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:
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:
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.
There has been a reorganisation in the council’s community investment team (CIT). For further information on these changes, please click here.
If you have any news we’re keen to tell residents about it
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. 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.
This report builds on the findings from earlier Natural England reports and explores the options for improving the commissioning of, and referral to, these services as well as scaling-up the provision of nature-based interventions.
NHS England has published a suite of documents to strengthen patient and public participation in health services. Together with the existing participation framework for primary care, new frameworks for public health, armed forces, health and justice and specialised services will support NHS England commissioners to carry out meaningful and inclusive participation with patients and the public. The frameworks have been developed with stakeholders, including Patient and Public Voice partners and representatives from voluntary and community sector organisations.
NCVO has recently released a report on the extent to which the voluntary & community sector (VCS) has been involved in the devolution process. The report makes recommendations for central government, local government and the VCS sector. Click here for the report.
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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.
