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Homeline Volunteer Coordinator (Maternity Cover) Opportunity

  • Enthusiastic, efficient and self-motivated Volunteer Coordinator needed to join our Homeline team to cover maternity leave.  Homeline provides befriending, casework and social events through trained local volunteers to older people living alone and aims to address the detrimental effect of isolation on older people’s physical and mental well-being.  Applicants should  have a minimum of one year’s recent experience of managing, recruiting and training volunteers.  Experience of working with older people would be an asset.  

Salary: £28,156- £29,995 SCP 28-30 pro-rata for 28 hours

Contract: Temporary for 9 months from mid February 2017.

Closing Date: Friday, January 20, 2017

For full details and application pack, please click here

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Chronic Low Back Pain Seminar

Do you suffer from lower back pain and have been cared for by the NHS either in hospital or through a GP practice?

Treatments could include injections into the small joints linking the spine, steroid or anaesthetic injections into painful knots or bands and acupuncture for back pain or osteoarthritis.

We want to hear from you! We’d also like to hear from groups that represent you and from service providers

New national guidelines have made a number of recommendations which local CCGs in North West London would like to review.

We would also like to review what impact changes may have on local services.

The seminar will take place on 6th February 2017

For more information, please click here

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Help Make Health & Care Services Better

Do you have an idea that could help improve health and care for you, a loved one or your community?

The more people share their ideas, experiences and concerns about NHS and social care, the more services can understand when improvements are needed.

Your local Healthwatch exists to help make care better by making sure services hear what is working for you and what is not.

However, your local Healthwatch cannot take action without evidence.

How can you help?

Join our campaign to help improve health & care in 2017 by encouraging more people to contact their local Healthwatch and #SpeakUp about their ideas and experiences.

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Erasmus+ Programme

The European Commission Representation in the UK has commissioned Access Europe to deliver advice and support to promote the Erasmus+ programme.

We will help organisations across England to develop applications for European Voluntary Service and Youth Exchanges. These provide opportunities for young people to learn, develop their skills and volunteer in Europe and beyond through:

  • Full-time voluntary service for up to 12 months in another country within or outside the European Union
  • Youth exchanges during which young people meet, live and work together on a chosen topic through a mix of workshops, exercises, debates, role-plays, simulations, outdoor activities etc.

We are launching this project with two application workshops on the 9th and 10th January at Europe House in London. Further events will be organised in February for the 26th April deadline (Call 2) and in June/July for the 4th October deadline (Call 3) across England.

The workshops will provide practical information on how to develop a successful Youth Exchange and EVS project application. We will give all participants a good understanding of:

  • The Erasmus+ programme and its objectives
  • The value of non-formal education for young people
  • Working with transnational partners
  • Project’s logical framework
  • Dissemination and sharing results
  • Monitoring and evaluation

The workshops are aimed at organisations who have a project idea and need practical advice on how to fill the application form. See the agenda and briefing note for more information.

The workshops are free to attend and are open to all organisations active in the field of youth.

If you would like to attend, fill in the form by Thursday 5th January 2017 and return to info@accesseurope.org.uk.

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Free Training from We Find Any Learner

We still have limited  funding available and have a choice of over 40 FREE courses listed on our website www.wefindanylearner.co.uk If you are looking for a course not listed, then do not hesitate to contact us as we could possibly have it available. For more information, please contact me nick@wefindanylearner.co.uk or call 01226 958 888 or 07403 765 278. Alternatively you can fill an online enquiry form or download a booking form

Book now for free training before the Apprenticeship Levy starts in April 2017. 

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Young Hammersmith and Fulham Foundation

Following last month’s article about the Youth Partnership this informs you about what has grown out of that piece of work. That is the Young Hammersmith and Fulham Foundation. Please click here for information on:

What the Foundation is?

What it means to you?

What stage of the process the Foundation is at?

What you can do?

Furthermore it asks you to get involved and to contact the Secretary to the Young Hammersmith and Fulham Foundation, that is Nigel Jacques at Sobus. His email is nigel.jacques@sobus.org.uk

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The Who’s Who Guide for London Has Been Updated

Each of the regional networks that comprise Regional Voices including LVSC, have produced a “Who’s Who” guide of key people working in health, wellbeing and care in each region. The guides include relevant contacts from clinical commissioning groups, health and wellbeing boards, NHS England area teams, commissioning support units, Public Health directors, local Healthwatch, etc. The update now also includes information about Health Devolution and Sustainability & Transformation Plans.

As we have limited capacity to fully update the guide, we would very much appreciate it if you could inform me of any changes in your area(s).

For further information and access to the guide, click here

Sandra van der Feen, Health Policy Officer, LVSC. Email: sandra@lvsc.org.uk. Please note my working days are Tue and alternate Tue & Wed only.

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Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme: Open Calls

New calls for proposals have been published under the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme:

 

  • The call for proposals to educate and raise the awareness of girls and boys about gender-based violence (deadline 8th March)
  • The call for proposals promote the access to justice and support of victims of gender-based violence and the treatment of perpetrators (deadline 8th March)
  • The call for a pilot projects promoting diversity and unity in Europe (deadline 28th February)

 

Visit our website for more information on these and other open calls at Access Europe Network.

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Free Stay Well Guide to Local Health Services in Hammersmith & Fulham

A guide to all the health services available in Hammersmith & Fulham can be picked up free of charge at local libraries, GPs, pharmacies, community centres and voluntary organisations across the borough.

 

Stay well: Your guide to local health services in Hammersmith & Fulham  is packed full of tips on how to stay well, take care of yourself and your family, and make the most of local NHS services.

 

It also includes useful health information such as how patients can get a GP appointment when their own GP surgery is closed, who is eligible for a free flu vaccine, how much alcohol is safe to drink, what painkillers are safe for children, the early signs of dementia, and much more.

 

The booklet also has full colour maps showing where walk-in centres, urgent care centres and hospitals are located across North West London.

 

Dr Tim Spicer, chair of Hammersmith & Fulham CCG, said: “Patients and members of the public often ask us to provide a guide to local services which advises them where to go and what to do if they need medical help outside of normal surgery hours. This guide explains the different services that are available, where they’re located and when they’re open. It also reminds people to visit their local pharmacy to ask for advice at the first signs of illness and that they can get a weekend or evening appointment with a doctor by phoning NHS 111.”

 

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PEACE Project

After successfully applying to the Big Lottery Fund’s Celebrate programme, The PEACE (People, Ethnicity, Age, and Community Engagement) project; a cross borough partnership between Nubian Life Resource Centre and PLIAS Resettlement has been awarded £10,000 to create a PEACE Wall to be unveiled during PEACE Week in 2017.

The intergenerational project will work with communities from all cultural & faith backgrounds to create a Peace Wall consisting of Peace Quotes from residents of the two London Boroughs of Brent and Hammersmith & Fulham. The project will aim to  remind, inform, educate and raise awareness of the importance of peace at an individual and community level.

The exciting initiative will consist of:

  • 2 community Peace meals; residents, faith and community groups and prominent figures, will be asked to write a sentence/quote on why peace is important to them and how can it be achieved locally and maintained.
  • An intergenerational Expression of Peace Competition for schools, faith groups and community organisations
  • Unveiling of the PEACE Wall – a collection of all the quotes collected throughout the project

Norma Hoyte from PLIAS Resettlement & Jazz Browne from Nubian Life Resource Centre says: “By creating a Peace Wall where individual statements will be recorded, we hope that many lives will be affected by the creativity of the peace wall with the ability to learn from each other. We will also have discussion topics on how to create peace across the different communities; this will be an interactive session which will be videoed.   We will create an online short tool kit which can be distributed via social media to promote and champion the need for PEACE”.

To be part of this exciting project please contact Jazz Browne on T: 020 8749 8017 or by email: jazz.browne@nubianlife.org.uk

 Send your PEACE Quote (no more than 25 words) to peaceproject@plias.co.uk

About Big Lottery Fund

  • The total amount available across the UK for the Celebrate programme is £5 million. To find out more please visit: biglotteryfund.org.uk/celebrate.
  • *YouGov poll on behalf of the Big Lottery Fund with 2109 respondents, June 2016.
  • The Big Lottery Fund is the largest funder of community activity in the UK. We put people in the lead to improve their lives and communities, often through small, local projects.
  • We are responsible for giving out 40% of the money raised by National Lottery players for good causes. Every year we invest over £650 million and award around 12,000 grants across the UK for health, education, environment and charitable purposes.
  • Since June 2004 we have awarded over £9 billion to projects that change the lives of millions of people. Since the National Lottery began in 1994, £34 billion has been raised and more than 450,000 grants awarded.
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