- When
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- Hammersmith Town Hall – King Street, London, W6 9JU, United Kingdom
Applications required from London charities working with vulnerable children for “new and improved” Christmas Challenge match-funding campaign
Applications Open
The Big Give has announced that charities will be able to apply for their annual match-funding campaign, The Christmas Challenge, from Monday 13th June. Charities will have three weeks to complete the initial applications but are strongly encouraged to apply as soon as possible.
The Christmas Challenge is the UK’s biggest online match-funding campaign which helps UK-registered charities raise funds for their cause. The Christmas Challenge was launched in 2008 by Sir Alec Reed CBE, founder of Reed Recruitment. Since 2008, the Christmas Challenge has raised over £71 million for 2,500 charity projects.
Funding Available for London charities
Whilst applications are open to all charities, The Big Give has announced it is has match funding specifically available for charities who are supporting vulnerable children living in poverty in London. Charities who meet this criteria are strongly encouraged to visit theBigGive.org.uk for more information and to apply.
About the Christmas Challenge
The Christmas Challenge offers supporters of participating charities the chance to have their donation doubled on theBigGive.org.uk when the campaign goes live. This year, The Christmas Challenge campaign will run for 72 hours, launching at midday on 29th November (#GivingTuesday) and closing on Friday 2nd December.
The match-funding is provided by a range of philanthropic organisations, called ‘Champions’, which in previous years have included The Reed Foundation, The Childhood Trust, Candis Magazine, The Waterloo Foundation, among many others. These Champion funds are joined with pledges from participating charities own major donors to double online donations during the Christmas Challenge.
Key changes
The Big Give has made some significant changes for this year’s Christmas Challenge, which include:
- Match funding to be “ring-fenced” for each charity i.e. no competition.
- The campaign will run over 72 hours with no pausing.
- The Christmas Challenge to launch on #GivingTuesday.
- No fees for charities taking part in the campaign.
How to apply
Any charities seeking more information about The Christmas Challenge or to make an application, should visit theBigGive.org.uk.
Free tickets offer for community groups for the opening night of Alan Parker’s ‘Bugsy Malone’ at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith.Tickets are for Saturday 11th June 2016 @ 7.30pm. With electrifying choreography and featuring all the classic songs from Oscar-winning writer Paul Williams including Bad Guys, My Name is Tallulah and So You Wanna Be a Boxer. Don’t miss the smash hit stage version of Alan Parker’s world famous musical. If you would like to book tickets please email: We hope that you can make it! |
Bags of Help is our exciting local community grant scheme funded by the government’s 5p bag charge.
Supported by environmental charity Groundwork, we’re transforming green spaces, sports facilities and woodland walks across the UK for customers, colleagues and communities to enjoy.
It’s your money, so have a say where it goes.
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Acute Health Trust Coordinator
We seek to appoint a dynamic Project Coordinator with a proven track record in project development and partnership working with a strong understanding of the Coordinated Community Response (CCR).
Standing Together coordinates the ground breaking multi-agency response to domestic abuse (DA). Our work is recognised nationally and we continue to influence local and national policy and practice by initiating and driving innovative projects.
Our key mission is to work with agencies within the CCR framework to provide safer options for survivors and their children, ensuring that their perspectives are at the centre of service planning and delivery. We also aim to improve the way agencies respond to perpetrators, in particular in holding them to account for their abuse.
This exciting new role will focus on developing and supporting the domestic abuse response across two key London Health Trusts and will involve: engaging health professionals; building capacity and best practice; training staff around identification and responses to DA; coordinating of the steering group; and disseminating key learning between the two Trusts.
Salary: £30,537.00 (includes ILW)
Location: West London
Interview date: Wednesday 22 June 2016
Application packs are only available on our website www.standingtogether.org.uk
CLOSING DATE FOR COMPLETED APPLICATIONS: 5pm Monday 13th June 2016
For any queries, please email admin@standingtogether.org.uk or call the office on 020 8748 5717.
Domestic Abuse: Children and Health Coordinator
We seek to appoint a dynamic Project Coordinator with a proven track record in project development and partnership working with a strong understanding of the Coordinated Community Response (CCR).
Standing Together coordinates the ground breaking multi-agency response to domestic abuse. Our work is recognised nationally and we continue to influence local and national policy and practice by initiating and driving innovative projects.
Our key mission is to work with agencies within the CCR framework to provide safer options for survivors and their children, ensuring that their perspectives are at the centre of service planning and delivery. We also aim to improve the way agencies respond to perpetrators, in particular in holding them to account for their abuse.
The role will focus on the coordination and development of projects related to health, children and young people in the Tri-Borough (Westminster, Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea). This includes, but is not limited to, the delivery of training to improve services and responses to survivors and their children and coordinating the Operational Group comprising professionals from both the statutory and voluntary sector agencies.
Salary: £30,537.00 (includes ILW)
Location: West London
Interview date: Friday 24 June 2016
Application packs are only available on our website www.standingtogether.org.uk
CLOSING DATE FOR COMPLETED APPLICATIONS: 5pm Monday 13th June 2016
For any queries, please email admin@standingtogether.org.uk or call the office on 020 8748 5717.
Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) Administrator
This role is designed to allow us to effectively manage the administrative elements of the MARAC. This role requires excellent administrative skills; ability to ensure that MARACs function smoothly; capacity to operate swiftly and effectively across a number of levels and be a true multi-tasker.
MARACs are known to reduce serious harm to those most at risk of domestic violence. This role will include elements of deputising for the MARAC coordinator, who works in the London boroughs.
Salary: £21,840 per annum (includes ILW)
Contract: Full Time (35 hours per week)
Location: West London
CLOSING DATE FOR COMPLETED APPLICATIONS: 5pm Wednesday 22nd June 2016
For any queries, please email admin@standingtogether.org.uk or call 020 8748 5717
Application packs are only available on our website www.standingtogether.org.uk
The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham are currently undertaking a review of the 3rd Sector in the borough. Pam Wharfe who is doing the review attended the Leaders of the VCS meeting on the 19th May to get the views of attendees. Following on from the meeting we have put the questions into a survey so that you can help contribute to the review. Please take two minutes to complete the survey here
The survey will close on Friday 17th June so please complete it by then.
Deadline: The consultation will close on 12 August 2016.
The government has launched a consultation welcoming views into how National Lottery money is distributed across England and the UK.
The government is seeking views on new directions for the Big Lottery Fund as part of an update of the guidelines governing how and why it gives out money. The BLF operates independently of government in its individual funding decisions but is given a set of directions by ministers to ensure its overall strategy is broadly in line with government policy. The government has proposed the first new set of directions since 2012 and opened a consultation asking whether the proposals match the BLF’s remit. Proposals in the document include a direction that would requires the BLF to take into account “the desirability” of requiring partnership funding. It also calls for charities to take into account whether a project could deliver measureable outcomes. Money distributed by the BLF, the proposed directions say, should go towards issues such as:
- Strengthening social mobility
- Strengthening volunteering
- Supporting communities with integration, health, education and environmental outcomes
- Strengthening the capability and sustainability of civil society organisations
- Supporting organisational infrastructure in the youth sector.
Views are particularly welcome from members of the public, customers, stakeholders and partners of the Big Lottery Fund. Once all responses have been considered the government will again consult the Fund on how best to amend the directions, before a final version will be issued in autumn 2016.
This is to invite those groups, who are in the process of developing their capacity, to a opening event run by a charity called Pilotlight. The charity Pilotlight is a unique, capacity building organisation offering free tailored strategic planning support to charities and social enterprises that are tackling disadvantage in the UK. They match charity leaders and social enterprise leaders with teams of senior business people and facilitate a year long engagement to plan for sustainability, development and growth.
Sobus is pleased to be able to work with Pilotlight to secure placements for organisations registered with us. The process will involve an introductory session which will be held on either 24th June at 3:30pm or 27th June at 9:00am. These opening session will last 2 hours. After this you will be asked to make a formal application should you be interested in taking up a place on the Pilotlight programme. The whole process lasts for 10 – 12 months and requires you to attend mentoring sessions with a team of business leaders who guide you through a planned process enabling your organisation develop. I would strongly suggest that this would help organisations that struggle with funding and require added support.
Please let me know if you are interested and let me know which date you can attend. Please if you are not certain then take a look at the Piloltlight website: http://www.pilotlight.org.uk
If you could come back to me as quickly as possible I would be grateful. Only so many places are available ……
If you are interested please email Nigel Jacques: nigel.jacques@sobus.org.uk
