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Program Manager -Park Royal

Lead the OPDC’s Great Place Programme  and help shape the future of Old Oak.

This is your chance to shape London’s largest regeneration project as part of the Mayor of London’s Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC).  You will be responsible for the development and delivery of the Great Place Scheme. The OPDC has been successful in securing £1,489,200 of funding from the Great Place Scheme, for a 3 year period, funded by The Heritage Lottery Fund and Arts Council England. This funding is for a world class participatory programme that will uncover, connect and showcase the culture, creativity and heritage of Park Royal and help shape the future of Old Oak.

For information on application deadline, salary and job specification please click here

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Programme Manager -Great Place Scheme

Lead the OPDC’s Great Place Programme  and help shape the future of Old Oak.

This is your chance to shape London’s largest regeneration project as part of the Mayor of London’s Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC).  You will be responsible for the development and delivery of the Great Place Scheme. The OPDC has been successful in securing £1,489,200 of funding from the Great Place Scheme, for a 3 year period, funded by The Heritage Lottery Fund and Arts Council England. This funding is for a world class participatory programme that will uncover, connect and showcase the culture, creativity and heritage of Park Royal and help shape the future of Old Oak.

For information on application deadline, salary and job specification please click here

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Public Invited to Free Dementia Awareness Session at Fulham Library

People living in Hammersmith and Fulham now have the opportunity to find out more about dementia, thanks to a free awareness workshop.
The local award winning provider of personal care in the home, Bluebird Care Hammersmith and Fulham, is hosting the event as part of national Dementia Awareness Week in conjunction with the Alzheimer’s Society.

The free awareness workshop will be held at Fulham Library on Monday 15th May at 1pm. Lunch will be provided.
For more information click here

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ICT Consultancy for the Third Sector

Spi r IT UK is a LASA approved, award winning ICT Consultancy offering a complete IT service, unique and specially designed for the Third Sector. In fact everything you need from an IT department at a fraction of the price and no compromise in quality. To find out more, click here.

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Connect with your Local Community on Nextdoor

Nextdoor is a social network for neighbourhoods that is now being used by every community across Hammersmith & Fulham. It’s a great way to connect with your neighbours – and that goes for community organisations and voluntary groups too!  Barons Court Project joined their local Nextdoor neighbourhood and invited their neighbours to come in and see what they do at the Project.  They now have a number of new regular donors from amongst their neighbours and have raised their profile in the community.  Fulham Good Neighbours have found being on Nextdoor has helped them to recruit new volunteers – Nextdoor is a great way to tap into the goodwill and community spirit of local people.

For more info click here 

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Community Organisers at Sobus

“Community Organisers at Sobus have been actively supporting residents and community partners in establishing a Neighbourhood Forum in Old Oak for over twelve months. In order to be designated a neighbourhood forum a consultation process is now in place. The consultation process runs from 3rd May 2017 through to 15th June 2017.
If you are working with residents that live, work or interested in activities in the Old Oak area please inform them of this.
For further information please contact Old Oak Interim Neighbourhood Forum on oonforum@gmail.com or visit www.oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org”

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Mental Health Awareness Week

It’s Mental Health Awareness Week 8 – 14 May 2017. H&F MIND are the borough’s leading resource for mental health support and information and Rich Green from Mind has supported the beginning and growth of ‘HANDS’, a peer led, co-produced support group for people living with anxiety and depression. The group has now just celebrated it’s 1 year anniversary and meet bi-weekly on Thursday afternoons at Blythe Road. To find out more, please contact susan@hfmind.

Joy Goddard set up the group because there was nothing like it in Hammersmith and Fulham when she really needed it. (See her moving personal journey here.)

 

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Are These The Youngest Food Waste Warriors in the UK? 

A group of entrepreneurial children from West London are fighting food waste by selling surplus food in the school playground and to the local community. The initiative is led by 400 children aged 5 to 12 year old’s from Old Oak Primary School & Old Oak Community Centre in East Acton. They have named their social enterprise ‘Bubble & Squeak’, a nod to the traditional English dish made using leftover vegetables. Emphasising healthy eating, their aim is to take edible surplus food such as fruit and vegetables from local businesses, markets and supermarkets and redistribute it to the local community on a ‘pay as you feel’ basis. The kids want to get their whole community involved in changing attitudes towards food waste. They launched a crowdfunding campaign on the 24 April to raise £4,500 for a customised shipping container to store and sell the surplus food. Helping the children with the project are adult coordinators Elly Harrington and Lydia Gandaa.

For more information contact Elly Harrington at bubblesqueakeat@gmail.com / 07515946486, or Lydia Gandaa 02087437629 at Old Oak Primary School.

 

 

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Safety, Security and fire safety assessments FREE of charge in LBHF

We have caught up with our backlog and we now are taking referrals as usual. If you have any adult clients who are over 65 or have a disability that you feel we can support with safety, security or fire safety issues in their own homes (Including fire retardant bedding for smokers who smoke in bed and are at risk to themselves or others by doing so), then please refer them to us.
Once we have received your referral we will make contact with your client as soon as we can to book an appointment to complete a safety, security and fire safety assessment.  Once the assessment is done any work identified will also be completed by us FREE for those who are in receipt of benefits or a one off £10 fee for those who are not on benefits .

Draught proofing –limited funding – encourage clients now before the winter months and funding runs out!!!
Bishop Creighton House can provide and install draught proofing and help you with energy saving to make your home warmer – and save a little on energy bills.
Draught proofing is free for H & F residents who are 65 and over, or has a disability or long term ill health. For all other H & F residents the cost of draught proofing a door is £5-£15 and £5 per window (a discount of 50% is given to those receiving benefits)

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Charity Times Awards 2017 Now Open

The 18th annual Charity Times Awards 2017 are now open for entries –  click here. The deadline for entry is 9 June 2017. The winners will be announced at the celebratory gala dinner and ceremony on 4 October 2017 at the prestigious Park Plaza Westminster Bridge, London

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