Wandsworth Care Alliance

Healthy Communities – new grant opportunity

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WCA has been running a programme of activities to involve volunteers in delivering health messages to other local residents. We have offered a number of small grants to test different approaches to this.

We now want to expand this programme and are looking for two local groups to host part time coordinators who will recruit and support a wider group of health champion volunteers within either a geographic community or a Wandsworth community of interest.

We are inviting any organisation who might be interested in participating in this piece of work to submit an expression of interest initially.

Please contact melanie@wandcareall.org.uk for more information

Change of date for Volunteer Involving Organisations Network: Thursday 13 July

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Due to a clash of dates with other events, we are postponing the VIO Network from 6 July to Thursday 13 July also from 11 – 12.30.

Please could you rebook on event brite? We look forward to seeing you there. 

Are you involved with recruiting and managing volunteers within your organisations?
Then please register to attend the next VIO network meeting on Thursday 13th July 2023.

The meeting will be held at Tooting Works
89 Bickersteth Road, Tooting, SW17 9SH

Voluntary Sector Forum – Presentations are now online

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Thank you to everyone that came out to the voluntary sector forum at Balham Library.

We heard from WCA’s new Volunteering and Relationship Project Officer Jummy Olaleye, Battersea Volunteers, Akesh Khosla from Link UP London and Su Swage from Vision for Volunteering.

Please find everyone’s presentations below.

The presentations:

http://www.wandsworthcarealliance.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Voluntary-Sector-Forum-Jummy-WCA-Presentation.pdf

http://www.wandsworthcarealliance.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Battersea-Vols-presentation-WCA.pdf

http://www.wandsworthcarealliance.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Vision-For-Volunteering-VSF-slides.pdf

http://www.wandsworthcarealliance.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Link-UP-London-General-Presentation-JUNE-2023.pdf

Wandsworth’s Voluntary & Community Sector Engagement Event

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Wandsworth Council is working with Rocket Science to understand the needs and aspirations of the local voluntary and community sector.

The event provides an opportunity to reflect and expand on the feedback gathered throughout our consultations and survey and focus on the key themes of the key themes of the five workshops (Leadership & Advocacy, Partnerships & Collaboration, Community Development, Volunteering, and Funding).

The event will the form of a ‘World Café’, a relaxed and informal engagement process intended to facilitate open discussion.

Sign up for the community event here:

Wandsworth Voluntary & Community Sector Engagement Event Tickets, Mon 10 Jul 2023 at 09:30 | Eventbrite

Any questions? Please email Elliot Elliot.Negru@rocketsciencelab.co.uk or Iryna Iryna.Karaban@richmondandwandsworth.gov.uk or call: 020 8871 8620

Date:

10th July 2023

Timings:

09:30 AM – Arrival/Registration

10:00 AM – Start

1 PM – Lunch & Networking

2 PM – Close

Venue:

Wandsworth Civic Suite

Wandsworth High St, London SW18 2PU

What Next? Wandsworth – in person meeting:   Wednesday 14 June at Battersea Arts Centre. 

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What Next? Wandsworth – next in person meeting:  
Wednesday 14 June at Battersea Arts Centre. 4.30PM-5.30PM

The meeting is in the Members Library and is accessible via a lift 


We are looking forward to seeing you in person and hope that many regulars will attend as well as people we haven’t seen for a while. We hope the time of day will make it easier for some of you to attend.

These meetings are open to anyone with an interest in arts, culture and heritage so bring a colleague, friend or volunteer.

A reminder of What Next? protocols:
We want everyone to feel comfortable and confident in contributing to What Next?, and for us to build a space that enables trust and respect. We want everyone to feel able to ask questions and respond without fear that they will be misinterpreted or taken out of context. For that reason, our meetings are currently Chatham House – which means that we are asking people not to attribute anything in the meeting to a specific person, or describe them in a way that identifies them, unless you have the speaker’s permission to do so.
What Next? Wandsworth Meetings operate with this code of conduct

AGENDA
Chair:Elizabeth Lynch
1. Introductions

2. Apologies from Marsha de Cordova

3. Exciting news to discuss! Embargoed as I write this but hope most of you will know by next Wednesday!

4. News and horizon scanning from the room.

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