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What’s new at the Third Sector Data Hub?
Am ddarllen hon ym Gymraeg?
If you haven’t seen it, the Third Sector Data Hub – launched back in 2018 - offers the latest statistics and data around third sector income, funding, activities and workforce, as well as information about volunteering demographics.
It uses our info, as well as that from Welsh Government, NCVO and others, to present to you an attractive, user-friendly experience that allows you to drill down into the data and find out what’s important to you.
And now we’re pleased to bring to you a pretty significant update.
Beth sy’n newydd ym Mhorth Data’r Trydydd Sector?
Os nad ydych yn gyfarwydd ag ef, mae Porth Data’r Trydydd Sector – a lansiwyd yn 2018 – yn cynnig yr ystadegau a’r data diweddaraf am incwm, cyllid, gweithgareddau a gweithlu’r trydydd sector, yn ogystal â gwybodaeth ynglŷn â demograffeg gwirfoddoli.
Mae’n defnyddio ein gwybodaeth ni, yn ogystal â gwybodaeth o Lywodraeth Cymru, NCVO ac eraill, i ddarparu gwasanaeth hwylus a hawdd ei ddefnyddio sy’n eich galluogi i gloddio i mewn i’r data a dod o hyd i’r hyn sy’n bwysig i chi.
A nawr rydym yn falch o gyhoeddi diweddariad o bwys.
Need help with volunteering-wales.net?
Ydych chi am ddarllen y blog yma yn Gymraeg?
Fiona Liddell, Volunteering Development Manager WCVA, describes some of the assistance that is available to those looking for volunteers through the new volunteering platform.
The new volunteering website is up and running but it is still unfamiliar to most of us. It takes time to get used to a different system (especially, perhaps, a digital one).
The website uses different terminology and has different features compared to the previous one. You may have experienced confusion yourself in trying to navigate your way; some of you have identified ‘glitches’ and we are grateful to have these pointed out.
We do not yet have the perfect system and few of the features we are expecting are still under development. But the basics are in place and the potential is exciting; easy self-serve access to volunteering and a range of online management capabilities including digital awards and tools for monitoring and reporting on volunteers and volunteer activity.
Angen cymorth gyda gwirfoddolicymru.net?
Yma mae Fiona Liddell, Rheolwr Datblygu Gwirfoddoli WCVA, yn disgrifio’r cymorth sydd ar gael i’r rheini sy’n chwilio am wirfoddolwyr drwy’r llwyfan gwirfoddoli newydd.
Mae’r wefan wirfoddoli newydd bellach ar waith ond mae’n dal i fod yn anghyfarwydd i’r rhan fwyaf ohonom. Mae dod i arfer â system wahanol (yn enwedig, efallai, un ddigidol) yn cymryd amser.
Mae’r wefan yn defnyddio terminoleg wahanol ac mae ganddi nodweddion gwahanol o’i chymharu â’r hen un. Efallai’ch bod wedi cael trafferth eich hun wrth ei defnyddio; mae rhai ohonoch wedi dod ar draws gwallau ac rydym yn ddiolchgar iawn o gael gwybod am y rhain.
Nid oes gennym system berffaith eto ac mae rhai o’r nodweddion yr ydym yn eu disgwyl yn dal i gael eu datblygu. Ond mae’r hanfodion yno ac mae’r potensial yn gyffrous; mynediad hwylus uniongyrchol at gyfleoedd gwirfoddoli a llu o nodweddion rheoli arlein gan gynnwys gwobrau digidol a ffyrdd o fonitro gwirfoddolwyr a gweithgareddau gwirfoddoli ac adrodd arnynt.
When in Denmark
Ydych chi am ddarllen y blog yma yn Gymraeg?
This is the third part of our series from 2017 Walter Dickie Leadership Bursary winner Steve Brooks, National Director of Sustrans Cymru. In this blog he talks about what he learnt on the Copenhagenize course in Denmark, and how city leaders can promote sustainable transport in their cities.
I came out in Copenhagen and it was liberating.
I’m not a cyclist. There, I said it. Mikael Colville-Andersen said it to me, and I said it back to him. Mikael is an urban designer and mobility expert and the founder CEO of the Copenhagenize Design Company. Mikael is an example of a social-entrepreneur who’s identified a social problem and is working to fix it, albeit in the private sector.
Clearly, in one sense I am a cyclist. I work for Sustrans, I have a shed full of bikes and virtually every pair of trousers I own has stubborn oil and dirt marks around the ankles. But in another sense, I am not a cyclist. Cycling is something I do, rather than something I am. Lots of people cycle for sport or leisure, and sometimes I do; but most of my trips on a bike are for practical purposes like commuting to work or traveling to meetings.
Mikael drew a parallel with the vacuum cleaner. Most of us own one and use one regularly, yet we wouldn’t describe ourselves as a ‘vacuumists’. It’s just one of several machines we use to make our lives easier.
Open Government will help achieve our Wellbeing Goals
Ydych chi am ddarllen y blog yma yn Gymraeg?
Anna Nicholl, Director of Strategy at WCVA, blogs about her experience attending the Open Government Summit in Tbilisi, Georgia, and how the principles of Open Government could help Wales achieve its Wellbeing Goals under the Future Generations Act.
[above: a session on ‘Participatory Budgeting: Barriers and Triggers’ l-r: Kristina Reinaslu, José Manuel Ribeiro, Miguel Arana Catania, Dmytro Khutkyy, Liia Hänni]
The challenges facing our society feel like they are ratcheting up daily. Whether it’s creaking public services, plastic suffocating our oceans, or dealing with Brexit, it can feel overwhelming. The Wellbeing Goals under the Future Generations Act give us collective goals to work towards for a better society, but what is less clear is how we get from here to there.