Eastleigh Lions invites local charities in Eastleigh to bid for a donation. Prizes for the successful bids will result in one £350, one £250 and one £150 donation, making a total of £750.00.
Bids should be in a statement of no more than 100 words on how they would spend the donation from the charity chest.
Club Directors will draw up a short list of three from the entries. The chosen bids will be invited to make a ten minute presentation at the 3 May 2019 monthly meeting. The members at the May meeting, will vote for the first, second and third recipients. The cheque presentations to the winning bids will be made at the winning recipient’s club meeting or as agreed.
Invitations are open to all charities in Eastleigh and bids are to be submitted to dkandiah@yahoo.co.uk, by 20 February 2019. The chosen three bids will be notified and invited to make a presentation on the evening of 3 May 2019 at The Point, Eastleigh.
Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree!
Community Christmas Tree Festival 2018
Last year One Community ran a very successful Community Christmas Tree Festival in the temporary exhibition gallery at Eastleigh Museum, where voluntary and community organisations created funny, poignant and beautiful Christmas trees representing their activities. (Lovely 2017 Basics Bank tree pictured .)
The festival attracted 1,597 visitors to the museum, so it is a great way of raising awareness of what you do.
This year the Community Christmas Tree Festival runs from 24 November 2018 to 5 January 2019. Setting up will be on the Thursday and Friday 22 and 23 November, whenever is convenient between 10am and 4pm.
Participation in the event is completely free.
If you’d like to participate with a Christmas tree for your community group, please contact One Community for a booking form on 023 8090 2458 or volunteer@1community.org.uk
Or Download a form from here: Christmas Tree FORM
Grant Opportunity- FREE MONEY
ACTION HAMPSHIRE FUND NOW OPEN.
Grants of £500 – £5,000 now available in Hampshire to support organisations and groups working to address the needs of children, young people and families. The fund is targeting existing and new projects, equipment, capital costs and core organisation costs (including salaries), for projects that support disadvantaged or vulnerable families in crisis, reduce the impact of childhood poverty, help families cope with poverty and crisis and that show how funding will make a real difference to their organisation and beneficiaries. For full details, please click on the link below.
Please apply before midnight on 9th November 2018 via HIWCF website: http://www.hiwcf.com/funds/action-hampshire/
(Please note, grants are not available for Portsmouth, Southampton and Isle of Wight).
Many thanks,
HIWCF Team
Queen’s Award Presented to One Community.
Queen’s Award Presented to One Community
The Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire, Nigel Atkinson, presented the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service to One Community at a reception held at Eastleigh Museum on Monday 17 September.
(Presented here to Prof. Sri Kandiah, Chair of Trustees for One Community.)
Grants Available
If your group is involved in supporting parts of the community, then please look at these grants that may be available to you.
HIWCF FUNDS NOW OPEN!
Tampon Tax Community Fund
The Tampon Tax Community Fund would like to award grants of between £5,000 an £10,000 to support marginalised women and girls, to help them overcome barriers that may prevent them from fulfilling their potential. The fund will support a variety of projects that make a long-term difference to health, well-being, confidence and social/economic activity, as well as addressing equality. Projects may cover supporting women and girls to learn new skills, building confidence to apply for new jobs or to return to the workplace, teaching women how to look after and improve their mental or physical health and live in good health for longer, or connecting women through building social networks to share experiences and offer support to each other. The fund hopes to target those organisations that have been established by women or girls and/or are led by women and girls, and which have been established with the key aim of working with women and girls only. Please apply before 19th October 2018.
For the full criteria please click here: http://www.hiwcf.com/funds/tampon-tax-community/
Businesses Supporting Older People (BSOP) Fund
BSOP would like to award grants of £500 to small community groups or community initiatives that support activities for members aged over 55 years old, such as bowling clubs, coffee mornings, luncheon clubs, trips and projects, so they can reduce isolation and loneliness in the community. The aim is to enable older people to access services and encourage new people to join in and participate in community clubs and activities. Please apply before 12th October 2018.
For the full criteria please go to the HIWCF website: http://www.hiwcf.com/funds/business-supporting-older-people-fund/
Diversity is being celebrated across Eastleigh
Local people have the chance to nominate an individual, group, team or organisation as part of the third Eastleigh Diversity & Inclusion Award. You can read more about it and apply Farooqi Award – Nomination Form. [Read more…]
The Queen’s Award 2019 (nominations)
NOW EXTENDED TO FRIDAY 21st SEPTEMBER 2018.
Do you think your group deserves a Queens Award, like ours here in One Community?
The closing date 14th September 2018. Now extended to the Friday 21st of September as there have been technical difficulties with their website.
Click here for the application.
The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service is the highest award given to local volunteer groups across the UK to recognise outstanding work done in their communities.
Our Chief Executive, Jean Roberts-Jones and Trustee, Profession Sri Kandiah met the Queen herself to celebrate our award. We formally receive our award on Monday 17th of September 2018.
Next year, it could be YOU!
Eastleigh Bid
We are involved in many parts of community service and development so are taking a particular interest in the Eastleigh Bid.
If you have any comments or contributions to make, please follow the instructions on the information below.
One Community’s Year of Celebration
One Community has been celebrating its 40th anniversary throughout 2018 with a series of events, celebrations and challenges, which will culminate with a celebratory AGM on Tuesday 18 September at The Point and an exhibition at Eastleigh Museum, 15 September-10 November, called One Community – The First 40 Years. [Read more…]
Eastleigh Borough Council and the Mayor celebrate One Community at 40 years!
Eastleigh Borough Council, Mayor’s Tea Party celebrating 40 years of One Community.
On the 27th of July 2018 a group of staff, volunteers and associates of One Community went to the Point in Eastleigh to celebrate our 40th anniversary. It was a hot and sunny day and we all enjoyed cakes, sandwiches, tea and coffees together and listened to some good speeches about how Eastleigh Borough Council and One Community do work in partnership. In front of our representatives the mayor and the council explained it has become more of a mutual respect and friendly relationship, to the benefit of the people of Eastleigh and surrounding areas.
It was a lovely way to spend an afternoon and we were particularly glad to have been nominated to receive a cheque from the council from their own staff charitable giving.
If you would like to see more, please check out our facebook page.
