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 Information on workshops being held during September about the Common

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Community Buildings - a FREE webinar from Coalfields Regeneration Trust and the Ethical Property Foundation

If you run a Community Building the next in the series of Webinars run by Coalfields Regeneration Trust in collaboration with the Ethical Property Foundation takes place on 23 September.  This one will focus on Maintenance and Statutory Compliance.  More details below 

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English here

Another Opportunity to Benefit from the work of Lloyds Bank Foundation - Exclusively for Merthyr Tydfil

 As part of our work with Lloyds Bank Foundation, we’re privileged to have another opportunity to develop local skills and knowledge.  Please see the details below.  There’s also more information on the Eventbrite link.  I do hope if you feel this could benefit your organisation, you’ll be able to join us.  Why not come along and find out more anyway?

 Never has there been a more important time for Communities to support one another!

When charities reach out to the wider Community, they expand their networks and increase support opportunities. Local businesses share many common issues, never more so that in this pandemic.

 Are you interested in learning how linking to a local business can benefit your charity?

During this FREE online event, we will share how partnering with a local business can provide you and your organisation with a wide range of skills, knowledge, and opportunities to strengthen the support you provide to those in your community.

Our aim is to provide an overview of how a successful partnership works and we will hear from  successful charity and business partnerships. They will share and discuss how their relationship has helped them grow and be more effective and will lead us to identify ways in which your own organisation can be supported to achieve your partnership goals.

Who is this workshop for?

This is aimed at charities and community organisations who are based in or deliver services in Merthyr Tydfil.

When and where?

Wednesday 29th September 9.30 – 11.30 am.

Online event via zoom.  Book your place via Eventbrite below

 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/168102686661

 

Job Vacancy at Merthyr Tydfil Bowls Club

 Merthyr Tydfil Indoor Bowls Club are looking for 2 individuals interested in joining our small team at the Bowls Club. We are unable to confirm the exact dates or hours, but all being well, fixed contracts will be for the period mid September 2021 to the end of March 2022

General duties: taking and arranging rink bookings, reconciling payments, implementing COVID-19 protocols, opening and securing the building, operating the club bar, general administration.

Training will be provided where necessary. For more information contact Coin Rees on 07963 388778 or email colinreesuk@googlemail.com

 

 

Building Communities Trust - Community Movement for Wales

Join a Merthyr Tydfil conversation on 8th September at 2:00.

More information

in English here

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Feeding Britain - Universal Credit petition

 

Feeding Britain is calling upon the Government not to go ahead with the planned £20-a-week cut to Universal Credit. We will be taking this petition to 10 Downing Street.

 Our statement reads: We, the undersigned, call upon the Government not to go ahead with the planned £20-a-week cut to Universal Credit, as we believe this cut will add considerably to the hardship being experienced by people on low incomes.

 You can add your name to our petition here: https://forms.gle/z9q5JMMPuYCgiDc99

Please sign the petition before 6^th September and share this widely with your contacts and networks.

 

Wellbeing at the Willows

 You are invited to join Valleys Steps, @taffrocks and @willowscentre.troedyrhiw on Wednesday 25^th August from 1pm – 3pm for some creative wellbeing activities in the Willows Centre’s lovely community garden.

 To register, please sign up via this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/woodland-wellbeing-at-the-willows-tickets-166502881601 or, for more details, email Judith.Parry@valleyssteps.org.

 Hope to see you there!

Update from Building Communities Trust

•  Communities After Covid: Navigating the post-pandemic world. 14^th September, 10.30am-12.30pm, more details and sign-up here.
• Wales-wide ABCD Jamboree to celebrate community power. 8^th October, 10am-12pm – save the date; further details to come.

 Invest Local Shared Learning

These themed discussion and shared learning forums take place from 10.30am-12pm, please email rowan.campbell@bct.wales to request the Zoom link.

• Getting Your Community’s Voice Heard – 22^nd September
• Community Spaces – 20^th October

 National Lottery Funding in Wales – survey

The National Lottery is conducting a survey as part of its funding priorities review; you can complete it here.

 Community Ownership Fund

The newly launched Community Ownership Fund could be of great benefit to many communities and community groups. The WCVA has put together an FAQ page here, and the next round of bidding opens in December 2021.

 Keeping connected: Facebook group for Community Movement Cymru

We have started a Facebook group to bring community groups together and share learning and good practice – click here to join the group, and follow BCT on Facebook and Twitter to keep updated on social media.

•  Cymunedau ar ôl Covid: Ymdopi â’r byd ôl-bandemig. 14 Medi, 10:10.30am-12:30pm – rhagor o fanylion a chofrestru yma.
• Jambori ABCD Cymru Gyfan i ddathlu pŵer cymunedau. 8 Hydref, 10am-12pm – cadwch y dyddiad; bydd rhagor o fanylion yn dilyn.

 Dysgu ar y Cyd Buddsoddi’n Lleol

Bydd fforymau trafod a dysgu ar thema benodol yn cael eu cynnal rhwng 10.30am a 12pm. Anfonwch e-bost at rowan.campbell@bct.wales i ofyn am y ddolen Zoom.

• Rhoi Llais i’ch Cymuned – 22 Medi
• Mannau Cymunedol – 20 Hydref

 Arian y Loteri Genedlaethol yng Nghymru – arolwg

Mae’r Loteri Genedlaethol yn cynnal arolwg fel rhan o adolygiad o’i flaenoriaethau cyllido; gallwch chi ei lenwi yma.

 Cronfa Perchnogaeth Gymunedol

Gallai’r Gronfa Perchnogaeth Gymunedol newydd fod o fudd mawr i lawer o gymunedau a grwpiau cymunedol. Mae CGGC wedi creu tudalen Cwestiynau Cyffredin yma, a bydd y rownd nesaf o geisiadau’n agor ym mis Rhagfyr 2021.

 Cadw mewn cysylltiad: Grŵp Facebook Mudiad Cymunedol Cymru

Rydyn ni wedi dechrau grŵp Facebook i ddod â grwpiau cymunedol at ei gilydd i rannu dysgu ac arferion da – cliciwch yma i ymuno â’r grŵp, a dilynwch BCT ar Facebook a Twitter i gael yr wybodaeth ddiweddaraf ar y cyfryngau cymdeithasol.

 

Keep the Lifeline campaign

 In October, £20 a week is due to be cut from Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit - meaning six million low-income households face an overnight cut to their incomes of £20 a week, or £1,040 a year. The cut risks further weakening social security support, pulling people into poverty, and causing severe hardship for families who are already struggling to stay afloat.

 The Keep the Lifeline campaign, led by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and backed by many charities, think tanks and leading organisations (including Lloyds Bank Foundation for England & Wales), is calling for this cut not to go ahead, and for those on legacy benefits not to be excluded.

 While other organisations might be raising the issue at a national level, highlighting the impact that this cut will have on people in your local community is more likely to get the attention and support of your local MP – so your voice matters. You can adapt use the template email here from JRF as a guide – but be sure to mention where you’re based, as your local connection will make your MP take notice.

 We’re also holding two workshops to talk through how small charities can get involved. You can book your place to join us on either Tuesday 27 August, 10:00 or Tuesday 7 September, 10:00 (both sessions are the same).

 If you aren’t attending one of the workshops but do want to raise this issue with your MP, or have any questions, we’d love to hear from you – just email policy@lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk.

 

Job Vacancy at VAMT - Local Implementation Lead

 More information here