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.

 

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.

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.

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.

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.

 

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.

The owners welcome us to a tasty lunch for only £5. There are only 25 places and attendance needs to be pre-booked by contacting Fulham Good Neighbours on 020 7385 8850.

Next monthly meeting on Tuesday, 21st February 2017 between 12PM and 3PM at

The White Horse, 1-3 Parsons Green, London, SW6 4UL.

 

An opportunity to lead an innovative community organisation to work with public, third and business sectors to change the face of local provision. Starting April 2017. Salary £45,000 p/a pro rata.

Closing date for applications: 15th February 2017.

For full job and application details, click here.

 

 

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a dynamic and ambitious organisation, primarily supporting FSI’s Consultancy and Development team to deliver high quality, effective projects to the charity and corporate sector clientel. As part of the role, you will support the delivery of consultancy projects through research, writing up results of workshops and facilitated sessions, and analysis. You will be responsible for discrete projects and provide event management support for engagement and reception events.

Closing Date: Wednesday 15 February 2017, 12 noon.

For more information and to apply click here, and to download the full job description click here.

If you are registered with a GP practice in H&F then please take part in this short survey on how the reception service can be improved through training and development – click here.

Have you received feedback from your clients about GP reception services and have ideas on how they could be improved? Then please complete the above survey on their behalf.