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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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Social Prescribing in London

As part of our Regional Voices’ strategic partnership work, LVSC is mapping social prescribing activities in London. The map comprises links to social prescribing activities in London. Each link takes you to a uniquely created page with information about and contact details of each social prescriber.

We have continued to work with Healthy London Partnership (HLP) to take this work forward as part of their work with commissioners and we regularly liaise with the National Social Prescribing Network.

LVSC social prescribing page with link to the map

If you are running a social prescribing project and are not listed on the map, please complete our smart survey. There is no need for a lot of detail, but the information provided will inform your unique page on the map. Alternatively, you can complete the Word version to to be returned to me at  sandra@lvsc.org.uk.

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Data Evolution Report & Data Maturity Framework for Charities & Social Enterprises

The Data Evolution Project final report has been published and also a data maturity framework for charities and social enterprises.

We hope that both of these publications will be helpful to charities and social enterprises large and small who want to make better use of data in their organisations.

For further information and for the reports, please click here.

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Case Study: Acknowledging Youths Group

Acknowledging Youths Group is the parent organisation of three: Acknowledging Youths; AY Recruitment and Acknowledging You.

The parent organisation looks to provide a holistic “One stop Shop” for people, particularly young people to move in to employment.  Danny Barnes, the CEO himself is a man on a mission. He’s overcome major obstacles in his life and wants to help others do so too. Over time the organisation has developed in to the three streams listed above with the principle of helping young people, and now older people too, who are struggling to gain employment.

For the full case study, click here

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Free Event: Rainbow London

The HEAR London for All project, funded by London Councils, and the Policy and Campaigns project, funded by Trust for London, invite you to an exciting joint event at Human Rights Action Centre (Amnesty International), 17 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA on Monday 30th January 2017, 10am-4pm.

To support the dissemination of LGBT Consortium’s Still Out There report funded by Trust for London, the HEARLondon for All and Policy and Campaigns projects are holding an event to highlight the intersectional lives of London’s LGBTQI+ community.

The whole day event will have space for the voluntary and community sector to look for ways of working together to improve the lives of LGBTQI people, and we will also welcome statutory sector colleagues who want to learn more.

To book your free place, please email stating your name, organisation, organisation postcode, and whether or not you have any dietary or access needs to hear@reap.org.uk

 

 

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A Call for Evidence from The London Assembly Health Committee

The committee is investigating mental health for Deaf and disabled people in London as part of its wider investigation into mental health inequalities.

Further information, including the call for evidence in BSL, can be found on the website here

The London Assembly Health Committee would like to receive any  responses by 1 February 2017.

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