Cost of Living

Understanding the Impact of the Cost of Living Crisis on the Third Sector

How is the cost-of-living crisis affecting your voluntary organisation, charity, or CIC? Complete the Survey by 7 April 2023.
Forget Me Not Collection Volunteers

Helping us to facilitate collections in public locations within Birmingham.
Join our movement for a Warm Welcome

On 13 March, a Warm Welcome Network event took place at Aston Villa Football Club. The event connected organisations offering a Warm Welcome to each other, along with local services and initiatives that can aid them in better supporting our communities. Attendees were also able to take part in an ‘eco-system hackathon’- sharing how Warm Welcome was making a difference to their communities and ideas to improve the network for the future.
Birmingham Jobs Fair

This event attracts a mixture of different employers from various industries all recruiting for local jobs. The Birmingham Jobs Fair is a great way to speak with potential employers face-to-face. You can register with employers for jobs, collect info on employers, ask them questions, apply for jobs, or even have a mini interview on the day.

Prevention and Communities Awareness Webinars

BVSC hosts an occasional series of Awareness Webinars.
Prevention and Communities Grants Recommissioning 2023 - Birmingham City Council

Adult Social Care within Birmingham City Council are recommissioning the Prevention and Communities (P&C) grant programme (could you hyperlink this back to the main page on P&C please). This will open in mid March 2023 and is due to end at noon on Tuesday 09 May.
Prevention and Communities Grants

Adult Social Care funds 44 voluntary organisations to support the Prevention First agenda with “Prevention and Communities Grants”.
Birmingham: A Living Wage City

One in seven Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) sector workers nationally are paid below the Living Wage, with over three quarters of the public backing them to receive enough to live on (Living Wage Foundation, June 2022). These figures are reflected locally. The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic combined witrising living costs has left many VCFSE workers struggling.
Household Support Fund

Help for Birmingham households experiencing financial hardship is being developed as part of Birmingham’s Household Support Fund programme.
YEF Neighbourhood Fund Programme

The programme will test different models and approaches to community engagement to better understand how, where and why it supports improved outcomes for children at risk of becoming involved in violence. Birmingham is one of five pilot areas.
Neighbourhood Network Schemes in Birmingham

The aim of Neighbourhood Network Schemes (known as NNS) in Birmingham is to help older adults in Birmingham to lead healthy, happy and independent lives in their own homes and communities.
Housing First

An initiative that provides housing as a first priority for homeless people across the West Midlands.
Health & Social Care

BVSC is involved in a number of health related projects, in partnership with: the health and social care sector; the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector; and the private sectors.
Ageing Better in Birmingham

A programme that aims to reduce loneliness and social isolation among people over the age of 50 across Birmingham.