Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Updates - Cornwall Voluntary Sector Forum

Cornwall VSF and Cornwall Council have been producing weekly updates for the sector around COVID-19, to help keep people informed. Here are the previous editions:

Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update 16 July 2021

COVID round ups
Free transport to get your COVID-19 vaccine
Get involved in nature’s recovery
Interested in finding out more about crowdfunding
Voluntary and Community sector pulse check
Funding opportunities for the sector
You in the news: Friendship Day – Cornwall tackles loneliness
Regional children’s funding announced
Cornwall Food Access Alliance

Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update 2 July 2021

Free PPE for the voluntary sector
Grab a jab and get protected
Let’s do it for Cornwall
If you’re asked to self-isolate
COVID advice for local businesses
Funding opportunities for the sector
Win a share of £30,000 funding for your climate change project
Plastic Free July
Queen’s Birthday Honours List
Emergency accommodation

Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update 18 June 2021

Co-creating Cornwall’s Future – online conference
Sign the VCSE pledge
Help slow the spread of COVID in Cornwall
What’s changing on 21 June?
Cornwall VSF funding update
Match funding for planet positive projects
Funded support for unemployed residents

Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update 4 June 2021

The latest on the G7 Summit
Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service G7 Safety Advice
Cornwall VSF Funding update
Cornwall VSF Engagement Officer
What is Co-creation?
Who’s who at Cornwall Council?
Join the thousands home-testing for COVID-19
Do you need to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme?

Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update 21 May 2021

It’s OK not to hug
Re-entry anxiety
COVID update for the VCSE sector
Current COVID rules
COVID-19 legislation support webinars
Funding update
Funded support for residents
Your G7 questions answered
Gee Seven
Change a child’s life forever
The Big Lunch
Parking charges
Bank holiday health services

Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 7 May 2021

Volunteering is good for you
Funding roundup
G7 questions and answers
Sign up for G7 updates
Mental Health Awareness Week 2021
Maternal Mental Health Month
COVID vaccinations
Free COVID home test kits
Next steps out of lockdown
Business support webinars
Latest on elections

Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 23 April 2021

Cornwall VSF membership
#IamCornwall
Volunteering in Cornwall
It takes a village
Supporting Families
Funding Update
Cornwall’s Case trackers Lift Lid on Rule Breaking
Support with Covid-19 legislation webinars
G7 Q&A
The Big Ask
Important links

Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 9 April 2021

Includes:

Community Renewal Fund
Changes to Lockdown Restrictions 12 April
Guidance for reopening the VCSE sector
FREE Covid-19 tests
Support for residents as shielding stops
Post-lockdown webinars
New Charity Search Tool
Supporting residents to vote in May 2021 elections
Free parking
Proud to Care Cornwall
Family Based Short Care Breaks
Important Links

Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 26 March 2021
Includes:

Changes to lockdown restrictions on 29 March
Support with COVID-19 legislation webinars
Post lockdown webinars for event organisers
Have you taken part in the Census 2021
Healthy boost to Healthy Start Scheme
Back the Future Cornwall Climate Action Fund
Extended opening hours for Household Waste Recycling Centres
Have you got what it takes to become a social worker in children’s services in Cornwall?
Important links

V oluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 12 March 2021
Includes:

Survey on food insecurity in Cornwall
COVID-19 round-up
Resources to support COVID-19 vaccine rollout
Mental health support for children returning to school
Latest funding
Cornwall Climate Challenge online event
Census 2021
Support with COVID-19 legislation webinars
Voting in the May 2021 elections
Cornwall Council is recruiting poll clerks and count staff
New team members at Cornwall VSF
Previous issues of the Voluntary and Community Sector Update
Important links

V oluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 26 February 2021
Includes:

Inspiring women in the voluntary sector
Thank you to our colleagues
Roadmap for easing lockdown restrictions
Community Testing Programme
Shielding support for new and existing clinically extremely vulnerable residents
Transport to COVID-19 vaccinations
Facebook Live COVID-19 briefing
New funding opportunities
Resources for VCSE organisations
Support with COVID-19 legislation webinars
Do you #CEtheSigns of child exploitation?
Safeguarding and support
Support videos for parents
Ban on bailiff evictions extended
New adult social care charging policy
Help for EU citizens

V oluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 12 February 2021
Includes:

Mental Health within the Voluntary Sector Survey
Latest funding opportunities
Facebook Live COVID-19 briefing
Support with COVID-19 legislation webinars
Help for older people
Winter advice and the COVID Winter Grant
Free vitamin D for at-risk groups
R U OK?
Credit unions and financial advice
Community transport
Cornwall Climate Action Network
Elections 2021

V oluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 29 January 2021
Includes:

Mass vaccination centres in Cornwall
New faces at Cornwall VSF
Localism Vision and Strategy
Funding opportunities
Facebook Live COVID-19 briefing
Support with COVID-19 legislation webinars
Digital inclusion, laptops and home schooling
Mental health support
One and All Race Equality Forum
Census 2021
Free parking during lockdown
Bus and train service changes
Libraries online
Health and Well-being Fund
Insolvency Service consultation

Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 15 January 2021
Includes:

Sector stress-test survey findings
Workforce capacity survey finding
Funding
COVID vaccinations
Weekly online press briefings
Support with COVID-19 legislation webinars
Self-isolation support
Help with food
Support for individuals and organisations
Mental health support
Shielding support for the clinically extremely vulnerable
Evictions prohibited during lockdown
Resources to support deaf people during the pandemic
Business support grants
Get online at home
Help with home schooling

2020

Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 11 December 2020
Includes:

VCSE stress test survey
Cornwall VSF AGM
Funding
Digital information to support charities
Data for the voluntary sector
Weekly foodbank update
Telephone signposting list
CE the Signs training
Test and Trace Support Payments
Renters urged to get in contact now if struggling to pay rent
Clothing donations
Christmas support
Cornwall’s EU citizens urged to apply to settlement scheme
Reopening village and community halls
Support with COVID-19 legislation webinars

Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 27 November 2020
Includes:

The needs of the VCSE sector
Resources
Mental health
COVID-19 Winter Plan and local restriction tiers
Coronavirus and Christmas
Don’t let COVID run riot in your home
Disposing of waste with possible coronavirus infection
COVID ‘misting’ scam
Keeping the Faith report
A new vision for Cornwall
Funding
Cornwall Council Community Chest Crisis Scheme
Business support grants
Support with COVID-19 legislation webinars
Christmas support for children entitled to free school meals
Healthy Start
Home isn’t a safe place for everyone
Reporting rough sleeping and homelessness
Evictions prohibited during lockdown and Christmas
Loan sharks

Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 10 November 2020
Includes:

Food poverty
Funding for community food groups
Funding opportunities
Business support webinars
Updated COVID-19 information packs
Advice for clinically extremely vulnerable residents
People facing financial hardship
Fuel poverty
Emergency accommodation for rough sleepers
Mental health support
111 service
Get active in lockdown
Call for more social care and health workers
Budget consultation
Successful projects announced for suicide prevention innovation grants
New role dedicated to help improve the lives of BAME communities

Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 29 September 2020
Includes:

Representing the sector to contribute to a national report
Job Support Scheme replaces the furlough scheme
People facing financial hardship
Redundancy Support Task Force
Coronavirus outbreak FAQs – what you can and can’t do
QR posters
The new NHS Test and Trace app
Coronavirus tests
Self-isolation support package
Flu vaccinations
Cornwall residents urged to have their say on Cornwall Council’s budget
Funding opportunities
Updated Bounce back to business guide and checklist
COVID-19 data

Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 4 September 2020
Includes:

Returning to school and university
Furlough scheme and redundancies
Money to help low income people self-isolate
Low income families in a worse financial position due to pandemic
Funding for organisations
Government’s Kickstart scheme for jobs could help the sector
Coronavirus tests
COVID-19 data
Virtual events to target suicide rate in Cornwall
Surge in domestic abuse during lockdown
Families bereaved by coronavirus lose welfare benefits eligibility
Homelessness and digital inclusion
Call to extend support for prison leavers
Car sharing advice during the pandemic
School transport arrangements
The Cornish Shuffle

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