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Could social investment work for your organisation?

From the NCVO (National Council for Voluntary Organisations)

Watch this new animation from our partners at Good Finance UK 

the Good Finance UK website is full of useful information, tools and resources including…
…a quick profiler tool to help you work out if social investment is right for you
…a blog with loads of tips like these five for 2018
…a directory of investors and advisors
…upcoming events around the country
…guidance on how to measure your social impact

Click Here for more information, case studies and events

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Advance Charity – Work for Us

We are a women-only organisation, providing emotional and practical support to women in London. All our services are free and confidential.
A large part of our work is crisis intervention – for women who require urgent help and face imminent danger.

You can become part of the Advance team and become part of a well respected and well established charity working to support women to cope and recover from experiences of domestic abuse and supporting women who are at risk of offending or with short term sentences to reduce offending.

Five years ago we diversified our services to start our successful Minerva project, working with women offenders, many of whom are also experiencing domestic abuse. Less than one year ago Advance became part of the Angelou Partnership who successfully won the contract for an exciting new range of services seeking to counteract Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) in the three borough area (Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster and Hammersmith and Fulham). This includes sexual violence, FGM, forced marriage, honour based violence and work with younger women.

Click Here to see the positions vacant

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Directory of Social Change – Business and Strategic Planning Guide

Overview

This comprehensive guide will help you develop a robust business strategy, a business plan, a plan for change, or any other strategic plan you need to guide your organisation where it needs to go.

Who should buy this book?

If you’re interested in the future of your organisation, this book will help guide the way.

It’s essential reading for chief executives, trustees and managers, but will also be useful for anyone interested in how to plan ahead to be more effective and efficient.

Click Here for more information, a ‘Look Inside’ the book and to purchase.

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Directory of Social Change – Legacy Fundraising Guide

Legacy fundraising is a sensitive topic there’s no doubt about it. However, it’s not a source of funding that charities should shy away from. In the UK alone, charities receive billions every year from Wills and bequests. With the right guidance you can learn to get your ask right without upsetting anyone.

Legacy and In-memory Fundraising

This leading guide brings together the biggest thinkers and most experienced fundraisers from the charity sector worldwide to offer you sound practical advice to getting your bequests right.

You’ll learn techniques and strategies, as well as other important things to consider such as ethics, timing, using events and identifying those to target.

This is a key textbook for anyone responsible for fundraising, whether your post covers legacy giving in particular, or you have a wider remit.

Click Here for more information and to -order your copy on the DSC Website

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Don’t be an April Fool; be a Local Hero!

Localgiving’s annual Local Hero campaign launches on 1st April and runs until 30th April 2018.

Each year, Local Hero highlights the incredible ideas and feats of local charity fundraisers.

Throughout April, all participants will be ranked on the Local Hero leaderboard according to the number of unique online donors who sponsor their page. At the end of the campaign the winning fundraiser will be awarded a £1,000 donation to their cause. Many more prizes will be announced soon.

Whether you’re a runner, a painter or an abstainer this is an amazing chance to help a local charity or community group near you raise their profile and raise some extra funding. All you have to do is set up a fundraising page and persuade as many people as possible to donate between the 1st and 30th of April.

Click Here for Key facts, Leaderboard info, how to Take part and FAQs

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Hammersmith & Fulham Accountable Care/ Integrated Care Partnerships Workshops

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

 

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Muslim Rose Welfare Fundraising Event

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.

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General Data Protection Regulation

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 ”

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Localgiving Continuing Fantastic Sessions on Online Fundraising

“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.”

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H&F ArtsFest 2018

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

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