Hackney CVS

Humans of the Hospice book and exhibition launch as well as a Volunteer Fair
2018-07-18 17:00 - 19:00 UTC
St Joseph’s Hospice will host the Humans of the Hospice book and exhibition launch as well as a volunteer recruitment fair to promote their people facing roles. The event will be on 18 July, 5 – 7pm. For more information contact the Volunteers Team: 0208 525 6032. Read more

Hackney Main Grants 'How to Apply' session
2018-07-18 10:00 - 13:30
Hackney CVS is working in partnership with Hackney Council to deliver a workshop on ‘How to Apply’ to Hackney Main Grants which have seen a number of changes to the application process.

This interactive workshop will:

Provide an overview of the London Borough of Hackney Main Grants programme
Provide you with in-depth details on the application process
Provide you with a practical session on completing the application workbook.

The Essentials of Data Management
2018-07-17 10:00 - 13:00 | Hackney CVS, 24-30 Dalston Lane, London, E8 3AZ, United Kingdom
This practical training session aims to provide an understanding of data management procedures using the MS Access service user database. This includes how it is applied in practice and its importance for organisations holding personal information on their service users and volunteers.

Writing better funding applications
2018-07-10 12:00 - 13:30 | Hackney CVS, 24-30 Dalston Lane, London, E8 3AZ, United Kingdom
Writing a funding bid is a time-consuming business and, with more organisations chasing shrinking sources of support, it’s important to get it right first time.

This interactive workshop will:

Provide an overview of the key ingredients to a successful funding application
Provide you with top ten tips for applications.
Provide you with a practical exercise on assessing applications from a funder’s perspective.

SHARING LESSONS FROM CHILD SAFEGUARDING
2018-07-05 13:30 | Hackney CVS, 24-30 Dalston Lane, London, E8 3AZ, United Kingdom
Safeguarding children and young people is everybody’s responsibility but sometimes, despite the involvement of many services, children come to harm. Sharing lessons from Child Safeguarding Reviews provides an opportunity reflect, review and revise your internal systems.

Themes of recent reviews have included: unexplained physical injuries and missing or absent children Chronic Neglect, disability, historic sexual abuse by foster carers, domestic abuse, responding to adolescent criminality.
Voluntary and community organisations are invited to attend this special session on Thursday 5th July 1.30 to 3.30pm at Hackney CVS.
This session is important for staff working with adults and children: Safeguarding leads, frontline staff and line managers.

Lessons from serious case review > children's sector
2018-07-05 13:00 - 15:30
Learn about the role that family, friends and neighbours may have been able to play to protect children and adults with special needs and parents that do not speak English as their first language.
Alma Reisel, CHSCB Partnership Lead, and Kristine Wellington, Head of Children and Families at Hackney CVS, will take your on a journey to look a the facts, findings and to present future recommendations.
Take Action: attend, listen, learn and share. Protect children and young people from harm.

How to apply for a peer support grant
2018-07-05 13:00 - 15:00 | Halkevi Turkish and Kurdish Community Centre, 31-33 Dalston Lane, London, E8 3DF, United Kingdom
Peer support long term health conditions grants round 5 is open
Peer support long term conditions grants round 5 is open to community organisations, registered charities, registered CIC’s and social enterprises can apply for up to £4,000 to deliver Peer Support projects for residents in the City & Hackney NHS catchment area to:
• Support people to understand their long-term condition better
• Support and motivate people to better manage their own health
• Support and motivate people to make long term lifestyle and behaviour changes to their diet and/or levels of exercise
• Support people to be proactively involved in drawing up their own care plans
• Support people to get the best from the healthcare system.
• Help people to develop ongoing support networks.
For more information please click here for guidance and for the application form.
To book onto the How to Apply Session click here

Children and Family Sector Meeting
2018-07-05 10:15 - 12:30
Children and Family Sector Meeting- It’s time to Refresh Forum | Hackney CVS
The Children and Young peoples Provider Forum brings together charitable organisations that support local children and families.
Over the last year the children sector has been working on new health priorities as part of the nation wide health transformation agenda. There are two parts to this meeting to attend.
Part A (10:15-11:30) provides space for the VCS Children’s Sector to meet the new VCS representatives that attend Children, Young People and Maternity services work stream and to shape the future plans for the CYPPF.
Part B (11:30-13:00) meet the strategic lead Amy Wilkinson, Work stream Director for CYPM to connect, contribute and influencing what the future priorities are. Immunisation, mental health and healthier lifestyle. In addition learn about the new model and ways to improve children’s health in neighbourhoods from Nina Griffiths.
Attend, share and exchange good practice, what’s working well in the voluntary sector on mental health matters and addressing childhood obesity. Please book your place by 1 July. Book here

Health & Safety at Work Essentials
2018-07-05 10:00 - 13:00 | Hackney CVS, 24-30 Dalston Lane, London, E8 3AZ, United Kingdom
This introductory course is for people with health and safety responsibilities in community and voluntary sector organisations, who want to learn about the rights to working in a safe and healthy environment and how to enforce these rights.
Date: 5 July 2018 Time: 10.00am – 1.00pm Venue: Adiaha Antigha Centre, 24-30 Dalston Lane, E8 3AZ
For further information and to book click here.

GDPR Compliance training
2018-07-03 10:00 - 13:00 | Hackney CVS, 24-30 Dalston Lane, London, E8 3AZ, United Kingdom
This intensive workshop aims to provide you with in-depth knowledge on how to be GDPR compliant. This includes how it should be applied in practice and the importance for data controllers and data processors holding personal information to ensure that correct frameworks and systems are in place in order to comply.

Date: 3 July 2018 Time: 10.00am – 1.00pm
For further information or to book click here.

Emergency First Aid at Work
2018-06-28 10:00 - 17:00 | Hackney CVS, 24-30 Dalston Lane, London, E8 3AZ, United Kingdom
This course is designed for anyone who needs to or would like to become an accredited emergency first aider in the workplace in accordance with the Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations. Date: 28 June.
Date: 28 June Time: 10.00am – 5.00pm Venue: Adiaha Antigha Centre, 24-30 Dalston Lane, E8 3AZ
For further information and to book click here.

ICT Digital Platform Open Consultation
2018-06-27 15:00 - 17:00 | Hackney CVS, 24-30 Dalston Lane, London, E8 3AZ, United Kingdom
There is currently a gap in the connectivity of the East London Patient Record System where the voluntary sector is concerned. This is because there is no mechanism for enabling health and social care workers and social prescribers to share patient / service user referral information with each other. Currently healthcare professionals are able to record, share and use vital information in order to provide more efficient care via EMIS; which is a clinical system for delivering integrated healthcare. However the voluntary sector does not have access to EMIS and as a result there is no record of many of the valuable interactions which occur with patients / service users.
The aim is to provide the voluntary sector, access to a digital platform, which is integrated with the various directory of services (DoS), to populate services automatically as an integrated DoS. This will bridge the connectivity gap and enable the entire path of a patient’s / service user’s referral to be tracked and accessed by all necessary parties via EMIS.
The proposed digital platform will work as a referral pathway tracker between Healthcare services and Social prescription service providers. The referrals will be populated from EMIS and health and wellbeing data which has been input onto the platform by SP providers. This information will update EMIS, which will in turn update Homerton Health Information Exchange (HIE).
Benefits: The implementation of a digital platform would improve the patient experience, improve communication and collaboration and in general deliver a service that better meets the needs of the patients/ service users in a multitude of ways:

Patient safety: supporting safer and more informed treatment by providing clinicians with timely access to accurate and up to date information
Efficiency: reducing the time, effort and resources required to obtain relevant information regarding patient care, e.g. avoiding repeat test requests
Effectiveness: supporting the delivery of appropriate care to patients
Patient experience: reducing the need for patients to recall or repeat relevant information which also supports people with communication difficulties
Access to data for clinical audit and quality improvement.

Register here.

Partnership meeting with Job Centre Plus (JCP) and Hackney Advice Forum (HAF)
2018-06-26 10:00 - 12:00 | Hackney CVS, 24-30 Dalston Lane, London, E8 3AZ, United Kingdom
Hackney Advice Forum welcomes anyone who works in the advice field in Hackney to attend their next meeting on 26 June at Hackney CVS, starting at 10am.

Hackney swift walk
2018-06-21 19:30 - 21:00
To celebrate National Swift Week, come on a fascinating guided walk visiting some of the summer haunts of Hackney’s swifts. See their acrobatics and listen to their ‘screaming parties’.
Suggested donation £5.
To book email debeauvoirswifts@gmail.com.
Where? The Star by Hackney Downs, 35 Queensdown Rd Hackney E5 8JQ
Contact: Hackney Swifts, e-mail: hackneyswifts@gmail.com

Basic Risk Assessment
2018-06-19 10:00 - 13:00 | Hackney CVS, 24-30 Dalston Lane, London, E8 3AZ, United Kingdom
Do you want to know how to carry out a risk assessment? Do you have responsibility for managing health and safety? This 3-hour basic risk assessment training could be what you are looking for.
Date: 19 June 2018 Time: 10.00am – 1.00pm Venue: Adiaha Antigha Centre, 24-30 Dalston Lane, E8 3AZ
For further information and to book click here.

Art, design and craft fair
2018-06-09 12:00 - 16:00
This is a free entry event for the community with a creative flair. There will be decorative items from local businesses, designers, artist and craft makers. Browse through the variety of stalls, to view the creative and decorative items on display. Please contact for further information and stall bookings.
Where? Stoke Newington Methodist Church, 106a Stoke Newington High Street, Stoke Newington, Hackney N16 7NY
Contact: Suzanne Asphall, e-mail: designsbysuzanne01@hotmail.com
Telephone: 07956905730

Meet the Funders
2018-05-23 10:30 - 12:00 | Hackney CVS, 24-30 Dalston Lane, London, E8 3AZ, United Kingdom
We will be joined by London Community Foundation and Trust for London for an interactive session on their funding priorities and support available for voluntary and community groups.

The London Community Foundation supports community-based organisations focused on helping disadvantaged London. They specialise in finding and funding small organisations who are just starting out or who don’t attract mass public support. LCF stands shoulder to shoulder with the groups they support and base their decisions on the merit of ideas and the talents behind them.
Trust for London is an independent charitable foundation. They aim to tackle poverty and inequality in London and do this by: funding voluntary and charity groups; funding independent research; providing knowledge and expertise on London’s social issues to policymakers and journalists. They have seven funding programmes for 2018-2022, details of which can be found in the funding guidelines.
Date: 23rd May 2018 Time: 10.30am- 12.00pm Venue: Adiaha Antigha Centre, 24-30 Dalston Lane, E8 3AZ
For further information and to book click here.

Hackney Dementia Festival
2018-05-21
Dementia Action Week –
21 – 25 May 2018

A week of events and activities in Hackney for people living with dementia, their families and friends.
#dementiafriendlyhackney
From Monday 21st – Friday 25th May members and supporters of Hackney Dementia Action Alliance are celebrating Dementia Action Week with a range of public events, for example; launching with a spectacular tea dance at Shoreditch Town Hall, gardening and craft workshops, art exhibitions, guided walks and after walk refreshments, outdoor board games, dementia and sing-along films, and the biggest Singing for the Brain ever.
For more information contact sandra.cater@alzheimers.org.uk

Hackney Half Marathon
2018-05-20 09:00 - 17:00
Challenge yourself whilst raising money for one of the charities on May 20th, 2018. This flat and fast route through Hackney is perfect for beginners and serious runners alike, and features roaring crowds and music at every mile

Das Brass live brass band, canalside in Hackney Wick
2018-05-17 19:00 - 23:00
Das Brass get a crowd dancing and boogieing all night, whether it’s to The White Stripe’s Seven Nation Army or a funked up snippet of the Countdown theme.
Craft and organic drinks and 10% of kitchen.
Where? Grow, 98C Main Yard, Wallis Road, Hackney Wick E9 5LN.
Contact: Jordanna, e-mail: hello@growhackney.co.uk
Telephone: 020 8541 4328.

GDPR Compliance – Get Ready in May!
2018-05-17 14:00 - 17:00 | Hackney CVS, 24-30 Dalston Lane, London, E8 3AZ, United Kingdom
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect on 25 May 2018 and most organisations in all sectors will need to make some changes in order to comply.

This intensive workshop aims to provide you with in-depth knowledge on how to be GDPR compliant by May 2018. This includes how it should be applied in practice and the importance for data controllers and data processors holding personal information to ensure that correct frameworks and systems are in place in order to comply.
Date: 17th May 2018 Time: 2.00pm- 5.00pm Venue: Adiaha Antigha Centre, 24-30 Dalston Lane, E8 3AZ
For further information and to book click here.

Take a Pause Wellbeing Festival
2018-05-16 18:00 - 20:30
We’re Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest and we want you to join us and take a pause from busy, city life in the idyllic Dalston Eastern Curve Garden.

Ageing, Isolation and BAME Communities
2018-05-14 10:00 - 13:00 | Tomlinson Centre, Queensbridge Rd, London, E8 3ND
Connect Hackney is inviting organisations from across the borough who work with older people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities to join us for a special event to talk about ageing, isolation and how it affects older people from BAME communities, specifically.
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Charity Finance Made Easy
2018-05-10 13:00 - 16:00 | Hackney CVS, 24-30 Dalston Lane, London, E8 3AZ, United Kingdom
Do you want a better understanding of your charity accounts and reporting? Do you need to update your knowledge of charity finance? Whether you’re a trustee or a finance officer, this training will increase your confidence in dealing with charity finances.

This course will provide you with the knowledge to:

ensure you are making the most of your finances;
evaluate the services you provide and whether they are financially viable for your organisation;
make sure you have up to date information about our charity’s finances, cash flow and obligations.

Register here.

Using evidence to fundraise
2018-05-01 10:00 - 13:00 | Hackney CVS, 24-30 Dalston Lane, London, E8 3AZ, United Kingdom
This three-hour training course will explore the types of evidence (and the value of using of evidence) to use to increase the confidence of small organisations and their capacity to submit funding applications.

Course Outline
This interactive course will help participants examine the types of researched evidence needed to increase their capacity in order to make successful applications.
By the end of the course participants will have a better understanding of:

Funders requirements for evidence of need
Evidence of track record
Organisational capabilities and evidence of impact

The learning methods applied to this course will be; a PowerPoint structure, group discussion and participatory flip-chart input.
The PowerPoint slides will be available to participants after the session.
Register here.

Hackney Mayoral Election Hustings 2018
2018-04-29 14:00 - 16:00
Political rivals will vie for votes at the Arcola Theatre, where residents will get the chance to quiz Hackney’s incumbent Mayor Philip Glanville and challengers for what is arguably the most influential job in the borough.
Ahead of next month’s mayoral election the Hackney Citizen is hosting a free debate at the Dalston venue from 2pm-4pm.
The event will be a chance for residents to hear from representatives from parties fielding candidates in the Mayoral election about issues the council is responsible for.
For more information please email your query to editor@hackneycitizen.co.uk.
Register here.

HSCF Transformation Forum
2018-04-25 09:30 - 13:00 | Tomlinson Centre, Queensbridge Rd, London, E8 3ND
You are invite to Health and social Care Forum joint meeting ‘Big meeting’. Where all the Health and Social care groups will meet under one roof.
It will involve of an hour of SIG meeting, then groups will split into transformation work streams (Prevention, Planned Care, Unplanned Care and Children & Young People), and meet for an hour followed by HSCF Forum meeting.
Time & Date: 25th April 2018 at 9.30 to 1pm
Venue: The Tomlinson Centre
Register here

Rainbow Grow - planting session
2018-04-24 13:00 - 16:00 | Hackney CVS, 24-30 Dalston Lane, London, E8 3AZ, United Kingdom
Rainbow Grow – Hackney-based LGBTQI+ gardening group – will be having a mini-garden at RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. Help them plant pansies for this event at Hackney CVS on 24 April at 1pm. All are welcome to attend. Read more

GDPR Compliance – Get Ready!
2018-04-24 10:00 - 13:00 | Hackney CVS, 24-30 Dalston Lane, London, E8 3AZ, United Kingdom
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect on 25 May 2018 and most organisations in all sectors will need to make some changes in order to comply.

This intensive workshop aims to provide you with in-depth knowledge on how to be GDPR compliant by May 2018. This includes how it should be applied in practice and the importance for data controllers and data processors holding personal information to ensure that correct frameworks and systems are in place in order to comply.
Register here.

Best Practice in Volunteer Management
2018-04-19 13:30 - 16:30 | Hackney CVS, 24-30 Dalston Lane, London, E8 3AZ, United Kingdom
Good volunteer recruitment and management not only increases your organisations capacity and impact, but also ensures that the time you give to supporting volunteers makes a real difference to their skills and confidence.

Who is this course is for?
For micro, small to medium community and voluntary groups interested in working with volunteers – for one off events, projects or longer ongoing volunteer placements. This session is an overview covering all the Best Practice essentials, but will be tailored towards participants’ previous engagement and experience with volunteers (via pre-course survey).

Register here
