Trusted Partner Hub

Hardship Grant Community Fund-Trusted Partner Hub

https://www.bvsc.org/trusted-partner-portal-information

Welcome to the trusted partner hub where you can view the latest news updates, access signposting & information resources, and access portal training & guidance.

Latest News

30/01/23: We’re pleased to announce that we will be opening up for applications on Monday 6^th February. Please visit https://www.bvsc.org/hsf for details of our public-facing comms. Please do not make applications before this date.

Signposting, Information and Advice

Connecting Applicants to support services:

Birmingham City Council’s Customer Service Centres – Details of Customer Service Centres across Birmingham who can assist with Welfare Benefits, Financial Problems, and Housing Issues
Local Welfare Provision Scheme – Details of the LWP scheme aimed at helping vulnerable people in short term crisis with food and essential items
Community Connectors - Information on how to get started with your local community connector, linking families to community support and assets
Route 2 Wellbeing Directory - City-wide Voluntary and Community service directory
The Waiting Room Support Directory - City-wide Voluntary and Community service directory
Birmingham Food Justice Map - Interactive map of City-wide food banks and warm welcome spaces
Birmingham Warm Welcome Space Directory - Details of all the spaces in your area where you can come and keep warm this winter
Birmingham Connect to Support-online information and advice guide, community directory and marketplace for citizens of Birmingham

Advice and Information:

Help and Support with your application

Portal Guide: How to submit an application
Portal Guide: How to review flagged and rejected applications
Portal Guide: How to check an application's status
Portal Guide: The Application Process & Waiting Lists (Locality Leads)
Trusted Partner Checklist

Key Contacts (opens as pdf)

Latest

Want to be a Volunteer Advocate? - Free Training provided

Advocacy Matters is twenty years in the Midlands helping vulnerable individuals to be heard. We need Volunteers in Birmingham and Walsall to keep this work going -who can speak up for and help individuals with needs. Supporting people to resolve issues and perhaps change their lives, by sharing your skills and learning new ones. Training takes place on line on Wed 15 and 22nd of March 2023 10am- 2pm
Mentoring & Employability Manager

Sport 4 Life UK, Closing date: 26 February
Warm Homes We can All Afford - Retrofitting the Future

Panel discussion on retrofitting, home insulation and how communities can take action.
How to Beat Self-Defeat

Many of us have an inner voice that is so often harshly self-critical. Often we compare ourselves unfavorably with others or with our own unrealistic expectations of ourselves, and then we beat ourselves up for falling short. On this special day course, Gen Kelsang Rabten will explain practical methods for reducing self-defeating thoughts and guide a series of empowering meditations.