New project for grassroots volunteer-led groups – deadline 7th Aug

Volunteering for Hackney is a new project launched by Hackney Council to provide small grassroots community groups that operate at a very local level (no staff or maximum of one paid staff) with structured strategic support, to help them thrive and grow.

Groups will receive:

• help with fundraising,
• free meeting rooms,
• help with social media and communications,
• promotion and publicity of activities,
• free training on topics such as recruiting and managing volunteers, safeguarding and making volunteering more inclusive,
• being part of a new and exciting high profile project in Hackney.

Mayor of Hackney, Philip Glanville, said: “The work volunteers and community groups do in the borough underpins all that we are trying to achieve in making Hackney a better, fairer and more sustainable borough. I am passionate about community action being central to our political debates”.

Deadline to apply is 7th August at noon. For more information and to apply, go to www.hackney.gov.uk/community-partnerships or contact Agnes Gautier on agnes.gautier@hackney.gov.uk