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Christians Against Poverty: Free Debt Counselling

The national charity Christians Against Poverty (CAP) has recently opened a new debt- counselling centre in Fulham Reach, London at Twynholm Baptist Church.

CAP is an award-winning debt counselling charity with a proven track record of helping people in difficult financial circumstances and offers free, face to face debt counselling to all. Our personal and long-term approach empowers people to get out of debt and learn budgeting skills with great success. Almost 90% of all bills and debts are paid on time by established clients every morning, and 94% said that our help was life transforming or a great help.

For further information click here.

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FSI Consultancy: Organisational Strengths Review

On top of FSI’s training for small charities, they also offer a bespoke consultancy service. Comprehensive Organisation Strengths Review undertakes a review of your organisation and provides a clear, concise overview of which areas you are performing well, and which areas may need to be developed or refreshed.

Visit FSI’s blog: How effective is your charity? 7 questions to ask to see if consultancy is necessary for your small charity, or for more information email admin@thefsi.org or click here.

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Joint Strategic Needs Assessment

JSNA’s for Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham: The JSNA Online is a collection of web-based tools built by the Public Health Intelligence team to deliver the latest data to our stakeholders. It contains really useful, up to date data on local health and wellbeing stats that groups can use to inform service design and funding bids.

For further information, please click here.

 

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Charities in Focus on The BBC

If you tune into a BBC station on 9th February, you might well hear a feature about charities, as Acevo have been working with the BBC to stimulate discussion of the charity sector. If your local radio station is running anything on charities, feel free to phone in and join the discussion to talk about the work of your organisation.

NCVO is also keen to let the media know about all the work that charities do to make a difference locally, nationally and internationally. If you’d like to help get your charity’s work in the news, get in touch with NCVO’s  Constructive Voices programme – click here.

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Fundraising & Regulatory Compliance Conference

The Fundraising Regulator will be holding a joint conference with the ICO and Charity Commission aimed at helping charities & fundraising organisations comply with the law on data & consent. The event on 21st February will be live streamed here.

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The Road To Wellbeing Map

The Drug and Alcohol Wellbeing Service (DAWS) and Change Grow Live (The Alcohol Service) have created a digital map across Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham and Kensington & Chelsea to showcase activities/services that fall under the categories of the 5 ways to wellbeing: Give, Learn, Connect, Be Active, Take Notice.

We would like to give community organisations the opportunity to add to the map. The only thing that we ask is that the activities you add are on offer for a period of 6 weeks or more. We would also love for people to benefit from using the map.

To access the map click here and to find out how to use and add to the map click here.

 

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Technology for Charities

Blackbaud offer an affordable, cloud-based CRM (customer relationship management) for emerging non-profit organisations by the name of eTapestry®. This software will save your small charity much needed time and money, build stronger relationships and grow support for your mission by…

  • Helping you manage your relationships and deliver your mission.
  • Overcoming the challenge of limited resources by streamlining your processes within one fundraising platform.
  • Combining your supporter database with best-practice reporting, email marketing and fundraising dashboards.
  • Saying goodbye to spreadsheets and stopping the juggling of multiple platforms!

For more information on eTapestry® and to visit Blackbaud’s website click here.

 

 

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Elgin Resource Centre February Timetable

Elgin Close Resource Centre offers a range of services and activities for adults living in Hammersmith & Fulham. For the February timetable, please click here.

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Changes in the Council’s Community Investment Team

There has been a reorganisation in the council’s community investment team (CIT) to extend its role in strengthening community partnerships. For further information on these changes, please click here.

The communications team sends an e-newsletter every week to over 80,000 subscribers and has been including news stories on local groups. We’re currently working on marrying up these stories with our website profile on each funded group.

If you have any news we’re keen to tell residents about it. So whether it’s a new service, a new funding allocation or an event, please do get in touch. There’s a template to help you get the information together –  click here. The contact to send it to is michael.russell@lbhf.gov.uk.

 

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CQC Launch Formal Consultation on Next Phase of Regulation

The consultation document, ‘Our next phase of regulation: A more targeted, responsive and collaborative approach’, follows the CQC strategy for 2016 to 2021, published in May 2016, which sets out an ambitious vision for a more targeted, responsive and collaborative approach to regulation, so that more people get high-quality care. CQC want your views on a number of proposals for implementing the five-year strategy. These proposals are aimed at achieving:

  • A more integrated approach that enables us to be flexible and responsive to changes in care provision
  • A more targeted approach that focuses on areas of greatest concern, such as safety, and where there have been improvements in quality
  • A greater emphasis on leadership, including at the level of overall accountability for quality of care
  • Closer working and alignment with NHS Improvement and other partners so that providers experience less duplication.

If you would like to share your views, please read and respond to the consultation – click here.

The consultation closes on Tuesday 14 February 2017.

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