On Wednesday 4th December we had our last Voluntary Sector Forum meeting of 2024. Which took place at Caius House in one of the well-equipped modern meeting rooms, where we had presentations and updates shared. Thank you to everyone who joined us.
Abi Carter our Voluntary Sector Representative on the Health and Wellbeing Board shared an enlightening presentation on the role of the Board and how the voluntary sector voice can influence decisions and plans relating to Health and Care.
We had updates from Children and Young People’s Alliance, Older People’s Alliance and Mentoring Opportunities for Developing Organisations, which was given by Wandsworth Care Alliance’s Development Manager, Ravi Vyas.
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- E-mail (ravi@wandcareall.org.uk) if you’d like to join the Children / Young People and/or Older People’s Alliance.
- E-mail (ravi@wandcareall.org.uk) if you need any support with setting up your organisation, with funding help (finding and writing), networking opportunities, and capacity building.
- E-mail (alice@wandcareall.org.uk) if you need any support with social media, marketing, and branding and fundraising. For more information on these mentorship programmes for branding click here and for fundraising support sessions click here.
Wandsworth Borough of Culture updates on the next steps for the voluntary sector, were given by Arts and Culture Officer, Chief Executive’s Group Wandsworth Council, Roisin Kerslake-Sim.
Doing Good In Wandsworth is WCA’s new newsletter for matching voluntary organisations to sponsorships and resources from local businesses updates were given by Wandsworth Care Alliance’s, Volunteering Project Officer, Jummy Olaleye.
The Doing Good In Wandsworth newsletter aims to promote and make aware the work, initiatives and needs of local charities to local businesses and corporations in the borough and even outside of the borough. With this newsletter we want to see charities get the support they need and highlight the support of local businesses and corporates to the community.
Take a look at our first newsletter – Doing Good In Wandsworth
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Updates were followed with some presentations from Wandsworth Council on Wandsworth Council’s Winter Plan, which was given to us by Hollie Stone and Melissa Barker, Public Health Lead, Health Protection Team.
- A link to a Microsoft Form which VCS can complete to request printed copies of cold weather and vaccination posters – https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=rPXT2QP4vkmUnxSnB010p20x_vJLX0ROppFyT52VYTtUQTlMM085MDNRNFY4S0c4UjRHSzlHQUNLMi4u
- Please get in contact with healthprotection@richmondandwandsworth.gov.uk if your organisations is having any events before the end of January where you would like the roving team to attend to deliver winter vaccinations and/or information sessions.
Paradise Cooperative, Eve Rogers shared a good news story on how they evolved their corporate volunteering offer as an alternative (and lucrative) model to generate income for their organisation – this clearly inspired other organisations present to think how they might do something similar.
After an insightful sharing of updates and presentations from our speakers, the floor was open to the room to share updates, achievements, concerns or potential joint actions in the borough.
We had organisations in attendance such as:
Wandsworth Older Peoples Forum
WCEN
Happy Homes
The Heart and Lung Choir
Power2Connect
Generate
Wandsworth Council
For updates on when our next one will be please visit our eventbrite page here.