The Newsletter for voluntary organisations on Anglesey
Charity Number Issue No. 20 September 2000

It has recently been announced that no voluntary organisation will miss out on Objective 1 money, because of a lack of match funding.

Welsh Secretary Paul Murphy’s assurance of match funding for all worthwhile Objective 1 projects, was hailed as good news for voluntary and community groups.

‘The statement has helped to lift the uncertainty about match funding for groups with project proposals that can help the regeneration of their communities’ said

Phil Jarrold from Wales Council for Voluntary Action.

‘His assurances are very positive, but it is essential that the money is equally available to all projects supported by Objective 1, we are waiting to see the detailed figures, but it now seems clear that the match funding issue will not delay the implementation of the programme’

The funding process for voluntary organisations for 2000/2001 will commence shortly

Organisations which, currently DO NOT receive a grant from the North Wales Health Authority but, wish to be considered, should request an application form by contacting- Mrs Helen McLeod on: .

Application forms will be available from the end of August 2000 and should be returned by 29 September 2000.

Organisations, which currently receive a grant, will be sent an application form automatically.

November 17, 2000 is this year’s date for the BBC’s annual Children in Need Appeal.

If you want to be part of the fun, call for your pack now.

Last year nearly £1.5 million went to groups all over Wales working with disadvantaged children. If you need a grant, call for your application pack now.

November 30 is the closing date for applications.

Call for more information.

On 1 ^st April 2001, the four Training and Enterprise Councils in Wales, including CELTEC will be abolished.

They will be merged with the Further Education Council for Wales to form the new ‘National Council for Education and Training in Wales’

The Government and National Assembly for Wales have decided that there is a need to improve the structure for the funding, and delivery, of education and training in Wales. It is hoped that the agreed changes will result in closer integration of education and training.

The New Council will work closely with a newly formed partnership of organisations and individuals with an interest in local training and education matters, i.e. local education authorities, further education, schools, and training suppliers.

These partnerships will be called the Community Consortia for Education and Training. (CCETs).

If you have any further questions about these changes, contact:

CELTEC (North Wales TEC)
Unit 6, St Asaph Business Park,
St.Asaph, Denbighshire. LL17 OLJ

Tel: .

Finding Our Voices 2
Royal Welsh Showground, Builth Wells, Powys.
Saturday 18 November 2000

Building on the success of a previous conference in March 1999, Sustainable Wales, with the support of the National Assembly, proposes a second conference on the above date.

This is an ambitious initiative that seeks to involve the public, community groups, and the voluntary movement in an interactive event with our elected representatives in local authorities and the National Assembly of Wales.

Few events in 2000 will be of greater significance for the voluntary movement and community groups than ‘Finding Our Voices 2’

The annual Tidy Wales Awards are organised by the Keep Wales Tidy Campaign, in partnership with the Environment Agency Wales and the Wales Tourist Board, to encourage local groups to take action in cleaning up and improving their local environment.

Send a short description of your project (50-80 words) outlining its aims, achievements, and how it provides a brighter, cleaner future for all of us.

Over £3,500 in prize money available for the most original and interesting projects, judged in the following categories:

• Community groups -prize of £1,850.
• Schools/Youth groups -prize of £1,350.
• Best National Spring Clean Event -prize of £350.

For more information phone:

or contact Derlwyn on .

‘APPLY YOURSELVES’

Apply Yourselves is a Windows application, it is free, and was developed by FunderFinder to help voluntary organisations write effective funding applications.

You can use Apply Yourselves to draft a letter or proposal to funders.

The latest version can be downloaded from FunderFinder’s website at: www.funderfinder.org.uk

For more information contact: .

Entries are invited for The Youth Work in Wales Excellence Awards 2000 , an annual award which recognises quality youth work practice.

The Awards, which are sponsored by the National Assembly for Wales, provide cash prizes of up to £1,000 to its winners.

The Excellence Awards are open to any youth work organisation who may enter a specific project, or a piece of work, which they undertook with young people aged between 11-25 years of age, between September 1999 and September 2000.

Closing date for entries is 29 September 2000.

Entry Forms are available from:

The Countryside Council for Wales and British Heart Foundation have teamed up to support schemes that will improve the nation’s health by encouraging walking.

The opportunity for accreditation and training for scheme co-ordinators will form part of the package. If you are interested in organising, or being involved in the scheme, contact:

John Arwel Watkins-Recreation and Access Policy Officer,

Countryside Council for Wales
Plas Penrhos, Ffordd Penrhos, BANGOR

Gwynedd LL57 2LQ, for an information pack. Phone: .

The organisation dates back to 1923 when the collier’s in the South Wales Valleys needed to develop a provision for the young men who were working for them.

The original idea was to give the young men a suitable diversion and constructive leisure time pursuits.

Over the years the organisation developed, by today it is called the Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs of Wales.

In October 1999, the North Wales Development Project started, to establish a volunteer support network in the mainly rural areas of North Wales, which currently lack or have very minimal youth work provision.

They intend to encourage local rural communities to form Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs in consultation with local authorities, voluntary councils, community councils, the Sports Council for Wales and other agencies.

Two voluntary District Management committees have been set up, one to include Ynys Môn, Gwynedd, and Conway, the other to include Wrexham, Flintshire, and Denbighshire – volunteers are needed to join these committees which meet once a month.

If you would like more information about the project:

• To volunteer with the Management committee or Clubs
• To establish a Club in your area
• Support with your existing Club

Contact: Katy Connolly on or Rhiannon Davies on for more information.

Mantell Gwynedd - the local Voluntary Council for Gwynedd - has received numerous sacks full of cosmetics from Boots the Chemist, to be distributed amongst local and voluntary charitable groups in Gwynedd and Ynys Môn.

This donation was made possible through the Boots Charitable Trust thanks to the support of Proctor and Gamble.

The cosmetics are to be used to support local voluntary / charitable groups’ work and a small quantity may be used as tombola and raffle prizes to help with fund raising activities.

All goods donated must not be sold under any circumstances.

If any group feel they can benefit from this donation contact .

We can help to collect any cosmetics from Caernarfon if needed, phone .

The Holy Island Partnership, with representatives from the public, private and voluntary sectors, has been created as part of the Objective 1 (European Funding)

programme. It is concerned with social development and economic regeneration of the local area. In accordance with European regulations we have to consult widely with the local population. One of the first things we will be doing is a " Planning for the Future " exercise where on the 12th, 13th and 14th of October members of the local community will be invited to come along to the Town Hall in Holyhead to discuss potential improvements for Holy Island. It is hoped that as many people as possible will attend.

A large scale 3D model of the island will be made by local school children, which will give a birds-eye view of the whole community. Suggestions for improvements in the area will be made by placing option cards on the model. The suggestions and comments will be collated, and a comprehensive report will be produced outlining the outcome of the exercise. It will also be summarised in the press in due course. The outcomes from this exercise will be used in support of future funding applications for local development.

To encourage as many people as possible to take part in the exercise we are putting together a "free" raffle -the prize will be well worth the effort! Everyone who attends will be eligible to take part, and the prize will be drawn on the Saturday afternoon.

For further information contact Holyhead Opportunities Trust -.

Wales Partnership Area Office
The Wharf
Schooner Way
Cardiff CF10 4EU.

Tel: . Fax:

NIACE Dysgu Cymru
Ground Floor
35 Cathedral Road
CARDIFF
CF11 9GB.

Tel:
Fax:

We will be distributing forms for the above scheme, which is for groups on Anglesey who deal with children under 8, during the coming week.

Last year 44 groups received £54 each.

Contact Wendy if you have an interest.

This Volunteer Bureau together with all the other 31 vbx in Wales will in October, as part of the Government’s Active Community initiative, receive from Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA) an up to date computer equipment and internet access. Volunteer management software will also be installed so that vbx can keep track of the hundreds of volunteering opportunities available where this information will eventually form the basis of a volunteering web-site for Wales.

Enabling the general public to access information on the kinds of voluntary work available in their local area and to link up directly with the local vbx is a major step forward. The project will surely help to increase the number of people getting involved in their communities through volunteering. To make sure you’re included in this new scheme please make sure you have registered with this Bureau . We shall be contacting our members in due forth.

United Nations has designated 2001 as the International Year of Volunteers. WCVA, have appointed Isobel Hulme to co-ordinate Wales’ contribution to this global occasion. WCVA are currently in the process of setting up a national committee, who will act as a steering group to plan and advise upon activities and events for the forthcoming year. Isobel would welcome all contributions and ideas as to how the year should be represented in Wales.

Association of Volunteer Bureaux advises that the Subject Access procedure is not suitable for vetting purposes because:

1. An individual’s full identity may show no trace while he/she may have a record under a slightly different/partial identity
2. Only recordable offences are stored on Police National Computer
3. The circumstances of the offence are not revealed
4. There is a minimum fee of £10 for subject access requests and a reply is sent within 40 days.

Children’s Rights and Advocacy - to support young people being looked after/in contact with Social Svcs

Court Witness Service - to give support in both local Crown and Magistrate Courts in Llangefni, Holyhead, Bangor and Caernarfon

Abbey Road Centre, Bangor - receptionists for the evenings at the Centre

Ynys Môn Volunteer Bureau - Require a Treasurer

Mind, Holyhead - for various roles in assisting people with mental health problems ie. supporting, listening & someone computer literate to assist with admin duties

Car Linc Môn - urgently require volunteer drivers, particularly for the following areas- Beaumaris, Menai Bridge, Benllech and Holyhead

Good Turn Scheme - to help with those essential tasks, eg. shopping, visiting, collection service, where no other means of support is available

Holyhead Stroke Association - to assist with wheelchairs and helping people get around during meetings and with raffles, teas etc, also volunteers to help man the stall at Ysbyty Penrhos Stanley during Stroke Awareness Week, 1 ^st -6 ^th Oct 2000

Human Writes - new voluntary organisation looking for volunteers to support people undergoing mental (sometimes physical) torture on death row in America, through letter writing

Barnados Ynys Môn - childcare volunteers. All to receive support and training

Anglesey ‘A’ Team - need a secretary and also help with renovating an old trawler, mainly DIY

Hospice at Home - Volunteer drivers in Holyhead area to take patients to Holyhead hospice, on a

Monday morning every 2 weeks.

Urdd, Ynys Môn - looking for three leaders for the Urdd groups at Menai Bridge, Benllech and Talwrn

Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs, Wales - from all backgrounds to assist within Youth Clubs as leaders/assistants.

WRVS - to assist in their Hospital shops (Holyhead/Bangor)

Millennium Volunteers – a recognised

volunteering award for those aged 16-24.

Don’t miss out!

The North Wales Health Authority is consulting the public and its partner agencies on the proposals contained in the strategy document ‘Partnerships with Purpose’

This strategy represents the North Wales Health Authority’s 5 year plan for involving the public and patients in the planning, delivery and monitoring of health services in North Wales.

They wish to ensure that the views of the public help them tailor the services more closely to the needs and requirements of local people.

Comments on the proposals will be accepted until 6 ^th October 2000.

If you would like any further information or to discuss the strategy, contact: Peter Higson or Julia Williams: .

If you wish to respond to the proposed document copies are available from Ynys Môn Voluntary Services on .

Baltic House
Mount Stuart Square
CARDIFF. CF10 5FH.

You may recall receiving a copy of the Anglesey Local Agenda 21 Strategy about this time last year. A questionnaire could be found within the pack that was sent to you, asking you what you felt affected your quality of life here on Anglesey.

Having received the completed questionnaires and holding meetings with Community Councils, voluntary groups, Councillors, pupils from Anglesey’s Senior Schools and youth clubs a list of factors that were seen to be important was collated.

This list can be seen within the ‘Anglesey’s Quality of Life Indicators’ booklet enclosed which forms part of the Local Agenda 21 process here on Anglesey. For further copies of the document or for further information please contact Alwena Hughes, Local Agenda 21 Officer at Anglesey County Council on (01248)752446.

Sharon Jones has been appointed as Smoking Cessation Specialist on Anglesey.

Part of her work will be to offer intensive support to smokers who want to quit .

For more information contact: Sharon at the Health Promotion Service, Bryn y Neuadd on .

For further information on any article, contact Ynys Môn Voluntary Services on or to include an article on your organisation in the next issue of Dan Do Môn.

Breast Test Wales will be bringing the mobile screening unit into Holyhead from

19 September until the end of November 2000. (Penrhos Stanley Hospital Car Park).

Three years ago in Holyhead over 1200 women attended for breast screening.

If you are aged 50 -64 this year and registered with one of the GP Practices in Holyhead you will automatically receive an appointment through the post.

For more information contact Margaret Jones: .

Lesbian, gay, bisexual helplines join forces for national campaign.

On 7 ^th October, across the UK, more than 40 Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual helplines will be open continuously for twenty-four hours to talk to anyone coming to terms with, or having difficulties because of their sexuality.

The day is not about ‘conversions’ but raising awareness that there is long term support available.

For more information: Jenny Porter on .

What are Sportlot Community Chests?

A Sports Council for Wales partnership with Local Authorities.

Grants of up to £750 to support all sorts of local sports development projects.

Young people, women and girls, people with disabilities and disadvantaged groups to be the main beneficiaries of the scheme.

What kind of projects could qualify for funding ? Some examples:-

• Improved access to existing facilities for people with disabilities e.g. installing a ramp.
• Transport schemes in rural areas.
• Improving the skills of coaches.
• Recruitment and training of volunteers to assist in club activities

How do you apply for a grant ?

If your organisation has -a bank account, a constitution or set of rules, a good project which needs funding -contact:

Sian Mai Jones Plas Arthur Sports Centre, Llangefni to request an application pack. Tel: .

Small Grant Equipment Scheme between £750 and £5,000 starting September 2000.

Further information available from
Steve Morgan, Sports Council for Wales,
Plas Menai. .

A new grants programme for 2001-2006 is to be announced shortly, but in the meantime 30 September and 30 January 2001 are the closing dates under the present programme.

Current interests include:

• Young people participating in the arts
• Electronic information and training in the voluntary arts field
• Village Halls
• Young people

Telephone enquiries about policy and possible applications - .

Grants between £500 and £10,000 for revenue or capital purposes.

Contributions to:
Social Welfare, Disability, Health and Medical Research.

Applications are considered fortnightly.

For further information telephone:

.

This Trust has wide objectives, its preference is for making grants towards the arts, care for people who are disadvantaged and disabled.

Small organisations are more likely to be supported as well as those who find it difficult to attract funding.

Applications should be made in writing to: Mrs M Mowinckel, PO Box 1898, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire BA15 IYS.

This Trust supports charities working with the disabled, the elderly, children, youth, medical and social purposes.

Large national charities benefiting people of all ages can benefit.

Trust’s maximum donation is around £5,000.

For further information, contact Angela on .

We have recently received a list of the above- more information available by contacting Ynys Môn Voluntary Services on .

With help from Mari () Pentraeth Memorial Hall have received £2000 from Lloyds TSB and Rank Foundation towards renovations to the hall.

Another 4 trusts have promised additional funding towards the scheme.

OUR ADDRESS IS:

Ynys Môn Voluntary Services Room 20, Môn Training
Pen Yr Orsedd Industrial Est Llangefni
Ynys Môn LL77 7JA

Tel: Fax:

or visit our Web site at:
http://www.menternet.org.uk/ymvs/index.htm

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