One Blackpool is seeking an organisation to fulfill requirement 1 of the Third Sector Support contract with Blackpool Council. Requirement 1 is to raise the profile of the voluntary, community and faith sector in Blackpool through the design and delivery Continue reading
One Blackpool has been successful in being awarded the Blackpool Council service level agreement (SLA) for the delivery of third sector support in Blackpool and is committed to an open and transparent process to identify the partners to deliver the Continue reading
One Blackpool is joining on calls to the government, from national voluntary sector bodies NAVCA and Locality, to make available targeted funding of £150 million for social investment in the fifty most deprived local authority areas. The proposal calls on Continue reading
The FSI is bringing two days of free training to Manchester so that all small charities, wherever they are, can access the skills they need to become self sustaining. The Roadshow will offer training sessions covering a wide range of Continue reading
NAVCA has today published a report analysing the work that the 74 areas receiving Transforming Local Infrastructure (TLI) investment set out to do, much of which is well underway as the project enters its final phase. The report pulls together Continue reading
This morning at the One Blackpool office we’ve been thinking about vision, values and principles and how we can articulate these to our prospective members and to the local sector as a whole. We spent a couple of hours discussing Continue reading
As you may be aware Blackpool Council has released it’s Youth Fund tender for 2013/14. There is £250,000 available for a one off round of applications with no upper or lower limit for bids. One Blackpool would like to hear from Continue reading
One Blackpool is currently undertaking a mapping exercise to ascertain early expressions of interest from organisations who would be interested in being part of the Blackpool wide Fulfilling Lives: Better Start, Brighter Future bid being led by the local authority. Continue reading
Last Wednesday morning saw the first of our One Blackpool Breakfast Seminars aimed at bringing high quality information, skill sharing and networking opportunities to civil sector organisations in Blackpool. This first session was spent looking at digital storytelling to promote Continue reading
The staff and board of directors here at One Blackpool would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The One Blackpool team are out of the office from Friday 21st December 2012 and will Continue reading