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Living Medicine Workshop

Unlock the healing potential of your kitchen or garden with our award-winning course!
Kitchen Pharmacy  The Basics of Self Care

Fulham Palace, Saturday 7 May, 1pm-5pm

Join Alex Laird from Living Medicine for the first of two inspirational afternoons on how you can use certain foods and herbs to improve everyday self care and health.
Learn through practical demonstrations and a plant medicine walk through the historic Fulham Palace Walled Garden.
This is the first in a five part series; it is possible to receive a Certificate of Attendance should you choose to pursue the full course with Living Medicine. The second session is on Colds & Allergies on Saturday 10 September.

Booking essential places limited to 15, so first come, first served! Cost is £50/£45 for unemployed adults, including handouts and starter kit.

Book & pay for Kitchen Pharmacy: http://www.fulhampalace.org/events/kitchen-pharmacy/

Book & pay for Colds & Allergies: http://www.fulhampalace.org/events/colds-and-allergies/

Venue: Jessie Mylne Education Centre
Fulham Palace, Bishop’s Avenue, SW6 6EA

 

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Black on Boards: Open Evening promoting Board readiness in BME community

Black on Boards: An Open Evening 5th May

Black on Boards: Open Evening promoting Board readiness in BME community

Black on Boards is a project that seeks to recruit and strengthen,diverse, high potential talents from local Black and Minority Ethnic communities to make a contribution within UK private, public and non-profit boardrooms.
HFVC is hosting an open evening session where you will be briefed about this intriguing subject by the NIAS Director. This session will include two guest speakers and aims to give you an overview of Boardroom Experiences and Tactics, Speed Networking and Personal Experience of rising through the ranks. An interactive Q&A will follow this explanatory session. The event will take place:
Thursday 5th May 2016 from 6.30 pm to 9.00pm
At The Triangle, 5 Hammersmith Grove London, UK, W6 0LG

To register please visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-on-boards-open-evening-promoting-board-readiness-in-bme-community-tickets-24618872711

Enquiries: connectingcommunities@hfvc.org.uk .

 

 

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Who Cares for Our Carers? Event

Help Like Minded explore they can support North West London’s carers on Monday 25th April from 17:00 – 21:30 in Hammersmith.

Carers and the community play a central role in the new Mental Health strategy for NW London.

What impact will the changes to how all people with mental health needs are supported have on the lives of those who care for them, on their homes and on their families? Is there a strategy to support those who do the caring?

We are delighted to invite you to join Like Minded and West London Collaborative whilst we use forum theatre discussions to ask Who cares about the carers?

Outline agenda for the event:

5.00pm: Welcome & Introductions
5.10pm: Round table discussion: The impact of the Like Minded strategy on NWL’s carers
6.15pm: Ruth Hanan, Carers Trust
6.30pm: Forum Theatre with Heart to Heart Theatre
8.30pm: Socialising and nibbles

Who cares for our carers flyer

 

If you’d like to attend, please book a place via  Eventbrite. Do forward to any relevant individuals, service users and/or colleagues as appropriate.

 

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Milson Road Health Centre: Co-design Workshop

Milson Road Health Centre Co-Design Workshop

Membership Engagement Services  have been appointed by Hammersmith & Fulham Clinical Commissioning Group  to facilitate a co-design workshop on the future use of Milson Road Health Centre (1-13 Milson Road, W14 0LJ) and would like to invite you to the Co-design workshop.

Details for which are:

When: Thursday 14 April, 6pm-9pm

Where: Masbro Centre, 87 Masbro Road, London, W14 0LR

The co-design approach looks to involve all stakeholders in the design process of what the future of Milson Road could look like. It is hoped that this will ensure that the Health Centre meets the needs of the local and wider community providing a long-term, locally designed solution to a local issue.

If you would like to attend the workshop, please email either elouise.smith@membra.co.uk or amy.li@membra.co.uk to register. Please note, refreshments will be provided on the day.

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FGNS 50th Anniversary – Stories, Photos and Documents Wanted

fulham good neighbours

Fulham Good Neighbour, local charity supporting older people, will be celebrating its 50th anniversary later this year. We are looking for previous staff, trustees and beneficiaries who would like to come forward and share their stories of the organisation as well as any photographs or documents they might have. Anyone who has any materials to share or simply wishes to reconnect with old friends is encouraged to contact Krzysztof Mikata-Pralat at chrismikata@fulhamgoodneighbours.org or on 020 7385 8850

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Interreg North West Europe (NWE) Seminar

The Interreg North West Europe (NWE) programme is a transnational  programme funded by the European Commission. It involves Ireland, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and parts of France, Germany and the Netherlands. The programme allows partners in North-West Europe to find solutions to commonly shared challenges regarding territorial development.

A call will be launched in mid-April inviting proposals for projects in the following areas:

  • innovation (capacity of regions, enterprise competitiveness and social benefits through innovation)
  • low carbon
  • resource and materials efficiency

Our seminar will give you more detail about the programme and help you assess whether this funding opportunity is right for you.

Who is eligible for funding ?

  • public authorities
  • agencies, research institutes, thematic and non-profit organisations
  • enterprises and business support organisations
  • only non-profit organisations can be lead partners

For more information and details, please download our briefing note from our website as well as the application package.

When?

Tuesday 19 April 2016, 10.00 – 13.30

Where?

Europe House 32 Smith Square, London SW1P 3EU

To find out more and see whether this seminar is for you please contact Hugo Clarke hugo.c@accesseurope.org.uk or call 0207 749 5159.

To register please fill in the form and return it to info@accesseurope.org.uk.

Registration is essential and will close on Tuesday 12th April 2016.

Please find below links for the registration form and the Seminar Programme.

Registration form

Seminar Programme

This event is free.

 

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Tackling difficult volunteer situations

hfvc event

 

This short training session is for anyone working with volunteers.

During the session participants will:

  • Identify what consitutes a difficult volunteer situtation
  • Explore the impact a difficult situation can have on an organisation
  • Discuss solutions to difficult volunter situations
  • Identify how to manage the exit of a volunteer
When
Where
Dawes Road Hub – 20 Dawes Road, London SW6 7EN, United Kingdom – View Map

Register here

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Volunteering Projects

Volunteering Projects

Works4U, the not-for-profit social enterprise branch of Hammersmith & Fulham Volunteer Centre is looking for volunteering opportunities/projects available in the local community that would suit a large group on 7th June.

When: The activities must be available on 7th June 2016
Team Size: We are looking for activities which can be undertaken by a team size of 40-80 people.
Time: The task must be able to be completed in an afternoon from 12:00 – 17:00 pm
Types of activities could be: Park Clean-ups, River Clean-ups, Gardening, Painting/Decorating, Befriending Older people, Cooking meals & promoting healthy eating, Afternoon tea party etc. We are open to ideas and the volunteers are keen to do something that has a real impact. If you are not sure if you have an idea, then please do get in touch and we can help formulate one.

If you want to discuss your project and/or want more information on how you could use our help please call Aparna on 020 8741 9876 or E-mail:
aparna@works-4u.com 

Please get in touch with us with your ideas and projects as soon as possible as we are looking to lock down the project in the next few weeks. However, we have many other teams of volunteers looking to support the community throughout the year.

We look forward to working with you!

Works4U Team
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