Are you passionate about seeing young people thrive? The Advocacy People are recruiting for an advocate in Wandsworth!

• Permanent role, min 30hrs per week up to full-time
• Friendly, experienced and supportive team of colleagues
• Flexible, home-based hours with travel in the local area.
• Rewarding work, great benefits package and chance to develop your skills.

You’ll be working mainly alongside children and young people, listening and supporting them to understand their options, making sure their rights are upheld, and their views and wishes heard and considered.

Find out more and apply at www.theadvocacypeople.org/job-vacancies

Have valuable experience with young people / in health and social care, but no advocacy qualification?  Get in touch if you like the sound of this role and would like to discuss – we’ll offer training and qualifications to the right person.

josephine.jarman@theadvocacypeople.org.uk or tel: 07711 179759

Welcome to the February edition of the Mayor of London’s Communities Newsletter.

London’s resilience is rooted in connection and community and all of the Mayor’s programmes are designed with this aim. This month’s newsletter is packed with ways to engage with the Mayor and each other to strengthen our city, our cultural awareness and our creativity.

In this newsletter learn about funding for communities to celebrate the capital’s first Mayor’s Community Weekend; hear more and share details with your networks of the Black Culture Market in Brixton taking place in March; share details of the Mayor’s Violence Reduction Unit’s ‘Hope Hack’ with your young people to explore solutions to key causes of violence affecting them; join the Mayor and the London Assembly in Ealing this month and register for People’s Question Time; join the important Million Minds network bringing together young people, artists, arts organisations, health workers, youth workers and those impacted by the continued crisis relating to young people’s mental health. This is your London, and we want to hear more of the work you are doing so let us know what you would like to share by getting in touch with us so we can feature your important work here. With best wishes.

The Mayor of London’s Communities Newsletter Team

Read the newsletter by clicking here

View the full sized version here: Food Provision Services Across Wandsworth
Plus view this: Cost of Living Checklist which contains information and advice for people struggling with the cost of living.

More information on the Citizen’s Advice Wandsworth website.

Updates from Wandsworth Welcomes Refugees. This month’s newsletter has information on:

• Thank you to our donors
• Care 4 Calais – help needed!
• Update from Parliament
• Bike donations
• Our Trustees

Read the newsletter: here.

A captivating evening of music

By popular demand: A performance by the internationally acclaimed tenor Ronald Samm and other talented musicians.

Saturday 18 February 2023 at 7.00pm

St. John’s Church
Waterloo Road (Near Waterloo Station)
London SE1 8UP

The event is fundraising for SRF’s research project on Silent Mutism in children, too anxious to speak outside the family home.

Tickets:

• Adults – £20
• Retirees – £10
• Children under – 12 £10

Please pay by Paypal via the SRF’s website at www.serefo.org.uk

If you are unable to attend please support SRF with a donation

Charity Number:  1132487

p/p SRF, 108 Battersea High Street, London SW11 3HP