Do you know someone who is living on their own and self isolating?
We offer a friendly weekly chat with one of our CRACKING COVID RESPONSE TEAM.
Give us a call on 023 8090 2400 or email us vss@1community.org.uk
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Supporting VE Day
One Community Supporting the VE 75 Celebrations
On Wednesday 6 May we were asked to be part of an Eastleigh Borough Council initiative – a collective effort among the Eastleigh Coronavirus Support Support hub in Eastleigh – to get party fare to care homes across the borough to celebrate the 75th anniversary of VE Day.
Our community transport team scheduled deliveries for Thursday afternoon on our minibuses and half a dozen of our CV Response volunteers went out to shop for every bodies party favourites.
Pictured are David and Sally Lloyds out doing volunteer shopping.
We were delighted to do this as part of our CV Response work. If you are need of shopping, prescriptions or someone to phone and have a chat, let us know on 023 8090 2400 or info@1community.org.uk
VE Day celebrations (Home School pack.)
VE Day Home Schooling and Stay at Home Street Party Pack Launched.
Home schooling resources and a “Stay At Home Street Party” pack have been launched by Fareham Borough Council to help residents across the Borough mark the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day on May 8th.
The Coronavirus pandemic and lockdown has meant events planned to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of hostilities in Europe in 1945 have had to be shelved.
The early May Bank Holiday has been moved to Friday 8th to allow for a weekend of national commemorations, street parties and other events; these may now be held later in the year.
However, VE Day was 8 May in 1945 and Fareham Borough Council wants its residents to be able to mark the occasion on the actual 75th anniversary.
The Council has teamed up with a teacher to produce home schooling lesson plans and supporting resources for parents to help young people in the Borough learn about VE
Day.
The home-schooling pack is designed to be used each day in the week leading up to 8 May. The Council has also produced a “Stay At Home Street Party” pack for residents. It includes:
- A competition for residents to design their own bunting to hang or stick in their front windows, with a
- chance to win a home-delivered afternoon tea.
- A VE Day themed quiz that they can use with family and friends virtually on video conferencing services, or
- among the family at home.
- A VE Day themed Word Search.
- Some war-time recipes based on the rations available in 1945 for residents to try at home themselves
- The words to We’ll Meet Again, the Dame Vera Lynn song made famous during the war and recently
- referenced by The Queen in her address to the national during the pandemic.
- a Spotify playlist of war-time songs compiled especially by the Council for the VE Day Stay At Home Street
- Parties
The downloadable home schooling and Stay At Home Street Party packs, and the Spotify playlist link, can be found at https://www.fareham.gov.uk/leisure/ve75.aspx
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Our amazing volunteers!
Right now there is a bunch of keen, able and really amazing volunteers helping in the community.
Domestic Abuse support
If you are experiencing domestic abuse or know someone you are concerned about, please reach out for support.
Domestic abuse is an incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening, degrading and violent behaviour, including sexual violence.
It is mostly men abusing women although this is not always the case and men can be at risk from male or female partners.
If you live in Hampshire here is their informationinformationinformation.
If you are in the Portsmouth area- these people are here to help.
For Southampton and the west of Hampshire- yellow door can help yellow dooryellow door.Sadly, we know that calls to domestic abuse helplines have soared since the Covid-19 lockdown situation. Please do use the local services, and/ or the national link on the poster.
Mental Health FREE helpline
Local mental health charity launch Coronavirus helpline
Leading Hampshire and Isle of Wight mental health charity Solent Mind have launched a free helpline, available to those experiencing poor mental health or wellbeing issues as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Experienced advisors can offer bitesize support to those feeling anxious or low as well as practical guidance on keeping mentally well during isolation. The confidential service can also signpost callers to specific local support, such as benefits advice or bereavement services.
Solent Mind Chief Executive, Kevin Gardner says: “We’re seeing that Coronavirus has significantly impacted the emotional health of our communities through the uncertainty attached to income, housing, family and relationships. Our knowledgeable staff, many of whom have their own personal lived experience of mental health issues, can offer useful ways to move forward.”
Solent Mind supports over 25,000 people each year through a network of Wellbeing Centres, talking therapies and specialist recovery-focused services across the Solent region. Although face-to-face appointments have been temporarily suspended, many core services continue to operate a vital telephone service for both new and existing service users alike.
It is hoped that the introduction of the Coronavirus Mental Wellbeing Helpline and the adaptation of Solent Mind’s mental health services can reduce the pressure on NHS services and the risk of people experiencing an urgent mental health crisis.
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust Chief Executive, Dr Nick Broughton says: “Charities such as Solent Mind play a vital role alongside NHS mental health services and we need to work together now more than ever. I welcome the new helpline and applaud colleagues at Solent Mind for adapting their services to continue supporting people in need during this extraordinary time.”
The Solent Mind Coronavirus Mental Wellbeing Helpline is available to residents in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, Monday to Friday, 10am – 4pm (except bank holidays) on 023 8017 9049.
Further details can be found in Solent Mind’s Coronavirus Wellbeing Hub, which contains up to date service information and free downloadable mental health toolkits for the whole family: www.solentmind.org.uk/coronavirushubwww.solentmind.org.uk/coronavirushubwww.solentmind.org.uk/coronavirushub.
Super Steve!
SUPER STEVE!
Rockstar ‘loading the checkout’ technique with gloves on. He is doing shopping for our vulnerable people in isolation. Normally, he is one of our DIAL-A-RIDE drivers.
Steve is a member of staff alongside a team of people co-ordinating, supporting and improving the lives of people who have extra needs and their families.
We have been inundated with volunteers and really are geared up to help you, with practical support needs as well as keeping in touch.
These are strange times and we are here to help in the Eastleigh and Fareham areas.
Please ring us on:
023 8090 2400 (Eastleigh)
07702 802 555 (Fareham)
Email: (Eastleigh)
info@1community.org.uk
(Fareham)
hhamlett@1community.org.uk
Corona Virus- One Community Services.
One Community – Able to Help
Although our normal services are suspended, our teams, in both Eastleigh and Fareham, are still able to either offer direct help (shopping, prescriptions, dog walking) or signposting to the help available.
Ring 023 8090 2400 in Eastleigh or 07702 802555 in Fareham, 9am-4pm Monday to Friday.
Working from home advice
Are you working from home? Are your staff and volunteers? As almost everyone is in self-isolation following government instruction to stay in, one community has produced this advice for you.
This is a very helpful resource to explain how to work from home safely, effectively and to maintain a good work balance at this difficult time.
It was made as a powerpoint but for ease of download it is in PDF format.
Powerpoint PDF working from home advice
Help for charities.
Yesterday the chancellor announced a package of support for charities. It’s an important start, but the government needs to go further, and NCVO (of which one community are members of) will be doing everything it can to make sure it does.
What’s in the package?
A total of £750m in new funding was announced for charities responding to the crisis in the UK.
£370m will go to small and medium-sized charities, channelled through the National Lottery Community Fund (NLCF) and other organisations. It will support locally-focused charities doing most during the outbreak.
Another £360m will be allocated to charities providing essential services and supporting people during the crisis. Some is specifically earmarked for hospices, St John’s Ambulance to support the NHS and Citizens Advice to allow more staff to provide advice. Children’s charities and victims’ charities were also mentioned.
The government will also match public donations to the BBC’s Big Night In charity appeal, with a minimum donation of £20m to the National Emergencies Trust.
It’s a start, but it’s not enough
With charity shops shut and fundraising events cancelled, we estimate charities stand to lose around £4bn in 12 weeks as a result of the crisis. We know how many people and communities rely on the services charities – NCVO members and non-members alike – provide.
This is an important start, but we know it won’t be enough to prevent good charities around the country from closing their doors. Even many that survive will look very different in a few months’ time, with a severely reduced capacity to provide the support that people rely on.
You can read more about the package, and our response, in Elizabeth Chamberlain’s blog post.
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