Community Updates December 12 2021

Dec 20, 2021

Please see items in this week’s newsletter for your information, and to share with those you feel could be interested:

1.       Free Solihull Barons Tickets For All Eligible HAF Children

2.       Suicide Prevention Fund

3.       CAVA Meet the Funder Event: Heart of England Community Foundation

4.       Youth Opportunity Board Solihull (YOBS)

5.       Rape & Sexual Violence Project Training Sessions Offer

6.       Ping! Solihull: Tell Us What You Think

7.       Solihull Family Information Service: Parents’ Network – Christmas 2021 Newsletter

8.       West Midlands Fire Service Website Feedback

9.       Solihull Parenting Team Tweets

 

1.       Free Solihull Barons Tickets For All Eligible HAF Children

All eligible HAF children living within the Solihull Borough are able to attend a Solihull Barons ice hockey game for free, with the next game being on Sunday 2nd January.

Eligible HAF children booked on will receive food at the game. Transport will also be provided from Kingshurst Library on Sunday 2nd January.

For more information please see the attached poster ‘Barons – HAF Christmas’, in addition to finding information on SDH Academy’s social media pages:

https://www.facebook.com/sdhacademy

Instagram – @sdh_academy

Twitter – @sdh_academy

To book onto the next Solihull Barons ice hockey game on 2nd January, please click here: https://sdh-academy.co.uk/product/solihull-barons-haf-event/

2.       Suicide Prevention Fund

Applications to the Suicide Prevention Fund are now open until 16 January 2022 for grants from the £4 million fund to support suicide prevention voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations in 2021 to 2022.

Please see the GOV.UK webpage for more information: Suicide Prevention Fund 2021 to 2022 – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

The GOV.UK page has all of the guidance and application information listed, but please find the following information which may also be helpful:

3.       CAVA Meet the Funder Event: Heart of England Community Foundation

On Tuesday 18th January at 17:00 – 18:30 there is a free virtual event allowing you the opportunity to meet Grant Officers from Heart of England Community Foundation and the CAVA teams in Solihull in order to learn about the grants currently available to charities, CICs, and other community and social enterprise VCSE organisations.

All Solihull-based not-for-profit groups, such as voluntary and community groups, charities, constituted groups, Community Interest Companies, and other types of social enterprise, are invited to attend.

Come and learn more about these grant programmes, get to know the teams that support you in Solihull and ask questions that help you understand whether your initiative and group activities and needs match these grants’ criteria.

To receive a link to attend the meeting, please register your place at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/227670417347

In the new year, CAVA will also be trialling being based at the Three Trees Community Centre in North Solihull and at The Bridge in Shirley on alternate weeks on a Wednesday morning. This is an opportunity for local organisations to meet with CAVA with the introduction of Wednesday morning meeting slots in addition to introducing an open-door availability (depending on local restrictions).

4.       Youth Opportunity Board Solihull (YOBS)

YOBS would love to invite you to their on-line event on Tuesday 18th January at 6 – 8pm.

This event is a session to enable organisations to reflect on and update their Mission, Vision and Values plus get to network with local Organisations in a relaxed but informative atmosphere. There will be a great talk and discussions, plenty of chances to get to know fellow attendees and a short quiz too! The event will be online so that you can comfortably enjoy the session without having to go outside and leave the warmth to attend. To book a place please use following Eventbrite weblink: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/yobs-mission-vision-and-values-and-networking-event-tickets-223500033617

If you have any questions about the event of want to know more about YOBS feel free to contact Charly Slater on charlotte@urbanheard.co.uk or Lisa on Funding@gro-organic.co.uk

5.       Rape & Sexual Violence Project Training Sessions Offer

The Rape & Sexual Violence Project have a limited time offer of when you book a place on any of their ‘Bite Size’ Training sessions, you get an additional place on the same session for another delegate or another session for yourself for free! This offer is only available for bookings made between now and 31st December 2021.

Please see the attached training schedule (attachment: ‘Rape & Sexual Violence Project – Training’) for a full list of training sessions. If you would like to book a place onto any of these sessions follow this link:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/rsvp-29690469567

If you book through EventBrite simply email trainer@rsvporg.co.uk with your request for the additional place.

Alternatively, if you would like to buy tickets via BACS payment, please contact the training team directly at trainer@rsvporg.co.uk

Each session is £25 per participant.

6.       Ping! Solihull: Tell Us What You Think

Ping! Solihull aims to get more people active through table tennis. They are looking for participants who have used the new Ping! Solihull outdoor tables to complete a survey questionnaire or a case study to tell them about your experience with the new outdoor Ping! Solihull tables.

Your feedback will help them to increase and improve the opportunities in place for people to enjoy table tennis. Complete a survey and be in with a chance of winning £50 in Amazon vouchers but also receive 4 bats and 2 balls. Complete a case study and receive a play at home table kit which includes bats, balls and a net.

The giveaway runs from 7th December to 7th January, if you are under the age of 16, please ensure you have a parent or guardian present when you complete the survey or case study. To complete a survey click here and for further information on completing a case study please click here

7.       Solihull Family Information Service: Parents’ Network – Christmas 2021 Newsletter

To see the latest Solihull Parents’ Network newsletter, with details of family events taking place this Christmas, please click here

(N.B. The above web link will redirect you to Solihull Council’s Local Offer website)

Please feel free to pass this newsletter onto the parents/carers that you work with. Parents can also sign up to join the Parents’ Network themselves to receive news regularly.

Plus don’t forget that Solihull Family Information Service are here to assist and support you and the families you work with. If you require information or advice around childcare, activities or support services, early education funded places for 2, 3 and 4 year olds or free school meals, please visit www.solihull.gov.uk/familyinfo for further details or contact the Family Information Service helpline on 0800 389 8667 or email familyinfo@solihull.gov.uk

8.       West Midlands Fire Service Website Feedback

West Midlands Fire Service are currently looking at making improvements to their website. If you haven’t visited their site before, it is at: https://www.wmfs.net.

They are asking if you are able to provide feedback on how they could improve the look of the site, or how you found your way around it? Whether it provides the information you’d expect, and do you find it easy to access? They would really value just a few minutes of your time to complete their survey by 12 January 2022: https://forms.office.com/r/8GTUWCTVrH.

West Midlands Fire Service thank you for the feedback!

9.       Solihull Parenting Team Tweets

Please see the attachment ‘Tweet 51 – Building resilience in children’ in which the Solihull Parenting Team have provided information about the potential importance of resilience in children and practical suggestions for building resilience in children.

Also attached is ‘Tweet 52 – Teenagers Struggling to Sleep’ where the Solihull Parenting Team have provided information for teenagers that are having difficulty getting to sleep, with information about the Teen Sleep Hub, in addition to the number for the national sleep helpline being provided.

Rape & Sexual Violence Project – Training

Tweet 52 – Teenagers Struggling to Sleep

Tweet 51 – Building resilience in children