For Sale - Invacare Lynx Mobility Scooter

Purchased new 1/8/08 (for over £1,000) and recently serviced with 2 new batteries.
£350 o.n.o.

Please phone Phil on 0121 244 2575

SUSTAiN accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of the information provided or the condition of the item on offer which is the sole responsibility of the vendor.

Touchwood is giving local groups and organisations the chance to captivate thousands of members of the general public with the re-launch of its successful Your Space initiative.

The scheme, offers aspiring artists and designers, along with local groups, charities and organisations the chance to occupy a dedicated area of the centre, free of charge, to showcase a cause, service or talent. The only condition is that the space should be used to promote or display something engaging and of genuine interest to the local community.

To apply for Your Space, please visit www.touchwoodsolihull.co.uk, or telephone 0121 709 6900 for further information.

To find out what you can use the space for, download the Your Space Information Pack

Solihull Victim Support is in need of DDA compliant premises suitable for 3 people.

If anyone knows of or is able to offer any reasonably priced premises within the borough please contact me on Kiren Bhogal on 07908 145 043 or Gurdeep Hanspaul on 07500 100 695.

Children England and the i-Trust has set up a new free IT helpline for voluntary organisations, community groups and social enterprises working with children, young people and families.

The helpline is open now and will be available until June 2012

To speak to an adviser, call the helpline on 0800 028 0085.

This will be available from 09:00 to 16:00 Mondays to Fridays, excluding Public and Bank Holidays.

Office Furniture

Welcome are looking for office desks, chairs and filing cabinets. Contact June Mole on 0121 711 3148 or email junem@solihull-sustain.org.uk if you can help.

Shirley Sea Scouts have launched an appeal for aluminium cans which they can exchange for cash to aid their fundraising programme. If you can help, please contact June Mole at SUSTAiN on 0121 711 3148

Back in October you completed a survey about the support services you needed and that information is has already been used to help us make a bid for funding from the Cabinet Office’s Transforming Local Infrastructure fund.

According to the survey, many of you are looking for support in things like business planning, forging links with the private sector, finance, funding advice, governance, HR, PR & marketing and all sorts of training.

We are currently looking at how we can meet these support needs across and within the sector, but there is also support available outside the sector.

Solihull Council and other statutory and private sector organisations are now running ‘Employer Supported Volunteering’ (ESV) schemes. ESV is the term used to describe all forms of volunteering carried out by employees which are supported by their employer (ref: Volunteer England).

The scheme at Solihull Council entitled ‘Sharing our Skills’ allows staff to take up to three days (22 hours) a year, out of their day job, to support our Voluntary and Community Sector.

Solihull Council employees have a wealth of skills, knowledge and experience that they are ready to share with you.  In addition to the areas that came out in the survey, their staff can also offer support in administration, archiving, child welfare, IT, legal, project management, research plus other practical skills like cooking, DIY and listening. 

Initially Solihull Council employees will only be able to offer a maximum of 3 days as part of their working week but some may wish to continue to volunteer with organisations in their own time.

The Volunteer Centre, who is acting as a broker for ESV in the borough, would welcome your short term opportunities for employees looking for volunteering roles in Solihull. Opportunities can be for any duration up to 22 hours, for individuals or groups. These can be completed in one block of time or spread over a number of weeks to suit your needs.

To register your opportunities now, please complete a simple ESV opportunity registration form, which you can download below, and we will do the rest!

 Download the ESV Registration form here

For more information, contact Maureen Shepherd on 0121 711 3148 or email maureen.shepherd@wayc2.org

The Children’s Workforce Development Council has produced ‘Communication and engagement with children and young people: An employers pocket guide’. It is intended to be a starting point rather than comprehensive.

It should equally apply to developing skills of volunteers as well as paid staff.

Download the Pocket Guide here.

The Be Clear on Cancer campaign by the Department of Health has issued a toolkit to provide information and resources to those organisations or groups with an interest in lung cancer and those affected by the condition.

Download the toolkit here

Skills For Jobs supports long term unemployed people in North Solihull find work. Over half the people who contacted the service in the past year have now secured employment.

They operate on very limited budgets and are in need of the following items – can you help?

• Laminator
• Guillotine
• Computer chair
• Headphones to plug into laptop
• Flipchart stand

Contact Sophia on 07825 414 372