DUDLEY COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE
ANNUAL REPORT 2013-14 Dudley CVS is a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee. Place of registration: England Company Number: 1998105 Charity number: 517766
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SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES ACROSS ALL OF THE DUDLEY BOROUGH During the year Dudley CVS has clocked up more than 13,000 miles, putting staff on the ground in many of our borough’s communities. Here are just a few examples of where Dudley CVS staff have been this year. 1 2
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EAST COSELEY AND WRENS NEST Supporting communities to achieve positive change. JUST STRAIGHT TALK CIC (Coseley) Enterprise and funding support. Accessed funding of £45,000 through Supporting People, which helped JST to unlock a further £10,000 from UnLtd. Support with governing, business planning and policies meant the organisation was also awarded the Building Blocks kite mark.
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DISABILITY IN ACTION (Dudley) 10 Development of committee and the group’s business plan enabling the group to achieve the Silver Quality mark from Dudley MBC.
volunteer support to statutory partners business supporting the community
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WALL HEATH TENNIS CLUB 12 Provided guidance and hands-on support to change the club’s legal structure in preparation for the refurbishment of its facilities.
older people
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health & disability
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heritage and environment
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faith
DUDLEY AND DISTRICT MS SOCIETY 13 (Kingswinford and borough-wide) Support with volunteer issues, good practice and recruitment led to an increase in the number of volunteers for the group and an improvement in their volunteering experience.
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arts and sport
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BROMLEY TABLE TENNIS CLUB 14 Intensive work to support the club’s move into a new home, leading to the club accessing £3,000 to aid that transition.
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BLACK COUNTRY NEUROLOGICAL ALLIANCE (covering all Dudley borough and the Black Country) Support provided through Dudley CVS’s Small Groups Route Map programme, which included helping the group to get its committee into place, providing training on being on a committee and financial management, and helping the group to develop appropriate policies and procedures. The group had help to develop a fundraising strategy, and support with funding applications led to a successful bid to Awards for All for £5,520.
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TOP CHURCH TRAINING (Brierley Hill) 21 Business planning and funding support culminating in a grant of £10,000 to support its work with vulnerable young people. BLACKHEATH MOSQUE 22 Liaising with the Charity Commission and the local police to give intensive support on the transition to a new board of trustees to govern the Mosque.
LYE AND WOLLESCOTE CHAPELS 24 Support to save this historic building, culminating in a £1.15m grant from Heritage Lottery Fund.
UNIT3SIXTY (Stourbridge) 26 Supported planning and development of this urban recreation centre. To open at the end of August 2014, this venue will boast a state of the art indoor skatepark for BMX, scooter, skating and skateboarding. BREAD2SHARE (Stourbridge and borough-wide) 27 Social enterprise support on business planning, setting up and finance to this therapeutic arts project. With help from Dudley CVS, the business has secured £10,000 from a range of funders and expanded its operation. SENIORS LUNCHEON CLUB (Stourbridge) 28 Helped the group to plan its activities, become more sustainable and access £4,490 from Awards for All to fund them for one year.
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BLACK COUNTRY FESTIVAL 20 (across Dudley borough and beyond) Set-up support to help the group to become grant-ready and to run its events and activities.
PROVIDENCE OUTREACH GROUP (Cradley) 25 This informal group was supported to become constituted in order to allow it to be an independent, grant-ready organisation.
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INTERNATIONAL HOUSING GROUP (Brierley Hill) 19 Built links with this business, culminating in staff members doing a team challenge cleaning up Wrens Nest Nature Reserve.
HOPE CENTRE (HALESOWEN) AND WOODSIDE 16 COMMUNITY CENTRE Supported to become two of the first purely volunteer-led organisations in England to be awarded `Investors in Volunteers’.
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SPORTS NETWORK 18 Brought together 10 sports clubs with officers from Dudley MBC, Public Health Dudley and Black Country BeActive Sports Partnership to discuss future priorities and work, provide a place for sharing and learning from each other’s experiences and promote cross-sector collaboration.
BANGLADESHI DEVELOPMENT GROUP (Halesowen) 23 Funding support for summer activities for young people, resulting in a grant of £3,709 from Awards for All.
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DUDLEY CHARIOTS (Gornal and borough-wide) Set-up assistance provided to this new wheelchair basketball club, including access to a small grant of £2,670 from the Improving Physical Activity Fund to kick start its project.
DUDLEY LITTLE THEATRE (Netherton and borough-wide) 17 Provided intensive assistance on governance, business planning, policies and procedures and helped the group bring its constitution up to date. This led to the group being awarded the Building Blocks kite mark.
RUSSELLS HALL HOSPITAL 15 (supporting residents and carers of Dudley borough) Urgent Care Consultation carried out here and at the nearby Walk-in Surgery by Healthwatch. Dudley CVS Carers Co-ordinator held regular drop-ins to help people find out more about the role of carers and the support available to them and their loved-ones.
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FRIENDS OF SYCAMORE ADVENTURE (Upper Gornal) Support in areas such as funding, governance and volunteering. Through funds raised by the Friends group and support given by a range of volunteers and professionals Sycamore Adventure won the National Playwork Award for ‘Outstanding Playwork Provision’.
DUDLEY MBC (Dudley and borough-wide) Helped the Directorate of Adult, Community and Housing Services with good practice in managing and supporting volunteers and in developing volunteer-management systems to ensure high quality volunteering opportunities.
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UPPER ETTINGSHALL METHODIST CHURCH Funding support for refurbishment works to the group’s church and community facilities. Awarded £11,000 by two funders.
BLACK COUNTRY WHEELS (Dudley and Brierley Hill) Enterprise development support for young people outside mainstream education.
HELPING HANDS WALL HEATH CIC 11 Legal and good practice support in volunteer management. The CIC was also supported with financial management and cashflow forecasting and had help to develop its small grants programme and application procedures, allowing it to make a difference to local good causes.
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KATES HILL AND SLEDMERE CHILDREN’S CENTRE Volunteer-management support through the Dudley CVS Volunteer Centre toolkit.
PHASE TRUST (Halesowen) 29 Funding support culminated in successful bids to Reaching Communities for £290,508 and Lloyds Foundation for £31,040 to continue work with young people. HASBURY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION 30 Worked with local residents who wanted to secure the future of the empty Wall Well Sons of Rest building for the community. Support provided included business planning and registering the organisation as a company, resulting in the building being transferred from the local authority to the community association. PRESTWOOD HOUSE (Kinver) 31 Supported this business with legal and good practice issues to enable it to set up a volunteering programme to challenge isolation of older people.
PIONEERING INNOVATION AND TRANSFORMATION
BARBARA’S STORY
REIMAGINING COMMUNITY SPACES
access to support for her husband Barbara came to us in crisis, unsure where to get help with caring for her husband
especially her daughter whose artistic background
to transform where they live
this led to stronger family relationships
encouraged Barbara to take part in an annual arts project where Barbara met another recently bereaved carer
Traditional community model ...
and support when her husband passed away
rdinator CVS Carers Cohe-or find helped
based on service provision
has been enabling residents and maximise use of community spaces
joined Facebook to stay in touch with family
everyone is now a co-builder of a resilient community action that benefits:
wellbeing health social inclusion
nurtured people to become the leaders of the change they want
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a Facebook page
Coseley Grapevine newsletter
coseleylife.net website
Coseley residents have now taken responsibility for ...
Trade School
“95% of what we want to achieve we can do ourselves” Brian Guest East Coseley Core Group Chairman
OUR HIGHLIGHTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR
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Lye and Wollescote Chapels
the derelict
Wrens Nest residents have now taken responsibility for ...
Creative Thursdays
Synergy a network that enables social enterprises to learn from existing businesses
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asset development procurement
Bread2Share was 1 of the they 136 participants joined Synergy
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West Midlands Historic Buildings Trust
helped see the chapels transferred helped to source potential tenants for the site
got support through the social enterprise toolkit on business planning and setting up
BROMLEY TABLE TENNIS CLUB
To How-ide Gu and helped the Trust secure >£1m funding
participants receive high level support on
Community received Enterprise grants Fund “I am grateful for all the support other I have received and would funders recommend others to follow” Sarah Goudie, Bread2Share
Asset Transfer Policy
alternative venues too expensive
loses home of 40 years
threatened with closure
and helped create an action plan to promote and safeguard the chapels
Dudley CVS helped them
Bromley Table Tennis Club get support from BeActive
become grant ready
search for new venue secure £3,000 to help with short term cash flow
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throu Match Dguh Talent dley has CVS brought together
of funding
other partners
what they’d look like
“we should work WITH the public, not FOR them”
a central Communications Hub will distribute information
“we need to engage the public in our work”
Urgent Dudley Care Clinical C Commissioning onsultation Group’s
to 4 satellite hubs
young people on including 1 in Dudley borough
“this is the responsibility of all of us”
engagement activities are open to open to feedback evaluation Find out more at: http://bit.ly/1zRLCJj
identify an appropriate funder
the level of engagement is appropriate varied for meaningful public involvement
a collective approach to engagement where
Dudley CCG
Hope Centre and Woodside Community Centre awarded Investing in Volunteers award following support from from the Dudley CVS Volunteer Centre Wrens Nest Trade School launched
APR
Introduced the Mayor of Dudley (Volunteering Champion 2013) and local decision-makers to the Recovery in Progress Team and Summit House Support to celebrate the difference volunteers make, specifically in supporting people’s recovery from addictions and conditions
Healthwatch Dudley launch event brought together more than 70 people from 40 local stakeholder organisations. The event looked at 'How can we work together to build the best Healthwatch?'
MAY
Funding success – a consortium of 20 local organisations led by Dudley CAB received £345,335 from BIG Lottery Advice Services Transition Fund
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Carers Week raised awareness of carers and 'hidden carers' and brought together orgaisations such as CAB, Dudley Mind, Rethink and local authority services
Funding success for Phase Trust £290,508 from Reaching Communities
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Developing physical assets events. Participants reported they felt more aware of asset development, local support available and how asset transfer could be used to generate additional income for their own organisations or as a means of saving money by sharing space With the New Economics Foundation, Healthwatch Dudley brought together a variety of people with different health needs to consider health inequality across the borough and action that could be taken to prevent it. Find out more at: www.healthwatchdudley.co.uk/research-report Dudley Borough Interfaith Network 'Oneness of communities' event
Dudley CVS and Dudley Council's Directorate of Adult, Community and Housing Services brought together commissioners and voluntary sector providers to consider alternative models of commissioning, based on outcomes on people's quality of life
Social investment masterclass. 100% increase in knowledge on how to develop enterprising solutions, 78% felt that they were better able to implement business like models, diversify their income streams and sustain their organisations
Open Hub Wrens Nest co-designed by local residents (between August and November)
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Dudley Volunteer Awards 2013 97 volunteers were nominated and recognised for their work. There were 9 main winners and 7 highly commended for dedication to their communities
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Dudley Borough Interfaith Network visit to Westminster and speak to MP Ian Austin
Side by Side Theatre Company and Just Straight Talk CIC presented with Building Blocks award for their development
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Healthwaytch Dudle
Operation Santa campaign supported 5,430 disadvantaged children and young people across the borough Improving Physical Activity projects brought together to co-design further projects and activities
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Commissioning and procurement masterclasses - 100% reported they felt their skills, knowledge and confidence had improved in the tendering process
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Led a 2-day course on empowering leadership
Dudley CCG had invested in
Dudley CVS blog launched to celebrate the great work going on in Dudley and to show how Dudley CVS supports it (www.dudleycvsblog.com)
East Coseley plan endorsed by Local Trust. The planning stage received funding of £3,500 and the endorsement of the plan unlocked £210,000 to benefit East Coseley for the next two years
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by the end of the year
a tool to PSIAMS measure impact of work
Talent Match investment of £10.3 million for the Black Country region announced
Baking club launched in Wrens Nest by a 7-year old resident there
Only 12 learning sites in England have worked on engagement for Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG’s)
Dudley CVS was one of them to help understand how our sector wellbeing impacts on health
to ensure a role for our sector in an health in the future integrated care agenda
Moving Forward Together event focussing on: assets and how the local authority and the sector could work together to maximise the use of community assets; collaborating to draw external funding into Dudley borough; and busting myths about poverty and who it affects
a full re of findinpgort s as wa a result to ths epresented C Board inCG January 2 014
work included bringing the
together with key sector organisations
“There’s nothing we can’t do” Dennis Harper Wrens Nest resident
Social enterprise challenge guided participants through the early stages of setting up a social enterprise, ending with each pitching to win £5,000. Universal Support Project CIC received that accolade
vulnerable children older young people people
BUILDING HEALTH PARTNERSHIPS
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HEALTH AND WELLBEING BOARD
problems accessing GP services for
now has a voice on an urgent care reference group
1,074
people at
Dudley Walk-in Centre
findings highlighted
surveyed
Healthwaytch Dudle
Russell’s Hall Hospital
in 7 days
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Communciations Hubs
the environment they’d provide
DUDLEY CCG’S URGENT CARE CONSULTATION
to work up local solutions in the Black Country, placing young people at the centre
young people businesses
1,400
unemployed young adults in the Black Country
£10.3m
year programme
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social enterprise
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One of the first projects
was a group concerned about the future of
private sector (through Business in the Community)
toolkits and workshops
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LYE & WOLLESCOTE CHAPELS
WRENS NEST AND EAST COSELEY
TALENT MATCH
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through masterclasses
funding a model where membership becomes a tool to pay for itself
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through designed, resident-led activity
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LEADING, NETWORKING AND COLLABORATING
TRANSFORMING LOCAL INFRASTRUCTURE
leaving a few volunteers with a lot to do
Open Hub in Wrens Nest, Dudley
“As an ex-carer, it was good to give something back for all the support I received. The art therapy has definitely given me a new outlook on life - something totally different, and such a wonderful bunch of people. What you personally do for others is much appreciated” Barbara, participant in carers' art project and supported by Dudley CVS Carers Co-ordinator
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can make the community the passive recipient of services
interactions
continues with art classes
with her new confidence volunteers Barbara ... to support other carers
CONNECTING AND DEVELOPING RESILIENT ORGANISATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS
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SOME OF OUR ACHIEVEMENTS
CHAMPIONING POSITIVE SOCIAL CHANGE
Dudley CCG recognises the key role of our sector and invests in locally co-designed tools and IT systems to help the sector measure its impact
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PIONEERING INNOVATION AND TRANSFORMATION
£5,637,663
unlocked by Dudley CVS and the organisations it supports to deliver projects benefiting Dudley borough residents Of that,
£4,682,582 was external funding that Dudley CVS helped to bring into the borough
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in a survey in Wrens Nest said they liked helping others and sharing skills
(www.dudleycvsblog.com) launched to share the great things communities are doing in Dudley and show how we support them
22,457
of the Dudley CVS website
100%
2,000
Twitter followers of @dudleycvs & @dudleyvols
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people visited Dudley Borough Interfaith Network's pop-up shop in Dudley's Churchill Precinct to find out more or sign up as volunteers
Funding support has brought in grants worth at least
£2,952,046 to 45 organisations
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reported increase in knowledge about working in partnership or in collaboration with other organisations
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Over
£2m
98 9 training events to develop
people gave their time as volunteer social media surgeons
attended a suite of
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Brought together over
100% increase in
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knowledge on how to develop enterprising solutions
people on areas of work such as: health; faith; sport; young people; our sector’s future
£77k programme co-designed by 10,000 17 sports were delivered
hours of physical activities across
projects awarded a grant or loan from the Community Enterprise Fund, totalling
£170,912.50
Trained
102 organisations on: business
continuity planning; collaboration; social value; marketing; leadership; volunteering management; individual funders
With Dudley Council, CAB and other partners, Healthwatch created Dudley Community Information Point Network, recruiting Information Champions to improve access to health and social care information
business acumen and enterprising solutions to finance the sector
Dudley CCG, the Office of Public Health Dudley, Dudley CVS and community organisations. Over
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people’s views on the quality of mental health services were given to Care Quality Commission, Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership Trust and Healthwatch England
of Talent Match funding will come into Dudley borough
individuals from the sector to get started on social media
received intensive 1-to-1 support on: social enterprise; developing assets; commissioning and procurement
Centre blog and
more than
£10.3m
unlocked for the Black Country to support young people into work through Talent Match
individuals and organisations supported on enterprising solutions (enterprise development, asset development, commissioning and procurement)
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17,095 views of the Volunteer 72% to 82%
increase in the likelihood of collaboration by spending time in the same place
social media surgeries helped
Dudley CVS blog
Unemployed volunteers supported rose from
CREATING CONDITIONS FOR INFLUENCE
57%
contacts at Russells Hall Hospital on the caring role, benefits and support, mental health, volunteering and different health conditions
information and signposting sessions at Russells Hall Hospital Health Hub
80% of people taking part
CHAMPIONING POSITIVE SOCIAL CHANGE
CONNECTING AND DEVELOPING RESILIENT ORGANISATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS
LEADING, NETWORKING AND COLLABORATING
Input into Dudley's Sports and Physical Activity Strategy to ensure that voluntary sector organisations were represented
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Healthwatch Dudley enabled people who use adult social care services to shape Dudley Council's Local Account of its work for 2012-13, ensuring it was fair, balanced and answered questions about future challenges
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Dudley CVS and Healthwatch sit on
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strategic boards to ensure local people are heard by decision-makers. Boards include Dudley Clinical Commissioning Group; Dudley Health and Wellbeing; Safeguarding; Prevention of Gang Violence; Tensions Monitoring; Local Enterprise Partnership; Physical Activity; Troubled Families; Children's Partnership; European Funding
organisations received 1-to-1 support in interventions. Topics included: setting up a charity; legal compliance; planning; marketing; finance; funding; volunteer management
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