We have some new funded distance learning courses available including Challenging Behaviour level 2. Please look at our flyer attached or visit www.wefindanylearner.co.uk places are limited so book now to avoid disappointment.

All of our distance learning courses are free and suitable for most staff or volunteers regardless of previous qualifications. Funding is available for distance learning to anyone who is 19 or older and lived in the European Union for 3 years or more and not doing another funded training program with another company.

For more information, please call 01226 958 888 or email nick@wefindanylearner.co.uk alternatively, you can complete an online enquiry form or download a booking form

It’s Mental Health Awareness Week 8 – 14 May 2017. H&F MIND are the borough’s leading resource for mental health support and information and Rich Green from Mind has supported the beginning and growth of ‘HANDS’, a peer led, co-produced support group for people living with anxiety and depression. The group has now just celebrated it’s 1 year anniversary and meet bi-weekly on Thursday afternoons at Blythe Road. To find out more, please contact susan@hfmind.

Joy Goddard set up the group because there was nothing like it in Hammersmith and Fulham when she really needed it. (See her moving personal journey here.)

 

A group of entrepreneurial children from West London are fighting food waste by selling surplus food in the school playground and to the local community. The initiative is led by 400 children aged 5 to 12 year old’s from Old Oak Primary School & Old Oak Community Centre in East Acton. They have named their social enterprise ‘Bubble & Squeak’, a nod to the traditional English dish made using leftover vegetables. Emphasising healthy eating, their aim is to take edible surplus food such as fruit and vegetables from local businesses, markets and supermarkets and redistribute it to the local community on a ‘pay as you feel’ basis. The kids want to get their whole community involved in changing attitudes towards food waste. They launched a crowdfunding campaign on the 24 April to raise £4,500 for a customised shipping container to store and sell the surplus food. Helping the children with the project are adult coordinators Elly Harrington and Lydia Gandaa.

For more information contact Elly Harrington at bubblesqueakeat@gmail.com / 07515946486, or Lydia Gandaa 02087437629 at Old Oak Primary School.

 

 

Calm Mediation is recruiting for a Mediation Coordinator.

The closing date for completed applications is 21st May 2017

Please find application and Equality Monitoring Form below-

Application Form
Monitoring Form

We are seeking an excellent candidate for the role of Caseworker within our small, friendly and dynamic team working in diverse boroughs in central London:

£24,000 per annum (37.5 hours per week)

7% pension, interest free travel loan available

Closing date for all applications is Wednesday 24 May 2017 at 9am. For full job and application details, click here.

 

The 18th annual Charity Times Awards 2017 are now open for entries –  click here. The deadline for entry is 9 June 2017. The winners will be announced at the celebratory gala dinner and ceremony on 4 October 2017 at the prestigious Park Plaza Westminster Bridge, London

The Marr-Munning Trust is seeking a new Director to ensure we use all our resources to tackle poverty and its impact in some of the poorest places outside the UK:

  • Salary circa £50,000 + 6% pension contribution
  • Location Ealing, London, Greater London
  • Job Type Permanent
  • Closing date 05 May 2017
For further details and to apply, click here.

 

Following the ICO’s first publication of the GDPR guidance in March, Elizabeth Chamberlain breaks it down and puts forward recommendations –  click here.

The research team are putting the finishing touches to this year’s edition – all the facts and figures on the voluntary sector you could ever need! For further information click here.

Look out on 9 May for the refreshed data at data.ncvo.org.uk.