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Job Opportunities with ONE Westminster

ONE Westminster

Organisation Support Officer – 21 hours a week – £26,000 pro rata

One Westminster is looking for someone with an excellent understanding of the voluntary sector and an interest in “social prescription” and the “self-care” health agenda to join our small Organisation Support Team.

Working alongside colleagues, you will be responsible for delivering a range of support, signposting and development services to voluntary and community organisations in Westminster.  You will provide a link between National Health Service and other statutory health and well-being providers and the wider voluntary sector and help develop self-care services within the sector.

You should have excellent communication skills, experience of project development and management including monitoring and evaluation and evidence experience and knowledge of fundraising and bid writing.

A knowledge of the current health agenda would be an advantage.

This is a one year fixed term contract.

For a Full Job Description, Person Specification and Application form please email: c.igoe@onewestminster.org.uk or telephone 020 7723 1216.

Applications close at 5.00pm on Monday, April 25th and interviews will take place on Tuesday, May 3rd 2016. 

 

 

Volunteer Outreach Officer

One Westminster is looking for someone with an excellent understanding of the voluntary sector and experience in managing volunteers to support the Volunteer Outreach and Development Service.  The main aim of this role is to engage with the harder to reach groups in the Westminster community and support them into volunteering placements. Targeted groups include unemployed people, young people in education, older people aged 65 plus, homeless people and those recovering from substance misuse. 

A key part will be supporting customers in 1-to-1 sessions at outreach work throughout Westminster, including Job Centres, to find their ideal volunteering role with voluntary organisations and community groups, based on interests and skills using the Team Westminster website.

The role will also include providing ongoing support, monitoring and tracking all registered customers to assist them into successful volunteering placements.

This is a part time post for one year.

Job Title:                     Volunteer Outreach Officer

Managed by:              Volunteer Service Manager

Hours:                         17.5 hours per week/2.5 days per week

Based at:                     Westminster, London

Salary:                         £ 25,000 p.a. (Pro-rata) and includes Inner London Weighting

Start date:                  3 May 2016

Length of Contract:    Until 30 April 2017

How to Apply

To apply, please contact Catherine Igoe for an application pack on c.igoe@onewestminster.org.uk     

   For further information, please phone 0207 723 1216.

Applications close at 5pm on Tuesday 19 April and interviews will take place on Thursday 28 April.

 

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Spacehive Crowdfunding

Spacehive is a crowdfunding platform with a purpose: to make it as easy as possible for as many people as possible to bring their civic environment to life.

Whether you want to transform a playground, bring an old building back to life, spruce up a park, or create something completely new, Spacehive aims to help people to attract support for projects that make places distinctive, lively and loved.

Crowdfunding is appealing to trusts and charities, and has the potential to generate a wide variety of local match-funding opportunities. Islington-based charity, Octopus, is currently using Spacehive to fundriase to buy a milk float and transform it into a ‘Gro-Mobile’ so that they can get into parts of Islington their Urban Wild Places project cannot effectively reach.

When people pledge to a project, through Spacehive, it might be the biggest indication that they want it to happen. This is a very powerful message when trying to get other organisations on board with the idea.

Experience from elsewhere shows that people who pledge to projects really do feel like they made it happen. They have a sense of ownership over the project and often become ambassadors for them.

As crowdfunding projects are public, local businesses and larger organisations like to be involved too and will often pledge or offer support.

Find out more about how it works here

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Abolition of National Insurance Contributions by employers for apprentices under 25

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​Abolition of National Insurance Contributions by employers for apprentices under 25

From 6 April 2016 employers of apprentices aged under 25 years old shall be exempt from payment of secondary Class 1 (employers) National Insurance contributions on earnings up to the Upper Earnings Limit for those employees, which is currently £827.00 per week or £43,000 per year. The change effects apprenticeships falling within the relevant statutory framework for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland; and evidence between the employer, apprentice and training provider is required for employers wishing to apply for the relief. Alternatively, in England and Wales, proof of government funding of the apprenticeship may be regarded as sufficient evidence of the same.

The government’s guidance on the changes can be found here

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Compulsory National Living Wage effective from 1 April 2016

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​Compulsory National Living Wage effective from 1 April 2016

From 1 April 2016 a National Living Wage of £7.20 per hour for workers aged 25 and over is set to be introduced. Entitlement to the National Living Wage will include not only employees and workers, but also apprentices aged 25 and over, casual labourers and agricultural workers. The Low Pay Commission will recommend any future rise to the rate, but it is anticipated that the National Living Wage will rise to £9.00 or over by 2020.

The National Living Wage differs from the ‘Living Wage’, which is assessed in accordance with the basic cost of living in the UK, and which employers can voluntarily choose to pay. This rate is currently £9.40 per hour in London and £8.25 for the rest of the UK.

The National Minimum Wage will remain in force for workers under the age of 25, and will continue to be updated on 1st October every year.

Worker complaints of underpayment must be brought to the employee in the first instance. However, if the employer continues to refuse payment workers can advance their complaint to ACAS to seek resolution, or HMRC. Failure to pay employees the correct rate of pay will result in penalties being levied against the employer and this will be up to 200% or double the value of the underpayment owed, unless the full amount owed to the employee or worker is paid within 14 days.

The maximum fine for non-payment will be £20,000 per worker and failure to pay could result in an employer being banned from being a company director for up to 15 years.

The Government has published guidance notes on the National Living Wage which can be found here

 

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​No automatic right to time off for religious holidays

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​No automatic right to time off for religious holidays

The Employment Tribunal has recently considered the case of Gareddu v London Underground, in which an employee had claimed that it was discriminatory for his employer to refuse him 5 consecutive weeks’ annual leave during the summer for him to attend a series of religious festivals with his family in Italy.

In this case, the Tribunal decided that there was no mandatory requirement for the claimant to attend the series of festivals amounting to individual events, nor was there a close enough link between his religious beliefs as a roman catholic, and the need to attend the festivals over a consecutive 5 week period. The claimant himself conceded that his wish to attend could have been met by the holiday being taken in blocks over a similar period.

Although employees do not have an automatic right to time off for religious reason, employers should accommodate requests for annual leave to cover religious occasions where it is reasonable to do so.

In-keeping with the position taken by the Courts, employers should refuse a request only where it has a legitimate business need that can be objectively justified. Where it is not possible to grant an employee’s original request, the employer should discuss the options with the employee as it may be possible to come to a compromise. For example, the employee may agree to a reduced period, or to take unpaid time off.

Employers should be mindful of whether their policies, criteria or practices relating to holiday entitlement may be detrimental to staff requiring flexibility in order to engage in their religious practices as this might amount to indirect discrimination.

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FGNS 50th Anniversary – Stories, Photos and Documents Wanted

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Fulham Good Neighbour, local charity supporting older people, will be celebrating its 50th anniversary later this year. We are looking for previous staff, trustees and beneficiaries who would like to come forward and share their stories of the organisation as well as any photographs or documents they might have. Anyone who has any materials to share or simply wishes to reconnect with old friends is encouraged to contact Krzysztof Mikata-Pralat at chrismikata@fulhamgoodneighbours.org or on 020 7385 8850

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Administrator – Doorstep Library

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Administrator

We need a super-efficient and friendly administrator to help us grow!  We organise volunteers to bring books and the joy of reading into the homes of children in some of west London’s most disadvantaged areas. We need someone to join our small team to support our project work. The post is based in our office in Fulham Broadway.

Full Job Description

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Interreg North West Europe (NWE) Seminar

The Interreg North West Europe (NWE) programme is a transnational  programme funded by the European Commission. It involves Ireland, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and parts of France, Germany and the Netherlands. The programme allows partners in North-West Europe to find solutions to commonly shared challenges regarding territorial development.

A call will be launched in mid-April inviting proposals for projects in the following areas:

  • innovation (capacity of regions, enterprise competitiveness and social benefits through innovation)
  • low carbon
  • resource and materials efficiency

Our seminar will give you more detail about the programme and help you assess whether this funding opportunity is right for you.

Who is eligible for funding ?

  • public authorities
  • agencies, research institutes, thematic and non-profit organisations
  • enterprises and business support organisations
  • only non-profit organisations can be lead partners

For more information and details, please download our briefing note from our website as well as the application package.

When?

Tuesday 19 April 2016, 10.00 – 13.30

Where?

Europe House 32 Smith Square, London SW1P 3EU

To find out more and see whether this seminar is for you please contact Hugo Clarke hugo.c@accesseurope.org.uk or call 0207 749 5159.

To register please fill in the form and return it to info@accesseurope.org.uk.

Registration is essential and will close on Tuesday 12th April 2016.

Please find below links for the registration form and the Seminar Programme.

Registration form

Seminar Programme

This event is free.

 

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Tackling difficult volunteer situations

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This short training session is for anyone working with volunteers.

During the session participants will:

  • Identify what consitutes a difficult volunteer situtation
  • Explore the impact a difficult situation can have on an organisation
  • Discuss solutions to difficult volunter situations
  • Identify how to manage the exit of a volunteer
When
Where
Dawes Road Hub – 20 Dawes Road, London SW6 7EN, United Kingdom – View Map

Register here

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Volunteering Projects

Volunteering Projects

Works4U, the not-for-profit social enterprise branch of Hammersmith & Fulham Volunteer Centre is looking for volunteering opportunities/projects available in the local community that would suit a large group on 7th June.

When: The activities must be available on 7th June 2016
Team Size: We are looking for activities which can be undertaken by a team size of 40-80 people.
Time: The task must be able to be completed in an afternoon from 12:00 – 17:00 pm
Types of activities could be: Park Clean-ups, River Clean-ups, Gardening, Painting/Decorating, Befriending Older people, Cooking meals & promoting healthy eating, Afternoon tea party etc. We are open to ideas and the volunteers are keen to do something that has a real impact. If you are not sure if you have an idea, then please do get in touch and we can help formulate one.

If you want to discuss your project and/or want more information on how you could use our help please call Aparna on 020 8741 9876 or E-mail:
aparna@works-4u.com 

Please get in touch with us with your ideas and projects as soon as possible as we are looking to lock down the project in the next few weeks. However, we have many other teams of volunteers looking to support the community throughout the year.

We look forward to working with you!

Works4U Team
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