How the NHS Can Support Communities to Keep People Well
The Health Creation Alliance has published a report which takes a look at how NHS stakeholders can learn from the community response to Covid-19. Read the report here.
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Mind Launches New Strategy
Mind have launched a new organisational strategy, focusing on becoming an anti-racist organisation, supporting young people, and fighting for people in poverty. Check out their strategy here.
Mental Health Awareness Week
Now more than ever, mental health awareness is important. This week (10-16 May) is #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, the UK’s national week to raise awareness of mental health. The week, now in its 21st year, is hosted by the Mental Health Foundation. Find out more here.
Gift Aid Eligible on Unclaimed Refunds & Loan Repayments
Civil Society have reported that charities will be able to claim Gift Aid on waived refunds or loan payments, under amended rules announced this week. Temporary concessions allowing charities to claim Gift Aid when supporters waived repayments for cancelled events were introduced at the beginning of the coronavirus crisis. Read the article here.
Summer Schools Programme Opens to Applications to Help Students Recover Lost Learning (England)
Schools in England can now register to offer a summer school to help students recover learning they have lost during the Covid-19 pandemic. Schools are encouraged to bid for a share of £200 million in government funding to support children who have experienced the most disruption by offering two-week summer schools that provide a blend […]
Funding to Support the Creative Development of Individual Cultural & Creative Practitioners (England)
Arts Council England have reopened their Developing Your Creative Practice Fund to help individual cultural and creative practitioners explore new ways of working and to better respond to the changing environment as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Grants of between £2,000 and £10,000 are available to help individuals with their own creative development which […]
Shop & Donate
From the food donations we receive, we create food parcels which we send on to local elderly and vulnerable residents, NHS staff and other food banks who support thousands of people in need. Shop and Donate is also an online shop, where we sell a variety of fresh fruit and vegetables. The proceeds from this […]
Windrush Community Fund Event
Voice4Change England are currently accepting applications for the Windrush Community Fund. The aim of the fund is to raise awareness and support engagement for the government’s Windrush Compensation Scheme and Windrush Scheme. Voice4Change will be running a free information session to help applicants answer any questions and get guidance on the application process directly from […]
Dementia Action Week by Sharon Tomlin, Sobus Community Organiser
Dementia Action Week is a national event will be taking place from Monday 17th May 2021 through to Sunday 23rd May 2021. In the borough of Hammersmith and Fulham is a sizeable population of people registered at GP practices living with dementia. Hammersmith and Fulham Dementia Action Alliance along with other Voluntary Community Organisations and […]
“That Lockdown Blah you’re Feeling? It’s Called Languishing” by Sue Spiller, Sobus CEO
With the “roadmap” out of the Coronavirus lockdown looking pretty much on track, and occasional glimpses of Spring around us (despite a few recent days of cold wet weather), we should perhaps now be feeling much more optimistic and excited about the year ahead – but this doesn’t seem to be the case for many. […]
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.