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

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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!

 

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

 

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.

 

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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Date: 8th June 2016 10:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Venue: 200a Pentonville Road, Kings Cross, London, N1 9JP. Link to directions

Clinks and LVSC invite you to a workshop with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) on how to share information about health and care services for offenders in London and encourage services to be ‘outstanding’. CQC would like to build contacts with user and advocacy groups supporting people in the criminal justice system in London to better understand the quality of care they receive.

  • Do you have clients whose health and care needs are not being met?
  • Are your staff or volunteers having to spend more time and energy supporting clients with their health needs, or to navigate health and care services?

If so, this is your chance to tell CQC about the quality of health and care services and help them identify good and poor care.

Meet with CQC inspectors to share your experiences of health and care services (including GPs, hospitals, mental health, prison healthcare and social care services) and discuss where services need to be improved.

Clinks members tell us that both the variety and severity of your clients’ needs are increasing, while at the same time health and care services are being cut back and those that remain are under constant pressure.

The CQC inspect and regulate health and social care services (in prison and in the community) to ensure they are delivering safe, effective, high quality care to all their patients. They want to hear your stories, and the stories of people you support, of how health and care services in London are delivering for people in contact with the Criminal Justice System.

The event is free to attend; and vouchers and travel expenses can be paid for volunteers and service users. Please note this event is not aimed at service providers who are regulated by CQC.

MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK- MENTAL HEALTH AND RELATIONSHIPS

The Women’s Association for Networking and Development WAND invites you to the next Happy Healthy Family Club on Wednesday 25 May 2016

10.00-14.00, Small Chapel, St. Charles Centre for Health and Wellbeing, Exmoor St, London W10 6DZ

***Lunch Provided***

Activities include

  • Tai Chi session by Royal Borough

Kensington & Chelsea Leisure Department

  • Sister Size – Bra Measure – Breast Awareness
  • Introduction to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) by Take-Time-To-Talk

Mental Health And Relationships by Vittoria Demeo

For further information please contact WAND UK on

Tel: 020 8962 4132 or 07813485607 (Dilhani)

Email: info@wanduk.org

 

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Free tickets to see Pleasure at the Lyric Hammersmith on Wednesday 11th May at 7.30pm

Up to 10 tickets per community group are available. Tickets will be distributed on a first come first serve basis

Val works the toilets in Pleasure, a hedonistic gay club in the north of England. For years, she has been a shoulder to cry on and a confidante – much loved but viewed as an enigma. Why is she still there? Why does she never leave? When a young man, both beautiful and unpredictable, arrives from the city and leaves a gift for Val – performed in this premiere production by the well-known British soprano Lesley Garrett – it marks the start of a passionate and violent night.

Born in Liverpool in 1988, composer Mark Simpson won BBC Young Musician of the Year as a clarinettist in 2006 and also, that same year, received the accolade of BBC Young Composer of the Year – the only individual to have won both competitions. In 2010 he won the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Award, and he has a growing catalogue of works to his credit, including his orchestral scores A Mirror Fragment and Threads (both 2008) as well as sparks (2012), which have all been well received. Most recently his oratorio The Immortal was performed to acclaim at the Manchester International Festival. Here he turns to opera for the first time; his librettist is long-time collaborator Melanie Challenger, whose poetry and prose have been widely admired.

Contains themes of an adult nature.

To book your tickets email lucy.court@lyric.co.uk