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WAND UK Happy Healthy Family Club

The Women’s Association for Networking and Development, WAND UK invites you to the next Happy Healthy Family.

When: Wednesday 22 February, 10:00 – 14:00

Where: White City Community Centre, India Way, W12 7QT

Lunch is Provided & activities include:

  • Tai Chi session by Royal Borough Kensington & Chelsea Leisure Department
  • Sister Size – Bra Measure – Breast Awareness
  • Budgeting Skills and Debt Management Workshop by H&F CAB Financial Capability

For further information please contact WAND UK on Tel: 02089624132 or 07813485607(KiKi) or Email: info@wanduk.org

 


 

 

 

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New Low Cost Workspaces Available

George St Studios is a new project from Interim Spaces, a charity dedicated to providing low-cost work and development spaces for emerging talent in otherwise disused buildings. 136 George Street has been kindly leased The Portman Estate, and is supported by Westminster City Council. Currently three units on the second floor are almost ready to hire. They are 70 sq ft (rent is £120pm all inclusive), 100 sq ft (£175pm all inclusive), and 200 sq ft (£350pm all inclusive), and four on the 3rd floor which are yet to be finished. For further information, please click here.

The space is best suited to artists and small creative organisations, small non-profits and entrepreneurs. All would-be users must apply for a space via this form, and all applicants will be interviewed.

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FSI Consultancy: Organisational Strengths Review

On top of FSI’s training for small charities, they also offer a bespoke consultancy service. Comprehensive Organisation Strengths Review undertakes a review of your organisation and provides a clear, concise overview of which areas you are performing well, and which areas may need to be developed or refreshed.

Visit FSI’s blog: How effective is your charity? 7 questions to ask to see if consultancy is necessary for your small charity, or for more information email admin@thefsi.org or click here.

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Joint Strategic Needs Assessment

JSNA’s for Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham: The JSNA Online is a collection of web-based tools built by the Public Health Intelligence team to deliver the latest data to our stakeholders. It contains really useful, up to date data on local health and wellbeing stats that groups can use to inform service design and funding bids.

For further information, please click here.

 

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Advance Job Opportunities

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. Our positions vacant are listed below.

  • Female* Substance Misuse IDVA – Closing date: 10am on 20th February 2017
  • Female* Evaluation & Engagement officer  (full – time) – Closing date: 10am on Wednesday 22nd February 2017
  • Female* Floating Support Worker – Closing date: 10 am on 20th February 2017

For full job and application details, click here.

 

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Charities in Focus on The BBC

If you tune into a BBC station on 9th February, you might well hear a feature about charities, as Acevo have been working with the BBC to stimulate discussion of the charity sector. If your local radio station is running anything on charities, feel free to phone in and join the discussion to talk about the work of your organisation.

NCVO is also keen to let the media know about all the work that charities do to make a difference locally, nationally and internationally. If you’d like to help get your charity’s work in the news, get in touch with NCVO’s  Constructive Voices programme – click here.

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Fundraising & Regulatory Compliance Conference

The Fundraising Regulator will be holding a joint conference with the ICO and Charity Commission aimed at helping charities & fundraising organisations comply with the law on data & consent. The event on 21st February will be live streamed here.

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Fundraising Code Consultation

The consultation for changes to be made to the Code of Fundraising Practice has been launched. Areas to be changed include Working with Third Parties, Trustees, the Fundraising Ask and Whistleblowing, as well as several others. The deadline for response is Friday 28th April.

The consultation can be found here.

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The Road To Wellbeing Map

The Drug and Alcohol Wellbeing Service (DAWS) and Change Grow Live (The Alcohol Service) have created a digital map across Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham and Kensington & Chelsea to showcase activities/services that fall under the categories of the 5 ways to wellbeing: Give, Learn, Connect, Be Active, Take Notice.

We would like to give community organisations the opportunity to add to the map. The only thing that we ask is that the activities you add are on offer for a period of 6 weeks or more. We would also love for people to benefit from using the map.

To access the map click here and to find out how to use and add to the map click here.

 

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The Upper Room: Winter Lectures 2017

All our eminent speakers are local people supporting our local charity, and giving their time for free. Please come, enjoy their expertise and support The Upper Room. All lectures will take place in St Saviour’s Church, Cobbold Road, W12 9LN, 8.00-9.00pm. Refreshments will be available from 7.40pm. Admission is free, but Donations welcome.

Wednesday 22nd February “Brexit from the perspective of the rest of Europe” Misha Glenny

Thursday 30th March “What has happened to the unaccompanied child refugees in Europe?” Lord Alf Dubs

Wednesday 26th April “Did the baby boomers let their children down?” Lord David Willetts

For further information click here.

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