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Here is your weekly round-up of content from our website, www.fva.org.
Please send us any of your own news, event details, vacancies and more and we'll post them on our website for the thousands of weekly visitors to see.
Click on any of the purple text below to be taken to the item on our website.
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Mental Health Awareness Week 2024
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Join events across Fife for Mental Health Awareness Week 2024. Taking place 13-19 May, there are a wide range of activities and events for the public and for practitioners.
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Community Support Hub - Drop-in Event
Wednesday 15 May, 10.00-2.00, Community Support Hub Dunfermline
To celebrate Mental Health Awareness Week, the Community Support Hub in Dunfermline has organised a drop-in event for the public.
Free for everyone to attend, third and public sector partners of the Hub will be there to showcase their services and help people access the support they need.
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Lunchtime Learning - Positive Steps to Increase Mental Wellbeing
Thursday 16 May, 12.00-1.30, online
At this session, Alison Ramsay and Amy Brown of the Fife Health and Social Care Partnership will help us:
· Understand definitions of mental health and wellbeing
· Understand positive steps everyone can take to increase wellbeing
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SafeTALK training
Tuesday 14 May, 9.00-12.30, Glenrothes
Hosted by Castle Furniture Project, this half-day course empowers participants to make a difference by learning and practicing powerful, life-saving skills in a safe and controlled environment.
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Mental Health Swims at Silver Sands
Held every week at Silver Sands, Aberdour
They are an inclusive group of dippers hoping to encourage everyone into the water to promote the mental health benefits.They promote dips, not distance, and community, not competition.
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Fife Carers Centre - Take a Walk in their Shoes
Thursday 16 May, 9.30-1.00, St Andrews
This session will help participants understand how dementia affects the way a person sees and interacts with the world, how to cope with the changes you see in the person you care for, and to 'take a walk' in their shoes.
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Fife Health and Social Care Partnership - Move for your Mood
The in-person and online workshops will explore ways to bring activity to their day, the benefits of activity for mental health and signpost resources.
Online session
Tuesday 14 May, 10.00-12.00, Teams
In-person session
Thursday 16 May, 10.00-12.30, Dunfermline
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FVA Training and Learning
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Our Lunchtime Learning sessions are short and bite-sized, focusing on topics integral to the provision of our services. These hour-long learning sessions are perfect to dip into a topic and keep up-to-date with services and policy.
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Lunchtime Learning - Our Fife and the Cost of Living
Thursday 09 May, 12.00-1.00, online
Audrey Cunningham, Benefit Take Up Campaign Lead, will provide an overview of the campaign, explain how they'll coordinate activity between statutory and third sector agencies, offer access to training and campaign materials, and provide resources.
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Lunchtime Learning – Wellbeing Toolkit for clients
Thursday 23 May, 12.00-1.00, online
Annemarie Smith, Fife Health Promotion Service, will tell us more about the toolkit and what it can do for your clients, including managing daily challenges to mental health and showcasing additional support for frontline staff to develop or maintain awareness of mental health and wellbeing.
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Our forums provide an impartial and safe platform for services in Fife to discuss important topics, learn about key updates and network with peers. To take part, just sign up to attend!
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Health and Social Care Forum
Thursday 09 May, 10.00-12.00, Caledonia House Glenrothes
Our forum is open to any third sector organisation working within the health and social care sector in Fife. The forum is a fantastic space for third sector colleagues to come along and hear about key developments in health and social care in Fife and nationally, discuss significant issues and network with other third sector organisations.
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Voluntary Sector Children‘s Services Forum
Thursday 23 May, 10.00-12.30, New Volunteer House Kirkcaldy
The forum meets regularly to provide information updates, offer networking opportunities, problem solve, respond to consultations, raise concerns for representatives and particularly Fife Voluntary Action to progress.
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Fife Employability Forum
Wednesday 29 May, 10.00-12.30, New Volunteer House Kirkcaldy
The Fife Employability Forum is held quarterly and brings together staff and managers involved in employability services from all sectors - aiming to help organisations to work together to improve employment outcomes for people in Fife.
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Third Sector Emergency Housing Session
Tuesday 07 May, 2.00-4.00, Caledonia House Glenrothes
Are you part of a voluntary organisation with an interest in housing and/or supporting people in relation to tenancies, adaptations, support at home etc.? Then come along to the Third Sector Emergency Housing Session, where we will be raising awareness of the housing emergency recently declared in Fife, what it means and seek suggestions and support to improve outcomes for the people of Fife.
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Roles and Responsibilities of a Trustee/Committee/Board Member
Wednesday 15 May, 6.00-9.00, Rosyth Parish Church
This free training session is designed to help new or potential Trustees to understand their role and responsibilities so that they can enjoy and thrive in their role free from stress or worries by understanding what they can and should be doing. It includes practical examples and time to answer your specific queries.
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Other Training and Events
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Equal Voice Transition Talks 2024
Held on Thursday evenings between 09 and 30 May, the free talks take place in person at the Fife College Kirkcaldy campus.
They will be covering topics such as guardianship and power of attorney processes, transitioning into college, volunteering and employment opportunities, and much more.
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Whole Family Wellbeing - Practice Development Sessions
A programme of multi-disciplinary practice development sessions have been shaped by partners to ensure these sessions promote better collaboration and partnership working to improve outcomes and practice.
Book now for the upcoming programme, running August 2024 to March 2025.
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Families Outside - Stronger Together
Saturday 08 June, 10.00-3.30, Glasgow
Families Outside, the national charity working solely on behalf of families in Scotland affected by imprisonment, will be hosting Stronger Together, a free event for and with families affected by imprisonment.
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K107FM Volunteer Open Day
Saturday 11 May, 10.00-2.00, Kirkcaldy
The community radio station is looking for people to join their growing team of volunteers. Come along to learn about the opportunities, speak to the team, and try out some of the studio equipment.
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Scottish Autism - Autism and Ageing Project Workshop
Tuesday 14 May, Dunfermline
This pioneering creative project aims to better understand the experiences of older autistic adults with learning disabilities. The project will use filmmaking and art to explore the hopes, concerns and needs of this group and to co-produce a vision of future social care services.
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Enable Works - Next Steps Employability Programme
This is a ten-week employability-focused course for young people aged 16-24. The programme is specifically for young people who are not in education or employment and have not gone onto a positive destination after leaving school.
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Planning Aid Scotland - Support to develop a local walking group
Planning Aid's Walking Edition of their Sustaining Choices programme, is looking to work with up to four communities to support the development of Local Walking Action Plans. They will work with you and your community to develop a series of community engagement exercises which will help to form a Local Walking Action Plan.
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Education Scotland - Lay Member Volunteers Needed
Lay members make a positive and valuable contribution to improving Scottish education. They bring an important perspective to our work. Lay members help inspection teams to understand how well a school is doing from the perspective of parents, pupils and where appropriate, the wider community.
Closing date: Friday 24 May
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Major new Third Sector Employment and Skills Support Survey
With considerable changes in both need and resources, this survey seeks to explore how third sector employment and skills support is currently being delivered in Scotland and how the sector is responding to changes in the funding environment over the last few years.
Closing date: 17 May 2024
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There are 33 funding opportunities on our website at the moment.
New funding on our website this week (in order of closing date):
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There are 16 job vacancies on our website at the moment.
New vacancies on our website this week (in order of closing date):
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