Wandsworth Care Alliance

Directory of Professional Advisors

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We are making a list of locally based professional advisers as a resource for local groups. 

If you have used a local solicitor, accountant, surveyor or other similar professional could you let us have details? 

We wont be offering recommendations or saying who has nominated anybody on the list and it will all come with advice about how to approach them etc – but it would be good to include companies or individuals that others have found useful. 

It would be very helpful if you could say what service they have provided (eg xyz accountant for charity accounts or xyz solicitor for contracts issues). 

Please could you send any suggestions for inclusion to Melanie: melanie@wandcareall.org.uk

GRANTS AVAILABLE FOR WANDSWORTH GROUPS

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A significant proportion of the adult population has still not been vaccinated and, as the country increasingly opens up, those people may be putting themselves at risk of serious illness or may be excluding themselves from activities which require evidence of vaccination.

Funding is still available to local groups able to run a short term project targeted at specific groups within the community, aimed particularly at those who may have had less access to the vaccination programme to support them to make an informed choice about whether to put themselves forward.

We are looking for proposals which clearly identify a target group and which either have a good understanding of the barriers faced by that group with suggestions about how to overcome those barriers or who are well placed to explore in more depth what those barriers are.  Examples are:

  • groups working with minority ethnic communities who have had fewer opportunities to access the vaccine who could reach members of those communities with well-researched information on side effects; cultural and religious issues; or concerns about long term health implications.  Perhaps addressing this by holding online question and answer events or reaching people via radio or TV in specific languages
  • Would the people you work with find information from a peer or community champion easier to access?
  • Or perhaps the barriers are practical and groups could support individuals to travel to clinics or support individuals to understand what will happen at a clinic.

It is also becoming apparent that young people are less likely to take up the offer of a vaccine than their older family members.   Youth groups who could access young people under 30 perhaps through special events or by offering question and answer sessions at existing events or organizing discussions with health professionals about the science of vaccination or supporting pop up clinics in convenient places for this group are also invited to apply for grants.   

For an application pack and more information, please contact Melanie@wandcareall.org.uk. We are accepting expressions of interest on a rolling basis until September.

FIRST EVENT POST

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How to make the best use of your website. This event will be online and will teach staff the basics of:

  • Creating a page
  • Adding an image
  • Creating an article

VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT TRAINING

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VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT TRAINING COMING TO WANDSWORTH

Wandsworth Care Alliance is pleased to announce that the , modular training programme for volunteer managers/co-ordinators has been very successful. covering all aspects of recruiting and managing volunteers. There will be 12 places on each session and, to allow the maximum number of organisations to benefit, one place per organisation.  

Participants can book one or more of the training sessions within the programme. We anticipate this series of courses will be popular so please book your place as soon as possible. 

  • Introduction to recruiting and managing volunteers
    Thursday 10th June 2021 (via Zoom): Book here
  • Inclusive Volunteering 
    Wednesday 23rd June 2021 (via Zoom): Book here
  • Policies and Procedures 
    Thursday 22nd July 2021 (via Zoom): Book here
  • Writing and Developing Role Descriptions 
    Wednesday 18th August 2021 (via Zoom): Book here
  • Screening Volunteers 
    Tuesday 21st September 2021 (via TBC): Book here
  • Supporting and Supervising Volunteers 
    Wednesday 20th October 2021 (via TBC): Book here
  • Dealing with Difficult Volunteers & Situations  
    Wednesday 10th November (via TBC): Book here
  • Volunteers and the Law 
    Tuesday 14th December 2021 (via TBC): Book here

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