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Hammersmith & Fulham Hive is back!

Learn how to get the funding your community project needs at the upcoming workshop!

Wednesday 12th February, Irish Cultural Centre, 5 Black’s Rd, Hammersmith, W6 9DT, 2.30pm – 4.30pm – Get your FREE ticket here!

Hammersmith & Fulham Hive is the place to go for local change makers and community champions who want to make the borough an even better place to live. LBHF is pledging up to £20k towards community-led projects that bring local places to life! Join programme partners Spacehive for an interactive workshop  for people interested in becoming project creators! You will:

  • Learn more about H&F Hive funds and the Spring Funding Round
  • Discover additional funds available for your project
  • Get advice on creating your campaign plan

Explore how to promote your project successfully!

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Fundraising Spotlight: The Complete Fundraising Handbook

The Complete Fundraising Handbook has never been out of print since it was published in 1992, this trusty guide encompasses all of the main fundraising sources and techniques.

“Since the very first edition, it’s been providing wise counsel and practical guidance for all fundraisers and this edition brilliantly continues this tradition at a time when it’s very much needed.” Paul Amadi, Chief Supporter Officer, British Red Cross

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Free Boxing Training

Would you like to incorporate boxing training in to your group or community activities? We recently opened our boxing studio in Fulham with a mission to get more people active! As well as an ambition to grow our boxing business, we’re passionate about bringing the benefits of sport and physical activity to more people that wouldn’t normally have access to quality training, both children and adults – going a little way to help reduce the inequalities in sport and exercise that persist today.

If you are a charity, community group, local school or social enterprise and would like to know more about our free boxing training, we’d love to have a chat. Please email Charlotte on charlotte@thesquareboxing.co.uk if you are interested.

We are also launching a crowdfunding campaign to help support this if you would like to help support by sharing and also to find out more about us – you can see the preview page here

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Nominations Have Opened for The H&F Civic Honours 2020!

This will be H&F Council’s third annual awards celebrating those individuals and organisations who give their time to help to enrich the lives of others in the borough.  This year, we are looking for nominations in the following categories: 

  • Most dedicated volunteer
  • Bringing people together
  • Community organiser
  • Acts of compassion
  • Contributions to art, culture or heritage
  • Contributions to health and well-being
  • Improving our environment
  • Lifetime achievement

You can nominate anyone who lives, works, studies or volunteers in the borough, or any community or voluntary group or organisation.  All nominations will be put before a panel of judges and the finalists will be invited to an awards ceremony in early June (exact date and venue tbc), at which the winners will be announced.

Visit the story on the council website for more information, a link to the nomination form – and also to see the video from last year’s awards event at the town hall.

If you know someone who deserves recognition for their hard work and dedication, nominate them now!  Nominations close on Monday 9th March 2020.

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Finance Top Tips from DSC

For DSC’s finance top tips, click on the links below:

Duties of a company secretary: five top tips

Data protection: the importance of knowing your controllers from your processors

Finance is for everyone: top tips to help people ‘get’ finance

The five major risks all charity board members need to think about

A five step plan to reduce charity fraud

Improving your charity finance function

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New Year, New Opportunities!

We would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year – and a new decade to boot!  Many of you will have seen the ‘10 year challenge’ which is doing the rounds on social media, with people posting photographs of themselves – one current and one from a decade ago.  This provided a number of opportunities for people to share sometimes strange, often funny photographs – with many looking better at the beginning of 2020 than they did in 2010!  However, it got me thinking that an interesting moment might be given to comparing what we, as an organisation, look like today compared to 10 years ago! What would your organisation’s 10 Year challenge look like?

Click here to continue…

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Important Information if your Charity Last Did an Annual Return Before 12th November 2018!

If your last annual return was before 12th November 2018, click here for important information sourced from The Charity Commision by Nigel Jacques, Sobus Organisational Developement Officer.

 

 

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Freston Road Hub Activities, RBKC News & Useful Resources

Freston Road Hub is an enterprise hub, managed by Sobus (a Fulham based charity), and supported by our Landlords, Peabody Housing Trust and the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea. Our aim is to support local enterprise – through the provision of affordable office and meeting room space, as well as through access to training and support. To see a list of forthcoming activities, RBKC news and useful resources, click here.

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ECHO Friends Proudly Presents Food Waste Warriors

Please take a look at this article and YouTube link. It is about Bubble and Squeak and produced by Echo Friends, both of which registered with Sobus. It’s really great to see Echo Friends finding its way after lots of discussion and thought and this could be something to help groups share their successes ….

We all need to take a short break from shopping for gifts and think about some of the problems occurring this time of the year. We particularly talk about food waste and social isolation, but this time we don’t focus only on the negative part, we are here to show you an inspiring story of young food waste warriors tackling these issues in their local communities

We’ve just produced our first video for our first charity, Bubble & Squeak, and our mission is to be able to produce story videos that will raise the profile of the groups we can help, and (especially) create, at the least, an initial new funding round – but we want our videos to be more than just one-off appeals; we want to create cornerstone (legacy) content that a charity can use for months if not years.

It is my pleasure to invite you to watch our video, and if you’ve any thoughts about it (http://bit.ly/food_waste_warriors), it would be great to hear them.

Also please help us to amplify the voices of these amazing young Changemakers by Sharing the video with your Friends, Family and Colleagues; that would be an invaluable help for us to “#SpreadTheWorld“.

Watch Now

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Charity Leaders’ Summit – Get your Super Early Bird Tickets Now!

In our ever-changing world, it’s never been more important to prepare for what could be around the corner. All about leading through challenging times, this one-day event on 31st March 2020 is for those responsible for shaping the future of their organisations. New for 2020, you will…

Build bonds

Get sound advice

Revel in passion and experience

Debate critical strategic issues

Get answers

Perfect your game plan

Super Early Bird (half price) tickets are available, but for a limited time only…Book now.

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