H&F Digital Open Day 27th September

Hammersmith & Fulham council provide a wide range of services online. The council is inviting residents and the organisations which support them to help them develop their digital offer to make sure that for those who can access services online, the council’s website and digital offer is as accessible and user friendly as possible.

To better understand what the barriers are for local residents in accessing online services and information, the council is organising a Digital Open Day on 27th September. At this event, visitors can help see what work has been done so far, and more importantly, help to identify any difficulties or problems that residents face in accessing digital services.

There is space avaialble at the event for local VCS organisations who provide a “digital offer” to residents – this might include IT skills training, a service to support residents access online services, or perhaps your organisation has an IT cafe for reisdents to use. If you are interested in having a stall at the event, please contact David Isaacs at LBHF (contact info is in the this flyer).

If you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

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Groove to Health – A brand new programme from DanceWest

Groove to Health – a new programme starting September 2022.
Get fit and have fun! Supported by the NHS West London Trust.

DanceWest is producing free dance and yoga classes for disabled and learning disabled adults.

Please email: admin@dancewest.co.uk for further details

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Age UK Hammersmith & Fulham are recruiting

 

Age UK Hammersmith & Fulham are seeking to recruit a Digital Inclusion Project Manager to work with their team to facilitate digital access and improve IT skills among older residents, volunteers, and staff.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic, highly motivated individual to work with Age UK Hammersmith & Fulham (Age UK HF) to develop, manage and deliver the digital inclusion support service for older people, through a team of trained volunteer Digital Champions and staff.

Digital Inclusion Project Manager
Age UK Hammersmith & Fulham
Hammersmith, Greater London (Hybrid)
£30904
Permanent, Full-time

Click the link to apply: https://www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/digital-inclusion-project-manager/852041?tsId=8

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Sadler’s Wells £15 Tickets Offer for South Pacific: Sat 13-Sat 20 Aug at 7.30pm

£15 tickets offer from Sadler’s Wells for South Pacific (please e-flyer below).

The £15 tickets are available for performances on:

Sat 13, Tue 16, Wed 17, Thu 18, Fri 19 and Sat 20 August at 7.30pm.

To book your £15 tickets simply clink on the booking link, or online and use promocode BID15.

Please note that these £15 tickets are limited and will be sold on first come basis.

South Pacific

Fri 12 – Sat 20 Aug at 7.30pm

Get £15 tickets for this powerful love story, set on an island during World War ll. South Pacific is brought thrillingly to life in an epic new five-star production directed by Chichester Festival Theatre’s Artistic Director Daniel Evans (Me and My Girl and Fiddler on the Roof). A sensational cast of over thirty is led by the leads from the Chichester Festival Theatre production, including Julian Ovenden, Gina Beck, Rob Houchen, Joanna Ampil and Sera Maehara. With designs by Peter McKintosh and choreography by Ann Yee, this ravishing musical is set to be the must-see theatrical event of the year.

Featuring a full orchestra, South Pacific boasts one of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s most memorable scores, this much-loved Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical features songs such as Some Enchanted Evening, I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair and Bali Ha’i.

Get Tickets

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Vodafone to Provide £4.5m Worth of FREE SIMs to Homelessness Charities

Vodafone has pledged to provide the SIMs – more than 50,000 in total – through its charities.connected programme. Read more on the UK Fundraising website.

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West London Local Chambers Business Awards – Free to Enter!

Please find below the link to the West London Local Chambers Business Awards.  Free to enter for all businesses based in the West London Local Chambers boroughs:

Ealing, Hounslow & Hammersmith & Fulham.

The gala dinner takes place on 24th November at Clayton Hotel, Chiswick.

Apply for the Business Awards 2021/2022! (constantcontact.com)

 

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Assistive Technology & Artificial Intelligence in Care & Support, by Shad Haibatan Sobus Head of Organisational Development

Assistive technology and use of artificial intelligence is increasingly being developed to support people with disabilities both physical and cognitive. The potential is seen as enormous in not only making people more independent and improving their quality of life but also in meeting the care challenges we currently face.

There are however also ethical issues to be considered in the development and use of this technology. These include:

  • How accessible will this technology be to most people
  • whether artificial intelligence will in fact lead to reduced independence
  • whether they will be increased isolation and less human contact

The development of these technologies does require understanding and participation of individuals and communities in a co-produced framework, particularly as it may lead to a profound change in how care is delivered to the most vulnerable in our communities.

Sobus has been engaging with this issue through it’s POPS (Providers of Older People’s Service) Forum. We have had speakers involved in the Minder Study based at Imperial College White City Campus, which is involved in a study on assistive technology for people with dementia. The potential benefits for assistive technology are indeed enormous and should be supported but it also important to include wider ethical and human considerations.

For more information or participation in the Minder Study please see following summary of the project:

Minder Study

In 2019, there were 748,000 people living with dementia in England. This population typically has complex care needs, placing considerable strain on the health and social care systems as well as on individuals themselves and their carers/families – at an estimated total cost to the UK of £37.4 billion a year.

MINDER is a remote care platform that aims to improve the quality of life for people with dementia and their carers. It uses home sensors to detect an individual’s activity at home, and builds a model of ‘usual activity’ through use of artificial intelligence, allowing any deviations to be detected and flagged for follow-up, enabling early prevention. Minder has been developed by the research team at the UK DRI Care and Research Centre based at Imperial College London and the University of Surrey, in partnership with Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

For more information contact minder.hfp@nhs.net

or visit https://mindermeetingplace.com

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Upcoming Youth Events at Dawes Road Hub

Youth Conversation on Mental Wellbeing 
Friday, 12th August 2022
1pm to 3pm
You Matter

FIFA Tournament for 13-18 yrs
Bank Holiday Monday, 29 August 2022
1pm to 4pm
Films Food FIFA Event

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Capacity Building – Where are You? by Nigel Jacques, Sobus Head of Organisation Development & Enterprise

 Have you seen the capacity building page on our website Organisational Development – Sobus ?

All organisations are on a journey of development. The question is, where are you and what do you need to consider to develop the organisation?

In broad terms, we have identified 5 stages that organisations need to go through to ensure their sustainability, or even their continued survival, especially with the current economic climate.

So in this newletter, we are looking at Stage 1, the first level of development. This is primarily for those starting out. At this stage it is about being appropriately constituted and having a group of trustees that are enabling the organisation to think ahead and plan. Additionally, if money is being brought into the organisation, there needs to be a form of accounting that enables the Board to see what is there, analyse what is happening and what needs to happen next. In terms of the work that is being carried out, the Board will also need to understand the risks involved, especially as the financial position of most organisations starting out is risky in itself. The Board will need to understand these risks to help them plan ahead. Of course, if you have looked beyond Stage 1 the organisation, having done all these things, will be on their way to achieving Stage 2.

If you want to discuss this to establish where you are on your organisation’s journey of development, please contact Nigel  nigel.jacques@sobus.org.uk

 

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FREE Junior Community Courses: Try Rowing/ Kayaking at FRBC – W/C 8th & 15th August

We still have spaces for our free junior community courses next week w/c 8th and 15th August. If you have anyone that you think could enjoy and benefit from the course, we’d love to hear from them!

You can learn more and find booking details here: https://www.fulhamreachboatclub.co.uk/free-summer-holiday-rowing-courses

or,

ask them to contact julia@fulhamreachboatclub.com or 020 3356 7154.

Each day includes, breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack and is completely free! We do ask that pupils sign up to the whole week, where possible. More info and images of what we do can be found here:  https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgl2Mp6o7iL/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=

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