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Watford CVS: Wednesday, 1 July 2009

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A relentless blog of 1,000 days (from Nov 2006 to July 2009) - giving far more detail than you want about my personal life and my role as CEO at Watford Council for Voluntary Service. Wednesday, 1 July 2009. Most of today I worked installing PCs and software etc and meeting with Angelo on mywatford.net. I also had some interesting discussions about our Time Banking initiative here in Watford. And I met with Dr Saleh to discuss the needs of the Watford Arabic School. View my complete profile.

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My Herts Together: 21/02/10 - 28/02/10

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Monday, 22 February 2010. Making a difference locally. By Geoff Brown: Senior Project Manager, Herts Local Initiative (Herts County Council). More than 200 groups have been able to help their local communities, thanks to money from a new County Council scheme. All over Hertfordshire, worthwhile projects are being given a funding boost through the Locality Budget Scheme. Each of the 77 county Councillors has £10,000 to spend on community schemes in their area. 163;1500 to Royston Tennis Club. Councillor R...

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My Herts Together: 12/09/10 - 19/09/10

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Tuesday, 14 September 2010. By Joanna Monks, Isobel Hatfield and Sue Jane O'Keefe. Herts Small Groups Development Workers. The Small Groups Development Worker (SGDW) project has been up and running since the end of September 2009. This BASIS 2 Project is funded by The Lottery for five years. There are four members of staff covering: North Herts (Anne Taylor), Stevenage (Jo Monks), Broxbourne and East Herts (Sue Jane O’Keefe) and Welwyn Hatfield and Hertsmere (Isobel Hatfield). We share experiences, advic...

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My Herts Together: Ode to changing times

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Monday, 21 March 2011. Ode to changing times. Strategic Engagement Officer, Herts CVS Group. And before that was even done. LAA2 was upon us. With the promise of a small bonus. Some swore it was a piece of heaven. I shall forever remember. 8216;Environment for a Thriving Third Sector’. Voluntary, Statutory, working in unity,. Young people and Stronger Communities. Jobs, Health, green infrastructure,. Brain cells in danger of rupture! And now the tide has turned. Big Society’s emerged round the bend.

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My Herts Together: 13/06/10 - 20/06/10

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Tuesday, 15 June 2010. The winds of change . The new government has announced a number of changes that will affect both statutory and VCS ways of working. Details are still hazy and there has been speculation about some funding streams possibly being under threat. It is hoped that the emergency budget (due to be announced on the 22nd of June) will provide some clarity. The joint inspectorates will not be reporting new red or green flags in the area assessment nor updating the text around existing flags.

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My Herts Together: 16/01/11 - 23/01/11

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Tuesday, 18 January 2011. What came first, the roses or the thorns? Prime Minister David Cameron, in his new year’s message, has warned that 2011 is going to be a "difficult" year with a lot of “heavy lifting” preceding the "really bright future" of the country. In other words, we will have to endure the thorns before we see the roses. Boom and bust. It’s a cycle, isn’t it? Should we have expected that a downturn was inevitable? If it is indeed a cycle, what are we doing now to prepare for the roses?

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My Herts Together: 06/03/11 - 13/03/11

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Friday, 11 March 2011. Strategic Engagement Officer, Herts CVS. Guidelines. The DWP has, of course, said that it is possible that their guidance was misinterpreted. If you are reading this and you work at the Job Centre or are involved in any way with volunteer support, here is a list of worthier, oops,. Places to refer your clients to:. Volunteer Transport schemes: Driving elderly and disabled people to health and social appointments through a hospital or CVS-run scheme. The list goes on …. This blog fo...

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My Herts Together: 14/11/10 - 21/11/10

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Friday, 19 November 2010. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Strategic Engagement Officer, Herts CVS. No, it’s something rather uncomfortable appearing on the horizon! Statutory bodies are busy trying to figure out how best to lessen the potentially negative implications of the recently announced CSR. As part of that process, HCC has been running consultation sessions to get views about the way forward. 8217; up and down the country ……. 8216;Survival of the fittest’. That is certainly what Herts Coun...As well...

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My Herts Together: 31/10/10 - 07/11/10

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Tuesday, 2 November 2010. CSR 2010: A summary. By: COVER: Community and Voluntary Forum Eastern Region. The 20th has been and gone and the number-crunching has begun. The Government has announced that it will cut £81 billion from public spending, with 490,000 public sector jobs likely to go in the next four years. It plans for the structural deficit to be eliminated by 2015. What do the cuts mean for the VCS? Other references to the VCS:. Mention of previously announced changes to Big Lottery funding; and.