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Small Charity Week (18th – 23rd June) is the biggest event in the small charity calendar providing free initiatives, competitions and support over six days for charities or local community organisation with an annual turnover under £1.5 million. Events include:

I Love Small Charities Day: Three social media competitions to win funds for your charity.

Big Advice Day: Free advice on any charity topic of your choosing from experts across the sector and business leaders.

Policy Day: Local and national events will be held to support engagement between small charities and policymakers and influencers.

Fundraising Day: Take part in free competitions and initiatives to raise vital funds for your small charity and join events to improve your knowledge on fundraising topics.

Small Charity Big Impact Day: Showcase your small charity and the fantastic impact it makes by applying for the FSI’s Small Charity Big Impact Awards.

Celebration Day: Get involved and run an event to help raise awareness of and celebrate your amazing work.

We are calling on all small charities to get involved and engage with the activities available. Check the website now as some deadlines are fast approaching. See www.smallcharityweek.com for more information and follow @SCWeek2018 for breaking news.

 

Fundraising Conference: Heavily Subsidised Fundraising Conference in London

The Foundation for Social Improvement (FSI) are hosting their annual heavily subsidised fundraising conference for small charities in London on 21st June (open to charities with a turnover up to £1.5 million).

The conference features experts in a range of different topics, including fundraising guru Adrian Sargeant in addition to the following line up:

  • Building Donor Loyalty – Professor Adrian Sargeant, University of Plymouth
  • Making Major Gifts Work in a Small Charity, Christine Harris, London School of Economics
  • Building Strategic Corporate Partnerships, Brendan Hanlon, Just a Drop
  • Online Fundraising – Theory into Practice, Rachel Earnshaw, The Big Give and Suzie Rees, East African Playgrounds
  • Future Proofing your Fundraising – Maximising Millennials, Morgan Kainth, Raise your Hands
  • Meet the Donor – A panel of Trust and Foundations

Places fill up fast, so book your place today to access this fantastic opportunity: https://bit.ly/2rSxv9J

 


Big Advice Day 2018: Free Expert Advice for Small Charities

Part of Small Charity Week, Big Advice Day 2018 involves a national London event and various regional events across the country where small and local charities and community groups (those with a turnover up to £1.5 million) can access free expert 1:1 advice on a variety of topics.

Have a question or an issue you need help with? Just sign yourself up for an advice clinic and you will be given an hour of dedicated time from an expert in that area. Advice is open in every charity related field including:

  • Fundraising – every fundraising topic available from digital to legacies
  • Marketing
  • GDPR
  • PR
  • HR
  • Law
  • Governance
  • Policy
  • IT
  • Finance

Places fill up fast, so book your place today to access this fantastic opportunity: https://bit.ly/1ihBhCK

The North West London CCGs are committed to working with local residents and community groups on producing our equality objectives. ‘Equality objectives’ are the goals we set to ensure that we are working in an inclusive way to meet the diverse needs of our local residents.

Equality objectives should be specific goals that we can measure, which reflect your needs. Under the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) of the Equality Act 2010, we are required to prepare and publish specific and measurable equality objectives every four years.

We have already engaged with a wide range of local residents, both face to face and via survey, to ask what they think our priorities should be. We are now keen to work with you to: check you’re happy with our North West London objectives; work with you to decide what our local equality objective should be; and start planning how we will make these objectives a reality over the next four years.

We recognise that North West London is not a small area, so we are providing three opportunities, in different locations and at different times, to take part in these workshops:

Hillingdon, Monday 25 June, 2pm – 4pm: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/north-west-london-ccgs-equality-objectives-workshop-tickets-46284771999

Hounslow, Tuesday 26 June, 1pm – 3.30pm: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/north-west-london-ccgs-equality-objectives-workshop-tickets-46284855248

Westminster, Thursday 28 June, 5.30pm – 8.30pm: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/north-west-london-ccgs-equality-objectives-workshop-tickets-46285127061

If you would like to give feedback to inform this work, but have not yet had the opportunity to do so or for whatever reason are unable to attend the workshops, please contact Beth Golding either via email (bethany.golding@nhs.net) or on 0203 350 4303.

Hammersmith and Fulham’s Integrated Care Programme is working to improve health and well-being outcomes for local people by integrating care around individuals’ needs. When we talk about integrating care, we mean that a group of existing, local organisations need to work more closely together to improve the health and wellbeing of people living in H&F. To achieve this, we need to:

  1. Look at what we know and what people have already told us, because improvements must be based on understanding what local people need.
  2. Work together to develop and achieve the results that really matter to local people and help them to lead healthy lives.

We would like to invite you to a workshop focusing specifically on health and well-being priorities for older people. We would be most grateful if you could circulate this invitation to relevant patient and public networks and/or friends. We are seeking attendees who are older people with lived experience of using NHS services, and/or their carers.

You can register for a free ticket via this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-to-discuss-health-and-care-priorities-for-older-people-tickets-4360667003

Alternatively, to get more information about the event, confirm your attendance, or request assistance with getting to the workshop or at the workshop itself, please contact:

Pete Ellis (NHS Hammersmith and Fulham Project Manager): pete.ellis@nhs.net / 020 3350 4869.

Please ensure you include your full name, role / reason for attending, and organisation (if you have one). If you require any kind of assistance or reasonable adjustments, please could you contact us about this by Thursday 7 June.

Date of workshop: Thursday 21 June
Time of workshop: 09:30 – 12:30
Location of workshop: White City Community Centre, 7 India Way, Hammersmith, W12 7QT

Refreshments will be provided.

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book a place on the upcoming Charity Technology Breakfast Briefing run in association with the Charity IT leaders group. The event will take place on 26 June at CIWEM, London.

We have worked together with the Charity IT leaders group to identify a topic which will provide functionally relevant information to technology decision makers in the charity sector.

Our next Breakfast Briefing, how we procure in the changing world of IT, will explore the processes charity organisations should undertake before making investments in technology and how charities can get the most out of their partnership with suppliers.

Speakers on the day include:

  • Rosie Slater-Carr, chief information officer, British Red Cross
    • Case study: How building a strong partnership led to website success
  •  Ian Conner, director of global procurement, British Council
    • Steps to procuring technology for charities
  • Lee Odell, technology transformation officer, the Disabilities Trust and Nathan Baranowski, CEO, Ojo Solutions
    • Building strategic relationships with suppliers

To view the full programme, visit the webpage.

Last year, Hammersmith & Fulham council ran an emergency response ‘hackathon’ with local community organisations, where we came together to see how we could help each other in an emergency. On the day, it was decided we needed a space online to work together in the event of an emergency, and also that we should set up a training day to show more about what we do. With this in mind we have set up a Community Resilience Event on Saturday 7th July from 10am to 2pm (including lunch) at Hammersmith Town Hall and we would love you to join us.

The Community Resilience Event will include showing how we provide for displaced residents in a fully operational rest centre, how our extensive CCTV network assists in managing incidents, and seeing some of the command and control vehicles from the frontline services we work alongside.  There will be a presentation to attendees for them to learn more about what we do, as well as professionals in attendance to answer questions.  There will also be an opportunity to sign up for specific further training such to train your staff/volunteers as rest centre officers. To book your place on this event (2 places per organisation are available), please email camilla.mcbrearty@lbhf.gov.uk or call 07748 932 584 for more details. Once we have your interest, I will send the official invitation with more info.

In addition, we’ve built and launched a ground-breaking new community emergency response website!  The “extranet” allows us to include chosen partners in a website designed to help us work together in an emergency to achieve the best outcomes for our community, therefore strengthening our community resilience.  It’s also a place where we can communicate with each other and share vital information before, during and after an emergency event. If you would like to be a member of this website, please email camilla.mcbrearty@lbhf.gov.uk so that you can be added.

Camilla McBrearty
Emergency Planning Officer
Emergency Services Division
London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
Mobile: 07748 932 584
Email: camilla.mcbrearty@lbhf.gov.uk
Web: www.lbhf.gov.uk
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The Association of Chairs will soon be launching their ‘Beacon’ Programme, a new National Lottery-funded programme for Chairs and Vice Chairs of smaller charities (with an annual income of under £1 million) across England.

Developed with Chairs of smaller charities, this programme is uniquely placed to support Chairs to do their role effectively. The programme will offer an exciting range of tailored activities, free practical written resources and webinars and opportunities for Chairs to share ideas and learn from each other.

Don’t miss out. Sign up to Beacon’s new e-bulletin to:

  • Get regular updates about how the programme can help you or Chairs in your network
  • Be among the first to hear about new tailored, practical resources
  • Hear from Chairs of smaller charities on how they have tackled key issues

Follow this link to sign up!

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From the FSI May Newsletter. Click Here to find out more about the FSI

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Small Charity Week 2018 is just around the corner, are you ready to make the most of it? 


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From the FSI May Newsletter. Click Here to find out more about the FSI

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I am offering life coaching sessions for individuals and groups particularly around wellbeing, self-development and growth.

“Safe space / Empathy / Support”

Click here to download a PDF with more information

For a complimentary no obligation session via phone or Skype, please contact: Nawal Lakhdar

on Mobile: 07976083412
Email: nawal.lakhdar32@gmail.com

 

 

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This year’s Funders Fair will take place on Tuesday 3rd July at Kensington Town Hall in the Great Hall, Small Hall and Committee rooms 2, 3 and 4. This is an opportunity to meet with funders, pick up tips to improve your fundraising and learn about new ways to generate income. Sobus, One Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea Social Council look forward to seeing you there!

Details of the timetable, workshops etc will follow. Click Here for more info and to register on Eventbrite

In partnership with Hammersmith and Fulham Council, Opening Doors London – the charity for older lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans+ people in London (originally part of Age UK Camden) – is delivering a free workshop on the morning of Monday 23rd April to bring council staff and local health, housing and social care workers together with the voluntary sector to agree ways to improve services to better meet the health and social care needs of older LGBT+ people in the borough.

The workshop will enable your staff and volunteers to:

  • Better understand the health and social care needs of older LGBT+ people
  • Get the latest research into LGBT+ demographics, lifestyle and relationships
  • Identify ways to improve services for older LGBT+ people in H&F
  • Discuss barriers to effective working and how to accelerate change
  • Take away resources, video-links and practice-guides to share with colleagues

We would be very grateful if you could please circulate the attached flyer to relevant staff and volunteers that you work with who may be interested in this free event. Click Here for the Eventbrite links to sign up which can also be found in the attached flyer but please do drop me a line or give me a ring if you encounter any difficulties with this or need any further information.

Click Here for the Event Flyer