The Sands End Arts and Community Centre is a new charity and looking for trustees to help run the organisation and the community centre.
Application deadline: Monday 10th September 2018
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ValueYou Is a charitable volunteer discount scheme available to charity and NHS volunteers who have done 100 hours or more of volunteering in the past year. The card is currently available to volunteers in 15 London Boroughs and Portsmouth.
It’s a free and simple way to recognise and thank your volunteers. The discount card offers 10% or more off at small independent businesses and there are more than 60 of them taking part in Ealing, for example, and over 500 across London.
Businesses such as cafes, shops, florists, dry cleaners and hairdressers are taking part. Each volunteer also gets to choose one free gift. To apply volunteers or volunteer managers can download and complete the form relevant to their borough/area from this link.
Get in touch if you have any questions at coordinator@valueyou.org or 07926 164 827.
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Youth services are fundamental to enriching the lives of young people in the borough of Hammersmith & Fulham. From supporting with employment, mental health, education and prevention of crime. This appeal will enable YHFF to provide much needed support to the youth sector in order to keep it thriving. We are aiming to raise an additional 10,000 for our grants pot, in order to distribute these funds to the youth organisations which enable the development of young people into powerful adults.
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The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service is the highest award given to local volunteer groups across the UK to recognise outstanding work done in their own communities. It was created in 2002 to celebrate the anniversary of The Queen’s coronation.
Any group doing volunteer work that provides a social, economic or environmental service to the local community can be nominated. Each group is assessed on the benefit it brings to the local community and its standing within that community. Take a look at the guidance notes for further conditions and general information. Unfortunately, you can’t nominate yourselves.
Nominations should be submitted by midnight on 14 September 2018 for the 2019 awards.
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Caring for a friend or family member can be extremely rewarding. However, it can be easy for carers to neglect their own needs and they can be unaware of the support available to them.
For Carers’ Week (11th – 17th June) we’ve put together some of our information guides to help carers fulfil their role as carer, both practically and emotionally:
There are currently around 6.5 million carers in the UK – so it’s likely that you’ll know a carer, or are one yourself.
From: Age UK Information & Advice
Team London are offering grants of £10,000 – £30,000 per year, for up to three years, to community groups, small charities and voluntary sector organisations to run projects which encourage young Londoners to volunteer or take part in social action.
Funded projects will:
- Work with 10 – 20 year olds on volunteering and/or social action projects which promote wellbeing and emotional resilience.
- Demonstrate how volunteering and/or social action positively impacts on young people’s wellbeing and emotional resilience.
- Work with groups that are disproportionately affected by mental health issues such as those within the criminal justice system or young refugees or asylum seekers.
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Deadline to apply is 9th July 2018.
Chloe Holness
Youth Social Action Project Officer, Team London
City Hall, The Queen’s Walk, London, SE1 2AA
020 7084 2546 or 07522 218 637
Diabetes afflicts more people in the U.K. than any other serious health condition. There are 4.6 million Type 1 sufferers and an estimated 12.3 million people are potential type 2 diabetics. Help to raise awareness, participate in an event or alternatively share your experience on line.
Click here to find out how you can get involved.
This Carers Week is looking at all the ways that support can be given to carers to stay Healthy and Connected. Building communities which support carers to look after their loved ones well, while recognising that they are individuals with health and wellbeing needs of their own.
Click Here to find out how you can help carers to become Healthy and Connected.
Over 21 million people volunteer in the UK at least once a year and this contributes an estimated £23.9bn to the UK economy. Behind these big numbers is a big contribution.
These 21 million people are a shining example of how we can all make a big difference to individuals and communities every day from improving the environment we live in, spending time with those who may otherwise be lonely and contributing to a range of other essential services and support. We believe such a big contribution is worth a big celebration!
Volunteers’ Week is a chance to be part of the UK’s biggest celebration of volunteering, recognising the contribution of volunteers in their communities across the UK.
NCVO is the national lead for Volunteers’ Week in England, and the week is led by our UK partners, WCVA, Volunteer Scotland, and Volunteer Now.
Date: 1st – 7th June 2018
Location: Events held across the UK
Volunteers’ Week is a long-standing, popular event in the voluntary sector, established in 1984. It is supported and celebrated by small grassroots organisations as well as larger, household-name charities, who together run hundreds of events across the UK. These events showcase and celebrate volunteers and the contribution volunteering makes in our communities.
People celebrate in a range of imaginative and creative ways, and you can see some of the best photos from last year’s events on our Volunteers Week Pinterest board.
Click here to go to the Volunteers’ Week website.
If you’re interested in being a community garden volunteer come and visit the Elgin Close Resource Centre on Tuesday 1st May and Tuesday 8th May from 10am to 12.00pm or Tuesday 15th and 22nd May from 2.00pm to 4.00pm. We are looking for volunteers that will help to transform and maintain the community garden at the Elgin Close Resource Centre and Extra Care Services. No experience is needed. You will be provided with any training you need. Some sessions will involve helping to run gardening and recycling workshops with younger and older people. The address for the centre is 1-3 Elgin Close, Shepherd’s Bush, W12 9NH.
If you are interested please email Deb Culmer (debshcga@gmail.com) or call Jennifer Thaxter on 020 3815 2186 for more information.
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This is an exciting new gardening project in partnership with Elgin Close Resource Centre, Hammersmith Academy and Hammersmith Community Gardens Association (HCGA)
