Launched in December 2003, this website brings together 60 organisations around Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

Funding Alert - October 2008 more...

Personal and Community Development Learning Partnership - South Cambridgeshire and Cambridge City, Application for Development funding more...

Triodos Opportunities Fund (UK) more...

CCORRN Conference & AGM more...

Funded training for Volunteers and Charities through Train to Gain more...

The Compact Debate more...

Grants for Green Power generation more...

SEEE business workshops more...

The Empowerment Fund more...

Red Nose Day Programme more...

Match Funding Scheme for Volunteering more...

DFID's Development Awareness Fund - Mini Grant Scheme more...

Development Awareness Fund (UK) more...

New Sustainable Communities programme, run by Inspire East in partnership with Anglia Ruskin University more...

Participation Works: FREE Training Course more...

Cambridge Carbon Footprint Courses more...

The Big Womble - a major promotional and fundraising opportunity for FRN members more...

For love and money: charities with trading arms more...

(CLG) White Paper delivers power shift to local people - Blears more...

DEFRA News Item - Green goods to come to the front of Britain's shelves more...

Voluntary Sector Management and Leadership course more...

Events News

CCORRN Conference & AGM

CCORRN will be holding their annual AGM & Conference on the 16th October 2008, the event will be held at the Luminus Group, Brooke Way, Huntingdon from 9.30am till 3.00pm.

We are pleased to announce two guest speakers, who will each be holding a one hour workshop in their specialist subjects.

Workshop 1 - 11.45

Caroline Lee Smith of the Furniture Reuse Network (FRN) will be holding this one hour workshop on the oppurtunities and pitfalls relating to Bulky Waste Proposals.

Workshop 2 - 13.30

Richard Martin Group Health & Safety Advisor of Marshall Aerospce will be holding this one hour workshop on Health & Safety Risk Assesments - The Basics.

Not only will there be workshops, the Annual General Meeting will be held where you will be able to find out the Local, Regional and National context of the work of CCORRN's diverse membership base.

A FREE networking buffet lunch will be included.

For more information please contact Lara Van Der Merwe on 01354 669900 or email admin@ccorrn.org.uk

New Sustainable Communities programme, run by Inspire East in partnership with Anglia Ruskin University

The programme has a number of attractions:

Introductory courses run by Inspire East.

Flexible, modular structure (delegates can attend as few, or as many, of the modules as they like) run by Anglia Ruskin University.

Online Sustainable Communities reading

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  Competitively priced: £95 public and private sector, £60 voluntary sector (attend all 8 modules and get the 8th free).
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  Alignment to the Excellence Framework, an online toolkit used by EEDA to appraise funding applications and grounded in current government policy and good practice.
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  Cross-disciplinary approach to sustainable communities agenda enabling delegates to see how their role fits in the 'bigger picture'.

Please see attached document for more infomation.

Document: Sustainable_Communities_programme.pdf

The Big Womble - a major promotional and fundraising opportunity for FRN members

The Big Womble - 29th October 2008 - Wimbledon College

Raising money and the profile of Re-use.

The Wombles are famous children’s’ TV characters from the 1970s and 1990s which “Made good use of the things that we find”.

The FRN has secured the rights to use the Womble name to run a national day focussed on re-use. We see this as a great opportunity to raise funds for the FRN and its members and to raise the profile of the work that you all do. The activities planned are as follows:

1) A national raffle of celebrity household goods. The FRN is currently seeking donations of household items from celebrities from the worlds of music, sport, TV and more. Some of these items will become raffle prizes. Tickets will be distributed to FRN members wishing to participate. The income from the sales of tickets will be split between the project selling them and the FRN. The FRN will publicise the tickets outlets to fan websites so that people interested in the items know where they can buy them. We will set up a page on the FRN website detailing the projects that hold tickets.

2) An auction of items not in the raffle on the day of the Big Womble at Wimbledon College. This will be a ticket only event and we will be seeking corporate attendances to ensure that bids bring in a significant amount of money.

3) We will be encouraging organisations to run local events and invite the local media in the week of the Big Womble. We are keen to see awareness raising and fundraising activity across the UK.

These events will be used to raise the profile of furniture and other re-use to both the media and the general public. We are hoping to attract significant support and make this a really successful event. The FRN will use the money it raises to support its social and anti-poverty work. If the exercise raises more money than is required for this we intend to set up a fund to assist projects in their own work on areas such as starter packs, working with excluded volunteers or providing free furniture to destitute households. We are fairly open about this, anything that is not about waste!

How do I get involved?

If you want to sell raffle tickets or run a local event please let us know – email me at pauls@frn.org.uk. We will publicise both through our national promotional work and our website.

If you have contacts with any celebrities that you think would be interested please get in touch.

Paul Smith - Chief Executive - Furniture Re-use Network

Reg Charity No 1090824
Company No 4154818

Direct Line: 0117 9543 564
Mobile: 0787 0506 766
Email: pauls@frn.org.uk
Website: www.frn.org.uk
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