Every year, The Sheila McKechnie foundation campaigners asks campaigners what’s going on in their world.
Whether you’re big and national or small and local, employed, freelance or volunteer – share your experience!
The survey is open until 12 November and you can click here for more info and to complete the survey.
YOU ARE INVITED TO
THE GNC ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
ON FRIDAY 12TH NOVEMBER
BETWEEN 4PM – 6PM
ALL ARE WELCOME
The Grove Neighbourhood Centre
7 Bradmore Park Road
W6 0DT
Phone: 020 8741 3321
Email: gnc@groveneighbours.org.uk
Web: www.groveneighbours.org.uk
Sobus are currently offering a 20% discount on our corporate standard office and meeting space at Dawes Road Hub for all new serviced office desk and full day Board room, or Training room bookings.
Please see price lists (before discount) below:
https://sobus.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/DRH-office-space-price-list.pdf
https://sobus.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/DRH-meeting-rooms-price-list-A5.pdf
To make an enquiry, please contact: reception.drh@sobus.org.uk, 02079521230
Sobus urgently require another Support Officer to join our Support Team.
Our Support Officers:
Please download the full details here: Job decription & Person Spec
Application is by cover letter and CV to carita.magnani@sobus.org.uk
Fundraising website easyfundraising is giving voluntary groups and third sector organisations 1000s of opportunities to win donations this November. When anyone connected to your organisation plays Spin to Win, they could win you anything from 10p – £50 every day. One in ten people are guaranteed to win a donation for their good cause every day throughout November so make sure your organisation is registered with easyfundraising so you can take part: www.easyfundraising.org.uk/community
Senior Policy Officer – Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Senior Policy Officer – Financial Hardship
Salary: £44,388 pa
Term: Permanent
Deadline: Mon 8 Nov, 23:59
‘Scale Accelerator: Leaders of Scale’ is a 6-month intensive training programme equipping UK charity and social enterprise leaders with the skills, knowledge, and capacity to lead their organisation’s journey to scale and make a positive impact on even more lives. By taking part, participants gain a clear, actionable plan for scaling sustainably, frameworks and tools to build the capacity of their wider team, and the confidence to lead change within their organisation. This is the last chance to access subsidised and highly subsidised places supported by The National Lottery Community Fund. If you want vital training and support to get your social innovation to more people, don’t miss out. Applications open on 2 November 2021, with the deadline on 17 January 2022.
NCVO events: NCVO are running a series of events, as follows:
Webinar: Leading on equality, diversity, and inclusion with your board – 3 November 2021, 11am
Webinar: Undertaking a governance review – NCVO and Trusted Charity – 3 November 2021, 1pm
Webinar: Leading by example on mental health and wellbeing – 4 November 2021, 9:30am
Panel discussion: Strengthening board relationships in times of uncertainty – 5 November 2021, 2pm
Find out more about NCVO’s events and book here.
Getting on Board’s Festival of Trusteeship
Getting on Board’s online Festival of Trusteeship will take place 1st-5th November 2021 and they have offered our members a 50% discount. The festival is filled with exciting events for people who want to become trustees, trustees who want to keep learning and developing, and for charity leaders who want to understand best practice in trustee recruitment and diversity. Use the code SCC50 to receive a 50% discount. The code also works on weekly passes, bringing a pass to attend as many of the 24 events as you’d like down to £12.50.
Vision for Volunteering has announced its first workshops, as follows:
Healthy Ageing Workshop 1: ‘Promoting volunteering as a tool to sustain and improve health and wellbeing in later life’
Tuesday 16 November, 2-4pm
Wednesday 1 December, 2-4pm
Climate Emergency Workshop 1: ‘The role that volunteers can play in helping tackle the Climate Emergency’
Tuesday 16 November, 2-4pm
Climate Emergency Workshop 2: ‘What we need to deliver long term sustainable impact in climate volunteering’
Tuesday 30 November, 2-4pm
Sport England Workshop 1: ‘Igniting the Movement: developing and delivering a vision for volunteering in the sport and physical activity sector’
Tuesday 23 November, 10am-12pm
Sport England Workshop 2: ‘Shared Futures: exploring common challenges and opportunities between volunteering in sport and physical activity and wider sectors’
Tuesday 30 November, 10-12pm
NB: The remaining workshops will be open to sign ups shortly, focusing on further priority areas: including Resilient Communities, Health and Wellbeing, Young People Leading Change, and Employment and Skills.
Covid-19 has changed a lot of our ways of working, which creates new challenges when considering people’s safety, and the second part of our events has focused on discussions around how to navigate this new landscape, where there is currently Safeguarding support available, and how this can be improved. As a result of these discussions, we have found that there are some region-specific needs, as well as common themes appearing across all regions. These common themes are:
We would be keen to know your thoughts around this, do you think our findings are accurate? Do you think there’s anything we’ve missed? Come along to our final Every Person, Every Conversation event on Tuesday 9th November to share your experiences and find out more about the work we’ve been doing – you can sign up via our Eventbrite page. This event is open to all staff and volunteers within your organisation and your members as well, so feel free to share with them too!
As our series of events comes to a close, we are now moving into the next steps of this project. We are working with a research team at the University of Sussex who have been creating toolkit newsletters for Mutual Aid groups – we have commissioned further research which will help to create a safeguarding-focused addition of their toolkit, as well as supporting our work at NAVCA. We will keep you updated about this work as it progresses.
This next step of our project has also created an opportunity for you to work with us and get some funding for it! We are able to offer up to £3,500 to support four projects which focus on safeguarding awareness raising and/or support within your region – it could relate to the common themes mentioned above, or another safeguarding need you’ve identified in your area. The project needs to be additional to any safeguarding work you may already be doing, and the funds would need to be spent by Friday 11th March 2022. Proposals must be submitted via this survey link by Monday 22nd November 2021. This opportunity is for members only, and we will share the outcomes of this work in April 2022 when the project has ended.
If you have any questions or want to discuss any of this in more detail, please get in touch! I would be happy to hear from you and have a chat about the work we’re doing.
