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The One Community Blog

Here you will find a range of stories from our staff relating to the effect our services have on local lives, and also on the general topic areas we work in. This differs from the news page which looks at what we are doing internally as One Community, as here we look externally to how we sit within the wider community.

Survey for under 25 yr olds

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The OPCC and partners including HCC, Community First and the Police are conducting some research and mapping around youth mentoring schemes in Hampshire, IOW, Portsmouth and Southampton with the aim of understanding more about the extent of mentoring type schemes and to identify opportunities to further support existing arrangements/services and steer and inform decisions on future funding

A link to a survey targeted at existing mentoring (and similar support) schemes is below

https://survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90335347/Mentoring  

Your help in promoting and sharing this with any schemes or organisations you are in contact with and within your networks and partnerships would be appreciated. The deadline is 23rd April.

This mapping exercise forms part of a wider OPCC review of support for vulnerable young people up to the age of 25 years which is being led by

Karen Dawes

Strategic Lead – Violence Reduction Unit (VRU), Commissioning and Contracts Manager
Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Hampshire
01962 871595

karen.dawes@hampshire.pnn.police.uk

Open and ready!

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Yesterday, several of our services opened up fully for the first time since lockdown.

Transport team’s Dial-A-Ride is ready to take bookings once more. Groups can again book our One Community accessible transport.

To book, call ? 023 8090 2450

If you need to register you can complete the form on line.

Shop Mobility in Eastleigh is open and taking bookings for mobility equipment hire at a small cost. Call ? 023 8090 2402 to book.

Our One Community shop and Volunteering Centre have reopened and are looking for donations of wool & craft materials and good condition books. The shop is inside Fareham shopping centre, opposite Millets and is open Monday- Friday 10-4 and Saturday 10-12.

Please check out our superb short clip about our shop opening .??

Keep checking our website and social media for further information, opening times and other details. If you would like to know anything about our services call ? 023 8090 2400 email info@1community.org.uk

World Parkinson’s Day

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One Community is supporting a YouTube event with people from around the world and all walks of life who have a connection to Parkinson’s.

Learn how others have overcome challenges, found support, connected during lockdown, and how they manage their condition. Share your concerns, celebrate each others’ triumphs, and share in dreams and hopes for the future.

When?
11-April Parkinson’s Awareness Day – All Day Long

Who it’s for?
This is for you. Whether you have Parkinson’s, or care about someone who does. You might be a researcher, maybe you work in wellness and support. You might be one person on your own, or a whole family, charity, or group. Anyone with a connection to Parkinson’s, anywhere in the World.

How do I attend?
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHLDhVy4lptbsD0msTY_C0g/featured

ARK Eastleigh

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Offers & Requests!

Our friends at ARK have sent this to share with you all.

ARK have been doing a spot of sorting out and have a selection of
jig-saw puzzles which would be suitable for (maybe) 10-14 year olds (?)

There is a 1000 piece ‘Where’s Wally’ jigsaw and a Harry Potter ‘Scene-it’ puzzle.
2 x 500 piece map jigsaws – one of the British Isles and the other of Europe
and a 300 piece Horrible Science ‘Loony Lab’ jigsaw.

We also have a need of the following please:
An electric lawn mower
pieces of carpet or rugs.
If you have any of these going spare (or know someone who has) we would love to hear from you to see if we can collect and deliver to some clients in need.

Call: 07736 764 160 or 07515 287 109

Workplace Covid Testing

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Do you have 10 or more people working in your organisation?

You can pick up lateral flow tests for them to do at home or in the office.

Lateral flow tests are very quick and you know within 30mins if you are positive for COVID-19. If you do test positive, you would isolate immediately and go & book to have a standard PCR test at a testing centre.

With as many as 1 in 3 people not having any symptoms regular testing is an important element in the fight against the pandemic.

Your organisation will need to register.

For further information please click HERE.

If your organisation has fewer than 10 employees, please use he lateral flow centres in your area.

For more information about these or any other matter re community responses to covid, call us on 023 8090 2400.

CEO Recruitment.

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As many of you will know, Jean our CEO is retiring in September 2021.

Here is what she had to say:

“I have just loved the job of CEO here at One Community, so it was one of the hardest decisions I have made to retire in September.

You can see what a difference we make to the lives of those with whom we work.

Great team, great network of people, great job.“

We are looking for an exceptional individual to take up the reins and ensure the Charity’s legacy for the future.
We are looking for a CEO that has a suite of skills which enables them to sustain the positive current culture of our organisation whilst leading a strategy refresh and developing structures to support that strategy.

For further details about the application, please see our jobs page.

 

Criminal Record Checks

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In your organisation, do you have contact with children or vulnerable people? Then you should have a DBS check done for you and those who work with you.

There is a really useful website HERE with all the information to hand- hold you through the process of criminal record checks.

One Community have a service to do DBS checks for member organisations. If you would like any assistance with this or any other matter involving your voluntary organisation, please contact us call us on 023 8090 2400 or email vss@1community.org.uk

 

 

 

This weeks radio show.

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Yesterday (Tuesday) our Naomi interviewed Charlotte from CAP.

CAP helps people manage their money. It stands for Christians Against Poverty and helps people from all faiths or none.

Listen ? to the podcast here:

https://www.podcasts.canstream.co.uk/unity101/index.php?id=24333

Here is a link to an article about help managing debt:

https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2021-03-09/debt-charities-warn-thousands-could-face-money-crisis-when-lockdown-eases

TV License scamming

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We are increasingly aware of criminal scams associated with TV licenses. Scammers pretend to be from TV licensing and then take money from unsuspecting people.

At One Community we would like to keep our communities informed about these scam approaches and enable you to share this information with others who might need to know about this and prevent this crime.

 

You can download your copy here: TV License SCAM BOOKLET

Covid Emergency Volunteers

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We have a keen, trained and enthusiastic group of Covid Emergency Response Volunteers.

What will stay with me: “The look of relief from several people at the realisation that they were not alone.”

Volunteer

Here is a short film showing some of what they have been doing and how to get involved yourself.

We would love to hear from you if you have a few hours to give in the Eastleigh area. We also need more people to make companionship calls.

To get in touch, email us volunteer@1community.org.uk or call 023 8090 2400

 

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