Sport Relief Community Cash: £50,000 handed out to good causes across Norwich

May 6, 2014 Carers, charities, Featured Article, Norfolk

Chermond gymnastics club has been given Â£988 to buy new springboards. The money comes from Sport Relief community cash fund and has been distributed through the Evening News. Club members Alex Potter, left, and Darcey Reil with the old springboards. Photo: Bill Smith

Mark Shields Monday, May 5, 2014
10:19 AM

List of winners

25th Norwich Brownie Unit – £500

27th Norwich Rainbow Pack – £500

35th Norwich Sea Scout Group – £1,000

38th Norwich Brownies – £500

4th Norwich Brownies – £500

4th Norwich Rainbow Guides – £500

Belvedere Community Association – £800

Chermond Trust – £988

Chill4usCarers – £1,000

Charities can ease the burden on healthcare

March 25, 2014 Carers, charities, Social care

Organisations close to their communities can often respond to needs in a more targeted way, find solutions and co-ordinate services

Lisa Weaks
Guardian Professional, Tuesday 25 March 2014 08.50 GMT

Mayfair Community Centre co-ordinates a package of support and care based within the community for people with long-term conditions.

The drive to open up public services to competition has proved controversial, nowhere more so than in the NHS. Sir Stephen Bubb, chief executive of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations, wrote to David Cameron earlier this year raising concerns that public sector monopolies could be replaced by “private-sector oligopolies”. Large private sector providers are cornering new markets in public services at the expense of charities and other smaller community-focused organisations. Bubb argued that contracts are too often focused on cost savings rather than “engagement, collaboration and social value”.