HF ArtsFest is your local festival celebrating arts and communities across the borough. If you’re interested in being involved, have an idea for a project, performance, exhibition or gathering, take a look at our website http://hf-artsfest.com and fill in an expression of interest form http://bit.ly/EoIArtsFest19
Sobus is hosting a FREE coffee morning for local businesses on Wednesday 19th December, 2018 from 8:30am- 10am. We would like to connect with all businesses, whether you are a Start-up, Social enterprise, Charity or a Commercial business.
Given the hard time this area has suffered, the idea is for all businesses to connect, network and use our coffee mornings as a platform to be more visible and maybe serve the local community better.
We hope that monthly coffee mornings will assist businesses to work in conjunction with one another and for the potential of building new business opportunities.
This is an open invite, so please with us, welcome anyone who may benefit from this FREE business community networking event and pass it on to your colleagues/fellow businesses if you are not able to attend.
For this initial coffee morning why not come in, grab a croissant and just say hello!
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Riverside Studios will reopen its doors in 2019 after a 4 year redevelopment. The new multi-arts venue, back on its old site in Queen Caroline Street and Crisp Road, will include three flexible performance spaces for theatre, dance, music and TV production. It will also have a cinema and screening room open for all, a community and rehearsal room, event spaces for hire and a display of Riverside’s archive that spans its remarkable history.
Restaurateur Sam Harrison – who owned Sam’s Brasserie in Chiswick and Harrison’s in Balham, will launch his new independent 90-seat restaurant, Sam’s Riverside next summer, and the Riverside Studios award winning Bar & Café will also open with stunning views of the River Thames and Hammersmith Bridge.
The Riverside Studios team are currently conducting some valuable audience and local resident research and need your help! Please complete this survey to give us your feedback.
You could win a meal for two and two tickets to a show of your choice at Riverside Studios when the venue reopens.
To stay up to date with the latest news from Riverside Studios and be the first to hear about building updates, career opportunities and our opening programme, you can join the Riverside Studios mailing list at the end of our survey.
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How good is your charity? How do you find out? How do you improve? Whether it’s funders, donors, beneficiaries or your trustees asking, where would you start?
One of the best places is the Charity Excellence Framework – a free online tool designed to give you answers you need, in order to gain results you want.
We recently worked through the questionnaires ourselves and achieved the Quality Mark for DSC (we’re so proud!), so what are you waiting for?
Click here and let’s get started!
The DSC Team
27 November 2018
Please come along and take part in the fourth and final series of public exhibitions on the scheme to breathe new life into the western end of King Street.
I am grateful to everyone who has given us their views and advice so far. We have listened and improved the scheme with each consultation.
We propose to demolish the ugly Town Hall extension and bring Hammersmith:
Our new civic campus will allow the council to cut building maintenance and rental costs. And by opening up the Town Hall to the public, local start-up businesses and our partner agencies, it will support our mission to modernise the council’s culture and have Hammersmith & Fulham deliver the best public services anywhere.
I hope you will come and see the updated designs at one of our exhibitions at Hammersmith Town Hall.
The exhibitions take place on:
You can also view the latest designs on our website here: www.lbhf.gov.uk/kingstreet
Scroll to the bottom of this page for links to view/download information about the latest designs
Some of the changes since the last set of proposals were exhibited earlier this year include:
What we’re aiming to do and when
You may recall that this scheme has benefited from the experience and wisdom of three resident volunteers who worked (without pay) as our Independent Town Hall Commissioners.
They’ve worked tirelessly with our architects (Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners) and the developer (A2Dominion) to help deliver a scheme that will benefit our borough for decades to come and significantly improve Hammersmith for all of us. I am particularly grateful for all they’ve done and would like to take this opportunity to thank them.
I hope to see you at one of the exhibitions and look forward to hearing your views and advice.
With warm regards
Cllr Stephen Cowan
Leader of the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham
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The POPS Forum coordinated by Sobus brings together a diverse range of voluntary and community sector organisations delivering services to older people in Hammersmith & Fulham.
It’s aims include:
The POPS forum currently has a membership of over 30 voluntary sector organisations. In addition, representatives of the H&F GP Federation, H&F Clinical Commissioning Group, H&F Integrated Care Partnership representatives and Senior managers of LBH&F Adult Social Care and the H&F Older Peoples Commission attend on a regular basis.
Issues addressed at the forum over the past year have included Adult Safeguarding, Technology and older people, Commissioning and engagement with LBH&F Adult Social Care.
Some key successes:
If your organisation works with Older People in Hammersmith & Fulham and you are interested in attending POPS Forum meetings or want to find more about the Forum please contact Shad Haibatan: shad.haibatan@sobus.org.uk or admin@sobus.org.uk
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Did you know that next Friday (14th December) is Local Charities Day? Each year Local Charities Day shines a spotlight on the incredible work local charities do to build healthy and happy communities in our country. Read on to find out how to get involved and what the FSI and partners are offering on the day.
Free webinars
To support our fantastic local charity members and celebrate Local Charities Day, the FSI will be running 15 free 30 minute webinars from 12th-14th December.
Topics include:
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Facebook Live
We will also be live on Facebook at 10 AM on the 12th December for the Developing Your Fundraising Strategy webinar, and again at 10 AM on Local Charities Day (14th December) for Community & Events Fundraising. Follow our Facebook page to be notified when we go live!
Home Office webinar
We are also hosting a special guest webinar from the Home Office: EU Settlement: Communications and Support. Find out more about the new EUSS grant scheme and whether it’s relevant to your charity.
NCVO initiative
NCVO will be making some of their member content free for the day, including resources on:
You can also access their open content on Funding and Managing Volunteers. Don’t forget that subscription to Funding Central is free for organisations under £100k turnover and NCVO membership is free to FSI members under £50k turnover using the promo code NCVOFSI.
What is Local Charities Day 2018?
This year’s Local Charities Day will take place on the 14th December – you can find out more from this blog by the new Minister for Sport and Civil Society Mims Davies.
Each year Local Charities Day shines a spotlight on the incredible work local charities do to build healthy and happy communities in our country. They need the support of local people and businesses in order to flourish.
They’ll be adding lots of ways for you to get involved to the Local Charities Day website in the coming days, so do check back and ensure you’re following them on social media for the latest updates (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn).
Other ways you can show your support:
Share the link to our free Local Charities Day webinars
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Being an informed and active citizen is empowering and can benefit our whole society. The more people who participate in our democracy, the fairer and more equal it will be.
Knowing your rights as a citizen, and being aware of the ways you can influence decisions, is key to having the confidence to make change happen in your community. We believe that every young person should be aware of how democracy works and how they can participate in it. Everyone regardless of background, gender, race or age should have their say.
That’s why we’ve launched the Democracy Ambassadors programme with the hope of spreading this important message to tens of thousands of young people. Download our leaflet to find out more.
We will be training and supporting 1,000 Democracy Ambassadors aged 13–16* through the adults who support them to better understand our democracy and how they can influence change. These Ambassadors will then be challenged to share their learning and insight with other young people across England, creating a step change in youth participation.
The programme is being funded by the Cabinet Office until March 2019, as part of the Government’s Suffrage Centenary Fund.
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This post has been updated and republished as the date for the Hackathon has moved! We want to galvanise the right key people in our effort to end rough sleeping in H&F, so are making sure the date is as inclusive as possible.
Cllr Sue Fennimore, the Deputy Leader of Hammersmith & Fulham Council would like to invite you to an event about Rough Sleeping in H&F on Thursday 6/12/18 from 2.45 – 5pm in the Town Hall Courtyard Room.
Please sign up via the Eventbrite link found here . Pass on to any volunteers and colleagues who are interested in supporting the cause and make sure to get them to sign up via Eventbrite also.
We are calling it a Hackathon – which is about bringing together people from all walks of like to help find innovative ways of ending rough sleeping in Hammersmith & Fulham.
You will probably know that in 2017 H&F set up an independent Rough Sleeping Commission to make recommendations about ending rough sleeping in H&F. We don’t think anyone should have to sleep rough and are committed to ending rough sleeping in the borough.
We can’t do this without your involvement. Your expertise and ideas will be key in helping to find solutions to end rough sleeping.
We want the event to be lively and energetic and we’d like you bring your staff, volunteers and residents who have experience of homelessness in H&F. We will send you some publicity information shortly to help you publicise the event in your organisation. There will be light refreshments available.
Please can you let Rebecca Richardson know if you would like to attend and approximately how many people from your organisation will be attending by contacting her at rebecca.richardson@lbhf.gov.uk or calling on 07827879659 .
We really look forward to seeing you on 20/11/18. Help us end rough sleeping in H&F.
Julia Copeland
Strategic commissioner
Public services reform
Hammersmith & Fulham Council
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