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Free support and recognition for healthy workplaces

Do you want to get support and recognition for your commitment to employee health and wellbeing in your organisation? Register your interest in the London Healthy Workplace Charter today.

The London Healthy Workplace Charter is a free framework for action and accreditation scheme that helps organisations to review and develop all that they do to create an environment in which employees can flourish and give their best.

What are the benefits?

The London Healthy Workplace Charter and local support programme offers:

  • A clear structure to develop employee health and wellbeing plans
  • Support from Hammersmith & Fulham Council’s healthy workplace business advisor to address some of the biggest challenges organisations face, including recruitment and staff retention, sickness absence and productivity
  • Free employee health checks
  • Heavily subsidised mental health & wellbeing training for managers (pdf 306KB)
  • Prestigious Public Health England endorsed accreditation which lasts for 5 years and helps to strengthen your organisation’s brand and reputation

How to find out more                                                                      For more information, please see www.lbhf.gov.uk/healthyworkplace, or contact Anna Brown, Healthy Workplace Business Advisor, Hammersmith & Fulham Council:
t: 07584 389 249      e: anna.brown@lbhf.gov.uk

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H&F CCG Health & Wellbeing Small Grants Programme Information

The H&F CCG Health and Wellbeing Grants programme managed by Sobus commenced in April 2016. £100k was made available by the H&F CCG and Sobus managed the application process including the promotion of the initiative. The programme was hugely oversubscribed, with over 40 applications totalling £460k plus. The grants panel consisted of CCG staff & Board members plus a voluntary sector representative from outside the borough. Grants awarded range from £3k to £14k per project. The current CCG programme comes to an end in March 2017 and we are waiting for confirmation if the programme will run again however, the programme has been very well received by the CCG.

Sobus will alert the sector as soon as a decision is made and any news will put on our website as well as the next funding bulletin. To get all the latest information please check the news section of our website and follow us on twitter @Sobus_H_F

For more information about this years grants programme click here.

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Youth Partnership Co-production

The council commissioned Sobus to deliver the co-production of a Youth Partnership for Hammersmith and Fulham. The partnership engaged young people, businesses, funders, and providers to develop a shared vision and service model for young people’s services in Hammersmith and Fulham and ways of working in partnership to deliver this vision and ensure sustainability for the future. The hard work from everyone has enabled this report to be brought together but more importantly a strong partnership of stakeholders that can continue working together collectively.

On Tuesday 29th November the report was formally launched by the Youth Mayor – Aminata Koroma. There was great attendance and engagement by young people, youth providers, funders and statutory organisations.

The main recommendations included:

  1. Further develop a broad group to ‘own’ the needs and opportunities of young people in H&F, ensuring they are addressed holistically and be a reference point for commissioners and researchers such as public health.
  2. The Youth Partnership is seeking to apply for funding from John Lyons and wishes to pursue match funding from LBHF to become the Young Hammersmith and Fulham Foundation.  The Foundation would make the work of the Youth Partnership sustainable in the long term and take forward key parts of the recommendations of this report.
  3. Establish a system that all providers use and young people refer to ensure clear communications between partners and with service users.
  4. Groups work together to apply for large funding pots and commissioning opportunities to deliver work.

For a full copy of the report click here.

In our January newsletter there will be an update on the progress of the Young Hammersmith and Fulham Foundation. If your organisation has not been involved with the partnership then please register your interest by emailing info@sobus.org.uk

 

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Free Corporate Consultation Clinics for charities

GlobalGiving in collaboration with Salesforce.org  are offering FREE corporate consultation clinics to local London charities as part of Local Charities Day

Join us on the afternoon of the 16th December 2016 and spend valuable time working through your organisational challenges with direct help and support from a team of corporate volunteers.

Sign up here

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Protect yourself from flu this winter

NHS Hammersmith and Fulham Clinical Commissioning Group is keen to ensure that all at risk patients, including children aged between 2-7, are able to access the flu vaccination. We have been working closely with our local council colleagues and local provider to make this happen.

As part of this important work, our local GP practices will be delivering walk in flu vaccination sessions accessible to all registered patients, on Saturday 17th December, 9 – 12pm and Saturday 14th January, 9 – 12pm, at the following locations:

Brook Green Medical Centre, Bute Gardens, London, W6 7EG
Parkview (Drs Canisius and Hasan), Parkview Practice, Parkview Centre for Health & Wellbeing, Cranston Court, 56 Bloemfontein Road, W12 7FG
Cassidy Medical Centre, 651A Fulham Road, SW6 5PX

You can find more information about this on our website.

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Central West London Vision Newsletter – Christmas Edition 2017

Welcome to the special December edition of the Central West London Vision Newsletter. We have filled it with health advice, festive activities and supportive events.

We encourage you to share this with your contacts, clients and members.

If you know somebody who would like to receive the information directly you can get in touch with Autumn Lynch on 07972 463683.

Click here to view newsletter

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Trustee Appointment: The Hilden Charitable Fund

Trustee Appointment: The Hilden Charitable Fund

The Hilden Charitable Fund wants to recruit a new Trustee with experience of service delivery, funding, and policy relating to homelessness and refugees.

 

If you are interested in joining our Board this information pack gives details of the role and the person we are looking for.

Board meetings take place in London at the Hilden office.

Applicants should complete an Application Statement and send it with their CV by post or email to: Rodney Hedley at The Hilden Charitable Fund, 34 North End Road, London W14 0SH. hildencharity@hotmail.com  tel. 0207 603 1525

Click here to see full description and application pack

The deadline for applications is:  January 6th 2017.

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Free Smoke Alarms Available

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