Networking Lunches;
Fridays - Noon - Ferneham Hall's Octagon Lounge - £2.50 for a
light buffet lunch.
We continue with our programme of 9 lunches during
next year.
The lunches provide an opportunity to meet others
in Voluntary and Community Organisations, to meet those who send these emails,
to exchange news and notices of events and to comment on the latest ideas from
the organisations that set policy and deliver community services.
Future lunches for 2007, make a note in your diary!
23rd Feb; Diversity / Equality, 23rd March; Community
Policing, 27th April; GP Commissioning, 18th
May, 22nd June, 20th July, 28th
September, 23rd November
Harbourside
Training
Volunteers are
our Greatest Asset A day session to enable participants to
refresh or start their understanding of best practice in managing and retaining
volunteers.
Weds 28th Feb at Fareham 9.30 to 3.30
. This session is funded by the LPSA2 programme.
Booking but not attending without 5 days notice will be charged at
£25. This is the second in the series - participants really enjoyed and
valued the first. - book now admin@farehamaction.org.uk
or call 01329 231899
This story illustrates the importance of
having good proceduresVolunteering England reports the case
of a volunteer driver who was not properly insured by his organisation. A client
fell after getting out of his car, and seriously injured herself. The
organisation expected his motor insurance to cover it, which it did not. The
volunteer paid his own costs to defend an action against him. He was found not
to have been at fault - but would have to have paid compensation out of his own
pocket if he had lost.
http://www.volunteeringengland.blogspot.com/
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Recognition for our
Honourable citizens
Hampshire Good Neighbours
Award
Hampshire County Council are inviting people to nominate "Good Neighbours";
nominations can be from individuals or from coordinators of voluntary groups (
but not if you nominated someone last year because it is very popular. A
very prestigious presentation will be held in the Great Hall in late
April. Closing date 2nd March for details and form see
http://www3.hants.gov.uk/good_neighbour_awards_(v2_cr)-2.doc
New years Honours
2 dames, 8 CBEs, 21 OBEs, 29 MBEs were awarded for work in the voluntary
sector. People in your organisation may deserve a national honour too see
http://www.honours.gov.uk/
New Requirement on Local Authorities "to
provide POSITIVE support to young people"
The Government will provide £4.5 million in each of the financial years
2006-07 and 2007-08 for local authorities to develop and publicise local things
to do and places to go. This is alongside the DfES' £115 million Youth
Opportunity and Capital Funds, which provide money for youth-led activities, and
to create or improve places for young people to go within their community.
Hampshire Carers Direct - New
number
0845 600 4555 is the out of hours advice service for carers in Hampshire
evenings and weekends to 11.30pm or there is an email address
carershelp.ssdirect@hants.gov.uk Small leaflets
have been printed and are available from the Shopmobility, Carers and Disability
Information centre in Osborn Road.
Alert from Police
Since end of August 2006 five incidents have been reported to the Police
where offenders have falsely claimed to be from Social Services.
These
incidents have been in Alton; Andover; Southampton and Eastleigh.
The motive seems to be burglary. Police are concerned that this may be a
growing trend. It is worth passing on.
But that upfront offence is not the only one -
Legacies Fraud is on the increase, people who wish
to leave a legacy but who are without family to assist them are being approached
with offers not in their interests - by professional people. The institute
of Chartered accountants has struck off an accountant who took £141,000 from a
client who had left funds to two charities.
http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/charity_news/full_news.cfm?ID=21092
Hampshire Conference on
Parenting
Mon
26th March 9.30 to 4pm in Winchester; a large conference with keynote speakers
of significance and a range of workshops for all interested in Parenting and
young people. The conference is free but will be charged at £50 if you
book and do not turn-up! www.farehamaction.org.uk/SupportingParents.pdf
(closing date 1st Feb)
Hampshire Children's Fund
The
Children's fund is in not quite a desperate state is it might have been -
instead of a 15% cut it will be only 2% for next year. Meanwhile there is
a little underspend for Local Partnership groups to recommend how it is
used. http://www.childrensfund.hants.org.uk/
Family Learning - particularly interesting for Community
Associations
An innovative three year project which is
working directly with Voluntary and Community Sector organisations to support
the development, design and delivery of innovative and responsive family
learning opportunities for people living in disadvantaged areas. There is
a FREE Family Fusion confernece on Thursday 15th February in Reading, 12 -
4 pm.
What was that you
said?
RNID
and the TUC have today (Tuesday 2 January) teamed up for the second year running
to call on workers and their managers to 'Break the Sound Barrier' and take the
charity's telephone hearing check on 0845 600 55 55 http://www.tuc.org.uk/h_and_s/tuc-12809-f0.cfm
A briefing sheet about the new Licensing
regulations
A new briefing from Voluntary Arts Network,
'What's happening with the Licensing Act 2003?', provides an update on the Act
since its implementation, and helps organisations avoid some of the pitfalls
that have arisen in the first twelve months of its operation. In pdf format
(178kb) from http://www.voluntaryarts.org/uploaded/map4449.pdf.
The Well as a Meetings
Venue
The
Well would like to offer their coffee shop for sole use as a venue for
meetings in Afternoons- they can provide drinks and are able to provide buffets
so you can keep talking as long as it takes! contact www.thefarehamwell.co.uk
Reorganisation with Housing
Corporation
People don't understand!
New research sheds a little light on "Motivations and
Barriers to Citizen Governance"
Citizen Forums
Citizen
Forums of 100 "ordinary people" are being set-up to ask tough questions about
the role of Citizen and State. New research shows how people as citizens
want to interact with the State and what kind of role the State should play in
their lives. The info from Ipsos-MORI provides an important new insight
into the public's thinking and appetites for change regarding rights and
responsibilities, tackling damaging behaviours that hinder communities and
ensuring more customer–focused public services. http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/newsroom/news_releases/2007/070115_policy.asp
Offender schemes to enable them to
"Payback"
The
Home Secretary visiting a "Community Payback" project in Nottingham to see
offenders landscaping a garden for elderly residents, encouraged mayors across
the country to nominate a project for offenders to regenerate in their
area. The project can be nominated by the mayor or be initiated through
suggestions from the public, media or local community groups. The successful
project would be announced at the mayoral installation in May. Community
Payback-visible unpaid work by offenders-was launched in July 2005 in six pilot
areas.
Debate over Volunteering
Numbers
the
Charity Commission is proposing that all charities with an income of over
£500,000 must provide an estimate of the number of volunteers available to
them. Volunteer England argue that it is a pointless
excercise. CC says "We recognise that this information may not
be readily available to all and will take careful account of feedback on this
point". http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/enhancingcharities/summar07.asp
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