Our crowdfunding campaign to support free training in the local community is live and ends on 4th March.
Please see the campaign page and rewards at https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/the-square-boxing-club
We’re offering lots of great rewards at heavily discounted prices. e.g. a taster class for £10.
For info, our first free community training sessions with the Community Actions project start this week for children and will run for 6 weeks every Thursday (details on above campaign link).
This course mixes theory with practice and interactive sessions and covers topics such as: feminism, intersectionality and leadership, the relationship between leadership and empowerment, organisational practices, unconscious bias, emotional intelligence, preventing burnout and self-chis course mixes theory with practice and interactive sessions and covers topics such as: feminism, intersectionality and leadership, the relationship between leadership and empowerment, organisational practices, unconscious bias, emotional intelligence, preventing burnout and self-care.
Date: Thursday, 30 Apr 2020
Hammersmith & Fulham CEO Forum – Developing our relationship with the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham
Date: Wednesday 4th March 2020
Time: 10am – 1.30pm
Location: Hammersmith
For further information and booking details click here
Do you have experience working or volunteering in a frontline-based role in your community, or have lived experience of issues affecting working-class communities? Are you keen to develop your career, getting paid whilst undertaking first-class professional development and having a say on how funding is spent? Do you consider yourself to be from a working-class community? You may like to consider applying for 2027 – but hurry, applications close at midday on 26th March 2020! Read more
We’re excited to tell you that we are now open for applications for our Pilotlight Programme. At the start of the year we think there’s no better opportunity for ambitious charities and social enterprises, based in England and Wales, to receive strategic support to take the next step in their development.
Take the next step and develop your organisation!
We’re looking for leaders of ambitious charities and social enterprises based in England and Wales who are open to change and challenge.
The Pilotlight Programme brings together senior leaders from prominent UK businesses with a charity leader to provide the strategic business support they need to develop their organisation.
After working with us, charities have increased their number of service users, diversified their income, improved their leadership and governance, raised their profile, and much more…
Deadline for applications is 13th March 2020.
To find out more & apply visit: www.pilotlight.org.uk/join/charity
We are delighted to be sponsoring Ethical Property Foundation’s 5th biannual Property Matters Survey.
The survey, carried out by Ethical Property Foundation, whose in house team provide support on property-related matters to around 300 small charities and community groups, is a national property survey aimed at understanding the needs and challenges faced by third sector organisations in dealing with property in England and Wales.
James McCallum, a partner in the team specialising in property law for charities, said: “Property issues in the voluntary sector are no less complex than elsewhere, but resources to address those complexities can be limited. The services provided by EPF are therefore not only manifestly desirable but necessary. This survey provides a clear perception of the landscape in which property advice and support to the voluntary sector will be provided in the future. It is essential that such high-level information is available in order to strategically plan and focus resources where they are needed.”
The survey is now live and your responses are key for understanding the challenges and opportunities for the sector in this area. The survey is accessible online and takes only six minutes to complete. You can find more detail about EPF and the services it can offer to charities on their website.
At our recent seminar looking at what’s on the horizon for charities in 2020, we highlighted the changes to the IR35 tax rules that are expected to come into effect on 6 April this year. IR35 governs the tax treatment of pay to consultants supplying their services via an intermediary. The changes will apply to all medium and large sized private sector organisations, including charities and not-for-profit bodies.
On 7 January the Government launched a review amid confusion about how and when the new rules will apply, and concerns that organisations could be exposed to unexpected increases in costs and a shortage of skills. However, the changes are still scheduled to become law in April this year. So what should charities be doing now to prepare? Click here
Bookings for the 2020 Charity Accountants’ Conference have opened! It will be held on 17-18 September at the Nottingham Crowne Plaza.
In partnership with our friends at Sayer Vincent, this will be our 29th event and we’re really excited about it. New for 2020, there will be bonus learning sessions in small groups, more varied breakout sessions and more.
We’re still fine-tuning the event and creating the sessions, but for now you can book, without making session choices, and we’ll contact you when it’s time to select your sessions. In the meantime, you can view this year’s content streams online.
Here’s some even better news – until 31 March, super early bird residential rates of £499 (charity rate) are available. So… Ready, steady, book!
Primary Care Networks (PCNs) involve GP practices, community services and local residents working in partnership to improve the health and wellbeing of communities. Link workers are key to this process.
This link worker role is about people and places – supporting patients to become more independent, and building relationships within the local community, so we are looking for enthusiastic, motivated and energetic individuals who have a passion for people and want to make a difference to the community.
This is an exciting opportunity to help us build the link worker service, so if this is you, and you have the ability and desire to work independently within a wider team, then we’d love to hear from you. The role is being hosted by H&F GP Federation on behalf of the PCNs so please get in touch with rosie.stewart@nhs.net who can provide details of how to apply.
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.