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Celebrate with your neighbours!

We are pleased to have secured funding from Doctor Edwards and Bishop King’s Fulham Charity and Hammersmith United Charities for this project.

We are offering small grants for local groups and organisations who want to organise picnics, street parties, lunches, sporting events, fun days and other activities with and for their neighbours. We particularly encourage people who want to use these events to develop new relationships across diverse faiths, ethnicities, ages and backgrounds. Our main aim is to give people an opportunity to make new connections and learn about one another through the process of organising a very local event – and then enjoying it.

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Here at Hammersmith & Fulham Council, we have a (proud) history of coming together to celebrate Pride. We’ve held movie screenings, heard from some fantastic speakers, got our rainbow laces on and walked with pride.

This year, we want to do something different. So we’ll be opening our doors and inviting the community to celebrate with us at an evening event on Tuesday 3 July.

The theme for Pride this year is #PrideMatters – and for our event we’ll be aiming to show how much pride matters in our borough. Join council staff, friends from local and partner organisations and members of the community to have a great time and celebrate Pride in our community.

Cllr Sue Fennimore, Deputy Leader of Hammersmith & Fulham Council, says: “I’m so pleased that this year we are coming together again to support Pride 2018 and show to everyone that we stand in solidarity with our LGBT+ community. I hope to see all our neighbours, friends, community groups and staff enjoying a drink together at our social event here at the town hall as we continue to promote unity in the borough.”

We’re also looking for volunteers to share their stories about how #PrideMatters at the event, so if you’re keen, let us know!

When: Tuesday 3 July from 6pm

Where: Nigel Playfair room, Hammersmith Town Hall, W6 9JU

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For any questions, please get in touch with Melanie Urbano at Melanie.Urbano@lbhf.gov.uk

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There are over 168,000 charities in the UK and each one is different. Whilst causes and beneficiaries vary, the way in which they operate has lots in common. Over the years, DSC have helped thousands of charity professionals with their training courses. Take a look at what’s coming up!

Click Here to go to the DSC Summer Training Courses website

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Despite their simple layout and straightforward questions, writing effective funding applications can be complicated but not a difficult undertaking.  Due to funding cuts and the resulting increase in demand for charitable services, competition for funding appears to be tougher than ever. There is now more emphasis on writing clear and more compelling fundraising  ‘asks’.

Learning outcomes:

  • Improved ability to plan and write good quality funding applications.
  • Increased knowledge of funders’ expectations and what they look for in a successful funding application.
  • Increased knowledge of why funding applications fails and how to avoid common mistakes.
  • Access to testimony from successful organisations sharing their experience in fundraising.

This is a free event

When: 17th July , 2018 9:30 AM  – 4:30 PM

Venue: Hayashen Centre, 105A Mill Hill Road, Acton W3 8JF

Click here for a link to the event on the Sobus Website

This year’s Funders Fair will take place on Tuesday 3rd July at Kensington Town Hall in the Great Hall, Small Hall and Committee rooms 2, 3 and 4. This is an opportunity to meet with funders, pick up tips to improve your fundraising and learn about new ways to generate income! Sobus, One Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea Social Council look forward to seeing you there!

For further information and to register on Eventbrite Click Here .

AGENDA

9:30am REGISTRATION  
10:00am WELCOME

Angela Spence (KCSC) and Cllr Gerard Hargreaves (Kensington & Chelsea Council)

 
10:10am INTRODUCTION  
10:15am STALLS AND NETWORKING  
11:00am WORKSHOPS  
 A  Big Lottery Great Hall
 B  City Bridge: Meet the funders workshop Small Hall
 C  How to attract donors – Young Hammersmith & Fulham Foundation Committee Room 2
 D  John Lyons Charity Funding Committee Room 3
11:45am BREAK  
12:00pm WORKSHOPS  
 E  Trust for London Great Hall
 F  GDPR workshop – Russell Cooke Small Hall
 G  Online Fundraising –  Local Giving Committee Room 2
 H  Grant fundraising for beginners workshop – KCSC Committee Room 3
12:45pm RED CROSS PLENARY Great Hall
1:30pm LUNCH & NETWORKING  

 

Stalls will be located in the Great Hall foyer and open between 9:30am – 2pm.

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We are recruiting for a full-time Parenting Craft Services Officer and a Youth Worker in Charge – click the links bellow for both posts,

Closing date for applications will be 5pm on Friday 20th July.2018.

Parenting Craft Services Officer
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Application Form (PDF) or for a Word version Click Here
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Youth Worker in Charge
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Application Form (PDF) or for a Word version Click Here
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Contact

Ushma Bal
Parenting Projects and Performance Manager
Masbro Centre
87 Masbro Road
London W14 0LR

Landline: 020 7605 0191
Mobile: 07713 077565

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whatCharity BannerThe whatCharity prize draw is back! The winning charity will once again receive a £300 donation for staff recreation. Take your team for a meal, to the pub, go-karting or all three! We know how hard the staff and volunteers in charities are working and how they need to get by with minimal resources. This is why we thought it would be important to acknowledge their contributions and directly reward the charity staff. Please click this link to see the profile of our latest winner.

In order to participate in the new prize draw, all you need to do is to fine tune your whatCharity profile and to let us know that you have done this. The competition is open to all registered charities, including charities already on our platform. Please click this link for further details and Click Here for prize draw terms and conditions.

Any queries, please Click Here to contact whatCharity if you have any further questions or if there is something they can assist you with.

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Youth services are fundamental to enriching the lives of young people in the borough of Hammersmith & Fulham. From supporting with employment, mental health, education and prevention of crime. This appeal will enable YHFF to provide much needed support to the youth sector in order to keep it thriving. We are aiming to raise an additional 10,000 for our grants pot, in order to distribute these funds to the youth organisations which enable the development of young people into powerful adults.

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RnB/Hip Hop Indie Acoustic, Instrumental

Date: Saturday – 30th June 2018
Time: 11AM – 5PM
Venue: North End Road

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North End Road Summer Market plays host to some of London’s most talked about up and coming musicians in a one-day music festival that let’s you soak up those summer sounds whilst experiencing Fulham’s very own Battle of the Bands.

Performers confirmed so far include a number from the Fulham-based BIMM academy – British International Music.

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An independent commission of Disabled residents in Hammersmith & Fulham today (20 June) launched its final report setting out far-reaching plans to change the way that H&F Council makes decisions.

These changes would significantly change how policy and services are designed and delivered in Hammersmith & Fulham and lead to the council being the best local authority in London in making decisions with Disabled residents and not for them.

Disabled People’s Commission report launch at the Irish Cultural Centre

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To assist, H&F Council asked well-known disability rights campaigner Tara Flood in 2016 to lead the commission to recommend a new way of doing things locally.

Commission chair and long-time local resident Tara said: “We are calling for a new culture in local government which means that Disabled residents and decision makers are working together in an active way to plan, design and review policy and services that affect our lives, to get rid of the barriers we face.

“The traditional ways of working must change. We hope that our eight recommendations will see change in Disabled residents’ daily lives and help H&F become the most accessible and inclusive borough in London.”

The commission

The DPC was made up of ten local Disabled people and guided by the principle of ‘Nothing about Disabled People Without Disabled People’, the Commission set about gathering the views of Disabled residents across the borough.

The report graphically highlights the many barriers still excluding local Disabled residents from much of everyday life that most other residents may not experience.

The report recommendations focus on a new approach to community and council partnership, that sees Disabled residents and council representatives as co-producers of change.

“In many respects, this has been an easy report to write because it recommends what Disabled people have been calling for over many years,” Tara added. “that we must be partners in the re-organisation of society and particularly decision making in everything that affects our lives.”

Cllr Stephen Cowan, Leader of H&F Council, said: “We aspire to be the most accessible borough because we value and respect the rights, equality, and contribution of disabled people.

Cllr Stephen Cowan (right) at the International Day of the Disabled event in December 2017

“I am deeply grateful to Tara and the other Commission members who have worked so hard.

“We are not afraid to challenge unfairness and old-fashioned thinking in how we work. And these recommendations will make a major difference as we move towards making changes.”

Positive changes

Positive changes were already being made at H&F Council. In 2015, the council was the only authority in the UK to abolish home care charges.

In addition, H&F guaranteed to continue funding Disabled residents who were supported by the Independent Living Fund after the Government scrapped the national scheme.

The DPC report recommendations were accepted by the Cabinet at its meeting in December 2017 and change is already underway.

Design of new town hall

One of the recent examples of working towards co-production between H&F and local Disabled residents was the design process for the new Hammersmith Town Hall and surrounding area and western end of King Street.

Jane Wilmot, of the Disabled residents team, working with architects from Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners on designs for the new Hammersmith Town Hall scheme

Over a six-month period, paid members of a Disabled residents team, worked with architects from Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and the council’s housing and regeneration officers to make sure that the buildings and the public space would be designed as much as possible to include everybody.

Architect Mark Rintoul described the ‘co-production work’ as an ‘extremely beneficial collaboration’ that helped the scheme ‘exceed building regulations’ in relation to accessibility and inclusive design.

“The disabled residents’ first-hand experience informed the design and allowed us to overcome some challenges,” he added. “This level of community engagement is truly pioneering and one we fully endorse.”

While independent planning expert Lauren Patel, of firm Barton Willmore, said: “I have never experienced such a unique method of consultation and engagement. I would highly recommend the approach is adopted more widely going forward, both by the council on future major development schemes and others.”

Disabled resident Jane Wilmot said: “Working together meant we were able to raise issues early so the design team had time to respond with robust solutions. We strongly recommend this way of working because not only can it save time and money but disabled people were an integral part of creating a development that everyone can use.”

For more details on the Disabled People’s Commission click here.

To read the final report from the DPC and their eight recommendations click here.