Charity Business News - Organisations developing initiatives to help unemployed people across Shropshire are invited to claim a share of a 1.5 million pot of funding. Grants worth between 5,000 and 20,000 are available from the European Social Fund ESF Community Grants scheme for projects that will help move unemployed people towards employment, training or back into education.

Charity Business News - The Field Studies Council launched its PrimaryNatureLive series of lessons on February 4 with more than 1,000 viewers tuning in to learn about What to do on a walk with tutors from FSC Flatford Mill in Suffolk.

Charity Business News - Starting on February 2, the PrimaryNatureLive programme will encourage children to get outside and explore their local wildlife, learn about the environment and discover the secrets to building an outdoor shelter. There will be five lessons in total and all sessions will be broadcast on the FSC YouTube channel at 10.30am and run for approximately 40 minutes.

Charity Business News - Redrow East Midlands, which is currently building new homes at Clarence Fields, on Welford Road, has presented Leicester South Foodbank with a donation of 500 as part of its commitment to creating thriving communities. The funds will be used to support the charity in providing food parcels to local people in need.

Charity Business News - An East Midlands housebuilder was delighted to support a Derby foodbank as part of it s community fund. Redrow East Midlands, which is currently building new homes at Durose Country Park, on Mansfield Road, has presented The Hope Centre with a donation of 500 as part of its commitment to creating thriving communities.

Charity Business News - Creative agency Fluid Ideas has swelled the coffers of three good causes to the tune of 7,000. The charities to benefit are Alzheimer s Society, a children s hospice and YMCA Derbyshire. Fluid Ideas usually spends a total of 5,000 on Christmas gifts to clients and taking its staff on a city break in Europe at the end of each year as a thank you for their efforts.