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Fun in Brum Summer 2010 is a bumper edition with loads and loads of great things to do for families in Birmingham over Summer.  If you would like to order hard copies then please call the Family Information Service (FIS) helpline on 0121 303 3521.  Hard copies are limited in supply.  Please note that playschemes are listed separately and can be ordered by calling the helpline number above.

FUNDED TRAINING: Business Planning, Marketing and Fundraising Strategies (for eligible groups only)

• Do you need help to run your business more efficiently?

• Do you want help reaching your target market?

• Devise a Fundraising Strategy to generate more resources and income to help sustain your Company?

If these are something that your company/organisation can benefit from and fit any of the following requirements, which are:

• Registered Charity

Be Inspired

This G:up event will look at the future of policy and services for children and young people in these changing political times and invite you to discuss the effects for the voluntary and community sector.

• Are you from the voluntary sector and delivering services for children, young people and families?
• Or do you support organisations that do?

If so we want to hear from you at this event!

Join the discussion:

Do you buy any of the supplies you need to run your organisation from social enterprises or other trading third sector organisations? Our guess is probably ‘no’ or at best ‘very few’!

Well iSE’s ‘Shop for Change’ campaign aims to change all of that by encouraging the social enterprise sector to buy much more of what it needs from the sector itself.

National policies are a key driver of local change. The local Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) is directly affected by policy changes but there can be scope for influencing local implementation. This is where the representative role of VCS Matters becomes important.

Under the title National policies – Local action the VCS Matters Summer Summit on Wednesday 23 June looked at local implementation of national policies. Main presentations and features included: