Following the ICO’s first publication of the GDPR guidance in March, Elizabeth Chamberlain breaks it down and puts forward recommendations – click here.
Mary Strickson explains what CRS is, and how it will impact charities – click here.
The research team are putting the finishing touches to this year’s edition – all the facts and figures on the voluntary sector you could ever need! For further information click here.
Look out on 9 May for the refreshed data at data.ncvo.org.uk.
In November the NHS in North West London was awarded national funding to continue improving maternity services in-line with new national maternity guidelines.
Before we start investing and improving services over the next two years, we want to hear from women who have recently used maternity services. To do this, we have today launched a new online engagement site encouraging mothers-to-be and new mums to share their experiences of maternity care in North West London.
The attached press release has been issued and we would be grateful if you can share this engagement site link through your networks, so we can reach as many mums as possible.
More information
The NHS in North West London was awarded national funding following work that has already taken place to improve maternity services across our eight boroughs.
In 2015, improvements were made providing all women with better access to senior doctors, a better environment to give birth in and more time with midwives whose numbers have increased since the changes were made. These improvements have made sure that North West London is already delivering many of the standards set out in the new National Maternity Guidelines ‘Better Births’, and with the help of national funding we can make sure we have better continuity of care during all stages of pregnancy, birth and support for mother and baby.
You may also wish to read the recent Healthwatch Hillingdon maternity review.
Sobus will soon be opening a second, larger site in Kensington and Chelsea on Freston Road. Freston Road Hub is a modern shared office space for enterprises, charities and social business offering over 40 workspaces and with 4 high quality meeting and training rooms, gallery space and mailing services. Watch this space for our opening date!
For more details click here. For enquiries, please email info@sobus.org.uk.
To help raise awareness of a digital engagement insight survey that is being launched by NHS North West London Collaboration of Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) and NHS Healthy London Partnerships.
The CCG’s commission healthcare across the following Boroughs:
- Brent
- Ealing
- Harrow
- Hammersmith & Fulham
- Hillingdon
- Hounslow
- Kensington & Chelsea
- Westminster
The purpose of the survey is to help NWL CCGs and health and care partners understand, plan and deliver better digital health services to our communities.
Key areas of insight will include:
- The online health services people value most, what would motivate them to use them, and what tools and services are most beneficial to which population groups;
- What populations want from digital services;
- How different population groups would like to interact with digital services; and
- How best we can create and sustain demand through understanding the behavior of different population groups.
We very much need your help in gathering this invaluable information from you and your networks. Please direct them to our survey at http://www.research.net/r/NWLdigital
In a political world where leaks are routine, Theresa May’s announcement of an election campaign seems to have caught everyone by surprise. Charities will not have made detailed plans for an election, so it’s worth thinking about what we should be doing to make sure we’re part of the debate.
After successfully applying to Hammersmith United Charities, Nubian Life Resource Centre Ltd is delivering the Valuing Independence Project for older people in the North of the borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. The project will work with local services to create a community of formally hard to reach older people engage in activities and events to improve their quality of life. The project supports older members of the community who rarely engage in organised activity.
To find out more and how to get involved click here.
There is an exciting initiative that takes place every year which aims at helping civic organisations get involved in Parliament and UK democracy. UK Parliament Week, now in it’s seventh year is an annual festival that engages people from across the UK with Parliament. This year the festival will be taking place between the 13 – 19 November.
In April 2018 the Government is planning to impose an arbitrary cap on the amount of support disabled people can claim from the Access to Work Scheme. This policy will make it much harder for disabled people to find and keep a job and has already come into effect for new applicants. To find out more, click here.
The Chair of Action on Disability, a charity based in Hammersmith and Fulham, is asking for your help with a campaign run with AoD to set up a Parliamentary petition to put pressure on the Government to drop this draconian, short-sighted policy. The petition needs 10,000 signatures to force a Government response and 100,000 signatures to trigger a debate in Parliament. For the petition click here.
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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.