Small grants scheme, in the making, is a new funding programme for community projects that share our aim of embedding art, culture and heritage at the heart of the major development and regeneration planned for Old Oak and Park Royal. We are offering micro-grants to support community arts, culture and heritage projects taking place in Old Oak and Park Royal, led by those living and working in the area. We hope it will uncover, connect and showcase the culture, creativity and heritage of London’s largest and most vibrant industrial area. The programme is part of the Great Place scheme, funded by the National Lottery, Arts Council England and the Heritage Lottery Fund and managed by OPDC. Application guidance To be successful in your application, your project must address one of more of the following priorities: encouraging new people, young and older in Old Oak and Park Royal to take part in arts and heritage activities raising ambition for arts and heritage groups and individual artists based in the area for delivering community activities developing skills and volunteering opportunities for local people to become active members of Old Oak and Park Royal community building the links between the local community and local businesses in Old Oak and Park Royal Using the online application system You can apply for funding online using the Open Project System. If your organisation is not yet registered on the system you will need to register. The step-by-step system user guide will take you through the process. To talk to someone about your application before you apply or if you require the application materials in a different format, please get in touch: via email via phone: 020 7983 5732 Click here to see full post on the website.
SASH (Support and Advice on Sexual Health) – in Westminster, Hammersmith and Fulham and Kensington and Chelsea is provided by Turning Point in partnership with METRO, London Friend, NAZ and Marie Stopes. The service provides information, advice, referral to sexual health testing and one-to-one and group support for individuals affected by sexual health related issues. The service is focussed on promoting wellbeing and, as such, also includes complementary and creative therapies and advice and support around education training and employment. The event will be an opportunity to learn more about SASH services, engage in mindfulness, crafting, self-care workshop, sexual health and contraception information and access HIV POCT; while OneYou are joining to offer carbon monoxide and blood pressure checks. Click here to view/download flyer. Tuesday 17 September 10am – 4pm St Charles Centre, Exmoor St, Ladbroke Grove, W10 6DZ Click here to see SASH website.
Applications are now open for Walking and Cycling Grants London. Walking and Cycling Grants London is a grants programme funded by Transport for London and administered by Groundwork London. The programme is aimed at groups that are traditionally under-represented in walking and cycling (e.g through income, health, ability, isolation skills and access to information or equipment). Walking and Cycling Grants London is a programme which supports London’s diverse communities to walk and cycle more often and more safely. The programme aims to: Increase walking and cycling in London (including new, lapsed or occasional cyclists) Increase confidence in walking and cycling Increase walking and cycling frequency Make bike ownership more accessible Introduce exercise to people who are particularly inactive via walking and cycling Reduce social isolation and get people involved in their local community Walking and cycling makes people healthier and happier and is an affordable, green and fun way to get around and explore the city and to get some exercise. Just ask anyone you know who frequently walks or cycles! London is fast becoming a cycling city and Cycling Grants London wants to make sure all Londoners benefit from the joys of cycling, regardless of their background or situation. Often people don’t cycle because they lack the opportunity, information, skills, confidence or motivation to do so; or because they do not have access to a bicycle or the means to maintain it. Cycling Grants London supports community organisations that work with those who need encouragement and support to get them cycling. If you have an idea to inspire and support people in your community to cycle more often and cycle more safely, Cycling Grants London may be able to support you! Type of grants available Organisations that have not received a grant from Walking and Cycling Grants London or the Cycling Grants London before, OR that have but are looking to deliver a new project,* can apply for the following funding: £10,000 for Three Year Projects Year 1 – up to £5,000 Year 2 – up to £3,000 Year 3 – up to £2,000 Click here to see more details.
NHS Hammersmith & Fulham Clinical Commissioning Group’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Tuesday 10 September 2019. At the AGM, you will hear about the progress and the achievements we have made. We will present our annual report and accounts along with the agenda on our website in due course. We will also send letters to go out in August and prior to the AGM. You will have the opportunity at our project market stalls to look in more detail at some of the work that the CCG has been leading on, and our plans for the future. There will be an opportunity to ask questions of the Governing Body on any of the topics covered in the formal presentations at the end of the meeting. Please feel free to submit any advance 48 hours prior to the meeting to: hafccg.engagement@nhs.net. You can also call 0203 350 4303 for more information. Date: Tuesday 10 September 2019 Time: 5pm to 7pm Venue: St Paul’s Church, Hammersmith, London W6 9PJ Click here to book your space.
Heart of the Community Fund! Here at the Virgin Money Foundation, we’re on a mission to support community regeneration by backing people who can make big changes happen locally. We love helping local communities thrive – and we’d love to see applications from community organisations working in Inner London. Every three months, we’re giving three local community organisations the chance to win £2,000 – with awards of £1,000 and £500 for the runners-up. There is a voting unit in the Virgin Money Lounge, Piccadilly and the awards will go to the community organisations with the most votes from Virgin Money customers and Lounge members. Just our bag We’d love to support projects: Run by smaller local community organisations. That means annual running costs of less than £500,000. Working in the parts of the City that need money the most. With strong local roots. Benefiting the wider community. Funds can be used to: – buy materials and equipment, – make improvements to a community building or sports facility, – clean up an area of wasteland, – support an event. The money could also pay for staff to run an activity. Apply to the Virgin Money foundation online by visiting virginmoneyfoundation.org.uk and selecting the Heart of the Community Fund.
Hackney CVS is Hackney’s leading voluntary and community sector support agency and the local Council for Voluntary Service, or CVS. We support hundreds of groups to run successful voluntary and community sector organisations by giving them access to the key skills, knowledge and resources necessary to respond to the needs of local people, especially those most in need. We also provide a range of partnerships and mechanisms for the local voluntary sector to bid for contracts, work together on key issues, influence policy and develop joint projects. Development Officer needed to support Hackney’s Voluntary & Community Sector to meet the needs of Hackney residents. With a particular focus on BAMER community groups, small and grass root organisations. The role will also provide advice, capacity building and organisational development support to migrants and refugee organisations in Hackney that will make up the network. The deadline for applications is 9.00 am on 14 August, and interviews will take place w/c 19 August 2019. To view/download the job descriptio, click here. Please visit website at www.hcvs.org.uk for more information about Hackney’s Voluntary & Community Sector.
We are looking for a highly motivated and skilled individual who is efficient, organised and an experienced administrator. Your role will be as an Administration and Publicity Co-ordinator to assist in the running of busy and dynamic Families & Children’s Centre. This will involve a wide range of administrative duties including: data collection, input in to various E support systems, answering the telephone dealing with face to face enquiries. You will have considerable experience in administration and be interested in working in the voluntary and community sector for a registered charity. You will have excellent interpersonal skills and enjoy working within a multi-disciplinary team, with a diverse group of colleagues and service users. Closing date for applications Friday 23rd August 5pm Click here to view/download flyer.
Passionate about patient and public engagement? Looking for an NHS role where you can make a difference? The CCG has two opportunities for experienced, independent Lay Members to join Hammersmith & Fulham CCG’s Governing Body. Local individuals with strong links to public and patient engagement are sought. As a member of the CCG Governing body, Lay Members are key individuals in the team that ensure the CCG exercises its functions effectively, efficiently, economically, with good governance and in accordance with the terms of the CCG’s constitution. In taking decisions as part of the Governing Body, they help ensure that: – the interests of patients and the community remain at the heart of discussions and decisions; – the CCG commissions the highest quality services, maintaining a consistent focus on quality, integration and innovation; – decisions are taken with regard to securing the best use of the public money; – the CCG, secures health services that are provided to our local population in a way which promotes the NHS Constitution, improves individuals’ health and wellbeing, supports them to keep mentally and physically well, to get better when they are ill and, when the individual cannot fully recover, to stay as well as they can to the end of their lives; – the CCG is responsive to the views of local people and promotes self-care and shared decision-making in all aspects of its business; and – good governance remains central at all times. Specifically, we are looking to recruit two lay members in Hammersmith and Fulham CCG, to start immediately. The closing date for applications is 5pm, 7 August. Full details around the roles can be found on our website: https://bit.ly/30SsWOk
Dr Tim Spicer Chair of NHS Hammersmith and Fulham CCG On 30 June Tim stood down as a member of the Hammersmith and Fulham Governing Body and from his role as Chair. He will be missed and we thanked him for his significant contribution to the health agenda at his last Governing Body meeting in June. Dr Tim Spicer is GP Chair of Hammersmith and Fulham Clinical Commissioning Group and one of the Programme Medical Directors for Shaping a Healthier Future, North West London’s reconfiguration of acute and out-of-hospital services for a population of 2 million. Over the past decade, Tim has contributed to a number of initiatives including the design and implementation of the North West London Integrated Care Pilot and the Whole Systems Pioneer Programme. He is currently Clinical Chair for North West London’s STP delivery area ‘Improving Care for Older People’. He trained in medicine as a mature student following a successful career in the Arts.