British businesses, farmers and other organisations will have additional certainty over future funding and should continue to apply for EU funding while the UK remains a member of the EU, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Phillip Hammond has announced. Read on to find out more.
On Friday 30th September 2016, VANEL’s IGNITE team held their first ever Coffee Morning in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. The event, which was lead by 18-year-old IGNITE Project Leader, Shona O’Reilly, was hugely successful, raising nearly £300 for the charity.
NHS North East Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is looking at ways to make it easier and more flexible for people of all ages to get advice or treatment from a GP practice. Read on to access the link to their online survey and help them get one step closer to achieving this goal.
DONG Energy has committed to providing a Community Fund (the Fund), worth approximately £465,000 each year for a 20 year period. The Fund will support the coastal communities within the vicinity of its Hornsea and Race Bank Offshore Wind Farm developments off the Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and North Norfolk Coast. GrantScape, on behalf of Dong, are now moving into the final stage of consultation, read on to find out more.
The Grimsby Philharmonic Society open their 165th Season with the popular ‘”The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace” by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins at Grimsby Central Hall on Saturday 15th October 2016 at 7:30pm. It promises to be a fabulous evening, supporting both the choir and the Central Hall. For tickets contact the Central Hall Box Office on (01472) 355 025.
Don’t forget, you are invited to attend the launch of the This-Ability initiative. This-Ability will showcase how people with a disability can make a major contribution to local business success and challenge the perception of potential negative attitudes to disability employment.
The This-Ability breakfast event take place on Friday 7th October 2016 at Hull Truck Theatre (Ferensway) from 8am until 10am.
Don’t forget, NEL Age UK are supporting an ‘Older People’s Advice Day’ this October. The event, which is being held at Cleethorpes’ Memorial Hall, is free to attend and will provide information about things such as benefits, health care, housing and much more.
Come along to the Rock Foundation Tea Room on Heneage Road on Saturday 1st October 2016 for their Victorian Afternoon Tea Fundraiser from 2pm until 4pm.
Health and Wellbeing funding is available for community led projects that encourage individuals and groups to take on greater responsibility for their own health and wellbeing. It is for activities which add value to or complement projects, initiatives or services that are delivering demonstrable improvements in health and wellbeing locally. Interested groups/ organisations should complete the expression of interest form attached, and send it to Jamie.dunn@nelincs.gov.uk by 5pm on 31st October.
Voluntary Action North East Lincolnshire (VANEL) has teamed up with North East Lincolnshire County Council, and Member organisation, Capacity Buildings Ltd, to transform a tired and disused old beach hut in Cleethorpes, into a place that can be enjoyed by the whole community. Following a £1,500 donation from the Lincolnshire Sheriff’s Tribune Trust and months of hardwork, on Friday 16th September 2016, Beach Hut Number Nine officially opened.