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Benefit Mythbuster – fact checking myths and misconceptions about universal credit

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Benefit Mythbuster (https://benefitmythbuster.net) is a new online web tool designed to help address commonly held myths and misconceptions about universal credit.

People can choose from three options – ‘Starting a New Claim’, ‘Managing your Claim’, and ‘Solving Problems’  to find out more about their rights, including information on job search, the claimant commitment, in-work conditionality, sanctions, and more.

People can also get in touch to add a myth that needs busting. Or help to bust a myth!

Benefit Mythbuster is one of a range of web tools from the advice and technology charity Lasa, who also deliver rightsnet – the social welfare law information & advice site for advisers. Find out more at: https://www.rightsnet.org.uk/resources/webtools

Lasa is a social welfare law and tech charity. Established in 1984, we’re dedicated to supporting organisations in their use of technology and the delivery of social welfare law advice to the disadvantaged communities they serve.

Find out more about our services:

Website: www.lasa.org.uk
Email: info@lasa.org.uk
Follow us: @lasacharity
Call us: 020 7377 2748

 

 

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Homeless charity Restart is looking for collaborative partners

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Homeless charity Restart, which offers drop-in, employability and mentoring services, is looking for a partner. Restart offers a volunteer pool, mentoring training and management system and a unique employability service which matches clients to a diverse range of host partners to build key personal and professional skills. Restart has 10 years’ experience in the area.

The ideal partner would be an organisation who have a new or existing space to offer a drop-in and meals to homeless clients as a way to introduce rehabilitation programmes. Restart would welcome their partner’s resources to complement their own work and they must share their values of inclusion, commitment, collaboration and co-production. They have been primarily working in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea but their links would be ideal for anywhere in Central or West London.

If this could be you, please contact Nick Gandon on 07799 477758 or nick.gandon@aureus-sv.com . Read and watch more at www.restartlives.org

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5th H&F ArtsFest 2018 – WrapUp

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A huge thanks to all of our funders, sponsors, venues, artists, audiences and volunteers for making this year’s HF ArtsFest the biggest and best yet!

To date, our statistics reveal that in the 9 days of the Festival there were over 800 artists taking part with over 10,000 audience numbers. We also managed to post 79,000 of our printed programme through the letterboxes of every household in the borough! The launch of ‘JOY’ at the Lyric was a huge success and our thanks go to Turtle Key Arts for delivering this fantastic programme. Congratulations to all!

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A big thank you goes to our Festival Manager, Sam Deards, who worked tirelessly to make the festival come together and run smoothly. We thank him for his time and efforts and wish him all the best for his next endeavours.

Feedback
We are still collecting feedback, data and statistics from this year’s Festival. So, please help our wonderful Volunteer, Daphne, by completing the questions she sent to all Arts Partners email in June and return by email: events@hf-artsfest.com .

Trustee Search
We are looking to recruit new trustees to join our board and take the HF ArtsFest into the future. For more information and details please contact Trea trea@hf-artsfest.com

Fundraising and Sponsorship
As you will be aware, HF ArtsFest is primarily run by volunteers and to make it fully sustainable for the years to come we need further funding and sponsorship. If you are interested in discussing or have any ideas around raising further funds, then please feel free to contact Trea trea@hf-artsfest.com

HF ArtsFest 2019
We are already planning next year’s HF ArtsFest and we will host the first 2019 Arts Partner Meeting in November 2018. So WATCH THIS SPACE for the date!

We hope you all have a fantastic Summer and we look forward to working with you all again!

Your Community, Your Artists, Your Festival

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Kidney Awareness Workshop For Men

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We have an interesting workshop for men on Kidney awareness delivered by the charity Kidney Research UK.

Click Here for a poster to share and let men know about this workshop.

Contact
Healthworks, Dalgarno Trust
1 Webb Close
Dalgarno Way
London W10 5QB

Web: www.dalgarnotrust.org.uk
Tel: 0208 969 6300

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Work and Health Unit (WHU) – £4.2m Challenge Fund

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The Work and Health Unit (WHU), which is jointly managed by the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department of Health and Social Care, is using a £4.2m Challenge Fund to test new approaches that can help people experiencing mental health and/or musculoskeletal (MSK) issues stay in work.

They are looking to fund around twenty Initiatives which will improve their understanding of what works in one or more of the following areas:

  • Helping people stay in work by increasing their ability to self-manage their conditions.
  • Helping people access advice and support about what sort of work they might be capable of doing given their wider needs and circumstances.
  • Developing new approaches to help employers and individuals develop workplace solutions, or ways of working that facilitate greater participation of people experiencing these conditions.
  • Improving systems by joining up services to strengthen communication, liaison or joint action.

We welcome applications from employers, charities, social enterprises, local authorities, health bodies and others from across England, Scotland and Wales.

The deadline for receipt of Challenge Fund applications is Friday 17th August at 17.00. Projects are anticipated to run between October 2018 and February 2020.

Click the image at the top of this post to go to the Application Portal for more info.

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Mayor of London call for applications: micro grants for supporting outreach work with European Londoners

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The Mayor of London is committed to supporting European Londoners in the light of the UK leaving the EU.  As part of this work, we will be supporting civil society to engage with European Londoners about the Government’s proposed Settlement Scheme and reach out to those groups most at risk of marginalisation. We have now launched our pilot micro grant scheme to support this important work.

City Hall will provide micro-grant funding of up to £2,000 to community groups and small civil society organisations with demonstrable expertise and reach to deliver outreach activity on the settled status scheme, providing information and advice to vulnerable European Londoners.

You can find the link to read more and to apply here –  https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/business-and-economy/apply-european-londoners-outreach-funding

The deadline is 20th August 2018 5pm. If you have any questions about this microgrant scheme feel free to get in touch with me at Bella.Kosmala@london.gov.uk or Hannah Boylan Hannah.Boylan@london.gov.uk

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YHFF Shout Out

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Funding News

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Building Connections Fund

Supporting projects that are able to prevent or reduce loneliness
Funding size – £30,000 to £100,000
Deadline – Fri 24th August 12noon

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Global Giving Crowdfunding training

GlobalGiving is the largest global crowdfunding community connecting non-profits, donors and companies around the world. Apply now for September Accelerator training programme.

Charities will receive free online training in digital fundraising and have access to GlobalGiving’s fundraising tools and resources. You’ll then be entered in to a 3-week crowdfunding campaign in September to raise at least £4,000 for your chosen project. There will be match funding opportunities, bonus prizes and graduates will receive permanent GlobalGiving partnership.
Deadline: 1st August

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Training Events

Women Into Literature Development & Empowerment

Health Workshop – “Taking care of our Mental Health”

Thurs 26th July
5.30-7.30pm

More details contact here

 

Click the Logo at the top of the page to see more info on the YHFF website

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Building More Integrated Communities: New Funding Announced

The aim of the Integrated Communities Innovation Fund is to support a range of projects, both in size and in scale, that are bold and innovative in approach and that encourage integration in a wide range of contexts. Of particular interest are projects that can, in time, be scaled up to reach a minimum of 300. Overall, projects supported will:

  • Be innovative in the way they tackle integration challenges
  • Explain how they will achieve positive integration and offer evidence to support this
  • Clearly understand how outcomes will be measured and evaluated
  • Demonstrate how partners and the local community will buy-in to the proposed activity
  • Show potential for growth both in numbers of participants and effectiveness
  • Demonstrate clear deliverability, value for money and financial stability
  • Be led by organisations willing to share their experiences honestly and wisely.

The Fund is open to applications from legally constituted organisations or those with statutory powers working with beneficiaries in England.

There are no minimum or maximum grant levels set and funding is only available for 2018/19 and 2019/20. Further terms and conditions are set out in the Fund Prospectus

Submit an expression of interest as Stage One of Two by 23:45 on Monday 20th August.

Useful Links:

Assessment criteria

Expression of interest form

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/integrated-communities-innovation-fund

 

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Operation Cup of Tea is Back!

Do you remember Operation Cup of Tea, responding to the London Riots in 2012?

In just one day, volunteers, local charities and community groups served over 1000 cups of tea to local residents and visitors whilst providing a positive space for people to drop by and for the community to come together.

In the summer of 2017 following the Grenfell Tower Fire, Operation Cup of Tea created a regular hub in Tavistock Square to provide a friendly face, local information and a heart-warming cuppa to anyone who’d like it.

We are relaunching Operation Cup of Tea starting from Friday 20th July 2018 at Tavistock Square.

The stall will provide local residents the opportunity to drop by, enjoy a free cup of tea and act as an informal space for people to talk. Information regarding local services and summer activities for families will also be on hand for organisations to distribute on the day.

Operation Cup of Tea Info

Want to get involved? Organisations and groups are invited to participate in Operation Cup of Tea, to share information with the local community on what support is on offer. We will be in Tavistock Square every Friday 10am-3pm until the end of September.

We would love to host your project! Come along to share your work with the public. To book a space contact Nadia at nadia.nail@vckc.org.uk by Wednesday 24th July 2018.

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Young Women In Business – The ClementJames Centre

‘Young Women in Business’ event at The ClementJames centre on Friday 3rd August from 2-4pm

The event gives young women aged 16-23 the opportunity to come together and listen to inspiring speakers from different departments at Johnson and Johnson, an internationally recognised company. The women all have very varied experiences and are keen to share these with the group. There will be chance for the young women to network with the speakers and light refreshments will be provided.

Places are limited so we would need the young women to confirm their attendance by calling the ClementJames centre on 02077929189 or emailing bobby@clementjames.org.

Click Here for the Event flyer

Contact

Bobby Juniper
Community Development Worker
The ClementJames Centre

95 Sirdar Road
London
W11 4EQ

phone: 0207 221 8810

www.clementjames.org | @ClementJames

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