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 – 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
Voluntary 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
Voluntary 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
Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 21st August 2020
Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 7th August 2020
Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 24th July 2020
Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 10th July 2020
Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 3rd July 2020
Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 26th June 2020
Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 19th June 2020
Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 12th June 2020
Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 5th June 2020
Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 29th May 2020
Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 22nd May 2020
Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 15th May 2020
Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 7th May 2020
Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 1st May 2020
Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 24th April 2020
Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 17th April 2020
Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 9th April 2020
Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 3rd April 2020
Voluntary and Community Sector Covid-19 Update – 26th March 2020
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