One Community

Winter Grants

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Support with heating costs, for families
facing Winter hardship due to COVID-19

Information for Parents and Carers

As part of the connect4communities programme, in addition to the food vouchers distributed to families through childcare providers, schools and colleges, we have provided the Citizens Advice Service with £100,000 of funding to help families and individuals with energy costs over the Winter period – gas, electric and water.
Contact details for the local branch of the Citizens Advice Service can be found on this website:

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/…/contact-us/contact-us/


Please note that the local branch will complete a quick eligibility check and refer parents and carers to the distributors of the grant and financial support will be provided to the family or individual seeking help.
The eligibility criteria for this support – to heat homes – is wide-ranging to ensure the money is as accessible as possible and is as follows:


Families with children:


• Families in receipt of benefits related free school meals
• Families including 16-18-year olds previously eligible for Free School Meals
• All children with a social worker
• All children open to Early Help
• All households with 2 – 4year olds accessing childcare and eligible for Early Years Pupil Premium
• Households with a young carer
• Those who it is believed will struggle to afford to heat their home adequately and/or maintain a reasonable standard of living this winter

Households without children:


• Care leavers
• Households that have been identified as going into debt for the first time
• Households or individuals with no other way of obtaining funds, e.g. those who face choosing to pay either rent or bills (considered unmanageable debt)
• Those who it is believed will struggle to afford to heat their home adequately and/or maintain a reasonable standard of living this winter

Support from this fund, distributed by the Citizens Advice Service, can take the form of:


• Pre-paid energy cards or the payment of a fuel bill on behalf of an eligible household

Other sources of welfare support


Local sources of other welfare support can be found through:
• The connect4communities online directory: https://fish.hants.gov.uk/kb5/hampshire/directory/home.page
• Connect to Support Telephone Helpline: https://www.hants.gov.uk/socialcareandhealth/coronavirus/volunteer-welfare
• Connect to Support Online Resources: https://www.hants.gov.uk/socialcareandhealth/coronavirus/volunteer-welfare

About connect4communities


‘connect4communities’ is a programme of support provided by Hampshire County Council, in collaboration with other agency, voluntary and charitable partners (such as us here at One Community. It is funded by the Authority’s £2.89 million Covid Winter Grant from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

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

 

Meet our volunteers! Here is Zeina Nazer

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We have a broad range of volunteers working with us at One Community.

This is all about one of them, Zeina.

Zeina Nazer (British/Lebanese) is Co-Founder of Cities Forum and ITS ARAB and Researcher at University of Southampton. Zeina has over 20 years’ of global experience in strategy, consulting, research, and platform development at firms including KPMG, Parsons and AECOM. Zeina led Advisory services for governments and major global players in Intelligent Mobility, Road Safety, Sustainable Transport, Smart Cities, energy, and the public sector in the Middle East, Europe, Southeast Asia and the USA.

After 7 years working in the USA with KPMG, Parsons, and AECOM, Zeina moved to London to support international projects including leading international consultancy work with Arcadis for M25 Design-Build Integral Demand Management. Zeina also provided support to financial design of the New Zealand Toll System project with Deloitte, supported Booz & Co in the PMO for Abu Dhabi DOT and supported in shaping the future of transport for Dubai Government.

Zeina has a BSc in Civil Engineering from American University of Beirut, MSc in Transportation Engineering from University of Texas at Austin, MBA from the University of Chicago. She is a Professional Engineer licensed in the USA. Zeina is currently pursuing her PhD in Autonomous Vehicle and Smart Cities at the University of Southampton.

Zeina was the chair of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Technical Working Group TC204 WG1 on ITS Systems Architecture and served as Director on the Board of Women in Transportation (WTS) in the USA.

A keynote speaker, author and presenter of over 100 papers submitted to magazines and conferences around the world.

Zeina is fluent in Arabic, French and English and is passionate about helping with translation. She helped out many Syrian Refugees in Luxembourg. It was an amazing experience to see how their lives have changed when they were able to communicate with others. Zeina would be more than happy to help individuals and families from Arab and French countries to be able to communicate in the UK and to transfer her life experience in this country to others during the 16 years of living in the UK.

If you would like to be a volunteer with One Community, or sponsor a volunteers training by donating £20, please email volunteer@1community.org.uk or call 023 8090 2400.

Eastleigh Young Carers- Covid update

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Over the past months Eastleigh Young Carers team have been working hard to provide support for children in our project.

We are helping Jon who has a parent and a sibling who have disabilities. We are giving 1:1 ZOOM support sessions every week to Jon and doing a weekly check in with the family by phone.

We have made a short film to show you what they have been doing and where your donations go.

It is a little piece of joy on a grey January day!

You can watch the film HERE. On our YouTube Channel (please hit subscribe while you are there.)

At the moment, we are looking to give every child a pancake making kit. These cost just £5 each. If you would like to give us a donation please look at our DONATE page

 

Community Corner Radio- Youth Support.

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Every Tuesday, One Community appears on the @unity101fm community corner at 3pm.

We would like to help young people to cope better in lockdown.

Next week our show (presented by Naomi Stock,) is about supporting young people’s mental well being, education & a new buddy system.

Tune in live at 3 or listen later on podcast.

#education #buddysystem #youth #mentalhealth

Growing food, sharing it through Eastleigh Basics bank via One Community.

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Great job growing food and getting it to people who need it.

Local Ghurka Nepalese association has had a bumper crop they are sharing with the aid of One Community. Donating via Eastleigh’s food bank (called Eastleigh Basics Bank) these fantastic volunteers have given and continue to give an amazing amount of time, care and commitment. Plus a much needed selection of fresh, locally grown food.

Read more in this insightful article by the daily echo.

One Community’s transport and logistics team were involved this year and we continue in delivering food to the vulnerable during lockdown & tier 4 into 2021. If you know someone who is vulnerable & needs our help, please get in touch. Tel 023 8090 2400 or email reception@1community.org.uk

#ghurka #nepalesefood #Eastleigh #chandlersford

One Community Christmas & New Year Opening times 2020-21

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Christmas – Eastleigh Office
Thursday 24th December – Close at 1:00 pm
Friday 25th to Monday 28th December – Closed
Tuesdays 29th December – Open
Wednesday 30th December – Open
Thursday 31st December – Close at 4:00 pm
Friday 1st January – Closed
Monday 4th January 2021 – Re-opens as Normal

Christmas – ShopMobility
Thursday 24th December – Close at 1:00 pm
Friday 25th to Monday 28th December – Closed
Tuesdays 29th December – Open
Wednesday 30th December – Open
Thursday 31st December – Close at 2:00 pm
Saturday 1st January – 2021 Closed
Monday 4th January 2021 – Re-opens as Normal

Christmas – Museum and Fareham Shop
Thursday 24th December – Close at 1:00 pm
Monday 4th January 2021 – Re-opens

Christmas – Day Centre and Transport
Thursday 24th December – As Normal
Friday 25th to Monday 28th December – Closed
Tuesdays 29th December – Open
Wednesday 30th December – Open
Thursday 31st December – Open
Friday 1st January – Closed
Monday 4th January 2021 – Re-opens as Normal

Can you knit or crochet ??

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It is winter and our wonderful buses are out picking up our vulnerable day service passengers and dropping them home safely.

Inside the bus, despite the heating older people and disabled people can get cold quickly.

We would LOVE some lap blankets to keep everyone toastier!

What a lovely gift to give ??

Altogether, we need 35.

If you think you’d like to make one for us, please drop it into us at 75 Leigh road, Eastleigh SO50 9DQ.

We have found some FREE patterns to you to try:

Crochet EASY

Knitting EASY

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