News ArchiveSpring into Action with Making it Local!25 March 2010 Making it Local Spring Update Event 28th April
The Making it Local team would like to invite you to our Spring Update event at Bicton College on Wednesday 28th April 6:15-8:30pm. This event will give you the chance to ask questions, meet the projects we have funded, listen to what the Making it Local Team have been up to recently, take part in voting new members into the Programme Management Group, attend a funding workshop before the event and find out what RDPE means.  To find out more please the Events webpage
Comings and Goings25 March 2010 In April we will be saying goodbye to Jenny Archard, the Making it Local Programme Manager. Jenny has got the programme up and running and is leaving to develop her freelance facilitation work, forest school and bushcraft. Jenny will be replaced by Mel Sealey who has been working for the Renewable Energy for Devon (RE4D) programme at Devon County Council. Mel has a long experience in renewable energy, fudning programmes and project management.
Making It Local free funding workshops11 February 2010 We are holding 2 free ‘pre-application’ workshops for anyone wishing to apply for some of our funding. If you are a small business or community group in the Blackdown Hills or East Devon AONB area you may be eligible!!
We run 2 grants programmes- one will fund projects £1,000-£10,000 and one that will fund projects £10,000- £100,000.
If you think you may be eligible and would like to come along to talk to our Development Officers- Hattie Winter and Nicola Buckingham- about your project and how to fill in your application forms, please call the office to let us know you are intending to come on 01823 680626 or e-mail makingitlocal@devon.gov.uk
A Business Link Advisor will also be present for the last hour of each workshop to offer you advice and guidance too!
The dates, times and venues are listed below.
Monday 22nd March Ottery St Mary Institute 2-4pm
Wednesday 24th March Combe St Nicolas Parish Hall 1.30-3.30pm
For more information about the programme please look at our website www.makingitlocal.org. If you have any further queries please contact us on the above.
We look forward to meeting you!
Hattie and Nicola
Working our Woodlands04 January 2010 Are you a Woodland Owner or Contractor?
FREE - Workshops for new and established social enterprises Sep-Dec 0902 September 2009 FREE - Workshops for new and established social enterprises Sep -Dec 09 from Business Link
August 2009 Update - find out what we have been up to!25 August 2009  New staff!It has been a busy few months for the Making it Local team. We now have a complete team! The final staff member to join us is Development Worker Hattie Winter who has experience of working with community projects at Taunton Deane Borough Council.
Events!
Other recent activities include attending the Honiton Show (6th August) where we had stands in both the Blackdown Hills Business Association Marquee and East Devon AONB Marquee. The show was a great success, despite the rain! We talked to lots of people and hope that we inspired some people to submit some projects to us.
Our first project!
We have funded our first project called Digital Mentors. This project aims to offer digital mentoring (ICT help) to organisations and businesses in the Blackdown Hills and East Devon AONB areas. It will do this by offering training sessions and advice to local organisations and businesses. In addition it proposes to train volunteer digital mentors to help deliver this work. For further information please visit http://digitalmentors.ning.com/
We need more projects!
We are still looking for more projects to fund, so if you have a project idea for your community or business please contact us!! We are a friendly team and encourage people to contact us about their ideas.
We need more appraisers for submitted applications!
We are looking to recruit more volunteer appraisers to help us evaluate submitted applications. So if you have experience of working with businesses and community projects we would like to hear form you. The benefits of becoming an appraiser include gaining an understanding of the European funding system, helping projects to develop and developing new skills. If you are interested in becoming an appraiser the next training session for new appraisers will be on Thursday 8th October. Please contact us for further details.
We need more people to join our Consultative Advisory Group!
We are also looking for more members to join our Consultative Advisory Group (CAG), particularly representatives of organisations and individuals from the area covered by the Programme. The CAG is an important group for the Making it Local Programme because it helps to steer the process and develop the 2010 delivery plan for the Programme. The CAGmeets twice yearly and the next meeting date is 22nd October . So if you are interested in joining this group please contact us.
Please contact us if you are interested in any of the above.
Appraiser Training Date - 26 May 200926 May 2009
Date change21 May 2009 Please note that there has been an amendment to the Full Application Deadlines. The Application Submission Deadline of the 1/9/2009 has been changed to 25/8/2009. This in turn changed the Programme Management Group decision date to 15/9/2009. We apologise for the inconvenience.
New Staff Members are here01 January 1970 We are pleased to announce that two new staff members have now joined the team.
Appraiser Training01 January 1970 Watch this space for the next Appraiser Training Date coming up soon
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