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A free contemporary community production of Shakespeare's play of feuding families and star crossed young lovers is taking place at Croxteth Fire Station from 26th - 28th August.

Liverpool City Council have cut their Community Grants programme, the cities main voluntary sector funding programme, from three years to one year.

via Kaye Wiggins, thirdsector.co.uk

Liverpool City Council's main voluntary sector funding programme will reduce the duration of all of its grants from three years to one year from next April.

The Community Grants programme is currently worth £4m a year. The funding is due to expire in April 2011 and will be replaced with a one-year fund worth £3.7m.

The Office for Civil Society is set to cut the number of strategic partners it works with following a significant reduction in funding, with the changes set to take place from March 2011.

via Gareth Jones, civilsociety.co.uk

The Office for Civil Society has revealed it is to cut its number of strategic partners from 42 to a maximum of 15 and reduce their funding by nearly 40 per cent.

Social Enterprise Network in association with SELNET (Social Enterprise Lancashire Network) is providing four fully-funded workshops for social enterprises across the Merseyside area. The second in this series of workshops is to be held in Sefton on 22nd September 2010 at the Seaforth Information Network Group (SING), 53a Cambridge Road, Seaforth, Liverpool, L21 1EX from 9.30am to 4pm.

The workshops are designed to help your social enterprise increase turnover through trading and funding and by securing public sector contracts.

Health@Work are offering FREE places to SME's on the 'Impact on Depression' training course for line managers to be held on Monday 23rd August from 1pm-4pm and Tuesday 24th August from 10am-1pm.

This workshop is designed for managers to enhance their knowledge about mental health problems, the relationship between mental health and the workplace and how to manage a staff member who may be experiencing a mental health problem, such as depression or anxiety.

A programme of advice and support is now available to voluntary sector organisations from Capacity Building Plus.

The programme is designed to build the capacity of; and to promote well managed voluntary sector organisations, with improved safety and health for employees/volunteers.

For more information please e-mail your details to Claire Bridson at claire.bridson@healthatworkcentre.org.uk and a Workplace Health Advisor will contact you.

Have you always wanted to sing? If the answer is yes then Sense of Sound have some exciting news for you! They are going to be running a FREE Summer Singing School for young people later this month.

The summer school will take place at The Bluecoat arts centre in Liverpool city centre and will run from Monday 16th August until Friday 27th August 2010.

The Summer Singing School will be available to 3 different age groups:

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Until Friday 13th August, members of Social Enterprise Network are entitled to a free three month trial subscription and full access to the website. Just follow the link below and fill in your details to get access to this offer!

This offer has now ended.

Would you like one-to-one help with tendering for public services? Are you a local charity, community group or social enterprise? The Tender Support Project provides practical consultancy to prepare you for tendering.

The head of Business Link Northwest is urging small and medium sized businesses to continue making use of its free service while ministers decide on the future shape of government business support.

The coalition government is currently reviewing the delivery of government business support as part of its commitment to replacing Regional Development Agencies with Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) from April 2012.