The December Hounslow VCS Enews is Out Now. To read it click here
Archives for December 2019
A new way to apply for funding from Hounslow Council
Hounslow Council has a new way for residents and community and voluntary organisations to apply for funding to improve their communities.
The new Thriving Communities Fund brings together a number of funding streams which have supported community and voluntary sector services or projects – providing a new, single point of application for all council community funding.
Applications can be made under three funding streams:
- Small Grants up to £1,250
- Medium Grants between £1,251 & £15,000
- Large Grants between £15,001 & £50,000
Details of the Thriving Communities Fund are on the Hounslow Council website
The Fund is open for applications from 2 January 2020 and the deadline for applications is 12 noon on 21 February 2020.
We are holding workshops about the Fund and how you can apply for it.
- Hounslow House – Thursday 9 January 2020, 10.00am to 11am (this follows the formal launch of the Fund at 9.30am)
Book your place at the launch on 9 January 2020
- Feltham Library – Saturday 18 January 2020, 10.30am to 11.30am.
Hidden Scars: Understanding the Impact and Trauma of Harmful Practices
Wed, 12 February 2020, 10:00 – 17:00
About Women and Girls’ Network’s Hidden Scars: Understanding the Impact and Trauma of Harmful Practices training
This course aims to introduce participants to the different types of Harmful Practices, and the psychological impact of trauma caused by these experiences.
Learning Outcomes:
On completion of this half training course participants will have:
? Increased awareness and understanding of the range of harmful practices including; FGM, Forced Marriage, Faith Based Abuse ‘Honour’ Crimes
? Increased awareness and understanding of the global and traumatic impact of Harmful Practices on clients psychological and emotional well being
? Explored the neurobiological processes of trauma on the brain
? Increased awareness and understanding of relevant clinical conceptualizations. Including Developmental trauma, PTSD and CTSD
? Identifed the impact of the work on practitioners and the development of self care strategies.
Who is this training for?
These courses have been developed for front-line female staff, working directly with Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) working within London organisations. Please note that due to funding requirements, this free course is only available to female professionals providing VAWG services in London.
Due to the level of demand for WGN training, and to ensure that as many organisations as possible are able to benefit from accessing training, we cannot accept more than 2 applicants from any one organisation for each course. It is usually not possible to offer individual delegates a place on more than one training course within the same academic year.
Please note that applying on Eventbrite does not automatically gain you a place on the course. There is an additional shortlisting process we have to undertake to ensure the criteria set by our funders have been met before offering a place to an applicant.
Please apply early to avoid disappointment, as many of WGNÂ’s courses are over-subscribed and the application process may be closed early as a result.
To register your place click here
Child Sexual Exploitation: A Trauma Focused Approach Training
Tuesday, 4 February 2020 9:30 – 16:30Â
Women and Girls Network has developed this short course aimed at Practitioners who are working directly with or are responsible for the safeguarding of young people in the Borough of Hounslow.
Our course has been designed to focus specifically on working with girls and young women.
The day course will support you with the following:
- Defining what Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) is
- Exploring attitudes regarding CSE whilst challenging myths and stereotypes
- Understanding risk and vulnerability factors
- Recognising indicators and signs of risk or involvement in CSE
- Providing an insight into grooming techniques and profiles of perpetrators
- Understanding trauma responses from a neuroscience perspective
- Exploring the impact of the work on self through vicarious trauma
Who is this training for?
These courses have been developed for front-line staff, working directly with Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) within London organisations. Please note due to funding requirements, this one day free course is only available to practitioners who are working directly with or are responsible for the safeguarding of young people in the Borough of Hounslow.
Due to the level of demand for WGN training, and to ensure that as many organisations as possible are able to benefit from accessing training, we cannot accept more than 2 applicants from any one organisation for each course. It is usually not possible to offer individual delegates a place on more than one training course within the same academic year.
To register for the training click here
New Early Help Hub live for VCS Providers!
What is Early Help and what does the Early Help Hub do?
Early Help means providing support as soon as a problem emerges at any point in a child’s life, from the foundation years through to the teenage years. This could be for example with learning, physical or mental health, parenting, etc. The purpose of early help is to resolve difficulties at an early stage and prevent a future crisis.
The Hounslow Early Help Hub aims to provide a single point of contact for all those working with children, young people and their families who are seeking advice on support options.
If you have identified a family who are in need of support to prevent their situation becoming worse, contact the Early Help Hub to receive guidance on next steps!
If you have child protection concerns for a family, please continue to contact the childrenÂ’s services front door/MASH in the usual way.
Who are the Early Help Partnership Hub Team and how do I contact them?
The Hub consists of three Early Help Practitioners who are the face of the team and offer consultation for practitioners. The Hub also consists of a Team Manager and a Business Support Officer
You can contact the team by calling the Hub on 020 8583 6653 to speak to us between 9am and 5pm Monday-Friday, or email earlyhelphub@hounslow.gov.uk
How can the Early Help Hub support me?
The Early Help Hub can offer:
- Case consultation for individual families
- Delivery of early help training and 1:1 coaching
- Co-ordination of regular early help events
- Support with using the new Early Help Module system
- Co-ordination of Community Action Partnership Panels
- Provision of information on services or resources available
- Maintaining a directory of on-line resources
 The Early Help Hub does not offer:
- Undertaking direct work with families
- Taking the Lead Professional role for a family
- Completion of a CFAN for a family
- Completion of referrals to services or allocate services for families
Should the family I am working with directly contact the Early Help Hub?
No, as the Early Help Hub does not undertake direct work with families and is here to support practitioners. Please do not pass our contact details to families.
Please be aware that the Hub isn’t open outside of the operational hours and any urgent enquiries relating to families which must be dealt with out of hours should be directed to the out of hours childrenÂ’s social care duty team.
Have you seen our Hounslow Early Help Offer webpages when looking for support for a family: www.hounslow.gov.uk/earlyhelp? If you are delivering a service you believe fits into the Early Help Offer please contact earlyhelphub@hounslow.gov.uk to discuss further. Please also email us directly if you would like to join the weekly Bitesize newsletter subscriber list.
Lloyds Bank Foundation Funding Applications Now Open
Core funding grants are now available for small and local charities through a new simplified, more flexible and transparent approach.
They have refined and improved their approach to funding to better help you be stronger and more effective.
This new approach involves:
A continuously open application process, rather than in rounds, so that charities can apply for support whenever they are ready.
Clearer turnaround times for when a decision on funding will be made from the initial application.
Grants worth up to £45,000 and £100,000 available over three years that can be used entirely for core costs, with charities able to flex how much they spend each year.
An eligibility checker which takes less than five minutes to complete, which will tell you whether your charity is currently able to apply for support and, if so, for how much.
Support from the Foundation’s regional managers and access to the Foundation’s ‘Enhance’ organisational development programme, helping charities to become more resilient and sustainable.
For more information go to their website here
Free Christmas Crackers from Heathrow
Did you know that sadly at this time of year HeathrowÂ’s wonderful security officers have to confiscate approx. 15,000 Christmas Crackers because they are not allowed on the airplanes.
They would very much like if possible to donate them to local charities, schools etc, so that they brighten someoneÂ’s holiday period.
If you are interested please contact: bradley.austin@heathrow.com or ring on: 07902708055
HCN Annual Conference a Huge Success
The Hounslow Community Network Annual Conference was held on Wednesday 27th November at Heston Communty Centre. The event was hugely successful with 66 VCS reps from 48 organisations and stalls for Groundwork, Hounslow Model City, ilays,Polish Association Klan, Speak Out in Hounslow, Community Partnerships Unit and SFIDA Women’s Group in West London.
Councillor Katherine Dunne, Cabinet member for Communities and workforces presented on key priorities for the Council and how VCS groups can assist with these. She highlighted how the council was simplifying its funding by bringing different funding streams together, she stressed the importance of the role of civil society and volunteering, the role of the VCSE sector in delivering the councils corporate plan, how the council was working hard to make Hounslow a dementia friendly borough and the important issues faced by young people in the borough particularly loneliness and knife crime.
John Wyman-White from Hounslow Council, Community Partnerships Unit highlighted their twice monthly eNews EVOLVE. If you would like to receive Evolve please email; john.wyman-white@hounslow.gov.uk With the simple message: YES please send me Evolve
There were also presentations from Irfan Arif from Ealing CVS about the EU Settled Status project and Gopi Chandratheva about NHS work on Childhood Obesity.
To read the slides used by the Community Partnerships Unit click here HCN AGM – 27 November 2019 Thriving Communities Strategy
To read the slides about the EU Settled Status project click here Hounslow EUSS
To read the slides about the NHS work on Childhood Obesity click here HCNk Annual Conference 27th Nov 19 CWM OYH
Attendees Feedback:Â
‘The Conference which was thoroughly enjoyable. Â I gained some very useful information listening to the speakers and also made some excellent connections for future contacts re volunteering plans for the future here.’
‘Great for networking.’
‘Good mixture of presentation topics.’
