Property Advice Clinic
The Ethical Property Foundation will be providing a free property advice clinic for charities and not for profits in Camden on 14th January. Two of the Foundation’s advisers will be on hand to provide 20 minute one to one discussions on property issues including renting, leasing or buying property, maintenance or property disposal.
Please contact Donna Turnbull at VAC to book your free 20 minute slot between 10am-1pm. dturnbull@vac.org.uk tel 020 7284 6567
Camden Adult Social Care Annual Report 2014/15 – how did we do?
The council has published the annual local account for adult social care which outlines how LBC are meeting the needs of people who access these services and what the local priorities are. The purpose of this local account is to feedback to residents what was achieved, where LBC can improve and what the plans for the future are. This provides information to help be more transparent to residents and to hold Camden to account. You can read the full details on the Camden website.
CPPEG Open Meeting
Monday 14th December, St Pancras Hospital, Conference Room 2-4pm
o Presentation 1: Team Around The Practice (a new service which aims to optimise the care of people with mental health issues in primary care) Presenter: Terilla Bernard, Mental Health (TAP) Project Manager
o Presentation 2: Patients with a long term condition (what do patients want a care plan to look like?) Presenter: Adetola Adeniran, Project Manager – Long Term Conditions and Cancer Programme
Camden’s Team Around the Practice officially launched
Clinicians, service users, carers, and commissioners gathered on Wednesday 25 November to launch Camden’s newest mental health initiative, the Team Around the Practice. The Team Around the Practice, or TAP, is supporting patients with mental health needs who might have previously found themselves on long waiting lists or ‘falling through the gaps’. The TAP is being provided by the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust and Mind in Camden, and is working exclusively with Camden GPs.
Healthwatch Camden report reveals wide variations between GP practices in Camden
A report by Healthwatch Camden entitled ‘GP practices in Camden: A study of variation 2015’, reveals wide variations in both patient experience and in the delivery of clinical services across Camden’s 36 GP practices. More details on the Healthwatch Camden website or view the full report.
4th IARS Annual International Conference: “Community-led Solutions to Gender Inequality, Victimisation and Offending”
Tuesday 15th December, Middle Temple – London
The IARS International Institute is pleased to invite you to this exciting international conference on 15th December 2015 (9:00 – 17:00) at The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, Middle Temple Lane, London EC4Y 9AT, UK. Prices from £15. Full details here.
Camden & Brent councils proposals for a major development of Kilburn High Road
Monday 14th December at The Tricycle Theatre, 269 Kilburn High Road – from 11am to 3pm. refreshments will be provided.
The objectives include making the High Road a safer place for everyone (the area is a top accident spot) trying to make it a more attractive place for people, businesses and visitors. Proposals include widening pavement areas, installing a central median strip – island in the middle of the road, traffic measures: 20mph speed limit, de-cluttering the footways. Following the public meetings there will be a period of public consultation. see: Camden.gov.uk/khr
KOVE have been campaigning for safer road crossings for considerable time and this initiative allows people to contribute their views and suggestions.
Double your donation to Clean Break tomorrow through the Big Give Christmas Challenge
Clean Break is taking part in this year’s Big Give Christmas Challenge – donations made online via this link from MIDDAY SATURDAY can be DOUBLED pound for pound thanks to match funding from the Reed Foundation and Harriet’s Trust. Your donation will help women offenders and women at risk of offending transform their lives through participating in Clean Break’s theatre-based education programme, delivered from the company’s Kentish Town studios. Hear Clean Break students on why this work is so important here.
Voluntary Action Camden in Partnership with the Mary Ward Centre
ILM Certificate in Team Leading
Need a course that is the ideal launch pad for your management career? Start with this nationally recognized qualification that is designed for new and aspiring team leaders – get an in-depth introduction to the role and its responsibilities. This is a classroom-based afternoon\evening course delivered by tutors who are current practitioners in the sector. One session per week over 23 weeks plus online materials starting in January 2016. If you are in receipt of JSA/ESA or are unemployed and receive another income related benefit this course is FREE. Full fee £597. Call Roz on 020 7269 6033 or email roz@marywardcentre.ac.uk for details.
Drop-In Mindfulness Meditation
Thursday 2.30pm – 3.30pm at The Stress Project
Mindfulness is the practise of focusing your attention on being in the present, without judgement. It is clinically proven and ideal to help improve sleep, de-stress and reduce anxiety.
£2 – No need to book, just turn up
www.stressproject.org.uk 2 Shelburne Road N7 6DL tel: 020 7700 3938
Kentish Town City Farm Christmas Fair
12:00 – 4:00pm Sunday 13th December
at 1 Cressfield Cl, London NW5 4BN
Come along to the annual Christmas Fair and you can have fun and help support the farm and animals. There will be a Christmas Cafe with soups, cakes and John’s mulled wine. Father Christmas arrives on a pony at 1;30pm and there will be a Christmas Grotto (£3.50), live music, Christmas crafts and arts, Face Painting, a Lucky dip and Prize Raffle Draw.
KTCF Christmas Cards are also available at the farm and our Christmas Fair. Cost: £5 for 10 cards. See more at ktcityfarm.org.uk
Last First Thursday of the Year
Please join us for our Social Enterprise Xmas Meet Up, where you can have your say.
Thursday, 3rd December 2015 6pm-8:30pm/late
At Brigade, The Fire Station, 139 Tooley Street, London SE1 2HZ
Agenda: Fun, network and to get to know each other.
RSVP: The venue has allowed us a private space, but there will be a fee of £7, which will allow for a glass of Prosseco on arrival,With limited capacity, I will advise only if you can commit and show on this date to RSVP.
Safeguarding Refugee and Migrant Children and Young People
The free training session aims to improve the understanding of the rights that children and young people have under the Equality Act 2010; and the duties that are imposed on children’s services and voluntary and community organisations when they are providing services.
Issues addressed include: Domestic violence, Sexual exploitation, Trafficking, Female Genital mutilation and abuse related to witchcraft in order to raise the awareness of these issues and the role of community organisations in ensuring the protection and safeguarding of children and young people.
10 December 2015; 9:30am Registration; 10:00am Start, 16:30pm Close
Harecourt URC, 120 St Paul’s Rd, Islington, Greater London N1 2LR
Contact Ezechias Ngendahayo: ezechias.ngendahayo@refugeecouncil.org.uk, or telephone 020 7346 1163 or follow this link.
What Do We Need To Do To Make London A Fairer City? A free event being organised by Age UK London and the London Fairness Commission
Thursday 10th December 10:30am to 3pm
The Stowe Centre, 258 Harrow Road, London, W2 5ES
London is undoubtedly a great success; a growing, dynamic and diverse world city. Whilst London’s success is rightly celebrated, many are beginning to question if this success is leading to a fair society for all its residents. The London Fairness Commission has been established to convene the first citywide debate on fairness in over 100 years and the first to ask Londoner’s what they think about their city.
We want to hear your views about what we need to do to make London a fairer city, particularly with regards to older adults.
The meeting will be run using a process called ‘Open Space’, allowing everyone at the meeting to raise the issues that matter to them, share and develop ideas and consider recommendations for the future. It will be participative, energetic and focused.
This meeting will support older Londoners as well as their groups and organisations to influence the London Fairness Commission’s recommendations, which will be published in April.
Lunch provided. If you would like to attend please:
Register online here http://bit.ly/1WOGp5K
Email Lizzy Willmington Lizzy.Willmington@toynbeehall.org.uk Or call 020 7392 2993
Follow-up to the Crossroads Womens’ Centre Conference
Conference session showings will be at the Crossroads Women’s Centre, one at a time over four weeks – discussion after each panel.
Thursday 3 Dec, 6.30pm: Reproducing the human race – valuing mothers & other carers
Thursday 10 Dec, 6.30pm: Caring under austerity, climate change, occupation and war
It will be an opportunity for those who wanted to come to the conference but couldn’t as well as for those who wanted more discussion. At 25 Wolsey Mews, NW5 2DX
Other events coming up
Tuesday 1 Dec, 12 noon: the All African Women’s Group and Black Women’s Rape Action Project are holding a Lobby of Parliament against the new anti-immigration bill.
Every Wednesday between 1-2pm: petitioning on Kentish Town Road.
Thursday 17 Dec, 6.30pm: The ECP is showing, at the Crossroads Women’s Centre, the original film of the 1975 sex workers’ occupation of a church in Lyon, France. Crossroads Womens’ Centre
Kentish Town Neighbourhood Plan
Kentish Town Neighbourhood Forum has submitted their proposed Neighbourhood Plan to Camden Council, in accordance with the Neighbourhood Planning Regulations 2012.
We are consulting residents and interested stakeholders on this proposed Plan.
The Plan sets out a range of policies on matters including design quality, enhancing Kentish Town Road and community engagement. It also proposes to designate 5 Local Green Spaces in the area. The Neighbourhood Plan, if approved, will be used, alongside council policies in making planning application decisions in the neighbourhood area.
To view the proposed Neighbourhood Plan (including a map showing the boundary for the Plan) and further information on how to respond to this consultation please go to: www.camden.gov.uk/neighbourhoodplanning
Hard copies of the Plan and documents are available to view at Kentish Town Library
Comments must be received by 29 January 2016 by e-mail to planningpolicy@camden.gov.uk or by post to Strategic Planning and Implementation Team, LB Camden, Judd Street, London, WC1H 9JE
NHS England’s Customer Contact Centre launches British Sign Language service
British Sign Language (BSL) users are now able to get in touch with NHS England’s Customer Contact Centre using a video call supported by a BSL interpreter. The new BSL service, operated by InterpreterNow, is available whenever the contact centre is open. The service can be accessed using a PC or laptop equipped with a webcam. A free app is also available for smartphone and tablet users. This technology will enable BSL users to communicate with us directly and independently – without having to rely on friends or family members.
Camden Mental Health Forum
Tuesday 26 January from 6-8pm at The Hub, 8 Fairhazel Gardens, London, NW6 3SG
The forum is an opportunity for people living with mental ill health, their carers, families and friends as well as mental health professionals to come together and discuss mental health issues in the borough including considering the future shape of services.
The meeting will be chaired by Councillor Maeve McCormack, the Council’s Mental Health champion.
If there is something that you would like to talk about at the forum please contact me (see below).
Other dates for 2016:
· Tuesday 12 April 6-8pm (venue to be confirmed)
· Wednesday 13 July 6-8pm (venue to be confirmed)
· Wednesday 12 October 6-8pm (venue to be confirmed)
We look forward to seeing you at the forums.
Paul Kent, London Borough of Camden Tel: 0207 974 6921 Web: camden.gov.uk
Greenwood Place Update
Demolition will begin on the Greenwood Place site soon. Read the lastest update here.
Two Kingsgate Community Centre Events
Winter Festival 2015, 12th December 11am to 3.30pm at Kilburn Grange Park – stalls, ice rink and magical surprises. For info email info@kingsgatecc.org.uk or call 020 7328 9480
Under 5s Drop In Christmas Party 16th December 1.30 – 3.30pm at Kingsgate Community Centre
Spent: A short play and workshop about women, austerity and debt
Performed by women affected by the criminal justice system
Available to book February and March 2016 at conferences, seminars or staff training. Suitable for criminal justice agencies, women’s organisations, policymakers, funders, probation and other frontline organisations working with vulnerable women. Clean Break is a theatre company which focuses exclusively on women in the criminal justice system through education and performances in the community, custodial settings, and at theatres and festivals.
For Further Information and to discuss booking and fees contact: Kirstin Shirling 0207 482 8623 kirstin.shirling@cleanbreak.org.uk
Free training, outings and events for unpaid carers in Camden
For a full list of events of carers in Camden please visit the Camden Carers website.
Healthwatch Camden
Latest Information DIgest is on the Healthwatch Camden website.
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British Somali Community, NICE, The Sherriff Centre, Alexandra Road Park, Nafisyat, Ransackers, and Camden PA are recruiting. See Jobs and Volunteers section below.
Camden Shares. The website for exchanges in Camden. www.camdenshares.org.uk
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‘Demonstrating Our Resilience’ Voluntary Action Camden’s AGM.