Renew Mind Centre CIC, based in Swansea has been awarded a national Lottery grant of £9695 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund for an incredible and exciting project on “New Light in the journey of brave women in Wales!”. Read more
Could unpaid Carers be using your services? The ‘Lightening the Load’ project aims to support unpaid Carers who need a helping hand with household tasks and odd jobs. This grant fund is an open call for third sector providers to deliver some additional support to Carers who may be using their services. Read more
Welsh Government has made available funding from the Household Support Fund to help organisations meet the increased demand for crisis food provision. Read more
Swansea University are offering surplus hand sanitiser to local third sector organisations, free of charge. Read more
A severe shortage of staff across all sectors may lead to some temporary changes to the way services are delivered across our region. Read more
Communities Together micro-enterprise directory now live! The project, which helps to create local services to support people in Swansea to remain in their own homes, has just launched a directory of the services that it has helped to establish; alongside funding which is available to help unpaid family carers to access the services. Read more
Swansea Council have been in touch with a kind offer of free furniture which they would like to donate to local groups. Read more
SHORT DEADLINE: In recognition of the impact on older people's health and wellbeing of the Covid-19 pandemic, this fund has been developed to counter the impacts on socialisation, communication, emotional and mental health, low levels of physical activity, increased sedentary behaviour, healthy eating and obesity. Read more
With services now stretched to their absolute limit, West Glamorgan Regional Partnership are asking the third sector in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot to help in a way that they haven’t previously, looking for paid Third Sector employees to undertake some key health and social care-related tasks. Read more
On Tuesday 14th December, SCVS held its AGM and joint event with Building Communities Trust, ‘The POWER of Networks’ – you can find the presentations and SCVS Impact Report here, and have your say on the development of a local and national community network. Read more