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For a useful list of Awareness Events & Dates for June 2021, click here
We have been offered 7 pairs of tickets free to attend the tennis 14th June -20th and would like to offer these across for nominations to third sector. We’re asking for nominations and will then put names in a hat to be drawn by Cllr Fennimore.
Contact:
Katharina Herrmann
Community investment manager / Programme lead
Adult Social Care
Hammersmith & Fulham Council
0777 667 2421
To complement our Shop And Donate CIC social supermarket, we will be delivering an Employability Skills course which will cover areas such as Budgeting, CV and Cover Letter help, Interview Skills and Debt Advice. This will be extremely beneficial to recipients who may be struggling to find work. Find out more here
The Healthy Cooking Course aims to tackle food poverty through teaching those on low incomes and dependent on food banks to learn how to cook with plant-based ingredients; to include lentils, beans, and pulses as well as a variety of grains and vegetables. Find out more here
Hammersmith and Fulham will be holding its first indie Writers Festival on 22nd August 2021! This is an exciting opportunity for creative writers in the borough. The festival “aim to inspire and encourage families, readers, creative thinkers and writers to attend this one-day event, which will be held between Bush Theatre and Shepherds Bush Library.”
This year`s theme is This is Me . . . Hear My Voice
Organised by WILDE Foundation in partnership with Bush Theatre and Shepherds Bush Library. To realise this event, WILDE Foundation has launched a fund-raising campaign on Space Hive.
To donate, visit https://www.spacehive.com/handf-writers-festival
HF Mencap are recruiting for a Support Worker
Salary: £10.55 per hour
Hours: Full or Part time hours
Location: Hounslow – Hammersmith and other surrounding areas.
Job Summary
To support people with learning disabilities in their personal, social and health care needs as required.
To work as part of a team, and closely with families, friends, advocates of the people you are supporting.
To liaise with other health and social care professionals ensuring people are supported to lead the lives they choose.
To work within the policies and procedures of HF Mencap and follow instructions as determined by senior support staff and your line manager.
In accordance with HF Mencap’s Child Protection and Safeguarding procedures, this position requires an enhanced DBS check and will require you to complete Safeguarding training within three months of appointment and refresher training thereafter
Applicants can send their CV to: priyanka.kunwar@hfmencap.org
To mark Refugee Week, we are running a series of free virtual workshops from Monday 14th June to Friday 18th June. They will be hosted on Zoom by Hammersmith & Fulham Council and will cover a range of topics relating to refugees and asylum-seekers, including employment, wellbeing and rights.
These events are open to all, but are particularly targeted at refugees and asylum seekers.
Applications are now open for the Imperial Community Science Seed Fund.
Carers Network has organised 3 separate online event for carers from the City of Westminster, the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea during Carers Week (07-13 June).
Due to the pandemic, many people have heard terms like ‘power of attorney’ and ‘do not resuscitate’ for the first time.
At these events Carers Network will provide more information and talk about the specialist support their End of Life Carers Project offers to people looking after a family member or friends towards the end of their life.
They are encouraging residents anxious about how best to look after elderly loved ones at home to come along to this event and find out how they can be supported by the project.
Professional colleagues are very welcome to join to find out more about the project and how Carers Network can support local carers.
- The event for Westminster carers will be hosted on Tuesday 8 June from 6pm-7:30pm.
It will be hosted by Cllr. Tim Mitchell, Deputy Leader of Westminster City Council and Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health.
Login on Zoom here. | Meeting ID: 811 2646 4836 | Passcode: 585886
- The event for Hammersmith & Fulham carers on Thursday 10 June from 6pm-7:30pm
It will be hosted by Cllr. Ben Coleman, the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham’s Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care.
Login on Zoom here | Meeting ID: 824 0681 7323 | Passcode: 473498
- The event for Kensington and Chelsea carers will be on Fri 11 June from 12pm-1:30pm
It will be hosted by Cllr. Cem Kemahli, Lead Member for Adult Social Care and Health at the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
Login on Zoom here | Meeting ID: 883 1311 0007 | Passcode: 218490
If you are working with any unpaid adult carers looking after adults in the City of Westminster, London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham or Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea you can refer them to us for support securely online here.
