kva newsletter january 2013
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Kingston Voluntary Action newsletter for the voluntary and community sector in Kingston upon Thames.TRANSCRIPT
Kingston Voluntary Action, Siddeley House, 50 Canbury Park Road, Kingston KT2 6LX Tel: 020 8255 3335
Fax: 020 8255 8804 Email: [email protected] Website: www.kva.org.uk Registered Charity No. 257551
Newsletter
Health conference first step of many to effective joint working
The newsletter for Kingston’s
voluntary & community sector
February 2013
Love Kingston,
Love Volunteering?
Find out about Go Kingston
Volunteering speed
matching event page 7
In this edition
Contacts in KVA 2
News 2
Funding 6
Go Kingston
Volunteering news
7
Group development 9
Health & Social Care 10
ICT Hub 12
Training & events 14
twitter.com/KingstonVA
Keep up to date with
KVA online:
Read more about Love Kingston Day page 15
As we approach the implementation of the 2012 Health and Social Care Act, new ways of working are being developed both nationally and locally.
With this in mind Kingston Voluntary Action held its inaugural Health Conference on 22nd January 2013. This will now become an annual event and an opportunity to update and inform all our stakeholders of changes within health and social care.
We welcomed partners from the voluntary sector, the local
authority and health professionals at the conference and our thanks go to our speakers for their time and for sharing information about the up and coming changes.
The health conference was a first step towards addressing the question of how the sectors can work effectively together to improve health outcomes.
Speakers included Dr. Naz Jivani, Chair of the KCCG
Continued page 10
www.kva.org.uk Page 2 News
Kingston Voluntary Action
020 8255 3335
Hilary Garner Chief Executive
Lynda Evans Deputy Chief Executive
Maria Tunmer Health & Social Care Manager
Patricia Turner Interim Health & Social Care Manager
Zahida Saddiq Capacity Building Manager
Sanja Kane Transforming Kingston’s Infrastructure
Project Co-ordinator
Sorrel Parsons Information & Communications
Co-ordinator
Judith Naylor Children & Young People First
Project Worker
Julie Woodhouse Community Accountant
Lesley Chesterman Temporary Accountant
Polly Healy Administrator
Sue Lawrence Finance Administrator
Rianne Eimers HealthWatch Kingston Pathfinder
Manager
Debra McCarthy HealthWatch Kingston Pathfinder
Support Co-ordinator
Membership of KVA
Membership is open to all voluntary and community
groups who are based or work in Kingston. For
details of how to become a member contact Polly
Healy [email protected]
If you have some great news, know of a useful
resource to share or would like to advertise in this
newsletter please contact the editor.
Next edition: April to June
Deadline for copy: 11 March 2012
Kingston Community Furniture
020 8942 5500
Adrian Collins Project Manager
James Deane Operations Manager
Selo Turanli Driver / Warehouseman
Kingston Eco-Op
020 8942 5503 Bart Ricketts Eco-Op Project Co-ordinator
Chris Williamson Workshop Supervisor
Sue Illsley Unit Supervisor
Sinead Mccormack Unit Supervisor
Jonathan Rowland Bike Trainer
Marcus Greatwood Bike Mechanic
Sam Carey Support Worker
Superhighways
020 8255 8040 Kate White Manager
Colin Cregan ICT Support Worker
Nine Htet ICT Support Worker
Sue Quilter Admin Worker
GO Kingston Volunteering
020 8255 8685 Maria Dockrill Manager
Richard Craig Buddy Scheme Co-ordinator
Pat Stanley Volunteer Good Practice Advisor
Hedley Featherstone GO Kingston Volunteering
Project Worker
Disclaimer: information contained in the Newsletter and inserts come from a wide range of sources. Opinions or statements expressed
may not necessarily reflect those of KVA. KVA aims to ensure all information is correct and up to date.
Editorial
Sorrel Parsons Editor
Hilary Garner Chief Executive
Lynda Evans Deputy Chief Executive
Got some good news to share?
If you would like to amend your contact details or prefer to
receive the newsletter by email please contact the editor.
Single Point of Access (SPA) for
safeguarding children in Kingston
From 22 January the new Single Point of Access (SPA) offers advice, support and guidance to professionals, families and the public where there are concerns about a child or young person.
Where appropriate they will signpost to other services or ensure progression for social work allocation and assessment. The SPA will include staff from both Children’s Social Care and ASKK. ASKK, as a separate service, ceased to exist from 21 January 2013.
If you are concerned that a child or young person may be at risk of significant harm contact the SPA, by telephone initially and follow up with a written referral. Give as much information as possible including name, address and telephone numbers.
All calls will be reviewed through one number 0208 547 5004.
For non-urgent agency referrals you will need to complete an Interagency Referral Form, available from, and to be returned to: [email protected]
Don’t forget to amend your safeguarding policies accordingly.
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KVA Annual General Meeting: Legacy and Sustainability
This year’s annual general
meeting (AGM) held on 6
December focussed on how
we have created a legacy for
skills development,
volunteering and funding
over the past year.
In 2012 Kingston Voluntary
Action’s Kingston
Infrastructure Support and
Development (KISD) Project,
funded by the Big Lottery,
came to an end.
Our three year project built
the capacity of local
organisations to respond to
change, through workforce
and infrastructure
development.
KISD sowed the seeds for
our new project,
Transforming Kingston’s
Infrastructure (TKI), that
began in the same year.
TKI is building a funding
legacy with its flagship
projects Love Kingston and
Localgiving.com.
Keynote speaker Julie
Dawson from
Localgiving.com talked about
the importance of fundraising
online to ensure future
sustainability. Growbaby and
Yorda Adventures told the
audience how their
Localgiving.com page is
bringing in welcome funds
for them.
There are some fully
subsidised places still
available for local groups to
start their fundraising
webpage (see page 5 for
details).
Love Kingston’s fundraising
manager, Elaine Miller,
updated attendees on
developments to the
fundraising campaign and
stressed the need for
everyone to spread the word
about this exciting new
venture for the borough.
Hedley Featherstone
highlighted how the Olympics
and Paralympics 2012 saw a
66% increase in volunteering
in our borough, with many of
our volunteers continuing to
be involved with the
community long after the
Games were over.
If you missed the event, you
can still watch our film and
download presentations from
the day from our website.
Download presentations: www.kva.org.uk/events-and-training/annual-general-meeting/
Read our Annual Review: http://www.kva.org.uk/publications-2/annual-review/
With thanks to the Big Lottery we
have been able to tell the tale of
our supportive services through
the art of film, which premiered
at our AGM.
Thanks go to Refugee Action
Kingston, Kingston Churches
Action on Homelessness and
Kingston Mencap for taking part.
Watch our video at www.kva.org.uk/support-for-groups/a-sustainable-future/
Watch our new film...
www.kva.org.uk Page 4 News
Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme becomes law The Small Charitable Donations Bill received
Royal Assent on 19 December 2012,
becoming the Small Charitable Donations Act
2012.
The Act legislated the Gift Aid Small
Donations Scheme (GASDS), which will be
implemented from 6 April 2013.
GASDS allows eligible charities and
Community Amateur Sports Clubs to claim
Gift Aid style top-up payments on small cash
donations without requiring the donor to
provide a Gift Aid declaration.
HMRC will also be publishing the guidance
accompanying the scheme for consultation in
early 2013.
Visit http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/news/
gasds.htm for information
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) are introducing a new online service which will enable Charities and Community Amateur Sports Clubs (CASCs) to submit repayment claims electronically.
HMRC are planning to launch the new service for Charities and CASCs, called Charities Online, in April 2013.
Charities Online will replace the current R68(i) Gift Aid and tax repayments claims form. It will be a way for charities and CASCS to
claim Gift Aid, tax repayments on other income and Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme top-up payments by using an online form.
Charities Online will also introduce new intelligent forms (iForms) to replace the current ChA1 HMRC Charity application form, ChV1 Charities variations form and CASC(A1) registration form.
Visit http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/charities/
online/index.htm for information
Claiming Gift Aid repayments from April 2013: Charities Online
The ban on age discrimination in services started on 1st October 2012. Guidance on this has been published by the Government Equalities Office. It covers circumstances where age discrimination can continue - by exception, positive action and objective justification.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/3ultyz9
Ban on age discrimination
The National minimum wage increased in October 2012 to £6.19 for ages 21 and over, and for apprentices the minimum wage will rise to £2.65. ACAS has an employment law update page with this and other recent changes at:
http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=3898
Minimum wage changes
From last autumn, information, advice and support on discrimination and human rights are being provided by a new Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS) rather than the Equality and Human Rights Commission. The Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS) is designed to offer bespoke advice and targeted support on issues of discrimination to those who need it most.
http://www.equalityadvisoryservice.com
Equality Advisory and Support Service website now live
Page 5 Winter 2013 News
Disclosure and Barring Service: is your role regulated? Major changes are
happening to the vetting
and barring process for
people working with
vulnerable groups.
On 1st December the
Criminal Records Bureau
(CRB) merged with the
Independent Safeguarding
Authority (ISA) to create a
new Disclosure and Barring
Service (DBS).
The DBS will continue to
accept the old CRB
disclosure application forms
until the end of February
next year. You may have
already seen the new
forms, which are now being
issued, and been relieved
to see they have not
changed much! It is the
same layout, with certain
sections and questions
crossed out.
The certificate you receive
once the check is complete
looks different, with a new
logo. However, the DBS will
continue to run all the
services the old CRB did,
and their contact details
will remain the same.
Where you previously had a
responsibility to report
certain safeguarding issues
to the ISA, you should now
report them to the DBS.
Following the Protection of
Freedoms Act 2012 certain
roles were removed in
September, meaning you
are no longer allowed to
ask if applicants for those
roles are barred from
working with vulnerable
groups – though they can
still go through the criminal
record checking process.
You should check with the
umbrella body you use
whether the role you want
to fill is still considered to
be a regulated activity. It is
important to do this,
because the Home Office
could take action against
people incorrectly
requesting checks.
Changes to CRB are
explained on the Home
Office website or take part
in training ( see page 15).
Visit www.homeoffice.gov.uk/
crbischanging
The CIO was first proposed in the Charities
Act 2006. It is a new legal structure for
Charities that want to become incorporated
to gain limited liability, without dual
registration with the Charity Commission
and Company’s House.
This can be a slow and time-consuming
process involving initial registration as a
company with Companies House and as a
charity with the Charity Commission; and
on-going regulation and accounting
requirements from both bodies.
The CIO aims to provide charities with
some of the benefits of being a company,
without the additional reporting and legal
requirements which incorporated charities
may be subject to.
The CIO structure will not be suitable for all
charities. The Charity Commission is urging
those thinking about applying to register as
a CIO to consider carefully information
available on its website before starting their
online application as the CIO model will not
be the best solution for every organisation.
CIOs will be most beneficial for small to
medium sized charities which employ staff
or enter into contracts.
The Charity Commission began considering
online applications for new charities with
incomes of over £5,000 on 10th December
2012. There is a timetable for transferring
existing unincorporated charities from now
until 2014.
What is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)?
For more information and timetable visit
http://bit.ly/WifVW6 or contact Zahida
Saddiq, Capacity Building Manager, on 020
8255 3335 or [email protected]
www.kva.org.uk Page 6 Funding
Kingston Voluntary Action has developed a new Investment Fund targeted specifically to build the capacity of organisations in Kingston to become tender ready for commissioning. The Fund has been established using RBK London Councils (Reduced Contribution) funding.
Local voluntary and community organisations and social enterprises are being invited to submit applications for one-off investment of working capital to gear their organisation for public service contract delivery. Organisations must provide evidence of their engagement with
statutory providers to be eligible to apply.
Applications for funds must not exceed £50,000. Applications must be made in writing, clearly stating an outline of your proposal including the public service contract you would be aiming to deliver, evidence that you can meet the outcomes for the service you will be delivering, and a detailed budget.
For further information contact Hilary Garner on 020 8255 3335. You can submit your application to Hilary Garner at KVA address (see page 2). Applications will be considered on a rolling basis.
KVA Investment Fund for one-off working capital available
23 local voluntary and community groups
have webpages on Localgiving.com, a
fundraising website for small organisations.
Several more organisations have registered
and will soon be fundraising online.
Small community organisations, faith-based
organisations, sports groups and more are
all welcome to join Localgiving.com.
Some of the groups currently fundraising on
the website include Barnfield Riding for the
Disabled Trust, Richmond and Kingston ME
Group, Cambridge Road Estates Community
Group and Express.
Localgiving.com is the only fundraising
website that enables groups too small to
register with the Charities Commission to
receive Gift Aid on donations.
Apply now for online fundraising webpage and workshop
Applications are requested for grants of up to £2000
for youth projects. The Trustees will consider grant
aid from organisations working with young people
for specific projects outside of their core funding in
the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames.
KBC Trust Grants for Youth Projects
Please email Paul Cox for further
information on [email protected]
If you would like KVA to fund your
organisation’s subscription to
Localgiving.com or attend our workshop
contact Sanja Kane on
[email protected] or 020 8255 3335.
Next Localgiving.com workshop:
27 February, 10am to 1pm
Access Learning Centre, Kingston
Celebrating 40 years of volunteering in the Royal
Borough of Kingston upon Thames
GO KINGSTON VOLUNTEERING
GoKingstonVolunteering @GKVolunteers
Are your opportunities up to date? Have you got some new opportunities that you would like us to market?
Each month we feature 3 new ‘Hot Opportunities’ on our website as well as upload them onto a popular national volunteering database.
If you would like to be featured then please get in contact. If you would like to be updated about the latest opportunities you can also subscribe to the webpage newsfeed.
We’ll also be sending out your ‘Hot Opportunities via Twitter, and in our volunteering e-news for volunteers.
Last year we saw a 68% increase in the number of potential volunteers we registered and referred. We always need new opportunities to broker along with new volunteer involving organisations.
It’s vital that we regularly update our database so that we know which opportunities are active and which ones have been filled. Please let us know any changes to your organisation so that we can make sure the information we are providing is valid.
If you are unsure about what details we hold on you please call Maria on 020 8255 8685.
‘Hot Opportunities’webpage launched to promote your volunteering roles
5 March 10am to 12.30
Richard Mayo Centre, Kingston
“How the new Disclosure & Barring
Service (DBS) affects you and your
volunteers”
See page 15 for booking details
Volunteer Coordinators’ Forum
Page 8 GKV Newsletter www.gokingstonvolunteering.org.uk
Go Kingston Volunteering (GKV) strives to
develop and promote volunteering
throughout the Royal Borough of Kingston.
Currently we have 317 voluntary and
community groups registered with us. These
organisations are offering 925 voluntary
roles! Yet many of them similar to each
other – for instance drivers and
administration support.
We want to promote your organisation well,
so its really important for you to be a bit
creative. Instead of calling an opportunity
admin assistant why not name the
opportunity office angel? Instead of
volunteer driver why not call it car buddy?
If you would like some support in creating
and writing new opportunities then you can
contact our Good Practice Advisor, Pat, and
she will be happy to help you.
How ‘hot’ are your volunteering opportunities?
GKV promotes volunteering opportunities
throughout the borough, including at events
such as Voluntary Sector in the Marketplace
Contact Pat Stanley for advice on [email protected]
or 020 8255 8685
Your opportunity is hot if...
...it is an Information & Communications role.
Last year more than 400 potential volunteers expressed an interest in computers and technology.
Let us know if you have opportunities for volunteers who have I.T. skills such as web design.
Although we do not screen potential volunteers for you i.e. reference or CRB check we try to see as many people in person as possible so as to make the perfect match.
We’re delighted that we have been able to extend this opportunity to 20 local organisations to attend our Volunteer Speed Matching event on February 14 2013. See page 7 for details.
We can help you find your perfect match
Tell us about your perfect match by calling us on 020 8255 8685 or email us on [email protected]
Page 9 Winter 2013 Group Development
Support from The Cranfield Trust can save you thousands
KVA is working in partnership with The Cranfield Trust to deliver business mentoring worth thousands of pounds to voluntary sector managers across Kingston.
Business experts in senior managerial positions from the commercial sector offer their knowledge and advice at no cost to community groups as part of The Cranfield Trust network.
Since the project started in April last year 12 local groups have received a staggering 400 hours of consultancy valued at £40,000. The groups support more than 14,000 beneficiaries.
Kingston Carers’ Network has been supported by Frances Meredith over the past three months. Frances has been helping them to develop a new business plan.
Director Kate Dudley tells us why this help has been so valuable:
In recent years the organisation has experienced huge development and expansion of services, an organic process that has maximised on the opportunities available to support carers.
We have outgrown our business plan and now need a joint plan that reflects our ‘strategic priority’ focus.
Frances and I meet up every fortnight for approximately 2 hours. We have progressed through the early planning stages of business planning, including mapping of services and outcomes, evaluating the current organisational structure and organising an away day.
We are now in the process of consulting with staff, users and volunteers to ensure that the identified priorities reflect the needs of all the stakeholders, particularly those of the carers.
The process has been very helpful and has enabled me to reflect on the organisation, staffing and most importantly, the future of KCN. Frances has been a very positive influence who has enabled us to progress our strategic development in a very clear and inclusive way.
Frances has been a very insightful mentor who is extremely supportive and provides advice on a range of HR and strategic issues.
Her experience in HR has been a very useful added benefit and has shown me that a mentor may be a very useful resource to have beyond the scope of this business planning project. Frances has an excellent corporate approach to the project and this helps me to look beyond the voluntary sector world!
We are already developing a more professional profile and looking at what are doing in a more business-like way. Frances is also providing a lot of practical help and prepares documents to help KCN follow each stage of the business planning process. She also ensures that I get my actions completed on time.
I would recommend this experience to anyone else in this position, whether this is for business and strategic development or other mentoring opportunities. I wish this would be available for longer than six months!
Consultancy in action: Kingston Carers’ Network
If you need a business mentor, are getting ready for commissioning or would like
information on how else The Cranfield Trust consultants can support you contact Sanja
Kane, Transforming Kingston’s Infrastructure Project Manager on 020 8255 3335.
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Continued from front page
Presentations from the day and short interviews can be downloaded from
www.kva.org.uk and we will continue to report back on new developments
Health & Social Care
Kingston’s Clinical Commissioning Group (KCCG) has been given authorisation to take control of its local NHS budget following an announcement on Tuesday 11 December 2012 by the NHS Commissioning Board.
KCCG will formally start commissioning hospital, community and mental health services for the people of Kingston from April 2013.
The KCCG is made up of the 28 GP practices in Kingston. In order to meet its aspirations around improving the health and wellbeing of the population of Kingston, it is working in partnership with its patients, the local authority and providers of services including the voluntary and community sector.
As a first step in building a meaningful relationship with KCCG, KVA invited chair, Dr Naz Jivani, to be a key note speaker at our
first Health Conference on Tuesday 22nd January.
The public are welcome to attend meetings where all formal decisions are taken regarding health services, and there is usually an opportunity for members of the public to share their views.
Now that KCCG is authorised all meetings of the board will be public. The next meeting will be held on:
Date: Tuesday 5th March 2013
Time: 1pm - 2.30pm
Location: The King's Centre, Coppard Gardens, Chessington, KT9 2GZ
Kingston’s Clinical Commissioning Group gains NHS budget control
Visit www.kingstonccg.nhs.uk for details of
how to submit questions to KCCG,
supporting papers for board meetings and
details of patient forums.
and Dr. Phil Moore, Deputy Chair (Clinical) of the KCCG.
Cllr. Derek Osborne, Leader of the Council and Chair of the Health and Well-Being Board also spoke at the conference about the changing role of the local authority in the provision of Public Health.
Responsibility for public health is moving back to the local authority and as it continues to tackle health inequalities and improve the life chances of local people through empowerment of local communities, it is looking to the voluntary and community sector to develop innovative approaches to improving public health.
In its role as strategic partner KVA will be looking at ways the voluntary and community sector can engage in a meaningful way with the KCCG and Local
Authority, in the planning, design and delivery of services.
Workshops were held during the morning with contributions from Victim Support and Kingston Refugee Action and from KVA. Feedback from the workshops will be used to inform the action plan for the soon to be published ‘draft’ Voluntary and Community Sector Strategy and shared with KCCG.
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The Community Development Network met on 21st November after a break of several months.
We welcomed 18 organisations and a number of partners from Kingston Council including the Equalities and Community Engagement Team, Adult Social Care Team and Strategic Business. We had a ‘health’ theme with presentations on:
Training in Mental Health First Aid from Mind in Kingston;
The Implementation of NHS111;
A report on the Peer Review of Kingston’s Adult Safeguarding Service;
The Draft Mental Well Being Needs Assessment.
There was an opportunity during the meeting for networking and we spent some time looking at themes
for future meetings and discussing how we can improve communication between members.
Community development work cannot be done in isolation and to achieve sustainable and effective communities we need the input of many agencies, resources and perspectives.
We were delighted with the interest and engagement of those that attended the Network and hope to build on this for future partnership work.
The feedback from the network meeting is now being taken to the Community Development Working Group of the Voluntary and Community Sector Strategy Group.
This will help inform an Action Plan attached to the Voluntary and Community
Sector Strategy which is to be launched in March 2013.
The Community Development Network will next meet on 6 March, 10am to 12.30pm followed by lunch. A theme and agenda will be announced shortly in our monthly e-bulletin.
To join the Community
Development Network
contact Patricia Turner on
Health theme re-launches Community Development Network
A mental health workshop by
Mind in Kingston created
empathetic understanding
12 February, 10am to 12.30pm, Richard Mayo Centre, Eden St, Kingston upon Thames KT1 1HZ
Lunch will be provided at the end of the session
The local Safeguarding Adults Partnership Board would like to have a conversation with colleagues in the voluntary sector to think about how we can make adult safeguarding a valued and effective part of the local community. We would like to invite colleagues from any local voluntary agency that engages with adults in Kingston to think about:
What is adult safeguarding? Understand what each other have to offer Understand what each other want or need from each other
Next steps
Adult Safeguarding Partnership Board and VCS meeting
To book your place contact Patricia Turner on [email protected] or 020 8255 3335.
www.kva.org.uk Page 12 ICT Hub
Social Media in Action Superhighway’s community IT project
Community Connected has a new Facebook
page. Have a look at some of the activities we
are running – refurbished PC programme, fully
subsidised IT training in internet and email
plus a computer repairs workshop.
And if you like what you see, please like us.
Back in May 2012, Lasa held a Tweetchat encouraging people to contribute their top online
tools. Amazingly #lasatechtools trended (top 10 tweets on that day) and 70 tools were
submitted. These have now been organised into 4 tool boxes - Back Office, Publishing,
Collaboration & Events and Meetings - so go and have a look if you are interested in
finding out how such tools can help your organisation.
Visit http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/cloudtoolbox
Superhighways is a registered UK Online Centres Partner and in December they launched
the Community How To - Doing more with Digital website which also showcases a range
of tools that can help support community activity.
Superhighways have a small pot of funding from UK Online Centres to be a community How
To Advocate. If registering on the CommunityHowTo site, please use our UK Online Centre
ID 3453271 in the promotional code box, so we can evidence that we have signposted
our target of 30 groups registering.Also – if you are interested to find out more – Super-
highways will be running a session at the next KVA Community Development Network on
6th March, so please come along…Visit www.communityhowto.com
AudioBoo is a fantastic new social media platform for sharing audio. You can share interviews, music you record or any other short audio recordings on the AudioBoo website or even on your own website.
You can download an app for your smartphone and various mobile devices so that you can record on the move and upload straight to the web.
Community Connected have recently been using AudioBoo to capture carers’ experience of its IT training programme.
We also used it to record a short interview with the director of the media company that produced
our new film—and played it on the day of our annual general meeting before the film started. It was as if Jude Habib was talking to us via satellite!
AudioBoo is a great way of capturing what people are talking about at your events, interviewing your service users about their stories or experiences of your activities and anything else you can think of!
Create a free account to share multiple recordings that are no more than 3 minutes in length. You can upgrade to paid packages that allow for much longer recordings if you wish.
Transforming your ICT using
Visit http://audioboo.fm/ to create your free account and start sharing. If anyone needs
some support using this resource contact Superhighways on 020 8255 8040.
Visit http://www.kva.org.uk/support-for-groups/a-sustainable-future/ to see Jude’s ‘Boo’
in action or http://audioboo.fm/Superhighways to listen to Kingston’s carers talk
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There are just a few spaces left on our free
IT training programme. Do you work with
carers in Kingston? If you do, Community
Connected has a tailor-made internet and
email training programme for them which is
fully paid for.
Upcoming training dates are February 5th,
12th and 26th, and March 12th and 26th.
This is delivered as part of our Kingston
Carers’ Network UK Online Project.
Do you work with carers?
Contact Philippa Leary at Superhighways
on 020 8255 8040 to find out more.
As you get older you need to learn more than what you normally know. You gain stuff over the years but there’s always something you don’t know. I’ve come round here for the last three weeks to learn how to use the computer. I’ve seen other people using them and they seem to enjoy doing it. You learn a lot on the internet
Albert, regular attendee, aged 77
Jude Habib from
Sounddelivery kindly
recorded an AudioBoo
for us to be played at
our AGM. Thanks Jude
www.kva.org.uk Page 14 Training & Events
Join in with the Pride of Place Project run by
Community Connected and share memories
of living and working in Norbiton over the last
50 years.
Come along to Piper Hall on Thursday 14th
March, from 2pm-6pm, with photos and all
your stories of the estates or the surrounding
area over the years.
We are building a collection of all the best
stories, photos and recollections from
residents of Norbiton over the last 50 years,
so none of our collective histories are lost in
time. Maybe someone can remember when
the Cambridge Road Estate was actually built
in the 1960s and the Silver Jubilee
celebrations in 1977?
We will scan and upload personal histories to
a community website, and show you how to
keep adding your stories to the virtual village
we are building online. We would like to
document every decade from 1960 to the
present day – scanning your photographs and
recording you memories, so they can take
pride of place in our history.
We need you and your memories of Norbiton!
Call 020 8255 8040 or email [email protected]. You can also find us on
Facebook. Go to www.facebook.com/KingstonCommunityConnected and click ‘like’.
Sylvia Chew, RBK’s Head of Children’s Social Care will be giving a presentation on the changes to children’s social care following the Improvement Plan. This is a great opportunity to find out about the latest developments and to ask questions. The meeting will be held on Monday 18 March, 10am to 12pm, United Reformed Church, Kingtson.
Book your place by 1 February. Email Judith Naylor on [email protected]
Children and Young Peoples VCS Network Meeting
Community Connected is working with
CREst, One Norbiton and other partners on
this project.
Safeguarding Children Level 1/2 training
The next Safeguarding Children Level 1/2 course takes place on Saturday 4 May, 10am to 1pm, venue to be confirmed. Free but booking essential.
Email Sanja Kane on [email protected] or call 020 8255 3335
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What a remarkable nation
we are – in spite of the
economic downturn and
extreme austerity measures
– 2012 was a memorable
year.
We celebrated the Queens’
Diamond Jubilee, raised
more money than ever for
Comic Relief, BBC’s Children
in Need, and Sport Relief and
hosted a hugely successful
Olympic and Paralympic
Games.
Now is the time to unite once
again for ourselves and turn
the spot light on our own
community.
Love Kingston is inviting
everyone who lives or works
in the borough, from school
children, students,
individuals, businesses and
groups, to get creative, get
involved, and have some fun
in fundraising on LOVE
KINGSTON DAY – Thursday
14th February. This is set to
become an annual event.
Love Kingston supports five
local projects and is building
a Kingston Legacy Fund for
the future of the voluntary
and community sector across
the borough.
We are delighted that both
the Surrey Comet and
Kingston Guardian are
supporters of Love Kingston.
Ross Logan, Chief Reporter,
would like to hear about
what you are doing to
fundraise on Love Kingston
Day. Please send your
story, with any
supporting pictures, to
ross.logan@
london.newsquest.co.uk
Kingston Voluntary Action
works in partnership with
The London Community
Foundation on Love
Kingston. It is funded by the
Big Fund on behalf of the
Office for Civil Society.
For more information
contact Elaine Miller,
Fundraising Manager on
07834 362 120 or email
Join in Love Kingston Day - February 14th
FOLLOW LOVE KINGSTON ON FACEBOOK @ www.facebook.com/LoveKingstonDay
DOWNLOAD A LOVE KINGSTON DAY POSTER @ www.love-kingston.org.uk
With thanks to George P Johnson: Experience Marketing for their support
Volunteer Co-ordinators Forum: Disclosure and Barring Service
5 March 10-12.30 at Richard Mayo Centre, Kingston
“How the new Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) affects you and your volunteers”
The CRB and ISA have now merged and there are changes for both organisations and
volunteers.
Do you have responsibility for recruiting or managing volunteers?
If so then please come along to our free forum and find out how the changes affect you.
The session will focus on giving an overview of the changes, when and what level of DBS
check is appropriate, and how to assess suitability if a DBS is positive. How the changes to
ID checking creates additional barriers to volunteering for young people, refugees and asylum
seekers. Discuss how a DBS check if just one aspect of safer recruitment.
The forum is a good networking opportunity to discuss volunteer management issues.
To book your place email Pat Stanley on [email protected]
