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Direct Payments Employer and PA Training

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Action on Disability are running free training for people who employ their own personal assistants (PAs).

The training will run monthly from: July 2016 until February 2017 at St Paul’s Centre in Hammersmith.

We’re also running training for your PAs.

This will be in the same venue and at the same time.

The trainers are: Kelly Munn and Peter Gay, now working together as the Personalisation Partnership.

When:   12.00 midday to 4.00 pm on each day

2016         July 19th, August 16th, September 22nd,

              October 18th, November 15th, December 15th

2017      January 17th, February 21st

Where:  St Paul’s Centre, Queen Caroline Street,

                Hammersmith, London, W6 9PJ

Free lunch and refreshments will be provided at every session

You just need to:

  • Employ Your Own Personal Assistants (PA’s)
  • Live in Hammersmith and Fulham

Training for you as employers includes:

  • The responsibilities of being an employer
  • Safer recruitment
  • Communication and managing your PA
  • Getting the best deal for payroll, insurance and from care agencies

Training for your PAs includes:

  • The PA role & Independent Living
  • Moving and transferring
  • First Aid
  • Insurance and pensions
  • Career development

‘Out of Pocket Expenses’

We can pay you back for any reasonable expenses you have attending – please contact us about this.

AOD funded by logo for training

 

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Charity Fundraiser – The Blood Fund

Nubian Life are supporting a local resident with a long term health condition, raise funds for the Blood Fund. Please support her fundraising efforts by attending the event, making a donation and promoting the event through your networks. Hope  to see you on 2nd July 2016.

NUbian Life event

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Make a difference: An Evening for Refugees

The London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham invite you to attend:

MAKE A DIFFERENCE – AN EVENING FOR REFUGEES

This local event is open to everyone interested in supporting refugees.
We want all refugees to feel welcome in our borough and you can help make this happen.

Speakers from 6.30-7.30pm
Food and refreshments provided

 Find out how you can help locally
 Testimonies from Syrian refugees
 The Council’s response to the refugee crisis
 Andy Slaughter (Shadow minister for human rights and MP for Hammersmith)
…and more!

For any inquiries, email the Hammersmith and Fulham Refugees Welcome Committee: hfwelcome@migrantsorganise.org

Hosted by Hammersmith & Fulham Council, this event is organised by the H&F Welcome Committee and supported by the H&F Refugee Forum.

When
Where
Hammersmith Town Hall – King Street, London, W6 9JU, United Kingdom

See flyer

Book your place here

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Lyric Theater – ‘Bugsy Malone’ Community Groups Ticket Offer

Free tickets offer for community groups for the opening night of Alan Parker’s ‘Bugsy Malone’ at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith.

Tickets are for Saturday 11th June 2016 @ 7.30pm.
We have an allocation of tickets to give away and will be distributed on a first come first serve basis. Each group can request up to 10 tickets for the performance. We expect there to be high demand so we are advising people to register interest as soon as possible and they will be notified on Wednesday.

With electrifying choreography and featuring all the classic songs from Oscar-winning writer Paul Williams including Bad Guys, My Name is Tallulah and So You Wanna Be a Boxer.
★★★★★
‘razzmatazz perfection’  – The Daily Telegraph

Don’t miss the smash hit stage version of Alan Parker’s world famous musical.

If you would like to book tickets please email:
lucy.court@lyric.co.uk

We hope that you can make it!

 

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Potential Development for your organisation

This is to invite those groups, who are in the process of developing their capacity, to a opening event run by a charity called Pilotlight. The charity Pilotlight is a unique, capacity building organisation offering free tailored strategic planning support to charities and social enterprises that are tackling disadvantage in the UK. They match  charity leaders and social enterprise leaders with teams of senior business people and facilitate a year long engagement to plan for sustainability, development and growth.

Sobus is pleased to be able to work with Pilotlight to secure placements for organisations registered with us. The process will involve an introductory session which will be held on either 24th June at 3:30pm or 27th June at 9:00am. These opening session will last 2 hours. After this you will be asked to make a formal application should you be interested in taking up a place on the Pilotlight programme.  The whole process lasts for 10 – 12 months and requires you to attend mentoring sessions with a team of business leaders who guide you through a planned process enabling your organisation develop. I would strongly suggest that this would help organisations that struggle with funding and require added support.

Please let me know if you are interested and let me know which date you can attend. Please if you are not certain then take a look at the Piloltlight website: http://www.pilotlight.org.uk

If you could come back to me as quickly as possible I would be grateful. Only so many places are available ……

If you are interested please email Nigel Jacques: nigel.jacques@sobus.org.uk

 

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Health and Wellbeing Board Joint Strategy Workshop

West London and Hammersmith and Fulham CCG’s would like to invite you to a ‘Health and Wellbeing Board Joint Strategy Refresh Workshop’ for patients and service users.

The meeting will take place on Tuesday 7th June 2016, 14.00 – 16.00, at St Pauls Church Hammersmith, Queen Charlotte Street, W6 9PJ.

We are currently reviewing our Health and Wellbeing Strategies across the Tri-Borough and the workshop is an opportunity for patients and service users to feed their views and comments into the strategy refresh process.

If you would like to attend, or have any queries, please could you RSVP to Emily Nicholls: Emily.Nicholls@nw.london.nhs.uk – 020 3350 4746 by 12pm on Monday 6th June.

 

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Carers Week: Events and Trips for H&F Carers

The countdown is on for Carers Week 2016!

This year’s focus is on building Carer Friendly Communities; communities which support carers to look after their family or friends well, while recognising that they are individuals with needs of their own.

To celebrate Carers Week we have a busy week of activities for Hammersmith and Fulham carers.

To book on to events and trips please call 020 8960 3033 / email info@carers-network.co.uk

Monday 6 June we kick off the week with a trip to Chiswick House at 1.30pm. We will be able to provide free entry to the house – then, after your visit you can enjoy the gardens.

Tuesday 7 June we’ll be exploring The Thames on a River Cruise. We have a number of tickets available which enable
you to hop on and off the boats as many times as you like during the day. We’ll be meeting at Westminster Pier at 11am
where you can collect your ticket and we’ll depart on the 11.30am boat to Greenwich.

Wednesday 8 June we’ll be celebrating Carers Network’s 25th birthday in style, at the Beethoven Centre, W10 4JL.
Come along to join in the fun from 1pm. There’ll be tea and cake and Carers Time Bank members will be demonstrating
their skills – we’ll also be inaugurating the Great Beethoven Carers Bake Off!

Thursday 9 June we will have Advice and Wellbeing Workshops at the Mencap Centre, 65 Aspenlea Road, W6
8LH from 10.30am – 3.30pm. This will include a number of interactive workshops and a light lunch will be provided.

Friday 10 June finally – and like the River Cruise, back by popular demand – we will be organising a guided tour of
The Houses of Parliament. The group will be meeting at Westminster tube station at 9.30am for a 10am tour.

Booking on to Carers Weeks Events

  • Tickets for River Cruise and Houses of Parliament tour are prioritised on a first come first served basis for carers who did not go on these trips last year.
  • To ensure as many carers as possible have the chance to be involved, carers will only be able to book onto one of either the River Cruise, Houses of Parliament tour or trip to Chiswick House.
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