Funding for training development

SCIP is a step closer to developing an innovative new range of training courses for community and voluntary organisations. A proposal to the Lottery's BASIS fund for an innovative partnership project has moved to Stage Two, making it one of only a small number of successful bids in a highly competitive process.
The funds will enable SCIP to work more closely with Working Together Project, also based in Brighton & Hove, which provides community development training and support to smaller community and voluntary groups in Sussex. The aim is to embed ICT into the Working Together Project's current range of courses and to pilot a series of training courses to ensure that the courses meet the neds of staff and volunteers.
A complete business plan must be submitted to get through Stage Two and, if the plan is accepted, money should be available from September 2007.
I started work on the plan today with Paul and Michelle at WTP and hope to have it ready for checking by the SSICP Board by the beginning of April - all very exciting.