We are hosting our annual Westway Trust Christmas Festival this year and we would like you to be involved! The dates are 9th and 10th of December and it will be held under the canopy and in the Portobello Green Arcade.
We are looking for festive stalls, activities, performers and volunteers. If you would like to be involved or know of others that would be interested please click the link http://presents.westway.org/get-involved-1 and fill in the short form by November 20th
On Tuesday 1st December the West London Collaborative and Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham CCGs will be hosting an event to evaluate Urgent Care Mental Health services. This will include scenarios that will showcase an imagined 24 hours in Urgent Care. The scenarios will present examples of patient pathways across the three boroughs during their interactions with Urgent Care over a 24 hour period. Service users, carers, family members, the community and voluntary sector will come together to find solutions to issues that exist with current services.
Please save the date if you are interested in attending. Please also forward this on to your networks. More details about the event will be sent out in due course. Please contact Olu Odukale (Olu.Odukale@nw.london.nhs.uk) if you’d like to know more about the event.
Next week is Living Wage Week and Sobus is proud to announce that it has become a London Living Wage employer. Financially it is a difficult time for voluntary sector organisations and staffing costs are usually be the largest area of expenditure so why are more and more organisations signing up to paying the London Living Wage:
GOOD FOR FAMILIES
The Living Wage affords people the opportunity to provide for themselves and their families.
50% of employees felt that the Living Wage had made them more willing to implement changes in their working practices; enabled them to require fewer concessions to effect change; and made them more likely to adopt changes more quickly.
GOOD FOR SOCIETY
The Living Wage campaign was launched in 2001 by parents in East London, who were frustrated that working two minimum wage jobs left no time for family life.
The causes of poverty are complex and in order to improve lives there should be a package of solutions across policy areas. The Living Wage can be part of the solution.
GOOD FOR BUSINESS
An independent study examining the business benefits of implementing a Living Wage policy in London found that more than 80% of employers believe that the Living Wage had enhanced the quality of the work of their staff, while absenteeism had fallen by approximately 25%. Two thirds of employers reported a significant impact on recruitment and retention within their organisation.
For more information visit The Living Wage Foundation
A walkabout in the North Acton area from 1-3pm on Saturday 14th November led by John Goodier, Chairman of Hammersmith and Fulham Historic Building Group. The walkabout is for 25 people maximum, so please contact me to book your place. If more people are interested there will be an opportunity to repeat the walk.
If you are interested in attending one or both walkabouts please contact Eva Psychrani at grandunionalliance.eva@gmail.com or 07784286809. For the tour in Park Royal please let me know by early next week if you will need transport.
Men, on average, visit the GP 20% less than women, and younger men visit the GP half as often as younger women. Men are generally poor users of primary care. They are less likely to access other health services such as dentists, pharmacists, health trainers, smoking cessation services, weight management and contraception services.*
Women have higher GP consultation rates for a wide range of illnesses. Men use hospital A&E departments more often than women, suggesting that men wait till a crisis before seeking help.*
Link Up is a one-to-one signposting service Open Age offer local over 50s who need a little extra help to enable them to access activities, groups and services locally.
If you, a friend, relative or neighbour are over 50 and looking for a physical, creative or social group locally but don’t know how to go about finding this, this service is the ideal way to find an activity that can work for you. The process begins with a referral. This can be made via a health team, community worker, friend or the person themselves. Our Open Age Link Up worker Elizabeth Goldrick will arrange to visit you in your home and, based on your interests and needs, suggest groups and activities locally. She will tell you about the Open Age classes (a wide range of physical, social and creative sessions, all held in community venues and usually cost £1 per hour). She can also let you know about other local groups and services that might be beneficial.
Elizabeth will help with practical things -completing membership forms and explaining class locations. If transport needs to be arranged Elizabeth will help in completing Dial-a-Ride forms. For the first class Elizabeth can accompany you to the session. Elizabeth will visit up to three times and continue to check in by phone to see if you’ve continued to attend the group or, if not, can see what needs to be arranged to enable them to attend or find an alternative group.
Elizabeth is friendly, informative and here to help; to receive the referral form or have further queries you can contact her at the Open Age main Office: 020 8962 4141 or by email: egoldrick@openage.org.uk
Job Purpose To research appropriate funding streams and secure new funding for the organisation. To maintain excellent relationships with current and new funders.
On a day-to-day basis responsibilities include drafting, editing and submitting funding applications, researching funding opportunities, building effective networks with key funders, building up a knowledge base of suitable funding bodies, co-ordinating the submission of grants and the reporting process, dealing with fundraising queries and working closely with the CEO, fundraisers, the Reporting Officer, Finance Manager, lead managers, project staff and volunteers, and to ensure a joined up approach towards fundraising.
Please find below some interesting information for carers, which we hope you’ll find useful.
Don’t forget we’ll be hearing from the Chair of the National Standing Committee on Carers at our AGM next week on Thursday 22 October at The St Paul’s Centre, Queen Caroline Street, London W6 9PJ, 3pm – 5pm
If you would like to attend, and haven’t RSVP’d already, please confirm attendance by replying to this email.
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Kind regards,
Sarah, Lydia, June, Francis, Alix, Anita, Francesca, Eugenia, Dan, Bernadette, Rose, Mark and Temi.
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To refer yourself to Carers Network please call: 020 8960 3033
email: info@carers-network.co.uk
Dear all
We will be holding an Advice Conference on Thursday 26 November in the Town Hall.
The conference will be for staff and volunteers working in the advice sector in Hammersmith and Fulham, will run from 10 am – 4pm and will be FREE to attend.
There will be a range of interesting speakers, workshops and an exhibition space – and lunch and refreshments will be included.
An invite and full programme will follow in the next few days but I am keen that you hold the date and make a note of it in your diaries.
Mandy
Mandy Goodall
Hammersmith & Fulham Law Centre
363 North End Road, London SW6 1NW
mob: 07470 478986
t: 020 3080 0337
Usual working days: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
web: advicestation.org.uk
hflaw.org.uk
