{"id":2246,"date":"2011-01-11T17:56:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T17:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=2246"},"modified":"2011-01-11T17:56:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T17:56:39","slug":"european-year-of-volunteering-england-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=2246","title":{"rendered":"European Year of Volunteering: England Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The\u00a0Cabinet Office\u00a0has today made available small scale contracts and grants for organisations to develop and implement activity within England, as part of the national work programme for European Year of Volunteering.<\/p>\n<p><\/span>2011 has been designated as the European Year of Volunteering within the\u00a0European Union. The purpose of the Year is to support the efforts of member states and civil society organisations to create conditions which are conducive to the development of volunteering across\u00a0Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The Year provides an excellent opportunity to support the development of social action, a key pillar of the Big Society.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the national work programme for the Year, The Office for Civil Society has identified national priorities which support the Big Society Vision, and is seeking partner organisations to support the development and implementation of activities within England which relate to these priorities. The national priorities include:<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;\">Encouraging and enabling individuals to make a contribution within their communities and help solve social issues by volunteering.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;\">Promoting good practice within the private, public and voluntary and community sector in relation to the development of effective employer supported volunteering (ESV) programmes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;\">Identifying and sharing good practice and resources relating to effective volunteer management; and,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;\">Promoting good practice in opening the door to\u00a0volunteering opportunities\u00a0to those traditionally less likely to volunteer.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;\"><br \/>\nFor more information on the roles available and how to apply see: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk\/content\/european-year-volunteering-2011-funding-opportunities-develop-and-implement-activities\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information on the European Year of Volunteering see: <a href=\"http:\/\/europa.eu\/volunteering\/en\/home2\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cabinet Office News: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk\/news\/grants-available-european-year-volunteering\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Cabinet Office\u00a0has today made available small scale contracts and grants for organisations to develop and implement activity within England, as part of the national work programme for European Year of Volunteering. 2011 has been designated as the European Year of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=2246\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2247,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions\/2247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}