CEFET     Social Inclusion Policy Forum meeting see Latest News below

 

CEFET is the East Midlands Third Sector strategic body for the European Social Fund

 

CEFET particularly works to combat social exclusion, to promote equal opportunities and social capital and to enable grassroots capacity building.

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CEFET has a database of over 1,500 voluntary and community groups in the region.

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We act as the Voluntary & Community Sector (VCS) / Third Sector regional representative in the ESF programme, through One East Midlands the regional voluntary and community sector infrastructure organisation. See CEFET Policy Register

 

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     Links: ESF Community Grants - small grants for community groups to engage people in positive community activity

       

     Download copies of the CEFET Leaflet and Newsletter       ROB's supporting CEFET in a FUN RUN (see below)

 

Latest News: 

Social Inclusion Policy Forum

Inaugaral meeting on July 14th See Invitation                        

 

Leading up to 2010, the European Year Against Poverty and Social Exclusion.

"It is certainly in the gift of Regional Committees to write Social Inclusion elements into their Regional ESF Framework", was the response by the Head of the ESF Division at the DWP, to a query from the floor at a national conference. See the text of the exchange here. This potential for flexibility offers a chance for the region to decide for itself to once again support Community Empowering work on Inclusion as we move into 2010.

New regional Social Inclusion Policy Forum

CEFET are working with One East Midlands to build a cross-sector forum in the region to improve work to combat exclusion as we approach 2010, the European Year Against Poverty and Exclusion. We are organising meetings to facilitate the forum and include voices from grassroots. Here are details of the meetings in the region.

CEFET is working with the European Anti Poverty Network England to help groups from the East Midlands become involved in developing and delivering events and activities to mark the year. More News Soon.

 

 

        A grassroots network has started up so that people and community groups in poor and disadvantaged communities across the East Midlands can bring their voice and experience to regional level to help develop better ways of achieving social inclusion.

Click on the grassroots logo above to find out more.

 

 

ROB's supporting CEFET in a FUN RUN

Rob Hanlon is an energetic (very!), enthusiastic, grassroots CEFET Executive member and founder of AIM (Active Involvement in Mental Health) in the High Peak. He's combining getting fitter with raising funds for CEFET's grassroots networking by taking part in the Great Scottish Run. Visit AIM's webpage here Good Luck Rob, get those handsome pins in training! Go straight to Rob's Just Giving page here

 

ESF Innovation, Transnational and Mainstreaming funding

Details of bids that have been successful in this region will be available soon.

 

JOBMAETS

Part-funded by the European Social Fund, the Jobmaets programme, started in the region on 23rd June 2008. Its aim is to help people get into employment and the programme needs voluntary and community organisations to become involved to make it work.A core principle of the programme is that specialist service providers (drugs, debt, health etc) and voluntary and community groups and organisations will work together to provide a seamless service to help disadvantaged customers into work. Click here to get more details of Jobmaets, the lead providers, and how you can get involved.

 

CEFET Survey of Third Sector experience of tendering for ESF co-financing. Thanks to everyone who participated in the survey. Click here to read CEFET's report of the survey findings.

 

CEFET ran the hugely successful Catalyst, Tiger & Tiger 2 small grants Programmes, which enabled excluded people to run activites within their own communities to combat exclusion.

 

Click the News Letters link on the left to read CEFET’s latest newsletter.

 

CEFET works closely with the European Anti Poverty Network England and the Third Sector European Network.

 

Site last updated 01.07.09