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Worried about Radicalisation? Attend a Workshop to Raise Awareness of Prevent
Worried about Radicalisation? Attend a Workshop to Raise Awareness of Prevent (WRAP)
What is WRAP?
The Workshop to Raise Awareness of Prevent (WRAP) is a free, 90-minute workshop designed to improve awareness
of the Prevent strategy: the strand of the government’s national Counter-Terrorism Strategy which seeks to offer safeguarding support to vulnerable individuals at risk of radicalisation. Training sessions explore topics such as radicalisation and vulnerability, how some people are able to influence others, a discussion around how to spot the signs that someone might need some form of safeguarding help and support, how to safely refer an individual for specialised support and the forms of support that can be provided once this has occurred.
We encourage and welcome all individuals who work or volunteer in a frontline role to attend one of our WRAP training sessions. It is also worth noting that the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act, passed by Parliament in February 2015, places a statutory requirement on the Council (and organisations commissioned by the Council) to
“have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism.” For organisations commissioned by the Council, ensuring that frontline staff attend an accredited WRAP training session is necessary to ensure that they are compliant with this requirement.
Individuals can either attend one of our regularly booked training sessions (dates provided below) or, for teams
counting 15 or more members of staff, the Bi-Borough Prevent team can also run bespoke sessions on your place of
work in order to minimise any disruption to your activities.
To register for a session or to schedule a bespoke training session please email prevent2@lbhf.gov.uk
Dates of upcoming WRAP training sessions with vacancies remaining are as follows:
· 15th November 2016 (13.30 – 15:00), Hammersmith Town Hall
· 30th November 2016 (10:30 – 12:00), Kensington Town Hall
· 9th December 2016 (10:30 – 12:00), Hammersmith Town Hall
· 9th January 2017 (13:00 – 14:30), Hammersmith Town Hall
· 18th January 2017 (14:30 – 16:00), Kensington Town Hall
· 8th February 2017 (10:30 – 12:00), Hammersmith Town Hall
· 23rd February 2017 (10.30 – 12.00), Kensington Town Hall
· 8th March 2017 (10:30 – 12:00), Hammersmith Town Hall
· 21st March 2017 (10.30 – 12:00), Kensington Town Hall
· 4th April 2017 (13:00 – 14:30), Hammersmith Town Hall
PEACE PROJECT
People, Ethnicity, Age, and Community Engagement
After successfully applying to the Big Lottery Fund’s Celebrate programme, The PEACE (People, Ethnicity, Age, and Community Engagement) project; a cross borough partnership between Nubian Life Resource Centre and PLIAS Resettlement has been awarded £10,000 which will be used to create a PEACE Wall to be unveiled in 2017.
The intergenerational project will work with communities from all cultural & faith backgrounds to create a Peace Wall, consisting of Peace Quotes from residents of the two London Boroughs of Hammersmith & Fulham and Brent aimed at reminding, informing, educating and raising awareness about the importance of peace at an individual and community level.
The project is an exciting initiative consisting of;
- 2 community Peace meals; residents, faith and community groups and prominent figures, will be asked to write a sentence/quote on why peace is important to them and how can it be achieved locally and maintained.
- An intergenerational Expression of Peace Competition for schools and older people services
- Unveiling of the PEACE Wall – a collections of all the quotes collected throughout the project
Jazz Browne from Nubian Life Resource Centre & Norma Hoyte from PLIAS Resettlement says: “By creating a Peace Wall where individual statements will be recorded, we hope that many lives will be affected by the creativity of the peace wall with the ability to learn from each other. We will also have discussion topics on how to create peace across the different communities; this will be an interactive session which will be videoed. We will create an online short tool kit which can be distributed via social media to promote and champion the need for PEACE”.
About Big Lottery Fund
- The total amount available across the UK for the Celebrate programme is £5 million. To find out more please visit: biglotteryfund.org.uk/celebrate.
- *YouGov poll on behalf of the Big Lottery Fund with 2109 respondents, June 2016.
- The Big Lottery Fund is the largest funder of community activity in the UK. We put people in the lead to improve their lives and communities, often through small, local projects.
- We are responsible for giving out 40% of the money raised by National Lottery players for good causes. Every year we invest over £650 million and award around 12,000 grants across the UK for health, education, environment and charitable purposes.
- Since June 2004 we have awarded over £9 billion to projects that change the lives of millions of people. Since the National Lottery began in 1994, £34 billion has been raised and more than 450,000 grants awarded.
To be part of this exciting project please contact Sherene Henry
T: 020 8749 8017 E:sherene.henry@nubianlife.org.uk
Or
Send your PEACE Quote (no more than 25 words) to peaceproject@plias.co.uk
The Upper Room (TUR) is a Charity Organisation working to improve opportunities for disadvantaged people in London. One of TUR’s core projects is UR4Driving, an innovative project which aims to help ex-offenders develop the skills and sense of accountability required to avoid reoffending through the provision of motivational and personal development training, one-to-one peer mentoring, case management, voluntary sector volunteering as a form of the well lauded restorative justice (giving back to society) and helping them develop the requisite employability skills necessary to secure and sustain employment. Those who show the most commitment to positive change are taught to drive and supported to gain a driving licence. Participants’ experiences have revealed that jobs in the transport/warehousing industries are often still open to those with a criminal record, and thus a valid UK driving licence is a de facto vocational qualification for an ex-offender. A driving Licence provides ex-offenders with a strong chance of being gainfully employed and also helps to deliver social benefits to the wider society through reduced victims of crime and reduced financial cost of re-offending to tax payers.
UR4Driving won a Big Society Award in 2013 for its Outstanding Contribution to The Community. Presenting the Award, former Prime Minister David Cameron acknowledged the role of the project in helping “ex-offenders secure jobs and turn them away from a life of crime”. UR4Driving project was also Highly Commended under the “Education and Training” category of the Civil Society Charity Awards in 2013. The project was shortlisted for the Charity Times Awards 2013 and the Guardian Charity Awards in 2014.
Read about the Big Society Award on the government’s website, www.gov.uk.
The success of the project is now being undermined by the increasing unsustainability of grant funding which the project has relied upon in the last 6 years, while interest in the project from ex-offenders and referral agencies continues to rise every year. The challenging and particularly turbulent fundraising landscape for charities now demands that we develop new, innovative and sustainable funding streams. To achieve this, we have developed an innovative plan to translate the organisation’s goodwill within the local communities and our rich experience of helping people with some of the most challenging barriers to learning gain driving licences, into a social business model that will allow profits generated to be reinvested into the organisation’s charitable projects.
We are keen to find out what people think about this idea and have created a simple survey to help us collect this information. We will appreciate it if you could spare a moment to help us by completing the survey.
Please access the survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/5V6BDLV.
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NHS Hammersmith and Fulham Clinical Commissioning Group would like evaluate and, where appropriate, re-design our community Dermatology GP with Special Interest and Minor Surgery service. To support this work we would like to gauge individuals’ experience of the service through their completion of this questionnaire. It is very short and should only take you 10 minutes to complete. The questionnaire is anonymous so your confidentiality is also maintained.
The deadline for providing feedback is 11th November 2016.
Here is the link to the survey in full: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/2KSD8P3
Did you know that each year around 15–20% of people in the UK get infected with the flu virus?
Many people believe that flu is only a bad cold; however, it is associated with significant morbidity and in more unfortunate cases can lead to more serious illnesses, such as bronchitis and pneumonia. It can result in hospitalisation or even death in some cases. In the UK the number of flu-related deaths has reached more than 20,000 in an epidemic year. Flu spreads easily, as the virus can survive in the air or on surfaces such as door handles and telephones for several hours.
To protect yourself get your flu jab today to reduce your chances of catching the flu significantly. By vaccinating yourself, not only are you protecting yourself but also others around you, in whom flu could be harmful.
Free NHS flu jab is offered to:
- those 65 years old and over (including those becoming 65 by 31st of March 2017)
- Individuals in clinical risk groups: weakened immune system, asthma, diabetes or heart, chest, liver or kidney problems
- household contacts of immunocompromised individuals
- pregnant women
- carers (whether you receive carer’s allowance or not)
- people living in long-stay residential care homes
- front line healthcare workers
- morbidly obese (defined as BMI 40+)
If you’re not eligible for the free NHS flu vaccine, we can still offer you the premium service for only £10.
Act today call us on 020 8740 9443 to protect yourself and others around you!
The Caregrange team
Friday 04th November 2016 from 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM
at HFVC, 148 King Street, Hammersmith W6 0QU
This course aims to help you develop skills to introduce volunteers to your organisation, communicate relevant policies and procedures and set out both what is expected of them and what they can expect in their new role. The course will explore how to:-
- Develop a Volunteer Induction process
- Understand the purpose and content of a Volunteer Handbook
- Understand the purpose and content of a Volunteer Agreement
- Have clarity about volunteer expenses
- Consider different training options
Places are free for delegates who live, work, study or volunteer within LB Hammersmith & Fulham. Free places are also available to team members from third-sector organisations who serve beneficiaries within LBH&F.
NB: The training venue is accessed via two flights of stairs with 14 and 6 steps respectively. Please contact us with any accessibility queries.
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Salary: £16,800 Pro Rata £28,000 per annum Working hours: 21 hours
Ealing Law Centre has recently secured grant funding to allow us to expand Welfare benefits advice and representation service. We are looking for an enthusiastic Welfare Benefits caseworker who can help us grow and expand our services to local residents. The Law Centre currently provides advice in Housing, Immigration and Welfare Benefits. We have Legal Aid contracts in Housing and Immigration and receive grant funding for our Welfare Benefits work.
This is an exciting time for the Law Centre. We have got new grant funding secured for the next three years. We are looking for someone who is keen to use their Welfare Benefits experience in a Law Centre setting.
The successful candidate will conduct casework up to and including Tribunal representation and also assist with a Welfare Benefits advice line. The postholder will be expected to be proactive in developing links with the local community and in providing training to first tier advice services in the area.
Ealing Law Centre is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from all candidates who meet the person specification regardless of age, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability or race.
Please click here to see job description and person specification
For an application pack email: info@ealinglaw.org.uk
Closing date: 5pm Monday 14 November 2016
Electric and Gas SMART readers are being rolled out across the UK now. Every household will have the opportunity to upgrade to a smart meter, at no additional cost, by 2020. Everyone will have a chance to decide whether they wish to have a SMART meter installed by their provider and now is probably a good time to think about any pros and cons.
Here are a few points to help you make the right decision for you:
– Smart meters will bring an end to estimated bills and show us how much energy we’re using in near real time and in pounds and pence.
– You will receive an in-house display, which shows exactly how much energy you’re using, as you use it.
– If you change suppliers your (1st generation) SMART meter will lose its smart features.
– Your SMART meter will be installed by a trained installer at NO EXTRA COST.
– The installer should spend time with you explaining how to operate the in-house display so that you can use it confidently on your own.
– The installation will take approximately 1 hour.
– When you are eligible depends on many factors and your supplier will be in touch when your smart meter is ready to be installed (before 2020).
In the future:
- Switching between suppliers will be quicker and easier and you will not need to change your (2nd generation) SMART meter each time you change suppliers.
If you would like to receive further information on SMART meters please contact:
Krzysztof Mikata-Pralat
Fulham Good Neighbours
Rosaline Hall
70 Rosaline Road
London, SW6 7QT
Tel. 020 7385 8850
Email: chrismikata@fulhamgoodneighbours.org
Fulham Good Neighbours received funding from Smart Energy GP, voice of the smart meter rollout, to make local older people aware of it and are running several information workshops at different local organisations between now and 31st December 2016.
