]