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Our Lancashire

Our Lancashire is a Lancashire wide initiative to bring groups and communities together under
the banner – “Let’s Join Together” in order to make Lancashire a greater place to live, work
and play. We are funded by the Police and Crime Commissioner and joining the Our
Lancashire website www.ourlancashire.org.uk is a FREE Offer available to any not for profit
social action group/CIC/Charity etc. running activities and events in their local community.

By joining this site, you will be able to promote your group, recruit members and advertise
events. In addition, you will be able to access information about other groups in your local
area, and where relevant access up to 6 FREE DBS checks for volunteers (raised to 15 at the
moment) of groups with less than £150K turnover. We also have News and Support sections
where you can find more resources and information.

If you have any questions regarding anything in the newsletter or would like support with
anything else, please contact Janette Holden – Community Engagement Officer covering
Burnley & Rossendale. E-mail: Janette.holden@lancashire.police.uk or Tel: 07779 971966.

Please Note: I will be on annual leave from 25th December until 3rd Jan. Normal service will
resume on Monday 4th January.
My colleague Gail will be working between Christmas and the New Year so if you need to
get in touch, her contact details are: gail.barton@lancashire.police.uk tel. 07534 242304

News
NHS Covid Vaccination Programme

Group Info

Lighthouse Tai Chi - Virtual Christmas Party
To join our celebrations, find us on this event on Sunday 27th December, just before 19.00
BST Get the date in your diary. Something to look forward to.

Lighthouse Tai Chi Virtual Christmas Party 2020 - OUR Lancashire

Funding
Furlough Scheme and COVID Business Loans Further Extended
Businesses and employees suffering because of coronavirus restrictions will be further
supported by extended government handouts and loans schemes.
The Chancellor has announced continued support for the UK workforce through yet another
extension of the Coronavirus Job Retention (furlough) Scheme, which will now operate until
the end of April.
Description
This scheme will provide a grant to all UK employers across all sectors (private, public,
charitable and non-profit) to keep their workers on, rather than making them redundant
during the coronavirus outbreak.
Objectives of Fund
Under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, all UK employers will be able to access support
to continue paying part of their employees’ salary for those that would otherwise have been
laid off during the coronavirus crisis.
To access the scheme, applicants must have designated affected employees as ‘furloughed
workers,’ and notified these employees of this change. They must also submit information to
HMRC about the employees that have been furloughed and their earnings.
Value Notes

Employers will be able to contact HMRC for a grant to cover most of the wages of their
workforce who remain on payroll but are temporarily not working during the coronavirus
outbreak.
Salaries will be paid at 80% of their current level up to a maximum of £2,500 per worker each
month, and minimum automatic enrolment employer pension contributions on that
subsidised wage.
Who Can Apply

All UK businesses and employers with a PAYE scheme that was created and started on or
before 19 March 2020, small or large, will be eligible for the scheme. This includes employers
across the private and public sector and charities and non-profit organisations.

How To Apply
The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) has been further extended for all parts of the
UK until 30 April 2021.

Claims for furlough days in December 2020 must be made by 14 January 2021.
Claims relating to each subsequent month should be submitted by day 14 of the following
month, to ensure prompt claims following the end of the month which is the subject of the
claim.
Details of what applicants need to make a claim are available at:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/claim-for-wages-through-the-coronavirus-job-retention-
scheme
Arts Council England

COVID-19 Recovery Loan Reopens for England's Cultural Organisations
Arts Council England is once again inviting applications for repayable finance for arts,
museums and heritage sectors that are at risk of collapse because of coronavirus restrictions.
The Culture Recovery Fund - Repayable Finance Programme is intended to support cultural
organisations that have been affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis to stay afloat. The
scheme will help maintain England's cultural ecology by supporting culturally significant
organisations which were financially sustainable before COVID-19 but are now at imminent
risk of failure and have exhausted all other options for increasing their resilience.
A second round of funding has been launched with a total budget of £100 million to be
awarded through loan finance. Applicants may apply for a minimum of £1 million. There is no
upper limit. The majority of applicants are expected to be awarded loans which include a
payment term of up to 20 years, an initial repayment holiday of up to four years and a 2%
interest rate per annum.
Applicants can use the investment to help prepare for re-opening and re-starting work or to
remain cost-efficient in the short-term in order to reopen at a later date if, for example,
reopening under social distancing is not permissible or does not represent a value for money
approach. Proportionate redundancy pay outs are eligible, where decisions have been made
to reduce staff.
Cultural organisations in England that are properly constituted with a governing document
may apply. Eligible organisations include charitable, not-for-profit and commercial enterprises
operating within the arts, museums and heritage sectors, including independent cinemas,
comedy clubs and nightclubs.

The investments made through the programme are intended to ensure that organisations can
transition back to viable, sustainable operations during the 2021-22 financial year (no later
than 31 March 2022).

The deadline for applications is 7 January 2021 (12:00 GMT).

https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding/culture-recovery-fund-repayable-finance-round-
two#section-1

FCC Community Foundation Action Fund
Round 1 opens on 16 December with a 3 March 2021 deadline for not-for-profit organisations
seeking funding to provide, maintain, or improve public amenities located within 10 miles of
an eligible FCC Environment waste facility. Eligible area for Lancashire is within 10 miles of the
Deerplay Landfill Site, Burnley.
Registered charities which operate a community facility, churches/ parochial church councils,
parish/town councils, local authorities and CASC registered sports clubs can all apply for
grants of between £2,000 and £100,000 for amenity projects with a maximum total cost of
£500,000. All applicant must be able to secure a contributing third party payment that goes to
the landfill operator.
The grants are to be used for the provision, maintenance or improvement of the following
types of public amenities which must be open and accessible to the general public:
Village halls and community centres.
Public play areas.
Publicly available Multi use games areas, skate parks and BMX tracks.

Sport and recreation grounds including pavilions and clubhouses with full public access.
Churches – community spaces only.
Nature reserves.
Public gardens, parks, country parks and woodlands with at least dawn to dusk access.
Museums.

The funding can be used for costs such as contractors, materials, capital items, and small
items of equipment used by volunteers and staff to deliver the project.

There will be four application windows in 2021.
Round 1 opens on 16 December 2020 and closes on 3 March 2021 (5pm).
https://fcccommunitiesfoundation.org.uk/

Training
Lancashire Adult Learning – January Volunteering Courses

Lancashire Adult Learning are running more free Volunteer training in January 2021. Topics
include;

* Get Into Volunteering * Volunteering into Employment * Intro to Conflict for Volunteers *
Bitesize: Risk Assessment * Intro to Information Advice and Guidance * Intro to Mentoring *
Intro to Mental Health Awareness *

See the attached PDF flyers attached to the email for more details and enrolment links. Please
share with anyone who might be interested.

Lancashire Recovery College

Please see the 2021 calendar programme for Jan 2021 attached to the email.

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