Join our next Climate Cafe to hear about H&F Healthy Homes – your local energy savings advice service.
Find event and ticket information here: Climate Cafe – H&F Healthy Homes Tickets, Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM | Eventbrite
We want to help you have the best year yet. There’s a range of support opportunities across the next month to help you and your business, including:
- New blogs from our business advisors on how to improve your online presence.
- H&F’s free business advice clinics, run by experts specialising in social media strategies, increasing profits and more.
- Free online webinar about the new procurement act and everything you need to know about its benefits for small businesses.
More than 100 local business leaders and residents turned out to our first-ever Dragon’s Den-style event at The Ark on Tuesday 4 February. It was a fantastic event and I got to hear seven superb pitches from local businesses. Congrats to the winners. See all the pictures and read more below.
This summer our huge market parties will return to Hammersmith’s King Street, 7 June, and Fulham’s North End Road, 12 July. Keep an eye on our webpages to find out when you can apply for a stall.
We also want to work with you at our VE Day celebration. Visit our webpage to find out more.
Citizens Advice Hammersmith & Fulham (CAHF), part of the national Citizens Advice network, is a thriving local advice organisation that provides information, advice and casework support to 18,000 local people per year. We are recruiting for:
- Operational Delivery Manager
- Insights and Engagement Manager
- Support Services Manager
The Operational Delivery Manager will be responsible for overseeing the operational delivery of CAHF’s assessment, advice, and project services. This role requires strong line management skills, particularly in a customer-focused environment. Experience in an advice-giving charity is beneficial but not essential.
The Insights and Engagement Manager will engage with CAHF stakeholders, policy makers and commissioners to build partnerships, use data to share insights and develop new services, and share our evidence and impact across a variety of media outlets. The role will utilise our evidence base and insights to work with policymakers to influence policy change and increase our impact in society.
The Support Services Manager will be responsible for the smooth running of CAHF’s back-oce support functions, providing high quality administrative support to the organisation.
Job Pack visit www.cahf.org.uk/work-us
Closing Date: Midnight Sunday 2nd March 2025
Interview Date: Week beginning 3rd March 2025
Ben Wittenberg, Director of Development and Delivery at DSC, looks at the use of AI in funding applications, listing some useful plus points as well as some things to watch out for. Take a look here.
Janine Booth, Founder of Red in the Spectrum, discusses how charity leaders can change their management style to cater for their neurodiverse staff. Take a look here.
If your charity is struggling to cope with the changes to employer NICs then it’s time to write to your funder. Take a look at Debra Allcock Tyler’s advice here.
Grants of up to £5,000 are available to local charities and not-for-profit organisations for projects that will fix, repair, maintain and improve properties and community facilities for those in need in the UK. The funding is being made available through the Screwfix Foundations, and the grants are available for all kinds of projects, from repairing buildings and improving facilities in deprived areas to decorating the homes of people living with sickness and disabilities. Applications are reviewed every quarter. The next closing date for applications is the 10th May 2025. Screwfix Foundation (UK)
Date: Monday 17 March 2025
Time: 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Venue: The Creighton Centre, 378 Lillie Road, London SW6 7PH
We will be providing refreshments.
If you need BSL please do let us know by 12pm on 28 February 2025.
There’s two weeks left to get nominations in for this year’s Sheila McKechnie Foundation National Campaigner Awards 2025. There are 10 amazing categories to choose from. It’s free to enter and you can even nominate yourself. Deadline to nominate is Friday 28 February 2025. Find out more here.
We are pleased to announce that Rooted Community Assets CIC has secured a session with the team at The Big Give. This event will offer organisations the opportunity to explore alternative funding methods.
You can find more information about The Big Give here: https://donate.biggive.org/
To book your place for this free event, please follow this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/meet-the-big-give-team-tickets-1234148544519?aff=oddtdtcreator&_gl=1%2Aa5zvlj%2A_up%2AMQ..%2A_ga%2ANTUxMTM3Mjk2LjE3MzkyNzAyOTg.%2A_ga_TQVES5V6SH%2AMTczOTI3MDI5Ny4xLjAuMTczOTI3MDI5Ny4wLjAuMA
sobus
20 Dawes Road, London, SW6 7EN
Telephone 020 7952 1230
Email info@sobus.org.uk
Registered Charity No.1071089
and Company Limited by Guarantee. Registered in England No.03471416
Sobus is a new Community Development Agency for Hammersmith & Fulham. It has been created through the merger of the Community and Voluntary Sector Association Hammersmith & Fulham (CaVSA) and the Fulham Community Partnership Trust (FCPT). Building on the strengths of both organisations, sobus aims to provide a wider range of support services for local charities, community groups, social enterprises and start up businesses.