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Diocese Centenary Funding available

Centenary Funding available to those who have not yet benefitted.

People, we still have monies left concerning our centenary fund but if you have not applied - please do so - so we can be a blessing to you and you to children and young people. Please see the web link below.

http://www.southwark.anglican.org/centenary_fund.htm

An Evening of Music

You are cordially invited to ST Pauls Church, Kingston Hill on 26^th April 2008 to an evening of high quality music featuring Marilyn Hill Smith, Adam Daye, Gillian Tingay (on Harp), Alison Renvoise and the

St Paul

's School Choir. Tickets from the evening cost £7 (on the door) and proceeds from the event go to support the work of Street Pastors Kingston (Oxygen).   

This event is the latest in the ‘Tony and Friends’ concert that regularly feature a wide range of classical and operatic pieces and draw on a wide range of musicians from professional performers to Tony's pupils and local schools. For more information and to book tickets contact the church office 02085495444

Download Event Flyer.pdf (128.3K)

Sponsorship — The Jack Petchey Foundation

The Jack Petchey Foundation will consider sponsoring young people (usually 11-25 years old) living in areas of London and Essex who are undertaking projects, or participating in events, that will benefit other young people or specific charities.

The Foundation also offers Youth Kit Sponsorship. Please scroll down for guidelines and an application form. Before completing the sponsorship form, please check the following points: 1. Do you live in the Foundation's area?(currently London and Essex)
2. Does the project benefit other young people (charity/school/ community project?)
3. Will each applicant raise at least half of the total cost?
4. Brief details and, where appropriate, a budget for the project should be attached to the sponsorship form.
5. The attached form should be carefully completed by the young person concerned (not the adult leader or parent) and endorsed by the adult leader for the relevant organisation, club, school.
6. If a group is applying for sponsorship, the group sponsorship form should be submitted together with a covering note from the Leader or Teacher

The normal individual support from the Foundation will be up to £300 per person.

Sponsorship — The Jack Petchey Foundation Website

The Mylne Trust

Themylne Trust exists “for the benefit of persons of either sex who are, or have been, engaged in evangelistic work, including retired missionaries or missionaries still engaged as such or continuing Christian workers”.Under this description, grants are awarded to individuals towards their personal living expenses in undertaking Christian outreach projects, for periods of training for Christian ministry and outreach and to retired persons whose lives have included Christian evangelistic work. Under the terms of its original endowment, the trust is only permitted to support Christian workers from Protestant denominations.

The Mylne Trust

Voluntary Sector Briefings

the latest Voluntary Sector Newsletter is available to download. Sent out by RBK's Patricia Turner, it covers all range of matters relating to the voluntary sector. You can download it from  the link below

Download volsectorJanuary2008.doc (86.5K)

Funding stream to support community work

A 130m pound government fund has been set up to support community projects across England.The scheme is designed to support grass roots organisations, and grants of as little as 250 pounds will be available for smaller groups.The Community Development Foundation is running the three-year programme on behalf of the Cabinet Office.The fund will be divided into an 80m pound small grants programme, and a 50m pound endowments programme. This is intended to allow local funders to get matched investment to place in endowments, increasing their ability to provide long-term funding.Third sector minister Phil Hope said: "I want grass roots organisations in our communities to thrive so that they can help with the individual challenges that face each local community

Funding stream to support community work - Children & Young People Now

The Wisdom Trust - Just Be Yourself - Be Amazing Today And Every Day.

Did you know A typical AA rechargeable will, in its lifetime, save you about £326 - and that includes buying a solar charger.
More great facts like that daily from http://www.wisdomtrust.org/

Young Kingston

Young Kingston, an exciting new charitable fund nominated as the Mayor of Kingston's Charity for 2006-7, has been set up by Kingston's Mayor for 2006-7, Cllr Mary Reid and one that Oxygen is about to be involved with. Young Kingston’s aim is to help young people living or going to school in the borough, to make the most of life's opportunities and benefit their local community.

Whether it's providing funding for a local environmental clean-up or a performance about an issue that matters to them or providing talented musicians with funds so they can buy a musical instrument or travel to sporting events for promising sportspeople so they can compete, - we aim to help young people do it for themselves.

For more information visit their site by clicking here

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The Duveen Trust

The Duveen Trust is a great Trust for young people to consider application. The Trustees wish to consider:

• Projects of individual initiative by young people where self-help on its own has proved insufficient
• Organisations administering projects whose aim is to develop individual initiative by young people
• Applications for educational assistance to enable applicants to work in community projects specialising in the social education of young people
• Grants towards finite projects or individuals administering them

Grants will only be made to registered charities or to individuals whose grants must be administered by a registered charity. The Trustees are unlikely to make grants in respect of formal education, except for courses leading to a qualification in Youth and Community Work.

For more information visit: http://www.theduveentrust.org.uk

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All Saints Kingston Christmas Market

All Saints Church is home to a Christmas Market with a difference over the next few weeks. Open during the mornings and early afternoons the Church Christmas Bazaar is a chance to pick up little Christmas treats as well as raise money for three welknown Christian Charities Oxygen, Welcare and KCAH.

So why not pop into All Saints (entrance off the Market Place in central Kingston) and start your Christmas shopping and in the process help others in their Christian community work.

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vcashpoint’ is the funding for young people aged 16 to 25

‘vcashpoint’ is the funding initiative for young people aged 16 to 25 in England, who want to set up a volunteering project in their local community. By providing grants of up to £2500, vcashpoint can help young people turn their ideas for volunteering projects into reality!

Round one of vcashpoint launched on Wednesday 28 February and is now closed. Thank you to those who helped young people with their applications. We are now busily assessing all applications and will soon be contacting everyone who applied to tell them the results of the assessments!

Round two of vcashpoint will be up and running in Autumn this year. To make sure you don’t miss out on the next round of vcashpoint applications, 16-25 year olds can register for vcashpoint updates on vinspired. You can also get the latest vcashpoint news by signing up to our vbulletin. In the mean time, you can use the tools below to get young people thinking ‘Outside the Box’.

‘Outside the Box’

To get the creative juices flowing with volunteering project ideas, youth workers across England have been using a brand new limited edition brainstorming kit called ‘Outside the Box’ to help inspire fresh ideas for local volunteering projects. Outside the Box was piloted regionally with a number of youth groups and has proven to be an effective way to engage young people and help them identify potential volunteering project ideas.

The good thing is that it is not essential to have an Outside the Box in order to run an ideas generating session with young people. Download the vinspirer’s notes for an easy step-by-step guide to running your session.

vcashpoint

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Kingston Borough Grants Available

As part of the Council’s commitment to developing its support for improving the environment, a special fund of £25,000 has been made available for environmental projects in 2007/08. This is in line with the Council’s priority in 2006-10 to ‘introduce grants for environmental groups to help them and the Council make further progress on climate change and recycling, waste minimisation and its implications’

They are inviting applications from voluntary and community organisations for projects which will achieve one or more of the following:

• Increase environmental knowledge and understanding
• reduce waste and increase recycling
• save energy, promote alternative and renewable energy, and cut emissions of carbon dioxide
• promote the use of public transport, cycling and walking
• involve the community in environmental action
• protect and enhance biodiversity and the natural environment
• maintain or improve natural resources through conservation and sustainable consumption

In addition, work should directly benefit residents of the Royal Borough of Kingston. They are particularly keen to fund collaborative work between organisations and support to small, emerging groups to develop their ideas.

To apply contact

Barnaby Hopson
Grants Officer
Voluntary Sector Unit
The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames
020 8547 6068

Barnaby.hopson@rbk.kingston.gov.uk

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Filling Three Peaks with Oxygen

Oxygen, Kingston YFC is a relatively new Christian Youthwork Project that seeks to give young people the opportunity to discover and follow Jesus. Throughout the six years Oxygen has been I existence it has reached over 3,500 young people with this mission and has been privileged to see young people baptized, small bible groups established and a whole sale change in the way that hundreds of young people relate to God and the church.

Oxygen now operates over 30 projects, has a team of more than 100 volunteers, as well as a team of 8 full time Gap year workers, all of which, up until Jan 2007 was managed by just one full time worker. Therefore to cope with this work, as well Oxygen’s role in administering and overseeing the Street Pastor scheme we have made the bold step of faith of taking on our second full time worker. This step of faith brings a financial challenge and we are looking to raise around £25,000 during this year.

Therefore in July 2007 a team of Oxygen workers and volunteers are setting out to climb the three highest peaks in Scotland, England and Wales. This exercise we will undertake in 48 hours non stop, starting in Scotland and finishing in Wales. We still have 2 places left on our team so would you consider joining us so more young people can come to discover and follow Jesus, thank you! For more information on the Oxygen three peaks challenge contact:  Elizabeth Man Rey- nameranon@yahoo.co.uk or 07913 036 074.

Youth Opportunities Fund

Kingston Borough have recently obtained around £100,000 for young people to spend on activities with the aim of of giving young people between the ages of 13 – 19 years (inclusive), a voice in deciding ‘things to do and places to go’ in Kingston. Money will be allocated to youth groups based on the 5 Every Child Matters outcomes :

• Being Healthy
• Staying Safe,
• Enjoying and Achieving,
• Making a Positive Contribution and Achieving Economic Well-being

For more information visit:

http://www.younglivin.org.uk/youthservice/youth_opportunity_and_youth_capital_fund.htm

Or by contacting Marguerite

Berry

on 8547 5815 or e mail Marguerite.berry@rbk.kingston.gov.uk