The charity leaders body ACEVO is hosting a survey to find out more about people’s experience of grants from central government departments. If you’ve had a grant that was bureaucratic and terrible to manage, or flexible with good partnership working, or anything in between – take a few minutes to complete it today (or before 6 August when the survey closes). Your evidence will feed into discussions with Ministers and officials. Complete the survey here.
Alongside Healthwatch Hammersmith & Fulham they are co-producing a project to investigate how young people aged 11-18 who live or go to school in the borough are feeling and need your help to reach out to as many young people as possible!
They want to find out how the COVID-19 pandemic affected mental health?
Are they aware of what mental health services and support is available to them?
Do they know how to access help?
We want to know whether the support available is working for young people and to make recommendations for any improvements needed and work with professionals to make sure they are actioned.
We would really appreciate it if can you share with and encourage the young people you work with to complete it. Please also share through your networks and in any newsletters.
Can this be perhaps, be done as part of a workshop or PHSE session? In registration or assembly.
We are also asking professionals working with young people who may not have digital access to support them to complete this wherever possible. Please contact Brenda.Whinnett@lbhf.gov.uk for support.
Access the survey here www.lbhf.gov.uk/youngpeoplementalhealth
The survey is open to anyone who has been discharged from hospital. The survey should take no longer than 5 minutes to complete.
Your feedback will help to improve the discharge service across North West London
Hammersmith & Fulham is one of the most diverse places in the country, home to communities of people with different identities, cultures, languages and traditions including some of the poorest and some of the wealthiest in London. We encourage participation from all sections of our diverse community, irrespective of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or because someone is married or in a civil partnership.
Hammersmith & Fulham Council are consulting local residents and organisations on their draft Equalities Plan, and would welcome your views. The consultation closes on Friday 14th May, and you can find the consultation documents, including an easy read version by following the link below.
NCVO are conducting the largest UK study exploring the impact of Covid-19 on the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise sector. The latest round to the survey is now open until 26 April. Complete the survey here.
Complete the survey, if you meet the criteria, to help advance the involvement of deaf and disabled people, service users and others who are facing barriers when accessing certain services. Find the survey here.
NCVO and the University of Kent are currently working with partners on a collaborative research study looking at volunteering during Covid-19. The research aims to strengthen the evidence base on the impact of Covid on volunteering and what support is needed within communities and organisations. Learning from the research will generate recommendations to help inform recovery and shape future policy. Complete the survey here.
A perpetual challenge for voluntary and community sector organisations is how to afford salary increases – particularly when a multi-year grant does not include inflationary uplift, and your employees’ salaries are based on national pay scales.
This question was raised again recently by Rory Gillert, CEO of Bishop Creighton House, and is particularly timely given the heightened financial difficulties that many organisations are facing.
As a very quick benchmarking exercise, Sobus would like to ask you to complete a very short survey to try and find out what pay scales local organisations use. The survey is only 3 questions (4 if you add want to add any additional comments), so only takes a minute or so to complete! Your answers will of course be kept completely confidential, but the collated results will be available for your information in the next month or so.
You can find the survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KJ82LB9
ASE is a Community Interest Company based in Hammersmith and Fulham and a service provider for LBHF delivering Holistic Mentoring.
To help us to further plan our sessions to provide the best support please complete our survey which you can find here.
The idea is to have Parents/ Carers supporting each other. We are setting up online and via telephone support.
For a copy of the e-flyer for the PCCN programme please click here.
Action on Disability has been asked by its trustees and members to introduce a new Activity Service within Hammersmith and Fulham for local disabled adults. We would like to know from you what activities you would like to access and when. We have created a short list of questions that will help us to get the money we need to set up a new activity service.
We would like you to answer the questions and add any other thoughts or ideas you might have. You can complete the questions here: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=zibQeO-dukCGrZVNlVk_54LPcPgF4M9OkmFKWP5V5e1UNUM4TzlNSkdOTTZWWUpDU0dERFFORzZBNS4u
We would also like to meet with you to hear your thoughts on what activities you would like us to introduce.
You can meet with us, using the zoom app on Monday 01st of March at 1pm (This meeting is called Meeting 1).
If you can’t make this meeting, you could come along to our meeting on Wednesday 03rd of March at 9:30am (this meeting is called Meeting 2).
If you want to attend this meeting please email us at info@aod.org.uk and we will send you a zoom invitation link. When you do email us, please tell us which meeting you would like to attend; Meeting 1 or Meeting 2.
We look forward to hearing from you about your ideas and thoughts.
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.