If you feel any clients have children with learning disabilities or special education needs, kindly refer them to us and we will do our best to support them.
Or are you a parent or carer of a child or young person with disabilities or special educational needs living in Hammersmith and Fulham? Are you feeling isolated and looking for support in the current situation?
For our updated leaflet in response to COVID 19 click here
The world is going more and more ‘paperless’ and ‘cashless.’ But this also provides new options for people who want to donate to your charity. Find out more.
West London Business has launched a dedicated business support helpline to field queries from local businesses that are struggling to navigate support from government and banks, as well as siginificant business change.
Our evolving resources at coronavirus.westlondon.com, in tandem with the knowledge from a team of skilled and experienced home-based volunteers, are supporting business in the sub-region like never before.
We’re still recruiting volunteeers looking to make a real difference in supporting your local business community and provide business leaders with the information they need to make informed decisions at this testing time. If you have experience suitable for any of the roles below and have time to help from home, please contact us today.
Business Support Volunteer (front-line)
Are you an experienced business professional who can help answer business owners/ managers queries over the phone? Find out more
**NEW** Business Support Volunteer (second-line)
If your talents are better suited to aiding follow-up queries and support, we’re looking to bridge the gap between the Information & Research Volunteer team and the Front Line support volunteers. Find out more
Volunteer Information & Research Officers (Limited vacancies remain)
Are you able to help us identify and interpret the details of the latest government support in this fast-moving crisis? Find out more
Spectroomz is a platform for you to benefit from the employment of exceptional, highly motivated, autistic freelancers. It also enables autistic people to work from home and avoid the stress associated with the traditional workplace, with COVID-19 a further reason to promote remote employment.
The Ubele Initiative highlights to government urgent concern that BAME communities who are both on the frontline dealing with outbreak and are set to face disproportionate impacts, are not being adequately included and considered in decisions being made by government and civil society leadership. Find out more.
DSC say they are dissapointed with the government’s support package for charities, but still pushing desperately for the help we all need. They’re wrestling with the implications of what’s been announced and looking at the gaps that leaves, and will be back arguing the case for more help after the Easter weekend.
In the meantime, they’re relaunching our #EverybodyBenefits campaign. There’s no better time to show government, journalists, and everybody else that the work charities do is critical to society. It’s not an add-on or something we can do without, everything we do is connected to making the world a better place – and #EverybodyBenefits from that!
UK Fundraising has pulled together a range of fantastic tech resources to help fundraisers. Find out more.
Is the UK charity connecting manufacturers and retailers of goods like household essentials to charitable organisations (not just registered charities). Organisations can register for free, and access huge savings on the In Kind Direct online catalogue. This includes toilet roll, hand wash, cleaning and laundry supplies, period products, mother & baby supplies, indoor activities and toiletries. You can give products to the people you support or use them to keep running your services. Find out more here, or email Charlotte, Head of Charity Partnerships
This could be a pivotal week in the #EveryDayCounts campaign efforts to get a swift, substantial and simple emergency government funding package for charities and voluntary organisations.
We’re still pushing government for a Resilience Fund to get charities through the next few months.
There was some excellent media coverage over the weekend, with the Telegraph and the Independent newspapers talking about the importance of charitable services in these difficult times and the need for Treasury support.
We may be getting closer to a deal but it’s a difficult process and there’s nothing concrete on the table yet – so please keep writing to your MPs and publicising your story!
You can also tell Parliament’s DCMS Select Committee what’s happening to you and the people you serve – they’re asking for evidence about the impact of COVID19 on charities until 16 April.
sobus
20 Dawes Road, London, SW6 7EN
Telephone 020 7952 1230
Email info@sobus.org.uk
Registered Charity No.1071089
and Company Limited by Guarantee. Registered in England No.03471416
Sobus is a new Community Development Agency for Hammersmith & Fulham. It has been created through the merger of the Community and Voluntary Sector Association Hammersmith & Fulham (CaVSA) and the Fulham Community Partnership Trust (FCPT). Building on the strengths of both organisations, sobus aims to provide a wider range of support services for local charities, community groups, social enterprises and start up businesses.
