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Networks unlimited £250 or £500 for low income families can either be invested in a long term savings or investment account. Credit unions will themselves offer a savings account and will refer members wanting an investment account on to a partner provider. Read more at: http://www.abcul.coop/ page/news.cfm#179

Nearbuyou gives the low-down Ne a r b u y o u , t h e s o c i a l enterprise trading website, is also a provider of news. Here are some samples: Social Enterprise Coalition Launches Manifesto: Jonathan Bland, Chief Executive of the Social Enterprise Coalition, launched the manifesto for social enterprise by appearing on the Today Programme. Social Enterprise preferred for £3million British Gas contract: Eaga partnership has been selected as the preferred bidder to deliver British Gas’ Quality of Life programme.

ODPM encourages councils to buy from small businesses: A code of practice setting out the actions that local authorities will take to make their contracts more accessible to small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been launched by ODPM. Co-operative Action offers £1million in loan: The Cooperative Action loan fund has been topped up to £1 million to take it through the next round of support for emerging co-operative, mutual and social enterprises. Go to: h t t p : / / w w w. n e a r b u y o u . c o . u k / Te m p l a t e s / N e w s . asp?Page=1&NodeID=89660

New executive director for Inspire East Advisory Group Fo l l ow i n g t h e re c e n t recruitment process for the post, Gwyn Jones has been appointed the new executive director for Inspire East. Gwyn moved from her existing role as regional design action

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No 11 July/August 2005

manager to become the executive director on 11 April.

A free copywriting guide to help fundraisers Creative agency Flying Kite is offering the guide: How to improve your fundraising letter in ten simple steps. It has been written by Jon Ireland for people within charities who are involved in writing or critiquing fundraising letters. Go to http://www.flyingkite. co.uk/ten.html

First Savers Toolkit Around one hundred credit unions have already received their brand new First Savers Toolkit packs, designed to help credit unions and schools work together to help children and young people into the savings habit. The toolkit has a brand new, exclusive set of characters which add a professional, fun brand to credit union accounts for children and young people. http://www.abcul.coop/page/ news.cfm#188.

Partnership website The website http://www. ourpar tnership.org.uk helps VCS and public sector partnership working. It has news, guidance, discussion forums and e-learning. To register for the free enewsletter and get access to the discussion forums visit: http://www.ourpartnership. o r g . u k / r e g u s e r / n e w u s e r. c f m Yo u c a n a d v e r t i s e your partnership working vacancies on the site, see http://www.ourpartnership. o r g . u k / n e w s p u b / s t o r y. cfm?id=282&sid=101 for more information or email feedback@ourpartnership.org. uk.’

LAAs LAAs are agreements between local authorities and central government which will allow the local authority more flexibility in how they allocate budgets to address community needs. The intention is that pilot authorities will work with partners, including the

voluntary and community sector, to identify the targets and outcomes they will address in their LAA. Full LAA guidance is available on the ODPM website www.odpm. gov.uk/localvision.

‘Budget Yourselves’ software for smaller voluntary and community groups This program from FunderFinder, who develop and distributes software to help individuals and not-forprofit organisations in the UK to identify charitable trusts that might give them money, can be uploaded at no cost at http://www.funderfinder.org. uk/budgetyou.php.

HM Treasury has published a new guide for businesses The guide details tax incentives that are available for corporate community involvement. It combines explanation, best practice and pointers to further information on a range of topics, including seconding employees to work for a charity, sponsoring a charity and giving shares or land to a charity and is available online at www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/ corporategiving .

Futurebuilders website The Futurebuilders England website has just been completely revised and updated. The new site contains clear, up to date information about priorities, investments to date and experience so far, and includes: • A fully searchable database of all Futurebuilder investments • Information about public s delivery, loan funding and investment menu • Advice on submitting a good application and preparing a business plan • Ad v a n c e n o t i c e o f t h e questions and guidance in the revised application form – so you can start preparing your application now, ready


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