Voluntary Action Lewisham

London Action Trust has now taken over the running of the Access Funds website - www.access-funds.co.uk.  Access Funds is an online resource offering Grants information for the British charitable and non-profit sector, and contains directories of funding programmes and guides to funding.

Subscribers to the Access Funds website can access the following;

• Information on the latest grant programmes (new information added weekly)
• A monthly Bulletin email, an easy to use monthly round up of funding opportunities sent directly to your computer
• Easy to use search facility, which will help you track down the grant programmes most appropriate for your organisation
• A tailored Email Alert Service, which provides customised grant information sent by email
• My Grants – a section where you can easily store information on Grants, so that you can return to the grant details at any time, without having to search for the information again
• Grants Closing Within 6 Weeks – so you can see at-a-glance which grants have deadlines approaching

If you visit www.access-funds.co.uk  you can register for a free 7-day trial.  Please note that the 7 day trial does not include email alerts.

If you decide to take up a 12 month subscription, please quote CVS2009 and you will receive 13 months for the price of 12.  This offer runs until January 31st 2010. 

12 month Subscription prices: Voluntary/Community Group - £50 first member from organisation, Business/Statutory Organisation £60.00 first member from organisation. Subsequent members from organisations can subscribe for £25.00.  For more information go to: www.access-funds.co.uk

Have you renewed your membership yet?

If you haven't you will be missing out on:

• Grapevine
• Discounts on Training
• The opportunity to stand for election for partnership boards
• ... and much more
  

Full details of membership can be found here

The Office of the Third Sector has released reports on individual local authorities as part of its National Survey of Third Sector Organisations. The survey was carried out by Ipsos Mori on behalf of the Office of the Third Sector and covers Third Sector Organisations' views on how supportive their local authority is. In Lewisham 277 organisations were interviewed.

The London Voluntary Service Council (LVSC) are looking for evidence of services being affected by the recession and funding being affected. This is part of a campaign that they have launched called 'The Big Squeeze'.

Thank you for taking the time to visit our website. This was officially launched on February 5th 2009.

On the website you can learn more about our work, our values, our commitment to empowering local communities and our support for the development of a vibrant voluntary and community sector (VCS) in the London borough of Lewisham.