Camden Safer Neighbourhoods Board Volunteers Fair and AGM
Wednesday 26 October, 6.30 pm, in the Council Chamber, Camden Town Hall, Judd Street, London WC1H 9JE. Come and find out what volunteering opportunities there are available in your area to help reduce crime and antisocial behaviour.
If you are a member of a voluntary/community organisation involved with crime prevention or crime reduction and you would like to recruit new volunteers, please email Peter Ward .
Tai Chi/ Chi Kung Demystified -move breath and meditate
Every Wednesday, 11:00-12:30 at YMCA oneKX 120 Cromer St, London WC1H 8BS – FREE
No need to book – just come along. Breath, relax, energise all ages and levels of experience welcome come along and see if it suits you. The classes are being supported by camden community sport and physical activity officer Andrew Gilbert.
October Volunteer Managers’ Forum + Lunch
18th October, 10.30am-2pm at Kentish Town Community Centre, 17 Busby Place, NW5 2SP
Join us at our next volunteer managers’ forum where we will look at all things volunteer management.
This forum will follow the ‘unconference’ format, which means you are the event organisers / participants on the day. You get out what you put in – so come prepared to muck in.
Integral to the forum will be meeting (and networking with) other volunteer managers in Camden – and lunch is included. Full details and book your free tickets on Eventbrite.
Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) – Camden Public Event – Invitation from local NHS and social care leaders
29th September 2016 6:00pm – 8:00pm at the The Camden Centre, Town Hall, Judd Street, WC1H
Health and social care services across the country are looking to the future. NHS England has asked commissioners and providers to develop local plans to improve your health and wellbeing; to enhance the quality of services you receive at the same time as reducing costs. Not an easy challenge!
But a challenge nevertheless that Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington are trying to address through the development of a North Central London Sustainability and Transformation Plan. The plan will affect all of us, so local leaders aims to listen to local peoples’ views as part of its development and to involve local people in designing the changes as they take shape.
Senior members of the Sustainability and Transformation Plan Board, from Camden Council, Camden Clinical Commissioning Group and local NHS hospital trusts, would like to invite you to a public information meeting. This is an opportunity to find out more and ask questions about the Plan, its ambition and its impact on you and your community, and how you can be involved further.
You do not have to register to attend. If you have any accessibility requirements, including access arrangements for d/Deaf and disabled people, contact Denise Shaw on denise.shaw6@nhs.net.
Deaf Achieve
This is a Big Lottery funded project that will continue to deliver free workshops, health groups, job clubs, travel groups, financial capability training and one to one support until 2018. The end of February saw the completion of our first year. We are now well into our second year. These are for the deaf community, aged 18-65, living in any of the London boroughs. If want to know more information about Deaf Achieve please contact: deafachieve2@royaldeaf.org.uk.” also our website links http://www.royaldeaf.org.uk/news/sdfsd/
Creative Writing Course for brain injury survivors.
A series of six classes in October and November to help you learn more about the process of creative writing and appreciate your own ability to write creatively in some way. The course is intended to help you discover how to communicate through writing in a way that suits you by exploring what creative writing is, who writes creatively, why people write, where people write and how you can find your own way to write creatively.
To participate please email daniel.forsythe@headwaynorthlondon.org. £10 for the six classes.
St. Pancras Community Asoc, 67 Plender Street, NW1. 1:30 – 3:00 Thursdays 6 Oct – 17 Nov
Celebrating Parents and Carers Event
Free family fun day – ‘Healthy Lives and Healthy Minds’
Saturday 22nd October 2016, 2pm – 5pm
Haverstock School, 24 Haverstock Hill, NW3 2BQ
Please read this event brief before filling in the form
Every year we have our Celebrating Parents (in its 11th year) event during Parents week and we invite the Mayor and the Cabinet member for Children Schools and Families. This year’s theme for the event is ‘Healthy Lives and Healthy Minds’.
Black History Month at the British Library
On Thursday 6th October the British Library will host an evening of performances, lectures and discussion celebrating Black History Month, hosted by the British Library Labs Project and Eccles Centre for American Studies. The Library is offering a limited number of FREE tickets to Camden Residents. Get in touch with Emma.Morgan@bl.uk or 07595 464 363 for more details or to book.
Camden SAPB safeguarding adults conference
Working together towards lives free from abuse – 30 November 2016
This year’s conference will focus on how we can work together more efficiently and share information to keep Camden residents safe.
The conference will be an excellent opportunity for front-facing practitioners working with Camden communities to get together and share their experiences, as well as learn from each other’s practice.
A detailed conference programme will be circulated closer to the date. The event is free to attend for anyone working or volunteering with Camden adults, but we strongly advise booking your place early to avoid missing out.
The details of the event are as follows:
Wednesday, 30th November 2016
Holiday Inn Bloomsbury, Coram Street, London WC1N 1HT
09:00-17:00. Please arrive promptly, registration starts at 9am.
Book your place HERE.
Free HR training workshops for Camden voluntary and community groups
Many small to medium sized organisations do not have the resources to directly purchase HR support on an ongoing basis. In our experience, badly handled employment issues in small to medium sized organisations can destabilise the organisation and affect its delivery.
A robust HR function enables organisations to be more sustainable by strengthening the leadership of an organisation, supporting staff, trustees and volunteers effectively and by preventing crises.
The Communities and Third Sector team at Camden Council are pleased to be able to offer Camden voluntary and community groups a series of HR training workshops. The workshops are free and will take place between 9.45 and 1pm at the Town Hall Judd Street.
The workshops are for managers and trustees of voluntary and community groups based in Camden. To book a place on the workshops that you would like to attend, please click on the Eventbrite links.
HR Essentials Wednesday 28th September 2016
The aim of this workshop is to raise the awareness of potential and new employers about employment legislation and good practice in the workplace.
http://hr-essentials.eventbrite.co.uk
Managing Poor Performance through Capability Wednesday 19th October 2016
This workshop will focus on managing employees who are underperforming due to lack of capability
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/managing-poor-performance-through-capability-tickets-27066873748
Managing Misconduct Wednesday 16th November 2016
This workshop will focus on managing employees who are underperforming due to misconduct
The training will reflect the ACAS Code of Practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/managing-misconduct-registration-27067000126
Handling Workplace Investigations Wednesday 7th December 2016
There are many occasions when an employer may wish to undertake an internal investigation including as part of the disciplinary and grievance process
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/handling-workplace-investigations-registration-27067050276
Staff Appraisals Thursday 12th January 2017
Appraisal is a two-way process of looking backwards to analyse past job performance, and looking forward into the future with a view to improving future performance.
The overall objective of an effective appraisal scheme should be to help each employee to maximise his or her job performance for the joint benefit of the employee and the organisation.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/staff-appraisals-registration-27067569830
Managing Sickness Absence Thursday 9th February 2017
The aim of this workshop is to increase managers’ confidence and ability to manage staff absence.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/managing-sickness-absence-registration-27067617974
Managing Restructure Wednesday 15th March 2017
Many voluntary and community organisations are considering some kind of restructuring in response to the current economic climate. This might include closing a team, amalgamating core functions, general downsizing or some sort of relocation.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/managing-a-restructure-registration-27067674142
Managing Difficult Conversations at Work Wednesday 12th April 2017
Most of us dislike confrontation; we sometimes avoid it which can often lead to even more difficulty, misunderstandings and possible conflict.
In the current climate of continued economic uncertainty, we may find ourselves working with reduced budgets, constant organisational change and ongoing performance issues, as people try to make sense of all this.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/managing-difficult-conversations-at-work-registration-27067711253
The workshops will be run by Shirley Briggs. Shirley is an independent HR consultant. Her background is in social housing where she worked as a HR manager for a number of large housing associations. She managed the PEACe (HR) service at LVSC from 2006-2016 supporting many hundreds of voluntary and community organisations with HR and employment law advice, consultancy and training. She is also a trained workplace mediator.
Camden Intergenerational Network
Thursday 29th September 2016 at Age UK Camden, Tavis House, 1-6 Tavistock Square WC1H 9NA from 10am-12pm. Please email items for the agenda to Corinna Gray by Friday 16th September 2016.
Keep in touch via Ageing Better in Camden’s dedicated CIN web page.
Read the full network newsletter here.
‘Made of Money’ is running a 2 day Facilitator Training in London on 5th – 6th October 2016
We also offer ‘in house’ trainings for any organisation or group of organisations to suit you.
‘Made of Money’ is an award winning financial literacy resource, developed by anti-poverty charity Quaker Social Action. It aims to help groups talk about money and its impact on their lives, as well as learn vital money management skills. It is ideal to help front line workers offer support to those on low income, particularly in the run up to the introduction of Universal Credit, and welfare benefit changes.
The cost per person for the 2-day training, (incl lunch), depending on the size of your organisation (£100 for small organisations).
You will also need a set of workshop resources, charged at a subsidised rate of £115. This gives you everything you need to run Made of with groups and 1:1 sessions. (These can be shared within the organisation or between groups of organisations)
Contact mompartner@qsa.org.uk
Don’t forget that Camden TDS run a full programme of course which are subsidised or free for voluntary sector partner organisations. There is a link to a list of partner organisations on the home page.
Find more Training Opportunities at www.vac.org.uk
Then look no further than Age UK Camden’s Online Directory.
