Cats Whiskers Community Arts will be running weekly acting workshops for over 50s as part of Riverside Studios’ community programme, Dive in.
From Friday (2nd October) at 2pm-4pm. Click here
Dear friends and colleagues,
We recently held the first series of information & action round tables looking to the future:
- Opening Up our activities and programmes
- Racism & BAME Issues
- Children & Young People
- Poverty & Economic Divide
- Green New Deal for London
- Enabling Resilient Communities – Building a Strong Civil Society
Thank you to all who participated and we will complete the series with round table discussions on
- Health & Wellbeing – Thursday 15th October – see below
- Spiritual & Cultural Renewal – date to be confirmed
Our plan is to complete a full action report around mid-October and will launch with an event in November.
But wheels are turning again and we are aware that, as well as thinking about creating a “new better” for the future, we may all be faced with responding to another set of urgent needs within our communities.
In the next few weeks we are planning several initiatives:
- Tuesday 29th September. A snapshot survey to gauge your pressures and priorities at the moment. When you receive it please take the 5-10 minutes it will take to complete and return.
- Thursday 8th October. A pan-London Briefing meeting on current issues and concerns, challenges and achievements. We will hear from our partners in the public sector at local and regional level, and enable your voices to be heard.
- Thursday 15th October. In partnership with Healthy London Partnership and Good Thinking, we will hold our next round table on Health and Wellbeing.
More details will be sent out next week. In the meantime you may contact us with any questions or issues you would like to raise at convener@lbfn.org.
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Get more outdoor space to trade from with Our Space is Your Space campaign.
We’re offering local business owners the chance to use extra outdoor space near their business and residents a safer way to support the local economy.
With the impact of the coronavirus measures on community organisations and their vulnerable beneficiaries, we are reaching out to confirm that we continue to operate, partnering with businesses and charities such as yourselves to get goods to where they are needed most.
As we approach the end of the furlough scheme when we will all be supporting the newly vulnerable, we have a wide range of products available including clothing for adults and children, toiletries, baby products, toys, bedding, kitchen equipment and other household items, books, crafts and ambient foods. Goods are for your organisation’s beneficiaries and cannot be sold or used for fundraising. Does this sound useful to your organisation? If so, you can register/request items for free and view available products on our website:
https://products.givingworld.org.uk/register/user
https://products.givingworld.org.uk/product-categories
Please do let us know if there are particular items that would help support your beneficiaries during this difficult time as services resume.
Goods can be collected directly from us, or if this is not possible for you, we can arrange delivery at cost. Delivery costs range from £10 for a box of items to £65 for a full pallet – our website works out a maximum delivery cost based on what you request. We will always endeavour to reduce this when packing your items so that the final charge is as low as possible.
You can find out more here – www.givingworld.org.uk/charity
If you have any questions, any way we can help you deliver more essential supplies to the people who need them most, please call us on 0116 251 6205.
This dedicated support line is open 9.30am-4pm Monday-Thursday and 9.30am-12.30pm Friday.
You can also send an email with any queries to info@givingworld.org.uk
Young Hammersmith & Fulham Foundation has teamed up with LBHF on the project OOSS to enable free training for all our service users and stakeholders, in order for them to facilitate their services in the safest manner.
JOIN US FOR THIS FREE WEBINAR
Announced earlier this year, the Kickstart Scheme is a £2 billion investment by the government to create job placements for 16 to 24 year olds.
Businesses are now able to sign up to be part of the landmark scheme, aimed at giving young people a future of opportunity and hope by creating high-quality, government-subsidised jobs across the UK.
Association of Charitable Organisations is raising awareness of grant-giving charities that can provide assistance to people who need support, in anticipation of more redundancies as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the government’s Job Retention Scheme ending. The Here to Help Campaign (#HeretoHelpAlways) will be working with key advice and referral agencies, charities and other organisations that work closely with people who may be in need of assistance, along with the media, to raise awareness of the services available from grant-giving charities. Find out more.
If you’re a homeowner or private tenant on benefits or a low income you could get help to improve your home by applying for Warmer Homes.
Is your home too COLD? Does it affect your health? Do you find it hard to pay your energy bills? We can offer FREE help if any of the following apply to your family: • Children under 5 • On a low income • Long term health condition or disability. For further information, click here
