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How Your City Works - NEW autumn course
27th August 2008, 15:21

Information is now available on how you can apply for the How Your City Works course this autumn. For more information, please see our How Your City Works page or download a flyer here.

Get your edition of Regeneration News!
26th August 2008, 15:22

This summer's edition of Regeneration News is out and about round Sheffield.  If you haven't spotted a copy, you can get the digital version here.

OFFER are looking for a BME Network Development Officer
8th August 2008, 15:23

BME Network Development Officer

We are looking to recruit maternity cover for OFFER's BME Network Development Officer.  Full details and a recruitment pack can be found here.

Vacancy for VCF representative - Children & Young People
7th August 2008, 10:30

Recruitment has begun for a new VCF sector representative on:

Policy and Practice Advisory Board
(Sub-board of 0-19+ Children and Young People Partnership Board)

Closing date: Wednesday 27th August 2008 

For more information, please click here.

DAF Prospectus issued by Work & Skills Board
30th July 2008, 11:37

DAF Prospectus issued by Work & Skills Board

The [long-awaited] Prospectus from the Work & Skills Board for a range of contracts has been issued. Funded from the Deprived Areas Fund [DAF] these are aimed solely at the VCF Sector, and are for a number of activities to support the main ESF-funded activity and to test some more innovative ways of helping the target groups such as lone parents, people on incapacity benefit and long-term unemployed into sustainable jobs.

The timetable is short - 13 August is the deadline - and the proforma is quite complex. Support for bidding is available from Mike Hodson at OFFER - mikeh@offer.org.uk

You can download the Prospectus, a Covering Letter and the Proforma Here..

Report from BME Infrastructure event now available
2nd June 2008, 17:46

The report from the BME Infrastructure event held on 8 May 2008 is now available for downloading here.

  

8 May BME Infrastructure event - going forward
13th May 2008, 16:25

The 2nd Sheffield BME Infrastructure event was seen as a successful move forward in supporting the creation of a BME VCF sector network in Sheffield.

See the separate news item (2 June 2008) for the report from the event.

New Sheffield First Agreement Indicators now available
16th April 2008, 18:27

The full list of the Indicators/Priorities for the Sheffield First Agreement is now available - go to the Sheffield First Agreement page

Here you can see a simple list of the Indicators under the 5 Great Aims of the City Strategy, plus a link to the full document. This is unlikely to change after this. Further discussions will be held at the various Sheffield First Partnership Boards to identify the Actions necessary to achieve the targets.

Sheffield ERDF Programme out for consultation
14th February 2008, 17:59

The key elements of the business plan that will be submitted to Yorkshire Forward by the end of this month (Feb 08) are now out for consultation. This shows how not only ERDF, but also ESF, Working Neighbourhoods Fund, Local Enterprise Growth Initiative and Community Anchors Fund will all be used to help create successful neighbourhoods. To see the consulation, click here

RSS Feed now live - keep up-to-date with OFFER News
17th October 2007, 16:38

This website now has a live feed for RSS Readers - see above .

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication - software that will allow you to automatically receive reminders when key pages on our website [or other sites] are updated. It requires an RSS Reader installed on your computer - you can get these free [see below]

IF you have an RSS Reader already, click on the RSS icon above or add www.offer.org.uk/feed.php to your Readers URL list. This will inform you whenever the following pages are updated:

  • News
  • Sheffield First Board pages
  • Events and Consultations
  • Recruitments for SF Representatives and changes to the Reps List
  • The Sheffield Infrastructure Network [SIN] Guide

If you don't have an RSS Reader already, you can get one by putting 'RSS Readers' into Google or your preferred Search Engine. Some suggested Free Readers for Windows PCs are

Feed Demon www.NewsGator.com/FeedDemon

Newz Crawler www.newzcrawler.com/

RSS Reader www.rssreader.com/

FeedReader [which is open source software] www.feedreader.com/

For Apple MacPCs

NetNewsWire is very good www.newsgator.com/NetNewsWire.aspx

A Web-based Reader is BlogLines www.bloglines.com/

 

If you need help with this, email Dave Parsons at OFFER who will advise you.