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Dear Members,
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more than 200 words:newsletter@communitybarnet.org.uk.
The next newsletter is due to go out on Thursday 2 October 2014 so send your
items for inclusion by 5pm on Friday 26 September 2014.
September issue
Contents
Items
CommUNITY
Barnet News
Member News
& Information
Funding
Opportunities
CommUNITY
Barnet Focus
Featured Events
Annual General Meeting
Contents
1. News from the CEO
2. Tackling Social Isolation
3. Organisational Development
Advice Line Service
4. Organisational Health Check
5. Voluntary and Community Sector
Development Partner
6. Volunteer Centre Barnet
7. Annual General Meeting
1. Knowsley CVS
2. Communities Together Network
3. Project Mercury - Clocks,Locks
& Light – the message
4. TESYouth
1. Community Food Project
Mapping
2. London Borough of Barnet
3. Access to Elected Office for
Disabled People Fund
4. Grant Scheme to Encourage
Participation in Physical Activity
for Older Adults
5. Greater London Connection
Voucher Scheme
Voluntary Sector
Networking Conference
Important Dates
17 September 2014
10 – 14 November 2014
12 December 2014
Dates for upcoming
Newsletters including
deadlines for items to be
included see here.
Upcoming
Events
Training
Opportunities
Job
Opportunities
1. Tackling Social Isolation Networking Conference
2. Get to know Cancer Pop-up
Kiosk
3. Barnet Migrant & Refugee
Forum Meeting
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4.
5.
Parallel Programme
Leaders Together
Relate
Social Media
Work 4 MPs (W4MP)
1. Children's Development Officer CommUNITY Barnet
2. Community Engagement Volunteer
– Healthwatch Creative
Programme
3. Community Development
Consultant- Colindale Communities
Trust (CCT)
CommUNITY Barnet News
News from the CEO
Dear Members,
Welcome back! Hope you had a great summer and are refreshed and ready to enter the second half of the
financial year – yes –it’s the time where we start to see whether our budget predictions were accurate, look at
new funding opportunities and start to prepare for the new financial year.
There are a number of notices I would like to bring to you attention of events taking place over the next month:
16 September – Barnet’s Safer Neighbourhood Board are holding their first public meeting at the Peel
Centre. It is a chance for you to meet the members of the new board and find out how they are holding Adrian
Usher our Borough Commander to account.
17 September – CommUNITY Barnet with members of the local voluntary and community sector is holding the
Barnet social isolation networking conference at St. Paul’s Church. Looking at the causes of social isolation,
this packed conference will showcase some of work being delivered by local charities, reveal the new social
isolation toolkit developed by Barnet and Harrow Public Health and end with a session led by Radhika Bynon
from the Young Foundation on how to ensure the sector is commission –ready.
25 September the Metropolitan Police will be launching their ‘Clocks, Locks and Lights’ community day – see
more details below.
Thank you all for your continued hard work and support of CommUNITY Barnet. We look forward to seeing you
all at the oncoming events.
If there are any achievements that you would like to highlight in the CEO spot - please send details
tonewsletter@communitybarnet.org.uk.
Julie Pal - CEO
Tackling Social Isolation - Networking Conference
Where: St Paul's Centre Finchley, N3 2PU
When 71 :Sept 2014
Time: 2 - 5pm
The voluntary sector has worked for decades to reduce social isolation for carers, disabled people, older adults,
people with a mental health condition, children, people from marginalised communities - in fact every sort of
person you can think of who is likely to call upon the voluntary sector to help. Our next networking conference
on social isolation will build on our existing work with one another about developing our combined efforts to
tackle this great social ill.
A snapshot of the day's programme
Keynote speakers:
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Campaign to End Loneliness - Anna Goodman: Loneliness - the national perspective
Public Health Barnet - Rachel Wells: Public Health, its relation to social isolation?
Age UK Barnet – Helen Newman: Using IT and other methods to reduce social isolation
Young Foundation, The U project - Radhika Bynon: Neighbourly, neighbours!
Showcasing the Voluntary Sector
Context: Tackling social isolation - the impact your organisation/project has made
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Parenting Consortium - Zoe Kattah
Barnet Mencap, Community Inclusion Project - Shelley Gibbons
Mind, Befriending Service - Christina Meacham
Friend in Need - John Wilks
Networking
Short delivery by Radhika Bynon: Being ‘commission-ready’ / showcasing impact
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Organisations share what they are doing to tackle social isolation
Lessons learnt – taking this forward? Partnerships, meeting up again, funding opportunities
Register, here.
Judi Dumont - Barter Membership Officer
Organisational Development Advice Line Service
This new service offers advice and information on matters relating to running your organisation and
organisational development that you may be grappling with; for example Governance, Planning,
Conflict issues, Regulatory Compliance, Start-ups, Legal Structures and/or process involved in
converting from existing legal form.
The service is available on alternate Tuesdays & Thursdays from 10-1pm.
Please note that it may sometimes be necessary to refer your enquiry if it is of a legal nature.
Next advice line session: Tuesday 16th and Thursday 18th September
Advice Line number: 020 8364 8400 x239
Organisational Health Check
Are you due an organisational health check? Is your organisation running to its optimum? We offer a free
organisational health check to help identify organisational / service gaps and support you to prioritise areas that
need improving to ensure your organisation can operate more effectively.
The health check session will take no longer than 60 minutes, depending on the size of the organisation and
will help you develop a straightforward action process to respond to the needs / gaps flagged up.
To take up this offer please call 020 8364 8400 x210 to book a session, or
emaildevelopment@communitybarnet.org.uk
Voluntary and Community Sector Development Partner
Barnet Council is currently tendering for a Voluntary and Community Sector Development
Partner. CommUNITY Barnet is the incumbent contract holder. Mindful of a potential conflict of interest we
have taken the difficult decision that on this occasion we should not be advising interested parties on how to
best complete this tender. We hope you can understand the reason for this decision.
CommUNITY Barnet will of course endeavour to ensure that its proposals do not duplicate existing activity
carried out in the Borough. If successful in the tender, we will continue to liaise and consult with the local
voluntary and community sector to ensure any new proposals do not duplicate existing effective activities.
Volunteer Centre Barnet
Volunteer Centre Barnet, is currently working with Middlesex University and Barnet Council in researching the
state of Volunteering with the Borough. Jia Yuan Foo (a.k.a Reuben) an MBA student at Middlesex University is
helping us with this research would be very grateful if you could please take a few minutes to complete it.
Please do encourage your volunteers to complete the same.
For ORGANISATIONS - http://bit.ly/1oRl8Hg
For Your VOLUNTEERS (past and current) - http://bit.ly/1tWh1ub
Your response will be sent directly to Reuben, who will analyse it and put in a report. The final report will be
shared with the council, Middlesex University and the Volunteer Centre (part of CommUNITY Barnet) The
purpose of this research is to understand the current state of voluntary sector in the borough: how voluntary
organisations manage their volunteers and some of the challenges they are facing, and to hopefully come up
with some possible proposals to improve the sector. Thank you for your help and time.
CommUNITY Barnet Annual General Meeting 2014
Date:
Friday 12 Dec 2014
Time:
10:00am – 1:00pm
Where:
The Centre(Bath Place), Barnet, Hertfordshire, EN5 5XE
Guest Registration:
9.30 for 10am start
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to
contact Helen, on 020 8364 8400 ex 205
Full details and agenda will follow nearer the time.
Member News & Information
Knowsley CVS
One local charity is being investigated by HMRC who claim their day services for disabled adults are not a
welfare service and therefore HMRC claim that because they work with the people in their day services to
help them find jobs, retrain ,volunteer they are not beneficiaries in a welfare model . Based on this
assessment no organisation could provide the government with their own community work
placements.
Has anyone had any experience of any of their voluntary organisations fighting an issue like this? Any words of
wisdom would be helpful for this group regarding precedents.
They have of course engaged a solicitor they can afford. They
are seeking information on any other
cases and what the ‘’ battle’ taught or achieve. Contact Pamela S Ball 0151 489
1222 email: pamela.ball@kcvs.org ,http://www.kcvs.org Twitter : @KnowsleyCvs
Communities Together Network
Communities together network would like to invite you to participate in consultation. If you have any queries
do not hesitate to contact Chloe Horner Housing Strategy and Business Improvement Manager, Strategic
Planning and Regeneration, London Borough of Barnet, 2nd Floor Building 4, North London Business Park,
Oakleigh Road South, London N11 1NP or Chloe.Horner@barnet.gov.uk or by telephone 020 8359 4775.
You can find out more information, including the reasons for the proposed changes here. Please do give
them your views either by sending your comments by email or by completing the online survey. The
consultation ends on 30 September 2014.
Project Mercury - Clocks,Locks and Lights -the message
“Do your part, be security smart” On Thursday 25th September 2014, the Metropolitan Police in Barnet
will be mounting a community engagement event of unprecedented scale, with support from other branches of
the Metropolitan Police, key partners and sponsors.
The aims of the day are:
1) To highlight the fantastic work the Metropolitan Police in Barnet has done to make the borough a
safer place, and to reduce crime.
2) To engage with the public building relationships and having 100,000 conversations, reaching
members of the community who might not otherwise interact with the police.
3) To promote an anti-burglary crime prevention message, through the Clocks, Locks and Lights
message, and the tag line “Do your part, be security smart”. Find out more here.
TESYouth
If you are 18-24 and looking for skills that will enable you to start your own business or want to improve your
self-confidence and CV ,skills and about work experience visit www.TESYouth.org
Funding
Opportunities
Community Food Project Mapping
Esmée Fairburn has provided funds to develop a London collective purchasing project of which the first stage
involves identifying community food projects in London.
Once the mapping is complete funds will be provided to offer a free pilot delivery service throughout London.
Community Food Enterprise is a social enterprise food business committed to enhancing the distribution of
Grade 1 fresh fruit and vegetables to community food projects throughout London. They are seeking to identify
Community food projects in London's 32 boroughs that are delivering healthy eating food project such as box
schemes, food co-ops, mobile food shops, buying clubs etc.Contact Erica Samuel ,if you are a food
focussed community project. Tel: 020 7511 9014 eric@c-f-e.org.uk ,www.c-f-e.org.uk
London Borough of Barnet - Upcoming Tendering Opportunities
Short Breaks for Disabled Children £4,000,000 - 4 Years – Tender publication planned for Sept 2014
Youth Homelessness Supported Accommodation £2,700,000 - 5 years – Tender publication planned for
Sept 2014
Please note that Community Barnet does not know any further details of the tender opportunities but
merely that it is the councils intention to put the above opportunities out to tender. We understand that
every organisation will require different levels of support so we are trying to establish a baseline of
need. Therefore we would request that interested parties from the local VCS complete the online survey. Click
here.
The information obtained by this short survey will be used by Community Barnet to formulate a support plan for
the Sector and will not be shared with any third parties without your consent.
Access to Elected Office for Disabled People Fund
The Fund has been extended for a further year, and will now be accepting applications until the end of
March 2015.
The upper grant limit has been increased from £20,000 to £40,000 per calendar year (January to
December). This means that applicants can now apply for up to £40,000 per calendar year towards the extra
costs they face when standing for election (or being considered for selection) that a non-disabled person would
not have to pay.
Also, the scope of elections covered by the fund has been extended to include Town and Parish Council
elections in England.
You can apply by completing the online application form on the Funds website. If you prefer by post, you can
download a blank form from the apply page on their website.
If you have any questions or wish to request information in an alternative format, please feel free to call
01457 869 714 or email enquiries@access-to-elected-office.org.uk
Grant Scheme to Encourage Participation in Physical Activity for Older Adults
The shared Barnet and Harrow Public Health Team wish to award small grants for seed
funding to charities or not-for-profit community organisations to provide physical activity
sessions for older adults in Barnet.
Physical inactivity is one of the major risk factors for poor health and death amongst older people. Increasing
physical activity has the potential to improve the physical and mental health, reduce all-cause mortality and
improve life expectancy.
They welcome applications from not-for-profit community organisations and community groups with
experience of providing physical activities for older people or from those organisations who would like to do so.
Most grants will be from £250 - £750 although there is scope for larger grants if necessary.
For more information contact Veronica Georgescu on 020 8359 3980.
Greater London Connection Voucher Scheme
Your business could get up to £3k towards installing a high-speed broadband connection, usually of 30Mbit/s or
more. With high speed broadband you can store and access files and applications via the cloud, transfer large
files quickly and securely, and enjoy a more productive and reliable service every day. The next step is to get a
connection voucher. Department for Culture, Media and Sport is making available up to £100 million to SMEs
and charities across 22 UK cities. The scheme in the capital is being delivered by the Mayor of London and
local boroughs. The voucher can also be used for the installation of a dedicated business grade broadband
service. To find out more, visit:www.london.gov.uk/broadband
Upcoming Events
Tackling Social Isolation
For many years now the voluntary sector has worked to reduce social isolation for
carers, disabled people, older adults, people with a mental health condition, children and people from
marginalised communities - in fact anyone who is likely to call upon the voluntary sector to help.
The event will bring together organisations from across all sectors, provide concrete information that can be
used to improve the quality of service provision and enable organisations to pool their resources, skills and
talents to consider building consortia to bid for funding or simply create innovative ways of working together to
meet the needs of your beneficiaries. Register, here
Get to Know Cancer Pop-up Kiosk
A Get to Know Cancer pop-up kiosk will open at the Broadway Shopping Centre in Edgware on 23 September.
If you have any questions or concerns about cancer, please pop in and have a chat with one of the specialist
nurses and Cancer Research UK activists who will provide support and advice on the signs and symptoms of
cancer. No appointment is needed. Over 1,000 Barnet residents visited a previous pop-up shop at the Spires
Shopping Centre in High Barnet.
The pop-up shops are part of the Get to Know Cancer campaign by Barnet and Harrow Public Health service,
in partnership with NHS England. It aims to raise awareness of the importance of early diagnosis and get the
message across that cancer is treatable, even beatable.
Where:
When:
Opening days/time:
Broadwalk Shopping Centre (opposite Sainsbury’s)
23 September to 12 October 2014
Tuesday- Saturday (9am-7pm) and Sundays (11am-5pm)
Barnet Migrant & Refugee Forum Meeting
Do you deliver services directly to migrant and refugee communities? Do your services and activities
benefit those from the refugee and migrant community?
You are invited to a meeting of the Barnet Migrant & Refugee Forum (BMRF) to discuss plans to elect its first
trustees / management committee and agree a constitution. The results of a mapping exercise will also be
presented, as well as ideas for future strategic activities.
Date: Thursday 25th September 2014
Time: 10am – 12.30pm.
Venue: Afghan Association Paiwand 10th floor, Hyde House, The Hyde, Colindale NW9 6LH
Please email Victor: Development@communitybarnet.org.uk to let him know if you will attend.
Training Opportunities
After Hurting in the family - Parallel Programme
A Community Group Programme for children and their mothers or female carers affected by domestic abuse
Dates: 23rd September—9th December 2014
Location: Barnfield Children’s Centre, Silkstream Road, Edgware, HA8 ODA
Time: 12:30pm—2:30pm
Leader's Together
Do you run a small charity, social enterprise or a community group? Would you benefit from a mentor?
Leaders Together is a Time Bank Project that matches volunteer senior professional mentors with leaders of
community groups and social enterprises to support them on a one-to-one basis. The mentor can assist the
groups and their leaders with everything from fundraising and financial management to strategic planning or
communications.
They are currently looking for leaders in small charities, social enterprises or community groups who need
support and advice to drive their group forward! Perhaps you need help with fundraising, marketing, volunteer
management or just need a sounding board for your ideas!
Requirement is that you are based in Greater London and have an annual turnover of less than £500,000. It’s a
free service, designed to build the capacity of groups which need a little extra support, guidance and advice.
They will provide an induction for every mentee and are there to help you make the most of the programme!
Interested groups should fill in their online form here or contact Samantha Reeve
onsamantha@timebank.org.uk or 020 3111 0726
Relate
Training courses from Relate - Autumn 2014
1.
Date:
Supporting Others an introduction to counselling skills - A one day introductory course for those in a
helping role.
29 September at Relate Harrow HA1 1GT
Course Cost: £75 ( some FREE places also available)
1.
Dates:
Counselling Skills for Non-Counsellors - A four day course for those engaged in a helping or
supporting role privately or professionally.This course is accredited by the Open College Network and
offer up to three credits at level 3
1, 8, 15, 22 October 2014 at Relate Harrow HA1 1GT
Course cost: £300 ( some FREE places also available) Participants should attend all four sessions
Free places are available to those who are unemployed or looking for work. If you would like to apply
for a free place on one of the courses please contact is at the email below Relate_training@yahoo.co.uk
Social Media
10 things your charity needs to know about social media: From uncovering secret formulas and
engaging ageing audiences, to trend-setting and sleep-tweeting, here are our experts' tips on social
media for charities.
Check - here
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10 years on: what role will social media play?
Five social media charity campaigns you need to know about
How social media can change the face of fundraising
W4MP
Please find link to the Website – http://www.w4mp.org/ W4MPjobs. This is a useful resource to
assist people interested in gaining employment or voluntary work with MPs.
Job Opportunities
Children's and Young People Service - Development Officer with CommUNITY Barnet
Community Barnet have a vacancy for a full - time Development Officer to provide high-quality, appropriate and
timely development support to local Voluntary / Community Organisations working with Children and Young
People, in order to strengthen the effectiveness and efficiency of their delivery.
Hours - Full Time (35 hours per week)
Salary - £24,000 per annum
Based in Barnet
Interview date: Monday 22nd of September 2014.
Closing date: Friday 12th September 2014
If you would like to apply for this position please send your CV and cover letter
torecruitment@communitybarnet.org.uk, quoting the job title. For the application pack please click
here.
Community Engagement Volunteer - Healthwatch
Healthwatch Barnet are looking for a volunteer to assist the team in undertaking
engagement and outreach work in the Borough, to find out residents views and opinions
about Health and Social Care services in Barnet, to help analyse these and to report back to
the Healthwatch staff team. You will also be support the organisation by assisting with
administration work at the Healthwatch office.
To apply for this volunteering opportunity please contact our team on 0208 364 8400 Ext 218
Community Development Consultant with Colindale Communities Trust (CCT)
Colindale Communities Trust are seeking a proactive and experienced Community Development Consultant or
organisation to support the development of CCT.
The successful candidate, would work closely with them to help develop the organisation. They would lead the
implementation of their business plan.
Closing date: 5pm 30 September 2014
Interviews:
6 October 2014
For an informal discussion please contact Paul Bragman on 07887 721825
or Email:sade@communityregen.net for specifications, including the application process.
Warm Regards,
Press and Communications Team
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