You are cordially invited to attend the Muslim Rose Welfare Fundraising Event on Saturday 17th March 2018. Please click here for event and booking details.
In the past two weeks Mark Hardman from Computer Bright Ltd ran a training session on the new regulations coming out in May this year.
The session was well attended and invoked a lot of discussion and questions about what needs to be done. Certainly there will be is a step change from the existing Data Protection Act and impacts on all organisations whatever size and or structure. It also empowers the Government i.e. the Information Commissioner’s Office to be able to carry out audits of organisations at any time.
So what did it cover? In short this is what was said:-
- The new regulation will come in to force on 25th May 2018
- There will be increased powers of audit by the Information Commissioners Office (and they are recruiting more staff!)
- The regulation seeks to further protect peoples information. That covers information that is directly a record of personal detail (e.g. name and telephone number) and information that is kept indirectly (e.g. within an email or on a list)
- It requires organisations to state the purposes for holding information and the purposes need to be specific and explicit
- Consent from the individual needs to be obtained for each purpose.
Individuals will have the:-
- Right to access their information
- Right to be forgotten
- Right to information about the use of data
- Right to have information corrected or rectified.
Feedback from the first session has been excellent and Mark or his Company may be able to deliver some further sessions. So if you are interested then please let us know at Sobus: nigel.jacques@sobus.org.uk ”
“Localgiving are continuing to deliver their fantastic sessions about Online Fundraising. The next one will be on 16th February here at Sobus, The Dawes Road Hub. The session being delivered is new so if you have been previously you might like to come along to this one too. It will run from 11:00am through to 1:30pm, so if you are interested then please book online through the Sobus website. Or simply give me, Nigel Jacques a call on 0207 952 1230 or email me on nigel.jacques@sobus.org.uk
The session is entitled: ‘Engaging with Online Influencers and Fundraisers’ and will cover:
- Reaching New Audiences and Engaging Influencers Online
- Engaging Online Fundraisers
The session will provide you with the following learning outcomes:
- Understand the key concepts around social media.
- How to identify key channels to engage new supporters and influencers online.
- Communicate effectively with your supporters through social media.
- Recruit, develop and support online fundraisers for your organisation.
- How you can join Localgiving and take part in our Local Hero competition
We hope you attend. If you are unable to make that date and are interested then let Nigel Jacques at Sobus know.”
Plans are moving apace and we have lots of opportunities coming up for registered Arts Partners to present and promote their work during the 5th HF ArtsFest 2-10th June 2018!
Registration is Free and you can complete and submit the registration form online! It can be found on our website www.hf-artsfest.com in the drop-down Section called ‘Arts Partners’. Over the next few weeks, we will contact you to confirm the final details for the programme which will be released in April. Remember the deadline for registration is 31st March 2018.
New and previous Arts Partners are all welcome to register for the HF ArtsFest. Here’s a list to guide you:
- venues offering to host arts events (theatres, galleries, libraries, shopping centres/mall, community halls, church halls, parks, cinemas, music venues, pubs, local businesses etc)
- professional and emerging artists/companies living or working in the Borough
- residents of all age ranges an abilities belonging to community groups using arts’ activities regularly (visual art, performing arts, music, choral, dance, drama, circus, poetry, writing, literature, craft, etc)
- schools and youth groups who are regularly engaged in arts activities
- residents with a desire to promote the arts in the Borough
- local businesses who wish to sponsor an arts event
If you have any questions, need any information or assistance, please email us with your contact details and we will respond asap.
Click Here to read the Press Release
With many thanks for joining the HF ArtsFest and helping to promote Hammersmith & Fulham as the best Borough for the Arts in London!
HF ArtsFest Team
email: info@hf-artsfest.com
web: www.hf-artsfest.com
Registered Charity No: 1162116
c/o Riverside Studios, 65 Aspenlea Rd, Hammersmith W6 8LH
Sobus are running a program of three sessions to develop a shared approach to how the voluntary and community sector in H&F can be better integrated into Accountable Care Partnership. These sessions are essential for any CEO or senior manager to attend if you work with services users with health and wellbeing support needs and want to ensure your service is integrated into local care pathways and commissioned.
Places are limited and to book your place click here
Coffee and tea will be available from 9.30am, the session will run from 10am to 3pm and lunch will be provided.
Session 1 outline – 19th February
- What accountable care partnerships are
- What does it mean for the VCS in H&F in terms of risk and opportunities
- How to develop a model for the VCS in H&F
- Next steps
Session 2 outline – 12th March
- Vision and values
- Learning from other models that have worked and those that have not
- Benefits and risks for organisations, service users and commissioners
- Next steps
Session 3 outline – 19th March
- Developing a model for H&F
- Next steps
Places are limited and to book your place click here
The above sessions are complimented by a series of one day training sessions for frontline workers across voluntary and community sector providers, healthcare providers, social care providers and local authorities in Hammersmith and Fulham throughout March.We would also recommend attendance of these sessions which will provide an opportunity to meet health care and other social care professionals.
These workshops are:
- Learn more about integrated working and what this means for yourselves, your teams and our patients
- Explore what integrated working looks like at Hammersmith and Fulham and how we can achieve this
- Build relationships across organisational boundaries and decide how you will work together
Please forward to your colleagues To sign up, please register your details online here and answer a short pre-course questionnaire.
If you have any queries on any of the above please contact Shad Haibatan at shad.haibatan@sobus.org.uk or tel: 020 7952 1230
The Alzheimer’s Society is launching a new service in Hammersmith and Fulham for people with Dementia called Side By Side. Side By Side seeks to reduce the loneliness and isolation that people with Dementia can often face as a result of their diagnosis with the help of volunteers who ‘befriend’ a person with Dementia and enable them to actively participate in their local community.
Side by Side is an Alzheimer’s Society service which helps people with dementia to keep doing the things they love with the support of a volunteer.
Our free one-to-one support makes it easier for people with dementia, who might sometimes feel isolated or find it difficult to leave their homes, remain active and feel part of their local community.
By doing things like going for a walk, to a football match, or joining a local class together, our volunteers can support people with dementia to take up hobbies and get out and about. Or, they might simply visit them at home for a cup of tea and a chat. What they do together is entirely based on what the person with dementia wants.
How does Side by Side work?
- Side by Side connects people living with dementia with local volunteers who provide free one-to-one support, in person, or over the phone.
- What they do together is based on what the person with dementia wants. Volunteers can help people access local groups, such as art or fitness classes. Or they might simply visit them at home for a cup of tea. Volunteers can provide support in the day time, evenings and over the weekend.
Why is Side by Side important?
Our research shows that 40% of people with dementia in England, Northern Ireland and Wales have felt lonely recently. A third of people with dementia in the UK live on their own. Side by Side offers people with dementia opportunities to interact socially and take part in activities. This helps maintain a good quality of life for them and gives carers time for themselves.
Statistics:
- A third of people with dementia lose friends following a diagnosis and nearly two-thirds (62%) of people with dementia who live on their own feel lonely (Dementia 2013: The hidden voice of loneliness.)
- Our research (Dementia 2014) shows that 40% of people with dementia in England, Northern Ireland and Wales have felt lonely recently. This is often caused by anxiety and loss of confidence. It can lead to depression, poor health and speed up the progress of dementia.
- As dementia progresses, relating to the world is more difficult without stimulation. Many people with the condition feel trapped in their own homes, with almost one in 10 only leaving the house once a month (Dementia 2014).
Side by Side will:
- Help us to reach more people with dementia who live alone.
- Help reduce loneliness and social isolation amongst people with dementia.
- Increase the number of people who volunteer for Alzheimer’s Society, providing a network of support for people with dementia.
Side by Side will also:
- Encourage and support people with dementia to keep up their hobbies and interests, or to take up new ones and get out and about.
- Establish a free service for people affected by dementia across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
- Make it easier for people with dementia to feel part of their community and access places like their local library, park, café or community centre.
For more information please contact:
Danny Branch (Side By Side Co-ordinator)
Tel: 0208 5630001
Or email: sidebysidehammersmith&fulham@alzheimers.org.uk
Job Title: CLIC Sargent Project – Telephone Adviser
Hours: Full-time
Location: Hammersmith & Fulham
Salary: £26,928 – 28,500
Type of Contract: Fixed Term one year up 31/03/2019, possibility of extension subject to performance and continual funding.
We deliver a pioneering project via telephone and electronic media for the national cancer charity CLIC Sargent. We require a dynamic individual who can sensitively deliver generalist advice, to young people diagnosed with cancer and their families/carers.
This role is an opportunity to engage with young people and families in an often difficult time and reassure them in terms of options and steps they can take in whatever welfare advice issue they present with. Knowing they have options to consider gives them reassurance in a time of uncertainty.
The advice areas are varied and interesting, with the opportunity to research and think outside the box to find the right answer. It allows you to develop a warm rapport with CLIC Sargent social workers all over the UK, and the accurate advice given allows the social workers to better help the families and young people they are working with to maximise the service overall.
Application Pack www.cahf.org.uk/about-us/work-us
Closing Date: Monday 5th February 2018 by 3pm
Interview Dates: Thursday 8th February 2018 (fixed date)
About The FSI (The Foundation for Social Improvement)
Our aim is to support charities to become more efficient, effective, accountable and self sustaining. We do this by delivering expert knowledge, strategy and support to charities so their futures are secure and their users protected.
The FSI Monthly Newsletter is back with more great initiatives, including:
- New speakers announced for our Skills Conference
- Our three-day London training event has been launched
- Our 18th Small Charity Index is released today
- Fundraising qualification, bursaries and discounts
- Saw this and thought of you opportunities
- New funds for small charities
- Dates for your diaries
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Supporting unpaid carers, changing lives across London
A carer is someone who provides help and support to a partner, relative, friend or neighbour who could not manage without this help
As part of a growing organisation, we are seeking an exceptional candidate for the key senior role of Head of Services; overseeing and developing services to support carers in diverse boroughs in Central London. Working with the CEO and senior management team, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring Carers Network provides a range of high quality services and in creating new opportunities to meet the emerging needs of carers.
For the role description Click Here
We are also proud to announce that we have recently secured new funding to expand our services for carers across Central London. We are now seeking an excellent candidate to join our growing and dynamic team of Carers Caseworkers.
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Hammersmith & Fulham Council is providing extra support to the Hammersmith & Fulham Foodbank (HFFB) to keep more families out of crisis.
The number of food parcels given to families visiting HFFB during 2017 was 9,430 – almost double the number handed out in 2016. Many people who visit the Foodbank also need support with a range of issues, including managing debt, paying bills, applying for benefits and avoiding being made homeless.
“The extra money from the council will fund important new research to identify the main needs of those visiting the service”, said Cllr Sue Fennimore, Deputy Leader of H&F Council.
In addition, the funds will help to cover the Foodbank’s growing running costs and the provision of essential supplies as the number of visitors continues to increase.
Needing help
The rise in the number of families needing help has been largely driven by the government roll-out of Universal Credit, forcing many to wait weeks without any money to pay for basic needs.
“The council’s special grant of £96,000 will ensure the Foodbank can continue to help everyone that comes through their doors, by being able to provide the right help at the right time”, said Cllr Fennimore.
“It is appalling that in this day and age families are being forced to make a decision between paying the bills or eating a proper meal.”
Welcomed
HFFB has welcomed the news of extra council funding which will be phased over a 15-month period.
“We want to ensure that everyone who comes to us is given the right help to get them back on their feet,” said Daphine Aikens, Chief Executive of HFFB.
“Our research project will look at what services our clients need in order to give them the best possible help and advice, and what additional support we can provide in partnership with other local advice organisations,” Daphine added.
How to help
HFFB is still in need of regular donations for food parcels. You can help by donating any of the following items:
- Tinned fruit and vegetables
- Long life juice
- UHT milk
- Tinned rice pudding and other non-refrigerated desserts
- Tinned meat
- Pasta sauce in jars
- Toiletries
You can find your closest donation point at H&F Foodbank’s website.
The Foodbank cannot accept any fresh produce. The Foodbank has three sites across the borough and provides other vital services, including two Citizen Advice Bureau advisers who are funded by H&F Council.
For more details, or if you would prefer to make a cash donation to the Foodbank, click here or call 020 7731 3693 or email: info@hammersmithfulham.foodbank.org.uk.
sobus
20 Dawes Road, London, SW6 7EN
Telephone 020 7952 1230
Email info@sobus.org.uk
Registered Charity No.1071089
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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.