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Bus Photo WINNER!

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A couple of weeks ago we ran an INSTAGRAM competition. It was for people to take photographs of our buses in the area, upload them to their INSTAGRAM account and tag @1Comm (our charity’s account).

There was a wonderful prize of afternoon tea offered for the winning photograph.

We had a good look at the entries and in the end agreed on:

“Pussy Passengers”

Yesterday we were able to congratulate the winner, Ricky Vivian….

Ricky said:

“Thank you for this wonderful prize. I will enjoy taking my Mum on the Watercress line for our afternoon tea.”

Congratulations Ricky from all of us at One Community!

Celebrating Volunteers.

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Celebrating Volunteers

Making the most of Volunteers’ Week 2019 (1-7 June), One Community, held two Volunteer Awards events on consecutive evenings. The first was at The Point in Eastleigh on Tuesday 4 June and the second at Ferneham Hall in Fareham on Wednesday 5 June. Over the two events 152 volunteers from 26 organisations were recognised, receiving their certificates from the Mayor of Eastleigh Cllr Darshan Mann and the Mayor of Fareham Cllr Pamela Bryant.

            The presentations provide the opportunity to tell the individual stories of the volunteers, both amusing and touching in turn. The organisations represented reflect the diversity of the roles undertaken, from Front of House volunteers welcoming and serving visitors to Westbury Manor Museum in Fareham, to Street Pastors, who have been listening, caring and helping people on the streets of Eastleigh on Friday nights since July 2009.

Fareham fun in the picture:

            Guests described the events as “life affirming”, volunteers spoke of feeling valued, and another said that the lovely words written by her nominator, read out at on the night, “brought tears to her eyes.” A volunteer manager who accompanied some of her volunteers to the Fareham presentation said: “I really enjoy the evening, it is so positive, and it really makes me feel part of something wonderful.”

            The Eastleigh event incorporated the Mayor of Eastleigh’s Youth Awards, celebrating the work of young volunteers, aged 11-18, in the borough, an initiative that is supported by The Lions Club of Eastleigh. Silver and Gold Award runners up and winners were announced and certificates presented to 11 young people. (Pictured below.)

            Gold award winners, who have completed more than 100 hours of volunteering were Stuart Tucker who helps swimmers with special needs learn to swim at Eastleigh Swimming Club & Learn To Swim; Amy Merewood who has worked in the local Marie Curie Charity Shop for over a year, clocking up over 200 hours; James Wiseman, a young leader at the 10th Itchen North Beaver Group; Laurel Beer who helps out with young children in her boxing club; and Josh Doyle who has contributed greatly to promoting Scouting and music and is now Deputy Director of Music of the Spitfires.

To find out more about volunteering contact One Community’s Volunteer Centre on 023 8090 2458 or volunteer@1community.org.uk

 

Volunteers Week AVIVA and the Brickworks.

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On Tuesday 4th June, a bunch of very keen, sensibly dressed people arrived at the Bursledon Brickworks to help out for a day. They all work for a company called AVIVA in the UK and are giving their time as part of the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR.)

Here they are helping out, moving the tiles (made on site, using traditional methods.)

It is a great thing to do, get out of the offices and gain a better insight into who your colleagues really are! CSR covers a broad approach of social responsibility in business which can include offering your staff volunteering opportunities.

You can see from our short clip that many hands make light work and how much the small charity (in this case the Brickworks museum) has benefitted.

If your organisation would like to do some planned CSR related Volunteering in the Eastleigh and Fareham areas of Hampshire, we can help you set this up.

Please ring either: Julia or Charlotte on 023 8090 2400 or email: volunteer@1community.org.uk

 

 

Volunteer Awards 2019

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** APOLOGIES ** For the previously upside down photos, we did not hold awards in Tasmania after all!

Wow what a wonderful time was had on Tuesday 4th June 2019! The mayor of Eastleigh Darshan Mann was there and it was great to see him keenly supporting volunteering in our area.

Held at The Point, Eastleigh, it’s a fabulous evening celebrating the significant work of our volunteers. These amazing people are volunteers within the Eastleigh area. Their personal dedication and a great sense of giving to the greater good in a diverse range of projects has been celebrated.

We were delighted to receive so many nominations. We especially wanted to mention those from the Eastleigh Street Pastors who have celebrated their 10 year anniversary recently.

We had a lot of fun with the selfie frame.

Congratulations and many thanks to all those attending this warm, encouraging and uplifting celebration volunteer award evening.

Do you know about ACE’s?

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ACE’s are “adverse childhood experiences.”

Come and watch the acclaimed ground breaking documentary film “Resilience”, and learn about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and how they impact on childhood and into adulthood. We would encourage everyone to go as you meet, work alongside, teach and deliver services to people who may have significant ACE’s.

Here is a short trailer.

There are two dates available, 19th July at Ashburton Hall near Winchester and 24th of July in Eastleigh. Both events are FREE of charge.

Further details are in the PDF Downloads below.

ACE's Training (Ashburton Hall, Winchester) ACEs Training (FREE OF CHARGE)

Volunteers Week 2019 A BIG THANK YOU!

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On behalf of the Board of Trustees, I should like to thank all our wonderful volunteers who support those who use our services. Whether your voluntary role brings you into face contact with people, you work behind the scenes, help with fundraising, marketing or research or if you are one of the many partners of our volunteers supporting them to give their time to One Community – a huge thank you. Without you we could not do the things we do, or maintain the consistency, reliability and standard and thereby together we make a difference to the lives of many people.
Many thanks,

Adrian

BUS PHOTO COMPETITION

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INSTAGRAM Photo Competition.

1) Take a photo of a One Community bus.
2) Upload photo of our bus onto INSTAGRAM.
3) Tag @1Comm

We have two prizes.

Prize 1 is for the most tagged photos of different buses.

Prize 2 is for the BEST photo of a One Community bus.

Prizes for the winners to choose from are:
A cinema light box and pocket photography book or an afternoon tea for 2.

Our Transport team are skilled at getting people on our buses and taking them to our Day Services. Our buses take people to groups and clubs or into the town to do some shopping. We have a Dial-A-Ride service and a really good service to take people to the Marks and Spencer and Sainsbury’s retail site. We often run trips and days out for our passengers.

We do need more drivers for our buses and if you can give us a few hours of your time we would love to have you in our team. We will help you with getting all your paperwork and MiDAS training through. Just ring 023 8090 2400 or email volunteer@1community.org.uk.

Are you a Dementia Friend?

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We have some really good, consistently high quality training here at One Community. At the moment we running Bitesize volunteering courses. Coming up we have a diverse programme including; trustee training, first aid and digital media for the terrified.

This piece of training is really amazing and we felt all our organisations and others might like to be involved with the Dementia Friend training.

Get in touch with us if you are interested in having Dementia Friend accreditation.

Fareham and Eastleigh venues are available.

We are an independent charity that takes Gift Aid.

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Because we run so many excellent services and supports for the communities around Eastleigh and Fareham, sometimes it is easy to forget we are the best local charity to support.

We are incredibly grateful to our volunteers, supporters and staff and those who help fund our work including those groups, organisations and individuals that finance our work.

The Eastleigh Mayor has chosen the One Community Visiting scheme as one of his charities to support this year.

Would you like to give us a one off donation or a regular amount of money to help us continue supporting people in our community lead fulfilling, independent lives?

You can donate easily via mobile phone, or email us for details info@1community.org.uk
Pop in and see us in our Eastleigh office, Eastleigh Museum or Fareham Shop.

If you do, please have a look at this form. It is for gift aid. If you pay tax, (which includes people on ESA and certain other allowances) you can give money to us and the government will give us more.

Gift Aid Form

Staging Faith Interview.

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Today, live on Unity101fm we interviewed the wonderful Joanna from Staging Faith.
We talked about loads of things! The point being that Staging Faith is a group set up for children and young people from year 4 and up. The children who go come from various churches, faiths and religions but come together to do a play about common values. This time the play is called “Vincent” and is all about kindness. As you will hear on the podcast, Joanna and her team have put their all into providing an exciting evening entertainment that gives young people a chance to hone their skills.

Here is the podcast.

Staging faith has a few tickets left for Friday 31st May and several tickets left for Saturday 1st June. They cost £2 a ticket. 7.30 start. At Chandlers Ford Methodist Church.

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