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Riverside Studios Invites SOBUS Art Groups

Riverside Studios welcomes you to its newly opened venue for a networking event. After a five-year period of redevelopment, Riverside Studios returns with a new state-of-the-art building complete with a cinema, performance and rehearsal spaces, television studios, and a café/bar that overlooks Hammersmith Bridge. We are excited to reopen as a boundary-pushing home for the arts and creative expression.

Riverside’s Archive is a new project supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. On Wednesday 11th March, we welcome SOBUS-affiliated arts groups to join us for a free information session and networking event. Find out about our exciting events programme, view materials from our archive collection, browse our current exhibition featuring artist Paul Muzni, and discover ways you can collaborate with Riverside Studios in the future.

Date: Wednesday 11th March

Timings: 6 p.m. – 7.30 p.m.

Venue: Studio 4, Riverside Studios, 101 Queen Caroline St, Hammersmith, W6 9BN

RSVP: Sophie at heritage@riversidestudios.co.uk

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SafetyNet Members Meetings & AGM

For dates and details of SafetyNet’s members meetings so far for this year, click here.

Our AGM is on the 25th Feb 2020 and will be a chance to see what we have successfully done over the last year.  It would be great if people can spare some time to come a long and get involved. Click here.

We are also looking for more members and trustees to join!

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Improve your Copy with These Upcoming Training Courses

Wednesday 12 February – Proposal Writing – Developing your Skills

Wednesday 11 March – How to Raise Money from Trusts

Thursday 23 April – Writing for Impact

Tuesday 12 May – Maximising Support from Trusts and Foundations

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Upcoming Charity & Social Business Seminars

These seminars will be taking place at the newly refurbished 7 Bedford Row events space. These events are FREE of charge, however places are limited.

Planning a major property transaction

Tuesday 25 February 2020

For many charities a major property transaction is a once in a decade or once in a generation event. It’s important that the process is properly understood by senior management and trustees, appropriate advice is taken, and the constraints imposed by charity law are understood.

Our charity property law solicitors together with guest speaker, Mike Greensmith, a specialist charity property surveyor, will introduce the issues that need to be thought about in a substantial property deal using the following case studies:

  • head office relocation
  • selling a property with development potential
  • purchasing a property for letting to a partner organisation

Data sharing: a survival guide

Tuesday 10 March 2020

Charities collect a wide variety of data about supporters, service users, beneficiaries, staff, and volunteers. Understanding what data your charity can voluntarily share, what you’re required by law to share, and what you shouldn’t share, can be tricky, but getting it wrong could have serious financial and reputational implications.

  • Our expert solicitors will present three interactive case studies focusing on data sharing requests that charities commonly encounter:
  • a Subject Access Request from a former employee – what needs to be disclosed and what is exempt?
  • a public sector funder asking for information to enable them to comply with a Freedom of Information request – how much should you share?
  • a third-party agency asking for information about a service user – balancing the need to cooperate with an individual’s right to privacy

To book either event click here

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English for Well-Being

English Class with Open Age

Fridays 9.30am to 11.30am

North Kensington Library

This practical Open Age course will give you information about health services while teaching you English along the way. Applicants must book to enrol.

Call Maude 020 8962 5594

£3 per session or FREE for benefit claimants.

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Lip Reading & Hearing Loss

Lip-Reading Class with Open Age

Wednesdays 10.30am to 12.30pm

North Kensington Library

In this friendly Open Age class, learners aged 50 and over, with or without hearing loss, will learn to develop coping strategies to either manage their hearing loss or communicate better with those with hearing loss in social settings and generally.

Call Maude or Angela on 020 8962 5594 or 5590 for more information.

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Free Event to Mark World Cancer Day

Hear from Cancer Awareness Roadshow nurse Lyndy Wesley about how you can reduce your cancer risk and take part in some interactive science demonstrations.

Tue, 4 February 2020 at 14:00 – 16:00 GMT

For more information and to book click here.

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Get Expert Help with Your Business Idea!

If you have a deep desire to get paid for doing the work you were meant to do, this seminar is a great place to start.

Portobello Business Centre Senior Business Advisor, Maria Stammers, will take you through the basics you need to know at the beginning. She will also help you to identify whether or not your business idea is viable and to make you feel more confident. This Business Event is on Tuesday, 18th February 2020 at 10:00am – 12:30pm.

For more information and to book click here.

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Events Running at Local Libraries

Kensington Central Library holds a large collection of books on the subject of Folklore and Customs. To highlight this great resource, each February we put on a series of events under the banner of Fantasy February. Come along! Kensington Central Library

Our libraries will also be putting on events to celebrate Harry Potter Book Night with crafts, games and snacks – come along!

4pm to 5pm at Central Library

4.30pm to 5.30pm at Brompton Library

4pm to 6pm at Chelsea Library

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Spring Mindfulness Course for 50+

Could you benefit from learning techniques to help deal with the stresses of everyday life? Join mindfulness coach, Elizabeth Hooper, for a FREE eight-session course to help you feel more relaxed, more focused and better able to cope.

The course starts on the 6 February and runs on consecutive Thursdays until 26 March.

For more information and to book click here

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