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Heat-Health Alert

The UK Health Security Agency have extensive guidance and materials for supporting communities, including:

You can find a map of Cool Spaces across London here, and register your own too.

The Met Office’s #WeatherReady campaign also has lots of advice and guidance.

Wildfire Alert

London Fire Brigade provide guidance and support around wildfire risk on this webpage.

Social Channels

Do follow London Resilience on either BlueSky or X (Twitter) where we will be sharing content.

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Hestia June Workshop Timetable & Mental Health Tips

Over the years, the Community Link Advisors have developed a strong and collaborative relationship with the communities of Hammersmith & Fulham, as well as with the various external services and organisations supporting the borough. Your ongoing support has been instrumental in enhancing the experiences of our service users, helping to make their journeys more manageable. We deeply appreciate the invaluable contributions you have made over the years. While our service plays a vital role in their support network, it is only one part of a much larger system of care. It is the collective efforts of communities and services like yours that provide the continuity and stability needed for individuals to progress in their wellbeing journey.

I’m pleased to share with you our workshop timetable for June. These interactive and informative sessions are led by my colleague and me.

I’ve also included links to this month’s mental health tips:

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Feel free to share it with your colleagues and service users or clients. Please note that the outing is exclusively for our service users, while all other sessions are open to the public. If you are interested or know anyone who would benefit from these workshops, please contact the service.

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Carers Week Garden Party

3 – 6pm, Tuesday 10th June 2025

Royal Trinity Hospice, Clapham Common North Side, SW4 0RN

To thank you for all that you do, please join us at Trinity for a garden party and a range of wellbeing activities

 

Activity Schedule:

3pm – Event begins with cake and bubbles

3.20 – 3.50pm – Chair yoga

4 – 4.15pm – London Gay Men’s Chorus

4.30 – 5pm – Drop-in incense stick workshop

5pm – 5.45pm – Carers Circle

PLUS enjoy the garden and art workshops throughout

 

Book your spot on our website or by calling 0777 554 1848

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Mental Health Tips – Start with the Small Things

The world you experience—your personal reality—is shaped by your perceptions, thoughts, and emotions. In many ways, your external world and your internal experience (or what we might call your “field of being”) are deeply interconnected. As Carl Jung once noted, “There’s no difference between you and what you experience,” highlighting how our inner world influences how we interpret and respond to the outer world. When facing challenges, it can be helpful to ask: Are these difficulties rooted in the external, objective world, or do they arise within my internal experience? Reflecting on this distinction can offer valuable insight and support emotional self-awareness and growth. Read on

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Free Community Day

Health, Fun, Music & Community

Date: Saturday 31st May 2025

Time: 12pm-5pm

Location: Sands End Arts & community Centre, Peterborough Road, SW6 3EZ

Click here for more information

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FREE Health Conversations on June 25th, 1pm-4pm at SECC

The event is a Silver Social but the offer of a health conversation is for anyone aged over 18, so any supporting family members/friends not there for the social could also get a free health conversation. Further information

Any communications should include this link Silver Social Series | London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham, and the event is ticketed via the link.

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It’s Time to Prioritise Wellbeing

“The Breaking Point report published by Fair Collective paints a stark picture of the mental health crisis sweeping through the charity sector. The findings are disturbing: 85% of leaders in small charities report struggling with poor mental health, with a shocking 20% suffering from burnout so severe that it’s affecting their personal lives and professional effectiveness. In some cases, the stress of their roles has led to suicidal thoughts…” Read more here.

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Funding to Improve Mental Health Awareness in Global Majority Communities (London)

To address the underrepresentation of Global Majority communities in mental health support services, Young Kensington & Chelsea (Young K&C) and the Young Westminster Foundation have launched the ‘Community Solutions: Improving Mental Health Awareness in Global Majority Communities’ grant, in partnership with the Vibrant & Healthy Communities (VHC) Programme

The grant offers a total funding pot of £640,000 over two years, with eligible organisations able to apply for up to £15,000 annually, totalling a maximum of £30,000 for projects running from April 2025 to March 2027. The funding supports new or existing community-based initiatives, including training sessions, awareness-raising workshops, and projects targeting children, young people (up to 25 years old), and their parents or carers. The primary objectives are to increase mental health awareness, facilitate open discussions, enhance self-management of mental wellbeing, encourage utilisation of mental health services, and foster positive attitudes towards mental health within these communities.

Non-profit organisations such as registered charities, Community Interest Companies (CICs), or constituted community groups with a proven track record of working with the specified demographics in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) and/or Westminster are invited to apply.

Priority will be given to Global Majority-led organisations—those with more than 50% of their senior leadership or trustees from Black, Asian, mixed, or other racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds—and to organisations with an annual turnover of less than £500,000.

 

Applications must be submitted by 11:59 pm on the 5th March 2025.

 

Useful Links:

Application Hints and Tips (AI-Generated)

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https://app.plinth.org.uk/application/uFDAhW9iPO9R5FDsq2Q

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How to Prioritise your Wellbeing at Work in 2025

Here at DSC, we continually look to improve our colleagues’ wellbeing. Since 2021, we have conducted an annual wellbeing survey. We use it to identify common issue areas and to collate recommendations that the wellbeing team can discuss and potentially put into practice. These five tips have been taken from what our DSC colleagues have shared in the annual survey. Take a look here.

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