The newly launched Hounslow Voluntary Sector Learning Bank has been created as a “One Stop Shop” providing local groups with useful information and resources to support their work.
The Learning Bank has been divided into four sections and each section has lots of useful links as well as local groups offering their knowledge too.
The four sections are E-Learning and Free Training, Toolkits for Groups, Ideas from Local Groups and Free stuff for Groups.
The Learning Bank aims to allow local groups to share their ideas and useful knowledge of resources. Information could include a free service that you have used and found very useful, organisations offering free professional volunteering to groups or anything that you feel would be useful for other groups to be aware off. Simply email your ideas to iain@ealingcvs.org.uk and they will be posted in the section. To see the Learning Bank go to: https://ehcvs.org.uk/resources-for-local-groups/
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Refugee Mental Health Conference
Account Trust (Nepalese Community Organisation), Ilays (Somali Community Organisation), the Network of Eritrean Women and the Tamil Community Centre in partnership with Race on the Agenda (ROTA) would like to invite you for a half-day conference on mental health and refugee communities in West London in celebration of World Mental Health Day and Black History Month.
Date: 10 October 2017
Time: 10:00 – 15:00 (lunch will be provided)
Venue: 359 Hanworth Road, Hounslow, TW3 3SQ
This conference is bringing local service providers of mental health, health and social services and law enforcement services together with refugee community organisations and members. The conference will look at the various ways in which refugee community organisations address mental health within their respective communities. We will be in touch shortly with a full programme for the day.
We would appreciate it if you could share this with your wider network.
Please do let us know if you can make it to the event by emailing Laurie Lijnders at laurie@rota.org.uk
Job Vacancy: Fundraising Manager
The Mullberry Centre is currently recruiting a fundraising manager.
Job title: Fundraising Manager
Location: The Mulberry Centre, WMUH, Twickenham Road, TW7 6AF
Full/part time: Full time
Reports to: Chief Executive
Salary: £35,000, depending on experience
The deadline for applications is 12 noon on Monday 25th September. Interviews are expected to be held on Wednesday 4th or Friday 6th October 2017.
For more information click here
Job Vacancies: Finance Officer & Administration and Data Analysis Assistant
Home-Start provides vital support to families with children under 5 years. Over the last year we have extended our work across Richmond, Kingston and Hounslow. Last year we helped make a difference to the lives of over 400 families and 700 children.
We are recruiting for two roles to support our administration, data and finance functions.
Finance Officer 21 hours per week Salary Level NJC 26-28 £15,145-£16,084 including outer London allowance (£25,242-£26,808 full time equivalent) plus contributory pension
You will provide effective, efficient and timely financial administration support across all areas of accounts and financial processing and contribute to the administration of the charity. Highly numerate, with experience of working in a finance environment, you will be well organized and able to balance the competing priorities of a small, busy charity.
Administration and Data Analysis Assistant 21 hours per week Salary Level NJC 22-24 £13,503-£14,283 including outer London allowance (£22,505-£23,806 full time equivalent) plus contributory pension
This new role will give you the opportunity to shape and develop our new case and information management systems including Charity Log, analysing information across our services to ensure we make the biggest difference to children and families. An excellent administrator, with a passion for data you will support the administration of the family support services across the area.
It’s an exciting time to join our hardworking, friendly team based in East Sheen and to contribute to developing our work.
To apply, download an application from our website www.homestart-richmond.org.uk, email info@homestart-richmond.org.uk or telephone 020 8487 8500.
Closing date:   10am Thursday 28th Sept     Interviews:   week commencing Monday 2nd October
We are recruiting for two roles to support our administration, data and finance functions.
Finance Officer 21 hours per week Salary Level NJC 26-28 £15,145-£16,084 including outer London allowance (£25,242-£26,808 full time equivalent) plus contributory pension
You will provide effective, efficient and timely financial administration support across all areas of accounts and financial processing and contribute to the administration of the charity. Highly numerate, with experience of working in a finance environment, you will be well organized and able to balance the competing priorities of a small, busy charity.
Administration and Data Analysis Assistant 21 hours per week Salary Level NJC 22-24 £13,503-£14,283 including outer London allowance (£22,505-£23,806 full time equivalent) plus contributory pension
This new role will give you the opportunity to shape and develop our new case and information management systems including Charity Log, analysing information across our services to ensure we make the biggest difference to children and families. An excellent administrator, with a passion for data you will support the administration of the family support services across the area.
It’s an exciting time to join our hardworking, friendly team based in East Sheen and to contribute to developing our work.
To apply, download an application from our website www.homestart-richmond.org.uk, email info@homestart-richmond.org.uk or telephone 020 8487 8500.
Closing date:   10am Thursday 28th Sept     Interviews:   week commencing Monday 2nd October
Cranford Stronger Together Steering Group: vacancy for a new Chair
Cranford Stronger Together is a consortium of projects and services operating in the Cranford Ward of the London Borough of Hounslow that aims to support ‘struggling’ residents, particularly those from the Meadows and Beavers Lane Estates, to improve their individual wellbeing and the community’s resilience.
A vacancy has arisen for a new Chair of the group.
A vacancy has arisen for a new Chair of the group.
Ideally you will have experience of:
• Community development and/or wellbeing promotion
• Social innovation is desirable.
• Being the Chair of an organisation .
• Community development and/or wellbeing promotion
• Social innovation is desirable.
• Being the Chair of an organisation .
The role of the Chair is to:
• To Chair during Steering Group meetings, encouraging an atmosphere of inclusion and participation;
• To represent the Steering group and, where necessary, report up to the borough’s local strategic partnership, the Hounslow Together Board;
• To promote the work of the project to relevant, external bodies and funders;
• To input in the development and review of meeting agendas and papers;
• To mediate between members should any conflicts arise.
• To Chair during Steering Group meetings, encouraging an atmosphere of inclusion and participation;
• To represent the Steering group and, where necessary, report up to the borough’s local strategic partnership, the Hounslow Together Board;
• To promote the work of the project to relevant, external bodies and funders;
• To input in the development and review of meeting agendas and papers;
• To mediate between members should any conflicts arise.
To register your interest, please contact:
Iche Amadi, iche.amadi@hounslow.gov.uk, 0208 583 2416
Closing date: Friday 15th September 2017
Iche Amadi, iche.amadi@hounslow.gov.uk, 0208 583 2416
Closing date: Friday 15th September 2017
Increasing Voluntary Sector Participation in Health Transformation
NHS England and NCVO are keen to support voluntary organisations around England to have a greater role in delivering the transformations that are envisaged through STPs and accountable care systems.
This will require:
– Public sector bodies to understand and be able to engage with the full range of ways that the voluntary sector can contribute strategically to health and wellbeing transformation – not least in terms of prevention, community
involvement and equalities agendas
– Voluntary organisations to be well organised at STP geographical footprint level and have the necessary relationships to engage in this way.
involvement and equalities agendas
– Voluntary organisations to be well organised at STP geographical footprint level and have the necessary relationships to engage in this way.
Our sense of the picture around the country is that some STPs have gone further towards this than others. This can be because of cultural and structural biases within the NHS, compounded by financial and capacity challenges, and some of it could be the result of a diverse and poorly coordinated or resourced voluntary sector, particularly at the geographical areas covered by STPs.
The project aims to understand and overcome these, and other challenges, by facilitating better collaborative and governance approaches within the STP that include the voluntary sector.
For more information click here
Come for a stroll, chat and coffee with us in a local park
Do you know someone who would benefit from a stroll in the park, a chat and a cuppa? Lets Go Outside and Learn CIC is  encouraging local people at risk of isolation to participate in free activities in four parks in Hounslow. The project aims to raise awareness of the health benefits of being  outdoors, encourage friendship and highlight other opportunities available.  All the walks have themes and over the next few weeks include mindfulness, butterflies and bees, craft activities and storytelling. All sessions are free with no need to book, but we ask participants to register when they attend. We are also recruiting volunteer “Nature Buddies” to support the project and participants.
Further information can be found on www.lgoal.org or here or contact Frances Bennett outdoor.learning@outlook.com
Working West London
This is a new project to help refugees gain employment and build their careers based on their existing skills.
The project aims to make a substantial difference to participantsÂ’ lives, by helping them obtain employment, gain a sense of confidence and feel recognition for their contribution to the work market.
The project started in April 2017 and runs until December 2019.
It is based in 7 West London boroughs – Brent, Barnet, Hounslow, Harrow, Hammersmith and Fulham, Ealing, Hillingdon.
Working West London is all about supporting refugees groups into meaningful and sustainable employment, following a whole-person approach to personal and skills development; recognising existing skills and experience so that people can return to work in jobs and professions that they had previously trained in, thus supporting job sustainability.
Aim of the project:
– to provide targeted support to address those complex barriers faced by working age unemployed and economically inactive refugees (and certain other groups) in seeking and obtaining employment.
Outcomes of the project:
-Participants feel supported to manage their barriers to work
-Participants feel empowered to sustain their employment, developing the confidence to independently apply for jobs when faced with progression opportunities
-Employers better understand refugee employment immigration rules, see the value in workforce diversity and are more empathetic towards refugees and open to giving them employment
PROJECT Funded by the Lottery and European Social Fund as part of the Building Better Opportunities Programme.
Consortium led by ELATT.
