Reaching Communities under subscribed in BlackpoolReaching Communities funding is for projects that help people and communities most in need. Grants are available from £10,000, upwards and funding can last for up to 5 years. If you think you need more than £500,000 you must call them before you apply to discuss why you believe a larger project is appropriate. There is no upper limit for total project costs. They can fund, salaries, running costs, a contribution towards core costs and equipment. They can also fund up to £100,000 for land, buildings or refurbishment capital costs. If you need more than £100,000 for a land and/or buildings project please see the
Reaching Communities buildings page.
Johnstone's Paints launch new community spirit campaignJohnstone's Paint are pleased to inform you that they have now launched the Community Spirit campaign. This is an exciting project which allows them to reflect on the work that Johnstone's regularly carries out with the local communities where they operate. If you have or know someone that would like to nominate a local project that they are involved with they can register the details at
www.johnstonestrade.com/communityspirit.
Question time on the NHSGordon Marsden MP will be holding an event at St Paul's Church in Marton on the future of our NHS. The meeting will be on Friday 31st October and take place at St Paul's Church, Marton, FY3 9PF on Highfield Road, starting at 5.30pm and finishing at 7.00pm.
Protect yourself from flu, a reminderAs winter beckons, doctors on the Fylde coast are urging local people who are at risk of flu to book their appointments for a flu jab.
For most healthy people, flu is an unpleasant illness that usually lasts a week or so. However, certain people are more at risk from flu and for some it can lead to very serious complications, even if they have been well beforehand. This year, GP practices will not be sending out letters inviting you for a flu vaccination, so it is important that you make an appointment with your GP.
Supporting Communities in Neighbourhood Planning Direct support is available for local groups in communities across England who wish to organise and run a neighbourhood planning workshop in their community. What do the eligibility and application forms look like? For your reference only, you can download a word version of the
direct support only application form.
Please note these forms are for your information only please do not submit them.- See more at:
http://mycommunityrights.org.uk/neighbourhood-planning/apply/#sthash.BvcWqghl.dpuf
Expanded social care volunteers service set to launchMore people than ever are volunteering to help care for others in their community.That's the message from Blackpool Council as a new and expanded Social Care Volunteers service re-launches today. Launched at a series of events being held across Blackpool, the service sees volunteers help people and give respite to carers in a number of different ways from a sitting service to helping to take people out, arrange group activities and even a simple meet a greet facility.
Report now published on JSNA 3rd sector eventWe are pleased to announce that the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) consultation event for the Third Sector report has now been published.
Introduction
On June 10th 2014 Healthwatch Blackpool and Blackpool Wyre & Fylde Council for Voluntary Services hosted a joint event supported by Blackpool Council on behalf of the Health & Wellbeing Board. The aim of the event was to inform Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise organisations in Blackpool
about the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) in terms of:
· Its content
· How to access it
· How it might be used by the create community profiles and
· How the sector might use it to support funding bids
Please download the full document here
Blackpool Commissioning Strategy 2015 - 2018 Blackpool Council's Adults and Children's Commissioning team are preparing a new Commissioning Strategy for the next three years. As part of the preparation work a number of consultations have taken place and more are planned. Feedback and comments from contracted providers, the local voluntary sector, service users and carers will be taken into account. An interim report on the consultation work undertaken so far is available at the link below:
http://www.blackpool.gov.uk/Residents/Health-and-social-care/Documents/Adults-childrens-commissioningstrategyfeedbackv1.pdf
Electronic prescriptions come to FleetwoodAn innovative new service has launched at one Fleetwood GP surgery that will make collecting a prescription simpler and more convenient than ever before.
The free electronic prescription service recently launched at The Mountview Surgery, based within the Fleetwood Health and Wellbeing Center, and will be rolled out across the rest of Fleetwood in the New Year.
Creative English Innovation Fund Announces Final RoundRegistered charities, including faith and community groups, in England have one last chance to apply to the Innovation Fund for grants that support projects using innovative methods to teach basic English to non-English speakers in England. The Creative English project is designed and run by FaithAction in association with Queen Mary University. The final deadline for applications is 17 November 2014 (midday).
Full details can be found on the
website 
Cllr. Ramesh G Gandhi, OBE granted fellowship from National ForumThe second Fylde Coast Health Mela took place at the beginning of October, and those who attended will agree that this Mela was a very successful community event. As is customary, at every Health Mela, NFHW awards Fellowships to those who have contributed significantly towards promoting the values and ethos of the Health Mela. During this Mela, Fellowships were presented to Rtn Ramesh Gandhi and Rtn Kevin Walsh
Lancashire Care NHS - People's choice awardsPeople across Lancashire are being given the opportunity to recognise health professionals or teams who have made a real difference to their healthcare experience. As part of our annual Staff Awards celebrations, we are now inviting members of the public to submit nominations for their People's Choice Award. To vote please visit
www.lancashirecare.nhs.uk/Peoples-Choice-2015 and complete a nomination form. The deadline for nominations is Friday 31 October 2014.
Streetlife shelter NOT closing down!One or two people have commented that the Streetlife Shelter will be closing down, this is not true. From the 1st November 2014 the Streetlife Nightshelter will run as an independent charity without Council funding. Streetlife has no intention of closing the shelter. The charity is working very hard to secure funds to be able to continue to provide this valuable service to young people in crisis for years to come.
One of the charities fundraising efforts is to promote a £5 campaign, if 2000 people were to give £5 per month to Streetlife its future would be secure. You can go to
http://www.wearestreetlife.org/support-us for more information. To help them reach their target of 2000 people giving £5 a month go to
www.justgiving.com/streetlife 
Newly launched Employment Project in Westview Housing group Regenda are starting a 2 pronged employment/volunteer programme at the Westview Community Centre the first week of November! They have arranged for 2 key agencies to come in to the centre every Tuesday (9.30am – 1.30pm) and Thursday (12.30 – 2.30pm) from Tue 4 Nov and Thur 6 Nov. If you are interested please contact Tracey on Tracey.McNamara@regenda.org.uk
British Red Cross - volunteer opportunityThe Hand, arm and shoulder massage service was established in 1959 and helps individuals in stressful situations and times of personal crisis by offering one to one time to listen and talk as well as promoting a sense of well-being through gentle massage. This role offers support to various groups within the community and anyone who may be vulnerable to crisis or going through a stressful situation will benefit. You will be offering a range of treatments that include, hand care, hand and arm massage and a neck and shoulder massage, given through clothing.
Location: Lancashire
Reporting to: Service Co-ordinator
Hours: variable
Ideally this would be a regular commitment, weekly, fortnightly or monthly. For full details please download
their documents.
Umbrella offering support through artThe wibbly wobbly world of umbrella is a local not for profit arts, well-being & social change community group. They provide opportunities for disadvantaged community members to participate in community wide arts and social messaging projects. umbrella produces publications, film, infrastructure support, graphic design and bespoke mental health, well being and therapeutic community arts projects. If you would like to obtain their literature completely free of charge please contact elephant, creative thinking on elephant.trunk@outlook.com or the wibbly wobbly world of umbrella on
helloumbrella@outlook.com
You can also visit their website
http://umbrellasworld.weebly.com/ 
EU Erasmus+ Programme (Youth) - Application The European Commission has published the 2015 Call for Proposals for the Erasmus+ Programme. Erasmus+ is the EU funding programme for education, training, youth and sport for 2014-2020 which has replaced a number of previous programmes including the Lifelong Learning Programme (Erasmus, Comenius, Leonardo and Grundtvig), the Youth in Action programme, Jean Monnet actions and Erasmus Mundus.
