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Third Sector Leaders Share Their Personal Experiences of Overhauling Charities

The well-known saying ‘it’s tough at the top’ rings true for charity chief executives whose organisations face financial deficits, low morale and overstretched services. The CEOs responsible for giving a new lease of life to The Brain Charity, St John’s Hospice and Autism Together offer their top tips for getting the job done effectively

1. Be Brave
You need to be prepared to be unpopular to get things done, says the CEO of The Brain Charity, Nanette Mellor, who was appointed to plug the organisation’s financial hole. “The last thing you need to think about is being liked by anybody. If you start to worry about trying to please everybody, then you’re going to start to make the wrong decisions.”

Read the full article here

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Recruitment to Disability Forum Planning Group (DFPG)

Are you a Disabled person and have experienced facing barriers when accessing housing, public buildings and open space?

Do you live, study, work or volunteer in Hammersmith & Fulham and would like to make a difference locally?

Would you like to give advice to the council’s planning department on planning applications?

We would like to invite you to join the H&F Disability Forum Planning Group

The DFPG provides advice to Hammersmith & Fulham Council on making sure that planning applications1 create new buildings are accessible and inclusive that work for everyone. The group will use the Social Model of Disability2 and a human rights way3 of working in all its work.

We would provide:

  • Training to new members on access and inclusion
  • Empower new members to take an active part
  • Access to technical expertise

For more information contact Kevin Caulfield on coproduction@lbhf.gov.uk or 0777 667 2367

Closing date for applications: Friday 28 February 2020 at midday

Invitation to join

For more information 

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Family & Volunteer Co-ordinator Job

Are you warm, efficient and a great listener? Do you have experience of home visiting families? Family Friends is a Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service winning charity based in North Kensington which specialises in befriending and mentoring. We are recruiting a full-time Family & Volunteer Co-ordinator to join our team. The charity provides long-term practical and emotional help to disadvantaged families living in Kensington & Chelsea, Hammersmith & Fulham and South-East Brent through a network of 40-50 volunteers. Each volunteer supports either the parent or child in a family. We have a great record for ‘helping families to help themselves’. In this varied and exciting role, the Family & Volunteer Co-ordinator’s work includes:

  • Recruitment and training of volunteers
  • Introduction, supervision and support of volunteers
  • Assessment of children and parents needs via home visits
  • Monitoring and evaluating the services
  • Some evening and weekend work is required.

Closing date: Thursday 30 January 2020, 5pm

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Hammersmith & Fulham Hive is back!

Learn how to get the funding your community project needs at the upcoming workshop!

Wednesday 12th February, Irish Cultural Centre, 5 Black’s Rd, Hammersmith, W6 9DT, 2.30pm – 4.30pm – Get your FREE ticket here!

Hammersmith & Fulham Hive is the place to go for local change makers and community champions who want to make the borough an even better place to live. LBHF is pledging up to £20k towards community-led projects that bring local places to life! Join programme partners Spacehive for an interactive workshop  for people interested in becoming project creators! You will:

  • Learn more about H&F Hive funds and the Spring Funding Round
  • Discover additional funds available for your project
  • Get advice on creating your campaign plan

Explore how to promote your project successfully!

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Upcoming Personal Development Training from DSC

For many, there has never been a better time for reflection and thinking about how we can improve on the year before. Personal development is important and you reap the benefits both inside and outside the workplace. Where do you want to be this time next year?

Click on Upcoming Personal Development Training, and scroll down for our best personal development bits.

Writing Skills: Minute Taking Skills (14 Feb)
All too often, a minute-taker struggles to make sense of a chaotic meeting. Explore practical tips on how to make the task more manageable before, during and after. Read more

Resilience (27 Feb)
Take a holistic approach to finding the inner-strength and will-power to face the many challenges of your life on a day-to-day basis. Read more or see the trainer’s top tips ahead of his session

Personal Development Top Tips

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Free Boxing Training

Would you like to incorporate boxing training in to your group or community activities? We recently opened our boxing studio in Fulham with a mission to get more people active! As well as an ambition to grow our boxing business, we’re passionate about bringing the benefits of sport and physical activity to more people that wouldn’t normally have access to quality training, both children and adults – going a little way to help reduce the inequalities in sport and exercise that persist today.

If you are a charity, community group, local school or social enterprise and would like to know more about our free boxing training, we’d love to have a chat. Please email Charlotte on charlotte@thesquareboxing.co.uk if you are interested.

We are also launching a crowdfunding campaign to help support this if you would like to help support by sharing and also to find out more about us – you can see the preview page here

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Free Courses in England Have Secured Even More Funding for 2020

We are looking for more and more partners to help us promote this fantastic opportunity to their staff, members, customers, family or friends. We had 3 new microsites go live in 2019. They are great examples of the training websites we are proposing…

www.gegroupfreecourses.co.uk

www.retrafreecourses.co.uk

www.advizafreetraining.co.uk

If you would like to discuss how your organisation can take advantage of their own FREE training website perhaps we can schedule a call? There is no cost attached to this at all. All we ask is that your site generates approx 25 enquiries per month. We have a whole host of marketing ideas and campaigns that we can share with you to help achieve this.

For a no-obligation consultation contact Vivienne Wharton on 0121 752 3800 or email partnerships@freecoursesinengland.co.uk

If the above is not relevant to you please browse all free courses available here

We can support you in focusing on retraining or up-skilling, providing you with motivation, job satisfaction, and brand new qualifications.

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Nominations Have Opened for The H&F Civic Honours 2020!

This will be H&F Council’s third annual awards celebrating those individuals and organisations who give their time to help to enrich the lives of others in the borough.  This year, we are looking for nominations in the following categories: 

  • Most dedicated volunteer
  • Bringing people together
  • Community organiser
  • Acts of compassion
  • Contributions to art, culture or heritage
  • Contributions to health and well-being
  • Improving our environment
  • Lifetime achievement

You can nominate anyone who lives, works, studies or volunteers in the borough, or any community or voluntary group or organisation.  All nominations will be put before a panel of judges and the finalists will be invited to an awards ceremony in early June (exact date and venue tbc), at which the winners will be announced.

Visit the story on the council website for more information, a link to the nomination form – and also to see the video from last year’s awards event at the town hall.

If you know someone who deserves recognition for their hard work and dedication, nominate them now!  Nominations close on Monday 9th March 2020.

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Innovative Participatory Workshops for Refugee Women

Scheherazade Initiatives runs free weekly participatory theatre workshops for migrant and refugee women that offer a fun and engaging complement to traditional language learning and integration programmes.  Through creative games and exercises, role play, character creation and scene development, we explore issues that refugee women face when arriving in the UK and enable the women to ‘try out’ alternative scenarios to achieving their integration goals. Past workshops have focused on issues such as navigating the health and education systems, building relationships across cultures, dealing with intergenerational tensions and marital challenges, and, critically, building the self-confidence, personal leadership and communication skills to empower women to make a home for themselves here.  The programmes are funded by the UK National Lottery Community Fund which makes participation free for all.  Click here for further information and we would be grateful if you could please spread awareness of this project.

If you want to be kept updated about our work using theatre to empower migrant and refugee populations, please sign up to our newsletter here

 

 

 

 

 

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Media Trust Announce Their Fourth Annual Women’s Voices Event

Media Trust is thrilled to announce the launch of our fourth annual Women’s Voices event in celebration of International Women’s Day.

Date: Thursday 5 March 2020
Time: 12:45-17:30, followed by networking and drinks
Location: Academy London, 123 Buckingham Palace Road, Victoria SW1W 9SH

We’re offering 30 charities that support, campaign and advocate for women and girls the opportunity to work with their own team of media and creative industry volunteers. Each team will have the combined skills to help their charity build an effective, impactful and compelling communications campaign. The afternoon will also include light lunch ​when you arrive.

Get involved, get support
To apply, simply head over to the Media Trust website and complete the application form.
With limited places available, we are looking for strong applications that clearly outline a specific communication challenge including: reaching new audiences, developing a new campaign, or raising awareness about your cause.

The deadline for applications is Friday 24 January at 17:00. Successful charities will be notified by Friday 31 January.

Apply today!

All applicants must:

  • Be a UK registered charity that supports, campaigns and/or advocates for women and girls
  • Only submit one application per charity
  • Ensure two relevant members of staff, one of which is a senior leader/decision-maker are available to attend the event on 5 March 2020 from 12:45-17:30
  • Take part in one case study post event

To read more about what to expect on the day check out the highlights from Women’s Voices 2019. If you have any questions, please email Carly Bell on carlyb@mediatrust.org.

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