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The Community Resilience Grant fund is open to Sefton-based voluntary, community and faith (VCF) sector groups. Groups are invited to apply for up to £2,000 to support local community health and wellbeing projects and activities that evidence community resourcefulness within the borough.

Include-IT Mersey is looking for volunteers to encourage local people to improve their digital skills at digital drop-in sessions and by accessing free training. Known as Digital Champions, they will support participants to make the most of the digital world and will volunteer in local communities to raise awareness of the benefits of getting online.

Sefton Council and its partners are once again providing food to schoolchildren from eligible families and other groups across the Borough through the 2022 summer holidays.

Following on from the VS6 “UK Shared Prosperity Fund: Making the case for Liverpool City Region's VCFSE Sector” event held in May, the VS6 Partnership have continued to strive to work with the Combined Authority to shape the Liverpool City Region’s UK-SPF investment plan. Place based VCFSE leaders from our CVSs have also been working with local authority colleagues to advocate for the sector at a local level.

This information sets out impacts a of health wave on health and wellbeing, and actions organisations and members of the public should take to protect health. There are also a number of useful links, which you can circulate to colleagues, partners and people in the community.

Following the VS6 Sustainable and Affordable Food event on 16 June 2022, VS6 are currently in the process of finalising the Community Food Mapping exercise that was presented at the event. Complete the survey!

VOLA has been commissioned by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCR CA) to undertake some research and mapping into current Digital Inclusion activities that are happening on the ground in local communities across the city region, so that the overall picture at a city region level can be brought up to date.

Sefton CVS are seeking to produce a toolkit which would allow a range of VCF organisations to demonstrate their social impact. The aim is for the toolkit to align to local area priorities, comprising common outcomes and measures which organisations/groups could select and report on. Enabling, not only the capture of individual groups impact but... Read more »

Join the Third Sector Trends survey here! Whether your organisation or group is big or small - we need to hear from you to help build a picture of what is happening locally in Sefton

On 1 July, Sefton Partnership was formally established for the borough, as one of nine local area partnerships within the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care System. These partnerships will lead on shaping health and care in their areas, and for Sefton means a continuation of long standing work to bring health and care closer together, to improve and shape services around the needs of local people.

We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded Level 1 of the Social Value Quality Mark®. Endorsed by health leaders across the Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership, The Social Value Quality Mark is a recognised external accreditation of values-led organisations and seeks to cultivate and validate the highest standards of excellence.... Read more »

For Refugee Week 2022 we are sharing more information about the support and services available from VCF sector organisations in Sefton. Sefton Ukraine Welcome Appeal Supporting Ukrainian individuals and families arriving in the borough of Sefton. To support Ukrainian guests and their sponsors, two Ukraine Welcome Centres have been set up in the borough. South... Read more »