Do you need to manage the risks, especially now organisations like yours are opening post covid?
Coming up next week, we have some brilliant training on risk management in voluntary groups & organisations.
#riskassessment
Survey for under 25 yr olds
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
Open and ready!
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
Workplace Covid Testing
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.
Criminal Record Checks
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.
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:
Grants available for employers.
Solent Supporting Employment’ Programme
Grants of £30,000 – £60,000 Available Now
The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Community Foundation (HIWCF) is delighted to announce that Round 2 of the Solent Supporting Employment Programme is open from 1st February 2021, providing an exciting opportunity for community groups, charities and not-for-profit organisations to apply for grants of between £30,000 – £60,000 to help local people into employment.
Grants will be made to organisations in the Solent LEP area of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight to help people improve their job prospects and move closer towards or into work. The programme is focusing on supporting people in the most deprived communities, with the closing date for applications being midnight on 1st March 2021.
Grants are aimed at organisations with a proven record in employability, that are able to reach and work with people facing complex barriers to employment, including BAME communities, older people, people with disabilities and people experiencing mental health issues and homelessness.
We strongly advise that organisations wishing to apply for a grant should register for one of our briefing webinars, giving full details about the grant programme.
Register here for your ‘Solent Supporting Employment’ Webinar
HIWCF will be holding four webinars at 10am on Monday 8th, Wednesday 10th and Tuesday 16th February 2021 and 9.30am on Thursday 18th February 2021.
Please register for your preferred date below:
REGISTER – 10.00am, Wednesday 10th February 2021
REGISTER – 10.00am, Tuesday 16th February 2021
REGISTER – 9.30am, Thursday 18th February 2021
For more information about these grants, please go to www.hiwcf.com/funds/solent-supporting-employment-programme/lo
Please click on the map to see which areas of the county are included in the Solent LEP area.
For any queries on the Solent Supporting Employment Programme, contact Helen Stratton-Evans on helen@hiwcf.com
The £1.76m grants programme is part-funded by the European Social Fund, and supported by Hampshire County Council, Portsmouth City Council, Southampton City Council and HIWCF donors. These grants represent the second round of funding made under the Solent Supporting Employment Programme, following the first round of grant awards made during Autumn 2020. Photographs above courtesy of Pompey In the Community and Minstead Trust.
World Cancer Day
On the 4th of February it is World Cancer Day and at One Community we would like to add our support.
This year, the theme is “I will and I can” then you can choose which action you take.
We were really impressed by their website as it has loads of information and help for individuals, organisations and groups that would like to challenge cancer in our communities.
Here is their website.
Please look out for our social media posts this week and like, share and follow them. This makes a huge difference to community awareness and ultimately reducing the incidence and seriousness of cancer.
We are on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn. Come and find us!
Encouraging a good environment.
At One Community we would like to encourage everyone to look at their environmental impact.
In December we had a good radio interview with Giles Gooding (Sustainability officer at Eastleigh Borough Council) about conserving energy and trying to protect the world where we are.
If your organisation would like free advice and support about sustainability, please get in touch with Giles here.
With many families working from home and home schooling, when you do get a chance to spend time together maybe have a go at these recycling makes.
First, check out this great little film aimed at children about reducing, reusing and recycling. We have been sharing Facebook posts about making bird feeders.
Here are some solitary bee ? houses to try and make. HERE
In the meantime you might have seen on BBC Winterwatch a U.K. wide societal science project.
From 29th-31st January is the Great Garden Birdwatch, RSPB: https://buff.ly/3bBY8dk
We would love to have your bird pictures to post on the website and on social media so please send in your art & photographs. #birdwatch
Community Corner Radio- Youth Support.
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
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