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Here is your weekly round-up of content from our website, www.fva.org.
Please send us any of your own news, event details, vacancies and more and we'll post them on our website for the thousands of weekly visitors to see.
Click on any of the purple text below to be taken to the item on our website.
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Could You Play a Vital Role in Fife's Third Sector?
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Do you feel strongly that the third sector has an important role to play in Fife?
We are looking for new members for our Board of Trustees, as well as third sector CEOs/Directors for the Third Sector Strategy Group. Could this be you?
FVA is continually striving to work with partners to ensure the third sector in Fife is resourced, recognised, and valued for the difference it makes in our communities. We're working hard to encourage and facilitate more collaboration, cost-sharing, and upskilling the workforce to ensure the people of Fife get access to high quality, public services. Join us and help us deliver this vision!
Click here to find out more about the roles and how you can get involved.
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FVA Training and Learning
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FVA lunchtime learning sessions are aimed at raising the skills and capacities of local service providers interested in improving or enhancing their provision in Fife.
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Benefits available from Social Security Scotland
Tuesday 20 May, 12.00-1.00, online
Claire Lister, Partnership and Events Manager for Social Security Scotland, will introduce us to the wide range of benefits now available and will guide us through Social Security Scotland’s plans for the future.
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Child Poverty and Parental Employability Support
Tuesday 27 May, 12.00-1.00, online
Participants will explore the long-term impact of poverty in Fife, hear about common challenges, and gain an overview of existing family-focused employability provision in Fife.
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Fife Employability Forum
Wednesday 07 May, 9.00-12.30, New Volunteer House Kirkcaldy
The Fife Employability Forum is held quarterly and brings together staff and managers involved in employability services from all sectors - aiming to help organisations to work together to improve employment outcomes for people in Fife.
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Health and Social Care Forum - May
Thursday 08 May, 10.00-12.00, Caledonia House Glenrothes
At this forum we will be joined by:
- Claire Steele, Head of Pharmacy Medicines Supply and Quality, from Civility Matters
- Steven Williams, Independent Living Worker, from Sight Scotland & Sight Scotland Veterans
- Sight Scotland and Sight Scotland Veterans for sighted guide training
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Carers' Providers Forum - May
Tuesday 13 May, 2.00-4.00, Caledonia House Glenrothes
This forum will provide a platform for management-level carer providers from third and public sectors in Fife to share knowledge and insights, stay informed, access training and education opportunities, advocate for caregivers, and influence positive changes.
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Voluntary Sector Children‘s Services Forum
Thursday 22 May, 10.00-12.00, Caledonia House Glenrothes
The Voluntary Sector Children‘s Services Forum (VSCSF) is open to any staff member, board member or volunteer working in the third sector with children, young people and families.
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Climate Know How
Tuesday 13 May, 9.30-4.30, New Volunteer House Kirkcaldy
This session is open to partners that are aware of the need to upskill the workforce to prepare for forthcoming changes in the employability landscape to meet the and manage response to the climate emergency.
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Fife‘s Volunteering Development Summit
Thursday 05 June, 10.00-3.00, Caledonia House Glenrothes
Fife's Volunteering Development Summit offers an engaging learning and development opportunity for anyone in the third sector who involves, supports, and manages volunteers in Fife.
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Other Training and Events
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Opportunities and Support Groups
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Our Minds Matter Summer Residential Course
This two-day residential course is suitable for staff working across education, social work, Health and Social Care Partnership, and third sector services that provide mental health and wellbeing supports to children, young people, and families living in Fife. The free training with Suzanne Zeedyk from CAMHS and Barnardo's will take place at St Andrews University.
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Sleep Action: Free Sleep Advisor Training
Do you work with children, young people, and families who report sleep difficulties impacting on their life? If so, Sleep Action have a free training opportunity to become a sleep advisor.
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Restoration Fife Cupar Group
Restoration Fife is introducing a Recovery Community group to Cupar on 12 May 2025.
Recovery Community provide a range of activities across Fife for people in recovery from substance abuse.
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Pint of Science Festival 2025
Monday 19-Wednesday 21 May, 7.00-9.30, St Andrews
Pint of Science is an international science festival that happens annually over three evenings in May.
From 19-21 May 2025, science researchers will be making their way from the lab to public venues such as cafes and pubs to share their research stories with the public over a nice cold pint of their favourite drink.
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Climate Cafe St Andrews
Tuesday 27 May, 6.00-7.00, St Andrews
Transition St Andrews, Environment Subcommittee, and We Are Zest Café are excited to invite you to their Climate Café, a welcoming space where you can connect with others in the community, discuss the climate crisis, and explore practical actions we can take in our daily lives.
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ParalympicsGB Reunion Event
Saturday 31 May, 12.00-4.00, Stirling
The event provides an opportunity for those who have represented ParalympicsGB, including the loved ones of Paralympians who have now passed away, to unite as a community, for old friendships to be rekindled, and for new connections to be made.
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Social Security Scotland Survey
Researchers in Social Security Scotland are running a short survey for people who support their clients or work in partnership with Social Security Scotland. It gives you a chance to tell them about your experience of dealing with Social Security Scotland over the past year.
Closing date: 16 May 2025
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There are 53 funding opportunities on our website at the moment.
New funding opportunities on our website this week (in order of closing date):
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B&Q Foundation
Funding is available for registered charities that are creating or improving spaces so that more people have a place to feel at home.
Closing date: 09 May 2025
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Volant Charitable Trust - Small Grants Programme
The programme is prioritising the focus of its awards on charities and organisations that are addressing poverty and deprivation, helping to support vulnerable groups who are most affected, with an emphasis on women, children, and young people.
Closing date: 03 June 2025
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Figurative: The Arts & Culture Impact Fund
The fund provides affordable repayable finance that can be used, among other things, to acquire new assets, improve built infrastructure, develop new ventures, or scale up existing revenue streams.
Closing date: apply any time
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Cervus Trust
They will fund projects that support food poverty, mental health issues, the arts, education and disadvantaged families and children in Fife.
Closing date: apply any time
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SPAR Community Cashback
Shoppers from all over the UK can apply for a grant for an organisation or charity they feel deserves funding.
Closing date: apply any time
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Alpkit Foundation
Their focus is on small awards that have direct impact, with support in the region of £50 - £500 to individuals, community groups, schools, and organisations to encourage people to get outdoors and have great experiences that otherwise wouldn't happen.
Closing date: apply any time
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There are 16 job vacancies on our website at the moment.
New job opportunities on our website this week (in order of closing date):
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