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Dudley CVS achievements between April 2013 and March 2014, supporting individuals and organisations to make positive change in their communities.
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Dudley CVS is a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee. Place of registration: England Company Number: 1998105Charity number: 517766
DUDLEYCOUNCILFORVOLUNTARYSERVICE
ANNUALREPORT2013-14
Availablein large print
on request
SUPPORTING COMMUNITIESACROSS ALL OF THEDUDLEY BOROUGHDuring the year Dudley CVS has clocked up more than 13,000 miles, putting sta� on the ground in many of our borough’s communities.
Here are just a few examples of where Dudley CVS sta� have been this year. heritage and environment
faith
arts and sport
volunteer support to statutory partners
young people
older people
business supporting the community
communities
health & disability
EAST COSELEY AND WRENS NESTSupporting communities to achieve positive change.1
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.
2
UPPER ETTINGSHALL METHODIST CHURCHFunding support for refurbishment works to the group’s church and community facilities. Awarded £11,000 by two funders.
3
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 �nancial 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.
4
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’.
5
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.
6
Enterprise development support for young people outside mainstream education.
BLACK COUNTRY WHEELS (Dudley and Brierley Hill)7
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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DUDLEY LITTLE THEATRE (Netherton and borough-wide)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.
17
SPORTS NETWORKBrought together 10 sports clubs with o�cers 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.
18
INTERNATIONAL HOUSING GROUP (Brierley Hill)Built links with this business, culminating in sta� members doing a team challenge cleaning up Wrens Nest Nature Reserve.
19
BLACK COUNTRY FESTIVAL(across Dudley borough and beyond)Set-up support to help the group to become grant-ready and to run its events and activities.
20
TOP CHURCH TRAINING (Brierley Hill)Business planning and funding support culminating in a grant of £10,000 to support its work with vulnerable young people.
21
BLACKHEATH MOSQUELiaising 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.
22
BANGLADESHI DEVELOPMENT GROUP (Halesowen)Funding support for summer activities for young people, resulting in a grant of £3,709 from Awards for All.
23
24LYE AND WOLLESCOTE CHAPELSSupport to save this historic building, culminating in a £1.15m grant from Heritage Lottery Fund.
25
BREAD2SHARE (Stourbridge and borough-wide)Social enterprise support on business planning, setting up and �nance 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.
27
SENIORS LUNCHEON CLUB (Stourbridge)Helped the group to plan its activities, become more sustainable and access £4,490 from Awards for All to fund them for one year.
28
PHASE TRUST (Halesowen)Funding support culminated in successful bids to Reaching Communities for £290,508 and Lloyds Foundation for £31,040 to continue work with young people.
29
HASBURY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONWorked 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.
30
PRESTWOOD HOUSE (Kinver) Supported this business with legal and good practice issues to enable it to set up a volunteering programme to challenge isolation of older people.
31
UNIT3SIXTY (Stourbridge)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.
26
WALL HEATH TENNIS CLUBProvided guidance and hands-on support to change the club’s legal structure in preparation for the refurbishment of its facilities.
12
DUDLEY AND DISTRICT MS SOCIETY(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.
13
BROMLEY TABLE TENNIS CLUBIntensive work to support the club’s move into a new home, leading to the club accessing £3,000 to aid that transition.
14
RUSSELLS HALL HOSPITAL(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 �nd out more about the role of carers and the support available to them and their loved-ones.
15
HOPE CENTRE (HALESOWEN) AND WOODSIDECOMMUNITY CENTRESupported to become two of the �rst purely volunteer-led organisations in England to be awarded `Investors in Volunteers’.
16
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.
HELPING HANDS WALL HEATH CICLegal and good practice support in volunteer management. The CIC was also supported with �nancial management and cash�ow forecasting and had help to develop its small grants programme and application procedures, allowing it to make a di�erence to local good causes.
11
KATES HILL AND SLEDMERE CHILDREN’S CENTRE Volunteer-management support through the Dudley CVS Volunteer Centre toolkit.
9
PROVIDENCE OUTREACH GROUP (Cradley)This informal group was supported to become constituted in order to allow it to be an independent, grant-ready organisation.
JUL
supported by
Dudley CVS
wellbeing
CHAMPIONING POSITIVE SOCIAL CHANGE
PIONEERING INNOVATION AND TRANSFORMATION
CONNECTING AND DEVELOPING RESILIENT ORGANISATIONS AND INDIVIDUALSBARBARA’S STORY REIMAGINING COMMUNITY
SPACESaccess to
support for her husband
Traditionalcommunity
model ...
based on service
provision
can make the
community the passive recipient
of services
leaving a few
volunteers
has been
enabling residents
to transform
where they live
andmaximise
use of community
spaces
a model where membership
becomes a tool to pay for itself
in order to
rethink ...
everyoneis now a co-builder
of a resilient community action
that bene�ts:
with alot to do
continues with artclasses
joined Facebook tostay in touchwith family
and support
when her husband passed
away
encouraged Barbara to take
part in an annual arts project
especiallyher daughterwhose artistic
background
with her newcon�denceBarbara ... volunteers
to supportother carers
came to us in crisis, unsure
where to get help with caring for her
husband
Barbara
this led to
stronger family relationships
CVS Carers Co-ordinatorhelped her �nd
whereBarbara met
another recently bereaved
carer
APR MAY AUGJUN SEP OCT NOV FEBJANDEC MAR
Improving Physical Activity projects brought together to
co-design further projects and activities
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 a�ects
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 andsustain their organisations
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
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
Operation Santa campaign supported 5,430 disadvantaged
children and young people across the borough
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 bene�t East Coseley for the
next two yearsBaking club
launched in Wrens Nest by a 7-year old
resident there
Open Hub Wrens Nest co-designed by local
residents (between August and November)
Hope Centre and Woodside Community
Centre awarded Investing in Volunteers
award following support from from the Dudley CVS Volunteer Centre
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
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?'
With the New Economics Foundation, Healthwatch Dudley brought together a variety of people with
di�erent 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
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 di�erence volunteers make, speci�cally in supporting people’s recovery
from addictions and conditions
Funding success – a consortium of 20
local organisations led by Dudley CAB received £345,335 from BIG Lottery Advice Services Transition Fund
LEADING, NETWORKING AND COLLABORATING
CREATING CONDITIONS FOR INFLUENCE
Dudley Borough Interfaith Network
visit to Westminster and speak to MP Ian
Austin
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
Side by Side Theatre Company and Just Straight
Talk CIC presented with Building Blocks award for
their development
Commissioning and procurement
masterclasses - 100% reported they felt their skills, knowledge and
con�dence had improved in the
tendering process
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
“As an ex-carer, it was good to give something back for all the support I received. The art therapy has de�nitely given me a new outlook on life - something totally di�erent, 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
Open Hub in Wrens Nest,
Dudley
interactions
health socialinclusion
facebook.com/openhubwrenna
Find out more at:http://bit.ly/1zRLCJj
variedappropriate for meaningful
public involvement
HEALTH ANDWELLBEING BOARD
“we should work WITH the public, not FOR
them”
“we need to engage the
public in our work”
“this is the responsibility
of all of us”
Dudley CVS workedwith them on
a collective
approach to engagement
where
open to feedback
open to evaluation
engagement activities are
the level of
engagement isSO
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F OUR
ACHI
EVEM
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OUR
HIGH
LIGH
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THE Y
EAR
funding
Wrens Nest Trade School launched
Dudley CVS blog launched to celebrate the great work
going on in Dudley and to show how Dudley CVS
supports it (www.dudleycvsblog.com)
Talent Match investment of £10.3 million for the Black Country region announced
Dudley Borough Interfaith Network
'Oneness of communities' event
Led a 2-day course on empowering
leadership
HealthwatchDudley
DUDLEY CCG’S URGENT CARECONSULTATION
as part o
f
surveyed
1,074Russell’s
Hall Hospital
Dudley Walk-in Centre
in 7 days
�ndingshighlighted
problems accessing GP services for
now has a voice on an urgent care reference
group
childrenyoung people
vulnerableolder
people
UrgentCareConsultation
people at
a full reportof �ndingswas presentedto the CCGBoard inJanuary 2014
HealthwatchDudley
as a result
Dudley Clinical
Commissioning Group’s
workincludedbringing
the
BUILDING HEALTHPARTNERSHIPS
Dudley CVSwas one of them
wellbeinghealth
a tool to
measure impact of
work
to ensure a role
for our sector in health in the
future
PSIAMSDudley
CCG had invested in
by the end of the year
Only 12 learning sites in England have
worked on engagement for Clinical
Commissioning Groups(CCG’s)Dudley
CCG
to help
understand how our sector
impacts on
together with key sector organisations
an integrated
care agenda
Community Enterprise
Fund
Dudley CVS wasinstrumental insetting up
TRANSFORMING LOCALINFRASTRUCTURE
run by
Dudley CVS
otherfunders
localauthority
private sector (through
Business in the Community)
as a partnership
project between
they
receivedgrants
May2013
plus
Transforming Local Infrastructure
(TLI) wasrolled out
Bread2Share was 1 of the
136participants
participantsreceive high level support
on
procurement
assetdevelopment
socialenterprise
workshops
toolkitsand
Dudley CVS
also helped develop
Community Enterprise
Fund
got support
through the social enterprise toolkit on
business planning and setting up
joinedSynergy
“I am grateful for all the supportI have received and would
recommend others to follow”Sarah Goudie, Bread2Share
throughmasterclasses
TALENT MATCH TalentMatch
brought together
a5
year programmethrough TalentMatch Dudley CVShas
Dudley CVS also consulted
to help over1,400
unemployed young adults
in the Black Country
businesses
youngpeople
otherpartners
to work up local
solutions in the Black Country, placing young people at the
centre
youngpeople
on
what they’d look like
the environment
they’dprovide
including1 in
Dudleyborough
CommunciationsHubs
a central
Communications Hub will
distributeinformation
to 4 satellite
hubs
£10.3mof funding
WRENS NEST ANDEAST COSELEY
Dudley CVS
nurtured people to become the leaders of the
change they want
through designed,
resident-led activity
Coseley Grapevinenewslettera
Facebookpage
TradeSchool
coseleylife.netwebsite
Coseley residents
have now taken responsibility
for ...
Wrens Nestresidents
have now taken responsibility
for ...
“95% of what we want to achievewe can do ourselves”
Brian GuestEast Coseley Core Group Chairman
“There’s nothing we can’t do”Dennis Harper
Wrens Nest resident
CreativeThursdays
LYE &WOLLESCOTE
CHAPELS
How-ToGuide
DudleyBoroughCouncil
wroteits
One of the �rst
projects
was a group concerned about the future of
Lye and Wollescote
Chapels
supported by Dudley CVS
Dudley CVS
the derelict
helped see the chapels transferred
to helpedsource potential tenants for the
site
and helped the Trust secure
>£1m funding
and helpedcreate an action
plan to promote and safeguard the
chapels
Asset Transfer
Policy
WestMidlandsHistoric
BuildingsTrust
AssetTransfer
Strategy
BROMLEY TABLETENNIS CLUB
threatened with
closurealternativevenues tooexpensive
Dudley CVShelped them
get support
fromBeActive
identify an appropriate
funder
secure£3,000 to help
with short term cash �ow
becomegrantready
searchfor new venue
Bromley Table Tennis
Club
loseshome of40 years
Synergya
network that enables social
enterprises to learn from existing
businesses
PIONEERING INNOVATION AND
TRANSFORMATION
LEADING, NETWORKING AND
COLLABORATING
CREATING CONDITIONS FOR
INFLUENCE
17,095views of the Volunteer
Centre blog and
22,457of the Dudley CVS
website
more than
2,000Twitter followers of
@dudleycvs & @dudleyvols
80%of people taking part in a survey in Wrens Nest said they liked helping others and
sharing skills
Unemployed volunteers
supported rose from72%
to82%
925contacts at Russells Hall
Hospital on the caring role, bene�ts and support,
mental health, volunteering and di�erent health
conditions
£10.3munlocked for the Black
Country to support young people into work
through Talent Match136
individuals and organisations supported on
enterprising solutions (enterprise development,
asset development, commissioning and
procurement)
100% reported increase in
knowledge about working in partnership or
in collaboration with other organisations
15 projects awarded a
grant or loan from the Community Enterprise
Fund, totalling£170,912.50
Brought together over
200people on areas of work such
as: health; faith; sport; young people; our
sector’s future
With Dudley Council, CAB and other partners,
Healthwatch created Dudley Community Information Point
Network, recruiting
80Information Champions to
improve access to health and social care information
Dudley CVS and Healthwatch sit on
52strategic 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
80people’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
CONNECTING AND DEVELOPING
RESILIENT ORGANISATIONS
AND INDIVIDUALS
Over
£2mof Talent Match
funding will come into Dudley
borough
CHAMPIONING POSITIVE SOCIAL
CHANGE57%
increase in the likelihood of
collaboration by spending time in the
same place
10social media surgeries
helped 41
individuals from the sector to get started on social media
12people gave their time as
volunteer social media surgeons
Dudley CVS blog
(www.dudleycvsblog.com) launched to share the great
things communities are doing in Dudley and show
how we supportthem 98
attended a suite of
9training events to develop
business acumen and enterprising solutions
to �nance the sector
100% increase in
knowledge on how to develop enterprising
solutions
Funding support has brought in grants
worth at least £2,952,046
to45
organisations
200people visited Dudley
Borough Interfaith Network's pop-up shop in Dudley's Churchill Precinct
to �nd out more or sign up as volunteers
£77kprogramme co-designed by
Dudley CCG, the O�ce of Public Health Dudley, Dudley CVS and community organisations. Over
10,000hours of physical activities across
17sports were delivered
Input into Dudley's Sports and
Physical Activity Strategy to ensure that
voluntary sector organisations were
represented
£5,637,663 unlocked by Dudley CVS and the
organisations it supports to deliver projects bene�ting Dudley
borough residents
£4,682,582 was external funding that
Dudley CVS helped to bring into the borough
Of that,
69received intensive 1-to-1 support on: social enterprise;
developing assets; commissioning and
procurement
37information and
signposting sessions at Russells Hall Hospital Health
Hub
Trained
102organisations on: business
continuity planning; collaboration; social value;
marketing; leadership; volunteering management;
individual funders
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
over200
organisations received 1-to-1 support in
600interventions. Topics included:
setting up a charity; legal compliance; planning; marketing;
�nance; funding; volunteer management