About Fulham Good Neighbours: Established in 1966 Fulham Good Neighbours support mainly older people, including those with dementia, with practical tasks at home such as basic DIY, gardening, and decorating. We do what any good neighbour would: collect medication, escort to appointments, accompany shopping and take care of pets to name just a few of our free services delivered by over 50 volunteers. We also run a dedicated befriending scheme and a range of social clubs to help beat isolation and loneliness. We also offer our hall to other local small groups supporting older people for regular or one-off meetings.

In 2016 we were declared the Best Charity in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham; in 2017 we achieved the London Healthy Workplace Award.

 About the post of Fulham Sunday Afternoon Tea Co-ordinator: This new post will provide all organisational and operational support to the Fulham Sunday Afternoon Tea. The post holder will run the club every first and third Sunday of the month and ensure the success of the club, including the welfare of older people and volunteers attending it. The post holder will ensure that the event caters to older housebound people not taking part in other activities during the week.

Click Here for the Fulham Sunday Afternoon Tea Co-ordinator Advert and Click Here for the Job Description and Person Specification

Tel. 020 7385 8850

Email: chrismikata@fulhamgoodneighbours.org

Web: www.fulhamgoodneighbours.org

Twitter @FulGdNeighbours

Facebook: @FulhamGoodNeighbours

Overview

The Holiday Grants programme provides grants for recreational trips and holidays for groups of children aged 13 and under in the UK who are disabled or disadvantaged.

 

Key Grant Details

Grant size: £500 – £2,500
Length: One-off short grants
Decision timescale: 6 weeks
Deadlines: Submission dates vary depending when trips or holidays take place

Qualifying criteria

Please only apply for this grant if you meet the following criteria:Location: UK-wide, with priority to the 20% most deprived areas
Funding covers: Short holidays and recreational trips
Organisation type: Schools, small charities and not-for-profit organisations

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Contact us

Please contact us if you have a question.
Call: 020 7264 4970

Carers Network offers a variety of support services to carers across Kensington & Chelsea, Hammersmith & Fulham, Westminster and the City of London. In order to support local professionals working with carers in these areas, we would like to ask you to complete the following short survey so that we can understand what information would be the most helpful to you and how we can improve and develop in the future.

Please click here to complete the survey

Sobus opened our new Freston Road Hub on 11th December. We are open for business from 9am to 6pm, Monday to Friday.

The hub offers; 40+ workspaces for enterprises, charities and social businesses, hot desks, meeting rooms, mailing addresses and reception services. Click here to learn more.

Address: 196 Freston Road
North Kensington
W10 6TT (click here for map)

Phone: 020 7952 2610

Email: reception@frestonroadhub.org.uk (for room booking, mailing address and general enquiries)

or sue.spiller@sobus.org.uk (for office space enquiries)

 

Calm Mediation is a registered charity which has been providing a restorative justice (RJ) service to victims and offenders since 2005 with the support of the Big Lottery. We achieved the Restorative Service Quality Mark in 2016, and provide accredited practitioner training.

We are seeking a dynamic, resourceful Restorative Service Coordinator to continue to build on this reputation for excellence, working with a variety of organisations in the criminal justice sector.

Post: Restorative Service Coordinator, 22 hours per week (37 FTE). (With potential for this role to expand to additional days)
Pay: £16,054-£17,8387 according to experience (£27-30,000 FTE).
Location: Shepherds Bush London W14
Responsible to: Director
Probation period: 6 months.
Fixed term period: 30th November 2019 (With potential to extend if continued funding is secured)
Benefits: Pension scheme with company contributions. Interest free loan for season travel ticket.
To request an application pack: please email info@calmmediation.org

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Taking place on 15th December 2017, Local Charities Day provides a platform to celebrate the work of small local charities and community groups across the UK. You can find out more about the campaign and get involved by downloading this digital toolkit.

The rules and regulations on data protection are changing and the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will effect all organisations big and small. This workshop will help ensure your organisation has an understanding of GDPR and what you need to do next. Places are limited and to book your place click here

Accountable Care Partnership (ACP) also known as Accountable Care Organisation (ACO) is going to be an important way for health and wellbeing providers to work together to commission and deliver services locally.

Sobus is surveying the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) to find out the level of knowledge and understanding of ACP / ACO. This survey will inform the work that Sobus will be doing in the new year with the VCS to enable the VCS to better engage and deliver funded services in partnership with H&F ACP / ACO.

Please take 2 minutes to complete our survey here

We are looking for someone with enthusiasm for campaigning for this new post. You would be running an innovative new project, which will use data collected by a variety of Voluntary Sector organisations to influence statutory bodies. University College London (UCL) will process the information to produce reports on emerging themes and issues, which the Voluntary Sector bodies can then use to run focused and well thought through campaigns.

The post holder will chair a group of Voluntary Sector representatives from across the London Borough of Ealing, helping them to identify and prioritise the reports from UCL. He/ she will assist with planning and developing campaigns, including the training of the representatives, and providing support and resources when he/ she meets decision makers. He/ she may organise events, activities and liaise with the media to raise awareness of issues.

All in all, this is an interesting and absorbing job and, although part-time, it will really make a difference in the lives of vulnerable people in these times of austerity and support cuts. You will need to be educated to ‘A’ level or beyond and have good IT and computer skills, including advanced Excel and data management. You will be an excellent communicator, with both verbal and written skills, good interpersonal skills. The ability to deal with a diverse range of people would be ideal. Experience of leading or being involved in campaigns would be helpful.

An Enhanced DBS check will be required.

Salary: £28,000 FTE, pro rata + optional pension ‘opt-in’ after 3 months
Hours: 7 hours per week
Contract: 2 years Fixed Term Contract
Contact: Lynne Armstrong
Email: lynne.armstrong@ecil.org

 

Daisy Coles is a Sixth Form student who wanted to do more for older people in Hammersmith. For a year and a half, every week at lunchtime she had been visiting the residents of a local care home when she read an article about the science behind how people with Dementia who take part in creative activities reduce their stress levels and  experience greater feelings of well-being. So it was only natural that Daisy, who has 52 hours of volunteer time required to satisfy her Gold Duke of Edinburgh award , wanted to find a way to make it easy to access artistic stimulation such as painting and drawing.  After attending a training seminar put on by the charity Arts 4 Dementia with Dementia Pathfinders, Daisy started organising small art workshops in neighbourhoods where there were few, if any, visual art activities available.  She set about vetting venues, interviewing art facilitators, getting friends to join her and meeting an LBHF Councillor to discuss how the council services could support her idea to increase the provision of art for people with Early-Stage Dementia who live independently. To find out more click here.

The next series of workshops starts on Saturday, 13 January 2018 inside the Hammersmith & Fulham Town Hall.