Dance to Health, a falls prevention dance programme for older people is now online – Click here
For more information about this and how the arts are great for our health click here
The Practical Financial Skills to Manage Money guide offers lots of helpful information such as:
- How financial debt and money worries impact people’s mental health: Did you know that 9.5 million adults in the UK suffer from mental health issues as a result of financial anxiety?
- The importance of practical financial skills and how it helps with mental health, including expert advice on combating debt, knowing why people overspend, and how to manage the effects of money pressures.
- Practical and useful tips and advice such as how to do a budget, analyzing spending habits, where to save on household expenses, and how to deal with debt, and how to make money management a habit.
- Other useful information and links to external resources to help develop practical financial skills and healthy habits around money.
The Lateef Project are offering an Islamic Counselling service to those survivors, bereaved and in other ways affected by the tragedy. Islamic counselling is a faith based therapeutic approach. The service is open to people of all faiths and those of no faith; we work with clients based on their understanding of the world and what is important to them. The service is confidential and provided by qualified, accredited counsellors trained up to at least Level 4 who are DBS checked. The Lateef Project is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), so all data is protected and held securely. We have both male and female counsellors available. The service is available on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays between 10 AM and 5 PM.
We are accepting self-referrals.
White City and Wormholt Covid-19 Support.
Culturally specific meals. Telephone activity and befriending. Sign-posting. Please see attached flyer for further details:
The Charity Commission has updated its guidance for trustees on what needs to be reported as a serious incident during the COVID-19 pandemic. Find out more.
The link below contains plenty of helpful information such as:
- The link between menstrual cycles and mental health and how mood, sleep, and energy levels are affected during periods.
- Understanding premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and its more severe form premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) – their physical and emotional effects, what to look out for, and how PMS and PMDD symptoms mimic other mental health conditions.
- Useful self-care tips and wellbeing advice during your cycle – how the right diet, exercise, emotional and stress management practices help, and other useful advice and resources for women.
Last week the Chancellor Rishi Sunak made a statement on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS). According to the government, over 1 million employers have used the scheme, making £15bn in claims to date.
Over 50% of respondents to our recent survey said their charity was making use of the scheme, far more than any of the other types of support on offer – so how it is modified and wound down will have big implications for many charities and the services they provide. Further guidance about so-called ‘flexible furloughing’ is expected on 12 June.
The government has published more details in this fact sheet – note that the scheme will close to new entrants from 30 June, which means that ‘the final date by which an employer can furlough an employee for the first time will be the 10 June, in order for the current three-week furlough period to be completed by 30 June’. So, if you’re thinking of taking this option and haven’t yet, time is running out.
Also, see the Charity Tax Group’s short summary of the changes here
Although our libraries are still closed due to the Coronavirus pandemic, a restricted area has opened in North Kensington Library to provide computer access to residents. Library users are able to use a computer for 45-minutes per day, for essential tasks such as applying for jobs or virtual learning.
Service available: Monday to Friday, 10am to 4pm
For more information click here.
Along with the new PC provision, we have introduced other initiatives to help people in the borough through the lockdown. Our virtual library offer features more online events, classes and interactive resources and the Home Library Service is working on supporting those unable to leave their homes at all.
The government’s Self-Employment Income Support Scheme will be extended, giving more security to individuals whose livelihoods are adversely affected by coronavirus in the coming months, the Chancellor announced.
Gareth Dixon, CEO of Young H&F Foundation is one of 10 small charity leaders awarded places on a unique initiative designed to both develop their own strategic and leadership capabilities, and transform a further 10 charities.
The successful applicants to Pilotlight’s 2020 Bursary Initiative will each be matched with three other senior leaders from the public and private sectors, forming teams which will support charities who have come to Pilotlight in need of strategic input. The engagement between these teams and their charities will be facilitated and project managed by Pilotlight, requiring just three hours of their time each month.
Recipients of the bursary, now in its third year, come from frontline charities in a broad range of areas:
Bruce McCombie, interim CEO, Pilotlight, said: “The social change we ignite doesn’t just impact charities, it impacts the Pilotlighters who coach and mentor those charities too. That’s one of the many reasons why major businesses including Morgan Stanley, Lendlease and Sodexo sponsor their staff to become Pilotlighters.
“Pilotlight has now supported nearly 1,000 charity leaders and through the Bursary Initiative we’re enabling some of them to continue their leadership development by sharing their experience with another charity.”
Angela Smith-Morgan, CEO of Leukaemia UK and a previous Bursary Pilotlighter, said: “As a charity leader myself it has been so interesting to sit at the other side of the table, get to understand a charity in a different sector, and draw on my own experience to tease out the key issues. This is an invaluable opportunity to see the full dynamic of a charity, its governance as well as its operations – so satisfying to be able to help and support a charity whilst also learning so much myself.”
The charities which will receive the support from the Bursary Pilotlighters’ teams will be matched over the next month, with engagements beginning this summer.
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.