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FREE Course for Hammersmith & Fulham Residents to Start Their Own Business

Startup School for Seniors is a free eight week eLearning course for people over 50, starting 14th January, who are looking to start their own business.

This course is for you if:

  • You have a passion or idea you’d like to turn into a business
  • Have been made redundant or are currently unemployed and considering your next step
  • You want to gain the skills necessary to get a new business off the ground
  • You would benefit from the support of others

Run by social enterprise, Advantages of Age, the course is delivered online by entrepreneur Suzanne Noble and business coach Mark Elliott who create a fun, interactive, learning experience and support you to progress week by week. Fully funded, the course is free for residents of Hammersmith & Fulham, unemployed or economically inactive.

Find out more at startupschoolforseniors.com

 

 

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Remember, Remember, Events in November! by Sue Spiller, Sobus CEO

November is certainly a notable month – with the beginning of the month starting Bonfire Night on the 5th November, where we celebrated a foiled attempt by Guy Fawkes and his associates to blow up the Houses of Parliament, and Diwali, observed by more than a billion people across the world.

Diwali, also known as the festival of lights brings prayer, feasts, fireworks and, for some, a new year. The end of Diwali in 2021 coincides with Bonfire Night – so no doubt the skies over London during the first weekend in November lit up!

Other notable dates this and next month include…

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Carers Rights Day Event, 25th November

Thursday 25 November is Carers Rights Day. This is the national awareness day to help ensure unpaid carers know their rights and are able to access support that is available to them as soon as they need it. Please join us on the day from 10am-11am at an online event for professionals to learn about Carers’ Rights. The event will be hosted by Carers Network’s Chief Executive Sally Prentice. There will be a talk by Sandie Roberts, Carers Network’s Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea Services Manager and Paula Linan, Carers Network’s Hammersmith and Fulham Services Manager. You will be able to learn about the rights unpaid carers are entitled to and find out how Carers Network can support any of your clients who may be carers themselves.

Join the meeting online on Zoom on Thursday 25 November from 10am-11am here:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81997541693?pwd=OEhrdW1SczNwVVdMc3oxWExFekQ3UT09

Meeting ID: 819 9754 1693
Passcode: 484107

Full programme at: https://carers-network.org.uk/carers-rights-day-2021/

If you’d like to attend we would greatly appreciated it if you can RSVP by replying to events@carers-network.org.uk

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Tune in to This Week’s Episode of Illuminate, our Peer Researchers Podcast

Recorded at White City Place, Illuminate is a podcast created by young people where we carry out real & raw interviews to shine a light on how it feels to grow up in Hammersmith & Fulham. Join us as we cover everything from policing to being unapologetically yourself. For enquiries please email annie@yhff.org.uk

In the latest episode we discuss the barriers that can stop young people achieving their potential. In addition to how to know your rights and protect yourself from the police in light of Sarah Everard.

Listen & Subscribe on iTunes Now

Listen & Subscribe on Spotify Now

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£5 Tickets for Award-winning, ‘Botis Seva’ at Sadlers Wells

Sadler’s Wells have allocated £5 tickets for Award-winning, ‘Botis Seva’ BLKDOG (details below).

South London-born, Seva formed his company Far From The Norm aged 19. Influenced by hip-hop theatre his talent grew largely unmentored and was nurtured on the streets of London. Vital and gripping, BLKDOG is Botis Seva’s haunting commentary on surviving adulthood as a childlike artist. A genre-defying blend of hip-hop dance and free form antics, BLKDOG explores the inner battlefield of an ageing artist trying to retain his youth.

Click on link for more info and to watch the trailer Botis Seva – BLKDOG – Sadler’s Wells Theatre (sadlerswells.com)

The £5 tickets offer are for seats on the Upper Circle for performances on Fri 19 and Sat 20 November. (This show is suitable for ages 12 upwards, starts at 7.30mpm and last for 1 hour and 10 mins with no interval)

To book please call the Box Office on 020 7863 8000 or online and use the promo code BLKDOG1. (Please note that there is a £3 transaction fee for phone or online bookings)

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Meet The Funder Online Event: Tuesday 30th November, 11:00-12:00.

Sobus invites you to our next Meet the Funder event. The funder will be The Greater London Authority. This is being delivered along with Kensington and Chelsea Social Council and One Westminster.  If you want to attend, please contact Nigel Jacques at Sobus – nigel.jacques@sobus.org.uk

For this Meet the Funder event we have the Greater London Authority presenting on Untold Stories and Community Micro Grants .

The two new funds are aimed at supporting community-led projects across London.

Untold Stories is a £1m new funding programme to support community-led organisations make a change in their public spaces. It is part of the Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm, one of the Mayor’s flagship commitments to cementing London’s reputation as a diverse, global city.   

Community-led organisations are invited to apply for grants to help develop and deliver projects that increase diversity in London’s public spaces. Whether this is creating something new, highlighting something missing or hidden, or presenting a different story to what already exists.

The Community Grants Fund will launch in winter 2021. £900k will be distributed over three waves of funding. The purpose is to support grassroots and community-led activity that helps Londoners to lead recovery from the COVID-19 crisis in their own communities.

Priority will be given to questions submitted in advance. Please send them across to dhani@kcsc.org.uk by 5pm on Monday 29 November.

The session will be held on Zoom, and you will be emailed prior to the event with a link to join, so please ensure your contact details are correct.

If you have any questions about the event, or if your organisation has support needs you would like to discuss, please contact support@kcsc.org.uk and we will direct you to a colleague or partner organisation that can help.

 

 

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Dance for Dementia: FREE Classes for Adults with Dementia Starts November 2021!

DanceWest are now permanently  ‘in residence’ at Sands End Art & Community Centre. DanceWest founder, Rosie was instrumental in researching the impact of movement and all the Arts on people with dementia and their friends and families many, many years ago. Great news for DanceWest and H&F! Find out more

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Corporate Standard Office & Meeting Space – 20% Discount!

Sobus are currently offering a 20% discount on our corporate standard office and meeting space at Dawes Road Hub for all new serviced office desk and full day Board room, or Training room bookings.

Please see price lists (before discount) below:

https://sobus.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/DRH-office-space-price-list.pdf

https://sobus.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/DRH-meeting-rooms-price-list-A5.pdf

To make an enquiry, please contact: reception.drh@sobus.org.uk, 02079521230

 

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Trustees Week Events – November

NCVO events: NCVO are running a series of events, as follows:

Webinar: Leading on equality, diversity, and inclusion with your board – 3 November 2021, 11am

Webinar: Undertaking a governance review – NCVO and Trusted Charity – 3 November 2021, 1pm

Webinar: Leading by example on mental health and wellbeing – 4 November 2021, 9:30am

Panel discussion: Strengthening board relationships in times of uncertainty – 5 November 2021, 2pm

Find out more about NCVO’s events and book here.

Getting on Board’s Festival of Trusteeship
Getting on Board’s online Festival of Trusteeship will take place 1st-5th November 2021 and they have offered our members a 50% discount. The festival is filled with exciting events for people who want to become trustees, trustees who want to keep learning and developing, and for charity leaders who want to understand best practice in trustee recruitment and diversity. Use the code SCC50 to receive a 50% discount. The code also works on weekly passes, bringing a pass to attend as many of the 24 events as you’d like down to £12.50.

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Safeguarding Project Update and Opportunity for Funding

Covid-19 has changed a lot of our ways of working, which creates new challenges when considering people’s safety, and the second part of our events has focused on discussions around how to navigate this new landscape, where there is currently Safeguarding support available, and how this can be improved. As a result of these discussions, we have found that there are some region-specific needs, as well as common themes appearing across all regions. These common themes are:

  • Lack of awareness around safeguarding responsibility and reluctance to have safeguarding conversations
  • Building & maintaining relationships with local boards/partnerships & LADOs
  • Lack of funding for safeguarding trainers/support
  • Need for a list/bank of available safeguarding trainers

We would be keen to know your thoughts around this, do you think our findings are accurate? Do you think there’s anything we’ve missed? Come along to our final Every Person, Every Conversation event on Tuesday 9th November to share your experiences and find out more about the work we’ve been doing – you can sign up via our Eventbrite page. This event is open to all staff and volunteers within your organisation and your members as well, so feel free to share with them too!

As our series of events comes to a close, we are now moving into the next steps of this project. We are working with a research team at the University of Sussex who have been creating toolkit newsletters for Mutual Aid groups – we have commissioned further research which will help to create a safeguarding-focused addition of their toolkit, as well as supporting our work at NAVCA. We will keep you updated about this work as it progresses.

This next step of our project has also created an opportunity for you to work with us and get some funding for it! We are able to offer up to £3,500 to support four projects which focus on safeguarding awareness raising and/or support within your region – it could relate to the common themes mentioned above, or another safeguarding need you’ve identified in your area. The project needs to be additional to any safeguarding work you may already be doing, and the funds would need to be spent by Friday 11th March 2022. Proposals must be submitted via this survey link by Monday 22nd November 2021. This opportunity is for members only, and we will share the outcomes of this work in April 2022 when the project has ended.

If you have any questions or want to discuss any of this in more detail, please get in touch! I would be happy to hear from you and have a chat about the work we’re doing.

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