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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
For more information on eTapestry® and to visit Blackbaud’s website click here.
Elgin Close Resource Centre offers a range of services and activities for adults living in Hammersmith & Fulham. For the February timetable, please click here.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
sobus
20 Dawes Road, London, SW6 7EN
Telephone 020 7952 1230
Email info@sobus.org.uk
Registered Charity No.1071089
and Company Limited by Guarantee. Registered in England No.03471416
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.
