Hammersmith & Fulham’s Home Buy team is coming to an area near you!
- Are you currently renting privately?
- A council tenant?
- Still living at home?
- Are you ready to become a home owner?
If so we can help you. At Home Buy, we have various schemes
available to assist you in getting your foot onto the property
ladder.
We would like to invite you to join us for seminars, focus groups
and 1-2-1 advice sessions in an area near you.
If you are currently living or working in the borough and would
like to find out more about the Home Buy options
available to you, we can help!
If this is something you are interested in then please spread the
word and come along!
Please see below for dates and locations.
If you want to find out more, please call us on 020 8753 6464
or email: h&fHome-Buy@lbhf.gov.uk
Thursday 22 September 2016
10am – 1pm
Parkview Centre for Health,Cranston Court, 56 Bloemfontein Road W12 7FG
Thursday 24 November 2016
10am – 2pm
South Area Housing Office, Clem Attlee Estate, Lillie Road SW6 7RX
Saturday 29 October 2016
10am – 2pm
Askew Road Library, 87/91 Askew Road W12 9AS
Thursday 12 January 2017
10am – 2pm
Avonmore Library & Neighbourhood Centre, North End Crescent W14 8TG
Tuesday 14 March 2017
10am – 2pm
North Area Housing Office, New Zealand Way, White City Estate W12 7DE
Saturday 8 April 2017
10am – 4pm
Shepherds Bush Library, 6 Wood Lane W12 7BF
Mytime Active invites you to our showcase event from 2pm to 5pm on Tuesday 20 September.
We will be providing an update on our child and family healthy lifestyle service in the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham, The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea and the Borough of Westminster.
Through interactive workshops and presentations, you will have the opportunity to learn more about our successes and how we can support you in the future.
Speakers include Dr Paul Sacher, Nutritionist, and Marg Mayne, CEO of Mytime Active.
The showcase is free to attend, and refreshments are provided.
Venue: Baden-Powell House Conference Centre, 65-67 Queen’s Gate, London SW7 5JS
For more information, please call the office on 0208 323 1725 or email VictoriaOfficeTeam@mytimeactive.co.uk
Living Medicine – Self Care for Coughs, Colds & Allergies
Saturday 10th September, 1pm to 5pm
With autumn now approaching, explore how resilience to infections can be improved through non-medical nutritional and herbal support. This practical session will include demonstrations, a walk in the garden, and a guide and utensils to take home.
Medical herbalist Alex Laird of Living Medicine will guide you on how to:
- Identify, smell and taste common healing plants
- Find out how plants’ defensive compounds promote and protect our own body functions
- Make food and herb remedies to treat simple coughs, colds and allergies
This is the second in a five part series of workshops but can be attended as a standalone session. It is ideal for anyone interested in plants, food and health. No previous knowledge is necessary, though we’d love you to share your own experience or family remedies. Alex Laird BSc set up the first herbal clinic in hospital dermatology at Whipps Cross Hospital and also practices at The Haven breast cancer support centre in Fulham.
Details
£50/£45 for unemployed adults
Booking essential, via http://www.fulhampalace.org/events/colds-and-allergies/ or by telephoning 020 7736 3233
This event will take place in the Jessie Mylne Education Centre

Silver Sunday takes place on 2 October 2016.
Silver Sunday is the national day for older people to try something new and meet new people. It’s aimed at people aged 65 and over who may feel isolated or lonely.
If you’re aged 65 or over, or know someone who is, take a look at the events and activities on Sunday 2 October as they go online.
Some events will be specific to Hammersmith & Fulham residents, and others are also open to residents of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster.
- Hammersmith & Fulham events: via the national website www.silversunday.org.uk
- Westminster events
- Kensington and Chelsea events.
If you are working with an organisation that wants to organise a special event for local people on Silver Sunday 2016, you can apply for a funding contribution. Application documents and guidance notes can be found here:
- Silver Sunday funding application form (doc 272KB)
- Silver Sunday funding application form (pdf 183KB)
- Silver Sunday guidance notes (pdf 108KB)
- Silver Sunday conditions of grant aid (pdf 80KB).
These documents are short and to the point, and all applications will be turned around quickly. If you need more information on how to apply, please contact:
Katharina Herrmann
Community Investment Team
H&F Council
020 8753 2482
Katharina.Herrmann@lbhf.gov.uk
Or
Sacha Mortimer
Community Investment Team
H&F Council
020 8753 5009
Sacha.Mortimer@lbhf.gov.uk
Silver Sunday is supported by Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London.
It is so important that older people feel included in London’s communities. That is why I support Silver Sunday and hope that you all have a wonderful time celebrating the valuable contributions that older people make. These contributions span not just London but up and down the UK. In a city as large as London there is no need for older people to ever feel lonely or isolated but sadly some do. As Mayor, I want to make sure that everyone is engaged and active in their community – young or older.”
QSIR: Practitioner is a nationally accredited program from the Advancing Change and Transformation (ACT) Academy that provides participants with the know-how to design and implement more productive services.
It is based on highly successful previous courses and offers a comprehensive curriculum that includes:
- Leadership Fundamentals
- Project Management
- Sustainability of Improvement
- Engaging and Working with Others
- Process Mapping
- Creativity in Improvement
- Measurement for Improvement
- Demand and Capacity
Participants attend for five days over a three month period, and must have an existing project or project idea. During the program they apply the learning from the course to their own improvement projects, being supported between workshops to help make them a success. They are therefore not only learning methodology in quality improvement, but actively changing and improving local services as they study.
Action on disability youth service open day
1.30pm to 3.00pm
Cambridge School, Bryony road, London, W12 0SP
‘Made of Money’ is running a 2 day Facilitator Training in London on 5th – 6th October 2016.
‘Made of Money’ is an award winning financial literacy resource, developed by anti-poverty charity Quaker Social Action. It aims to help groups talk about money and its impact on their lives, as well as learn vital money management skills. It is ideal to help front line workers offer support to those on low income, particularly in the run up to the introduction of Universal Credit, and all the welfare benefit changes.
‘Made of Money’ takes a different and innovative approach to financial literacy: it works holistically- with the whole person and the whole household. The resources aim to build confidence; resilience and help people identify their own values and attitudes around money, as well as covering basics like budgeting, borrowing and debt. We recognise that unless people’s own situations are explored and confidence is increased, they won’t change behavior long–term. This in turn builds a more stable platform for the whole household financially.
‘Made of Money’ also focuses on emotions around money, our experiences growing up, consumer culture, communication about money & the pressure of raising children on low income. The resources are all provided, fully reusable as well as really fun and engaging!
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.