Shepherds Bush and Families Project and Children’s Centre are hosting their Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 27th January 2021.
Click here to download their flyer and send a RSVP
Local Safeguarding Children Partnership have planned a workshop for community organisations staff about how to refer to children’s services in the three boroughs, discuss concerns with social workers and share them with families.
The aim is for the workshop to be as interactive as possible and be an opportunity for children’s services staff across the three boroughs to meet some of the practitioners referring to them.
It takes place on Friday 5th February 2021 9.30am – 11.30am
Please view and download their flyer here or click here to book onto the workshop via eventbrite.
Caramel Rock, a fashion education charity are looking for young people interested in fashion & design to get involved in their exciting learning program.
The students will learning; pattern cutting, sewing, understanding garment techniques, how to function on industrial machine. The unit is an overall well rounded sandwich of different elements of fashion techniques at a BTEC Level 1,2 and 3.
There is also a program to help those unemployed back into work.
There is no cost associated to this if the person is under 18 and if they are 19+ they must be currently unemployed (jobseeker).
The FSI are offering 2 days of free charity training interactive workshops.
Thanks to the National Lottery Community Fund all FSI training until March will receive 100% of the training deposits refunded. So don’t miss out.
Choose from 9 interactive full and half day webinars the help you upskill and support the future of your charity at the comfort of your own desk.
The event will be delivered online on 9th & 10th February 2021.
Click here to find out more information and to book now click here.
NCVO’s annual Road Ahead report take on the key trends, opportunities and challenges likely to impact your organisation in the coming year.
To help get a feel for the thinking behind their predictions before you start to explore, you can read the latest post by Sarah Vibert – Director of Membership and Engagement below:
Looking at the Road Ahead after a turbulent year – my reflections on what we’ve learned in 2020, and what that means for us as a sector moving forward.
The Road Ahead 2021
The Road Ahead report is our annual analysis of the changing operating environment for anyone working in the voluntary sector.
It identifies and explains forces and trends that are shaping the sector and are likely to have an impact on organisations in the future.
It covers these six themes:
Political | Economic | Social | Technological | Environmental | Legal
When: Wednesday, 17th March 2021 Where: Royal National Hotel, London Time: 08:30 – 16:00
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE’S MENTAL HEALTH: NEW NORMAL – SAME CRISIS
Our seventh national CPD accredited conference will assess how the crisis’ in children and young people’s mental health services have been compounded by COVID-19, identifying solutions and the transferable benefits provided by virtual platforms – such as streamlining access to clinicians, as well as benefits to CAMHS service providers, including strengthened multidisciplinary working as a result of more regular meetings between teams – that can be carried over to the post-COVID world; both for service users and professionals.
The programme will also equip delegates with knowledge of emerging trends in the interaction between online platforms for gaming, gambling and addiction in children and young people, as well as tackling issues with access to services, funding and legislating to support CAMHS and service users.
If you are interested but are not quite ready to book then why not ask us to hold you a place using the button below while the funding is approved. If you are good to go why not register your place(s) today to ensure that you do not miss out.
Register or view full event here
The next wave of London Community Response Fund opened last week Thursday and closes this Thursday 21 Jan.
This is the link for details https://londoncommunityresponsefund.org.uk/guidance
Check out this free session from the awesome Charity Learning Consortium, and find out how St John’s Ambulance have implemented their apprenticeships programme, and what you can learn from their approach. The session is this Thursday, 21st January, 10.00-11.00 so book quickly to nab your place! Book here.
There are lots of moving parts involved in building a successful organisation. You can make sure you have everything in check by signing up for our brilliant six-part course starting in February.
Characteristics of a successful and sustainable organisation – Friday 26 February
Legal, governance and risk management – Monday 1 March
Creating an organisational strategy: practical, engaging and inspiring – Friday 5 March
Income diversification – Monday 8 March
Dynamic leadership approaches – Friday 12 March
Communications and branding – Monday 15 March
Just before Christmas we learned that the government will announce its next Budget on 3 March. In response, we came together with the other charities that support the #NeverMoreNeeded campaign to get a submission drafted and sent to the Treasury.
Based on the campaign’s ‘five point plan’, the submission outlines the ongoing effects of the pandemic and lockdown on vital charity services and proposes constructive solutions that government could bring in to help. It also calls for:
‘a renewed package of dedicated support measures…to support communities and their role in the social and economic recovery. It is crucial that the mechanism for delivery of this money should be as unbureaucratic as possible, to ensure that the funds are received swiftly by the recipients, so they can most effectively and quickly provide support for those most in need.’
The submission was supported by 28 leading charities and representative bodies, and you can read the full paper here.
