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GlaxoSmithKline IMPACT Awards (UK)

The 2021 GlaxoSmithKline IMPACT Awards, run in partnership with The King’s Fund, are now open to applications from community-based health and wellbeing charities. The awards are designed to recognise innovation, success and achievements for existing community health work by providing mentoring and funding. Up to ten winners will receive £30,000, with one overall winner receiving £40,000. Ten runners-up will receive £3,000. Award winners will also be offered high quality training and development valued at an average of £9,500, have a film made about their work and receive help with press and publicity. The deadline for applications is 5pm on the 14th September 2020. Click here

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Newable: New Business Support & Mentoring Programme

Newable’s social impact team are currently delivering a new business support and mentoring programme in partnership with the JP Morgan Chase Foundation. This is focused on assisting London based small businesses navigate through the national economic crisis by helping business owners modify or sustain their business processes and delivery in this climate of socio-economic uncertainty.

Each client is entitled to approx. 12 hours of support. This can be made of say contact by Skype or phone and includes the work the Business Advisor does on behalf of each client after each session. The business support is bespoke and depends on each client’s specific needs. This can be as varied as each client’s business and could for example include:

  • in depth review of your web site, pricing and cash flow systems
  • business plan design
  • input to planning a marketing or sales drive
  • lease negotiation
  • import / export advice
  • tax and vat issues
  • business law issues

To find out more, please direct your enquiries to sarah.spateri@westlondon.com

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New Furlough Rules: Claim Free Government Bonuses

New furlough rules give you the chance to claim free government bonuses…

The Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced plans to give employers £1,000 for every furloughed employee that they bring back to work and keep until January 2021.

To be eligible, you must:

  • Bring back previously furloughed employees from October and keep them on for three months.
  • Pay employees at least £520 on average per month from November to January.

For further information, click here.

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Resources For Veterans

Advice that can make the transition from service-person to civilian as smooth as possible.

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Could Your Charity Benefit from Gallery Partnership’s Expertise?

We are all relying on technology more than ever before and Sobus would highly recommend our  I/T support team at Gallery Partnership. They have now launched a Client Referral Programme and taken on two new partners, specialising in business communication and Cyber Security – enabling them to increase the amount of remote working solutions they can offer.

Anyone we refer to them will be offered a FREE, no-obligation consultation during which they will:

  • Discuss their current requirements/challenges
  • Identify solutions and recommended products
  • Provide a written proposal & dedicated point of contact

To use the Client Referral you can either:

  1.  Call their office on 0207 096 2800 and inform them that you have been referred by Sobus
  2.  Email info@thegallerypartnership.co.uk directly with “REFERRAL from ‘Carita Magnani at Sobus” in the subject line
  3.  Submit your details via their website contact form using the drop down tick box
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SASH Peer Mentoring

The peer mentor training is for women who identify as Black, Asian or an ethnic minority of any kind and Gay and Bisexual men living with HIV.

There can be barriers which make it harder to connect. This is an opportunity to use your own experience to inspire, motivate and provide emotional and practical support for others.

This training might be for you if you:

o   Want to learn more about sexual health

o   You already have an interest in sexual health and want learn more to support your community

o   You are living with HIV

o   You have experience if navigating sexual health clinics and services

o   You have experience of reproductive health such as periods, menopause, contraception etc

The benefits of the programme include:

  • Receive training
  • Receive a personal development plan to support you to achieve your goals
  • Develop communication and workshop giving skills
  • Gain valuable experience working alongside sexual health professionals
  • Connect with community

The training will be delivered by Ella Frost and Jose Tovar who are peer mentor coordinators and will cover:

¨      An introduction to SASH

¨      Sexual well-being

¨      Communication skills

¨      Who peer mentors are and what they do

¨      Safe-guarding

 

Please reply to this email to book, limited spaces available! Email us if you have any questions and we can organise a phone call, we are happy and open to questions.

 

We are excited to meet you!

Kind regards,

Ella Frost (She/her/they/them)

Peer Mentor Lead for Black Asian Minority Ethnic Women.

SASH | Support & Advice on Sexual Health

31 Wardour Street,

London, W1D 6PT

Tel:  0207 851 2955

Mob: 07971387487

Email:  ella.frost@sashlondon.org

Website:  www.sashlondon.org

 

Think you know about sexual health? Why not take part in our study?

SASH Sexual Health Study

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Take a Tour of Hounslow’s Artists & Makers Through Virtual Studios

Artists can’t invite you into their studios right now, so instead they’re doing the next best thing—giving you an insight into their work, their process, and what motivates them on Instagram. Between 27 June and 5 July 2020 artists will be using #virtualstudioswest to post video snapshots of painting, fashion, jewellery, photography, music, and dance! There will be how-to guides, time lapses, interviews, performances, and opportunities to meet the artist.

Virtual Studios is produced by Creative People and Places Hounslow, a Watermans project, for the Creative Enterprise Zone’s (CEZ) open studios programme. Virtual studios will be followed by opportunities to see artists at work in person once social distancing measures have been lifted.

To take the Virtual Studios tour, follow #virtualstudioswest or @creativenetworkwest on Instagram from 27 June, or click here to find out more.

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Corra Foundation Community Research Tender

The Corra Foundation has announced a community research tender on social action during the coronavirus pandemic. The project forms part of the wider Social Action Inquiry Scotland which aims to understand how social action can realise its potential to being about sustainable change. Social action has been at the heart of society’s response to Coronavirus and this research tender aims to further understanding of that. A total budget of £68,200 is available to deliver this project.

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Local Safeguarding Children Partnership: Children & Community Engagement

I’m Rosie and I recently started as the Children and Community Engagement Officer with the Local Safeguarding Children Partnership, or ‘LSCP’. Our team work across Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster and Hammersmith & Fulham to make sure that organisations who support children and young people feel confident in how to keep them safe and what to do when they have safeguarding concerns. I hope to get to know as many community organisations as I can because I want to understand what it’s like growing up in Hammersmith and Fulham, what’s going well for the community, and where things could improve. It would be great to hear from you if you have questions, comments, ideas about safeguarding children and young people, or just want to say hello!

Please do get in touch with me at rtwomey@westminster.gov.uk, or on 07855 146 734. The LSCP also offer training, resources and advice on safeguarding policies and procedures to organisations. Like most teams at the moment, we’re thinking of ways to continue our work during COVID-19 while we can’t arrange training and events in person. Please visit our website for updates: https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/lscb/training-and-resources

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Loneliness Awareness Week

This week is #LonelinessAwarenessWeek. In times like these, lots of people could do with a friendly check-in. So if you’re waiting in a queue or for a tea to brew, why not give someone you know a call or text, and make their day. For support, go to Let’s Talk Loneliness website

– Prime Minister’s Office and Cabinet Office Communications

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