HSCVF’s Safe in Sound project (Local 2010) has worked closely with the local university and offered a fantastic opportunity for six students to become marketing volunteers for two months.

The volunteers organised awareness raising activities to promote health messages. They designed and produced posters to promote the project and its safety messages around alcohol and other substances, sexual health, and personal safety.  The volunteers also organised two awareness raising events which gained local media coverage.

Offering an innovative blend of grants, business expertise and sector specific support for more than 100 local health and social care projects, the Health and Social Care Volunteering Fund (HSCVF) is delighted to be a runner-up in the prestigious DSC Social Change Awards 2011.

The registration for the National Grant Scheme 2012 closed on 21 December 2011. We received over 250 registrations. For those who have successfully registered the deadline to complete your stage 1 application is noon 26 January 2012. To complete your application please click here.

The registration for the National Grant Scheme 2012 closed on 21st December. For those who have successfully registered the deadline to complete the stage 1 application is noon  26 January 2012.

All the best for the season and 2012

Due to a surge in interest in the National Grant Scheme 2012 over the last week we have decided to extend the application period for stage 1. The application portal will now close on noon on 26th January 2012.

For more details on the application process please click here

Tune into BBC Somerset Breakfast Radio show tomorrow morning or BBC iPlayer to hear a news article about South Somerset Mind, a funded local grant scheme 2011 project.

South Somerset Mind is one of 51 organisations to receive funding from the HSCVF Local Grant Scheme 2011. This vital funding will help South Somerset Mind to enhance their work in their local community through the use of volunteers.

We are pleased to announce our first Annual Report and Stories of the Year 2011 booklet.

Annual report

We are pleased to announce our first Annual Report and Stories of the Year 2011 booklet.
Annual report

On the 17th October the HSCVF team were joined by the Minister of Care Services, Paul Burstow, and Olivia Butterworth, from the Department of Health, for the HSCVF Local Grant Scheme 2011 start up event.