10 Reasons Why Charities Should Use E-Learning

The Charity Learning Consortium has put together 10 reasons to use technology to support L&D in the third sector. See the great things that can happen when charities incorporate eLearning into their training mix. Find out more.

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Free School Meals for School Children

Boris Johnson, after weeks of campaigning led by Marcus Rashford, has taken a U-turn on providing free school meals for school children in the school holidays. A £170 million winter grant scheme, to be run by councils, will provide support for food and bills. The extension of the holiday activities and food programme will also include a £220 million scheme to cover the Easter, summer and next Christmas holidays too and see a cash boost of £16 million for the nation’s food banks. Manchester food banks have written to Manchester United, where Rashford pays, urging the football club to pay the National Living Wage highlighting that many of the people who access their foodbanks work, but are not payed enough. Cleaners and caters who work at the club have been struggling to put food on the table and the food banks hope that this simple step could help reduce child poverty within the city.

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Woodward Charitable Trust (UK)

Charities, social enterprises, and community interest companies can apply for funding of up to £3,000 through the Woodward Charitable Trust. The Trust supports projects that support children and young people, disadvantaged families and prisoners, and ex-offenders. Preference is given to small to medium-sized charities where small grants can have more impact. Priority is given to projects that make good use of volunteers, encourage past and current users to participate, and ensure that funds awarded are being well used. The closing date for applications is the 28th January 2021. Click here

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Calling All Unpaid Carers – Know your Rights & Where to Get Support This Carers Rights Day!

Are you a local unpaid carer, or do you have a family member or friend who is? Thursday 26 November is Carers Rights Day 2020! This is a national day to raise awareness about your rights and where you can get help and support!

Carers Network is a local charity supporting unpaid carers in central London. We would love to be out and about in the community meeting local carers, but due to current restrictions we are instead going to be hosting an online ‘virtual stall’ on the day. Why not pop in, meet the team over a cup of tea or coffee, and find out how we can help you! We will have a morning session from 11am-1pm and an afternoon session from 2pm-4pm. We’d love to meet as many carers on day as possible. There is no need to register, and the log-in details are the same for the morning and afternoon:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87846319852?pwd=QXFGcG1QdFh5M3lFSXQ5Z05rZ3diQT09

Meeting ID: 878 4631 9852

Passcode: 247911

We look forward to hopefully meeting lots of local unpaid carers on the day!

 

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Free Counselling & Life Coaching for London’s LGBT+, BAME & HIV Communities

Following on from the second announcement of the new national lockdown, Living Well is currently able to offer free mental health and wellbeing service for any Londoners from the HIV, LGBT+ or BAME communities who are over 18 and struggling with the impact of the COVID restrictions, e.g. suffering from anxiety, depression, stress, loneliness or isolation.

Living Well’s CONNECT WELL provides a range of free online and telephone support, including: one-to-one life coaching, counselling and hypnotherapy; and online group sessions such as wellbeing workshops, qigong and art therapy.

To be eligible for any of CONNECT WELL’s free support services, you must be 18 years or over, resident in London and be part of the LGBT+, HIV or BAME community.

To find out more, register or refer someone to CONNECT WELL all you need do is click on following link and complete the relevant form, someone from the team will get in touch: connectwellnow.com

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Entries Open for The Business Charity Awards 2021

The Business Charity Awards, which recognise the work of people and teams behind corporate and charity partnerships, have opened to entries for 2021. Third Sector have reported that the awards will feature 25 categories, spanning sector partnerships and teams. Entries are also open for people to nominate either themselves or a colleague to sit on the 2021 awards judging panel. Find out more.

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Limit Lonliness

The Limit Lonliness project aims to help tackle the challenge of lonliness during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Find out More

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Guidance on Business Support During Lockdown from Cllr Andrew Jones

We know this is a tough time for local business owners due to another COVID-19 lockdown. We’re here to continue to support local businesses like yours through this pandemic. Our Business Desk is still your first port of call for business support.

Certain businesses are now required to close during the new lockdown which began on Thursday 5 November. Find out if your business needs to close here. Staying closed and accessing the available business support will help save lives and keep H&F safe.

If you need support, please contact our Business Support Desk by emailing business-support@lbhf.gov.uk or calling 020 8753 5585. Together, we can help protect businesses and save lives in H&F. Stay safe.

Get the latest information on the financial support available for businesses during the pandemic here:

Applications for the COVID-19 Recovery Grant will reopen next week. Apply here

Get legal, finance and digital marketing guidance from local mentors. Click here

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FSI: Online Fundraising Workshop Collection

We are super excited to bring you the first Northern Fundraising Workshop Collection in December! This is a collection of interactive fundraising workshops delivered by the FSI team, sponsored by the Fundraising Regulator. The day will consist of series of core workshops tailored to small charities which will contain practical takeaways and inspiration to take you through your fundraising journey from Speaking to Stakeholders, Listening to Donors, Delivering the strategy or Thanking your Supporters. And best of all, if your charity’s income is under £1 million these are all Free to attend thanks to the National Lottery Community Support Fund.

Venue: Online (at your desk)
Date: 9th December 2020
Time: 09:30 – 16:15 (registration from 09:15 – 09:30)
Cost: FREE (for charities with income under £1M, deposit scheme applies)
N.B. Registration will be closed on 30th November. Spaces are limited. 

Register here

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FREE Face Masks for Community Groups

Harrow Club has received 30,000 donated disposable 3-ply face masks and will be offering the bulk of them for free for any Community Group or body doing activities locally, including to redistribute to their service users.

Interested parties should contact Liam Clipsham (M. 07888 652238/ E. liam@harrowclubw10.org) so we can get them ready. Ideally, pick-up should be from The Harrow Club, 187 Freston Road, each Thursday afternoon around 2pm, as the building is mainly closed for the next 4 weeks. We hope this free offer will be of some benefit.

 

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