Locality’s Annual Convention is Open for Booking Now!

Locality Convention ’21 will bring us together to celebrate the work of hundreds of organisations whose compassion and resilience have helped our local communities through a global pandemic. Join Locality to connect with some of the sector’s best and brightest community organisations, leaders and policy-makers on 16-18 November 2021.

Find out more about the event here.

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RSBC Job Vacancy

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Black Heroes at The Gallery – An Exhibition of our Heroes

 

Black Heroes is a living exhibition telling the stories of our heroes. This Pop-Up exhibition supported by Westminster Council, launched on Windrush Day 22 June and runs through to 27 July, with DSC Trustee Joyce Fraser as an artist-in-residence. Click here to find out more.

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FREE H&F Summer in The City Program

Hammersmith & Fulham Council are working with the local youth activity provider LMP Action and the Holiday Activity and Food Programme to offer a summer of food and fun activities and events for children and young people.  The activities are spread in parks across this borough and run for 5 weeks, starting on 26 July and through to 27 August 2021.

We have more than 25 different providers delivering across H&F and there will be something for everyone! Sport, music, arts and crafts, drama, dance and family fun for four to 18-year-olds – or up to 25 for those with additional needs.

The most important thing, this summer, is that every event is free.  This year, we are ensuring that families can have access to a regular source of free nutritious meals over the summer holidays, whether at a local club or event and /or join an array of community activities.

Summer in the City is also about enrichment, learning and wellbeing. We think of it as a ‘big learning tent’ and wherever you go will be warm, welcoming and offer a range of unique and exciting opportunities for children and young people.

Click here

 

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ICP Engagement and Involvement

VCS engagement in the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP)

Sobus has been the local VCS representative on the ICP Board and Leadership Group since 2018, but this is becoming overly time consuming, and with no resources from the ICP to enable and facilitate our engagement, we need to reconsider how we can support the voice of the local VCS in this area of work.

With some of the workstreams (“campaigns”) now established, there are clearer engagement opportunities for local groups on specific areas of work.  We would very much like to see organisations directly engaging in this work, with Sobus supporting and enabling your participation.

We would like to invite local VCS organisations to come together to discuss how this might be managed going forward, and will send out a meeting invitation to you in due course.

If you would like to discuss this in further detail, please contact Sue or Shad at Sobus.

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Celebrating National Co-production Week in Hammersmith & Fulham

National Co-production Week (5 to 9 July) is back for a sixth year to celebrate the benefits of co-production, share good practice and promote the contribution of people who use services and in developing better public services.

Find out more about National Co-production Week.

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H&F Community Aid Network

H&F Community Aid Network (CAN)

H&F CAN is the volunteer community aid network launched by Hammersmith & Fulham Council to support residents in need during the coronavirus pandemic.

Working with the voluntary and charity sector, and alongside the ward and street-level mutual aid groups, H&F CAN offers support to residents who don’t have friends or family close by to help them. Our taskforce of volunteers will help those most in need at the time of their greatest need.

Do you need urgent support with food, loneliness or isolation?

Or are you worried about a friend, neighbour or relative?

Call: Freephone 0800 145 6095, 8am to 6pm, seven days a week, or email: can@lbhf.gov.uk

Visit h&f CAN for more information

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SASH Self-Care Days For Women

We will offer two sessions on Self-Care in collaboration with two great organisations, SASH and Edge Theatre Company. Working in partnership is at the center of what we do. They are going to be two amazing activities. Please join!

Tuesday 20th July Interactive workshop on positive self-talk coping with loneliness, pleasure blocks and how to overcome them.  (SASH London)

Tuesday 27th July Drama and creative writing based on the 5 Ways to Wellbeing. (Outside Edge Theatre Company)

From 7.30pm to 8.45pm

Via Zoom online

For information and booking please email forwomengroup@gmail.com

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Healthcare Support Worker (HCSW) 2021 – Engagement Forum

Healthcare Support Workers (HCSW) provide crucial support to expert clinicians in a variety of health areas and settings.  HCSW roles often have different names such as Healthcare Assistant but are all great roles which provide a range of experiences to the person in the role.  This could be working with patients, carers, and clinicians, as well as carrying out basic clinical procedures such as blood pressure or using community-based approaches in family support worker roles.  Many staff stay in their HCSW role for many years or move into different HCSW roles, while others use it as a stepping-stone to other roles as the HCSW provides a good grounding in NHS services.

The link below has a 56 second video showing a few different roles that exist and also provides information about what is needed to become a HCSW.  Most roles require good literacy and numeracy skills and the training that will be provided such as the Care Certificate.  Health volunteering experiences can also be a route into HCSW roles.  The skills and experiences people have from existing roles and volunteering may be valuable to the NHS and help in applications and in carrying out HCSW roles. Healthcare support worker | Health Careers

Here is a link to current vacancies which show the different areas of health HCSW roles cover: https://uk.indeed.com/cmp/Nhs-Healthcare-Support-Workers

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DeafPLUS H&F Living With Hearing Loss Classes

LWHL are running a 7 week course starting Thursday 22nd July 2021, 1030am – 12:30pm

For more information and to register see link below.

LWHL poster – H&F

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