PLANE HELL: TOO EARLY, TOO LATE, TOO NOISY, TOO LOW… TOO MANY!
Sign the petition: https://www.change.org/p/minister-for-aviation-plane-hell-too-early-too-late-too-noisy-too-low-too-many
More information available here:http://www.southwarkcan.org/planehell
#VolunteersWeek is coming: Southwark needs you!
2017 Volunteers’ Week is 1-7 June and we’re planning a few things during the week which we’d like you to join us with. Please do pass this on to your communications team to use.
Southwark needs you!
Share all the amazing ways in which you give back to the London borough of Southwark this volunteers week by encouraging your volunteers to tweet using the hashtags #Southwark #volunteer #iamthedifference to help promote volunteering in Southwark.
This will be a great way to celebrate the impact volunteering makes in the borough and to create a conversation about the mutual benefits of volunteering.
Ensure your organisation helps promote the celebrations by tweeting about your volunteers and those in our wonderful Borough by using the hashtags too – let’s see if we can get it trending!
Our Twitter Campaign #iamthedifference – Share your images and quotes!
We’re creating images with quotes like this one for Shakespear’s Globe. So if you send us a picture and a quote we can turn it into this and share it. Please send these to: jo@communitysouthwark.org
Share your volunteer stories!
We’re collecting stories about why people volunteer, what they do in their role and what volunteering means to them. We’ll put these on our website through Volunteers’ Week and tweet them. Again, please email these to: jo@communitysouthwark.org
Our mass Volunteer Drop-In Day – Wed 7 June
On Wed 7 June we’re holding a mass volunteer Drop-In from 10.00am to 4.30pm at Cambridge House. If you have any roles that you would like us to promote please do send these through to: marissa@communitysouthwark.org Plus please do pass this on to anyone who might be interested.
Surrey Quays outreach – Mon 5 June
On Monday 5 June from 11am-2pm we will be hosting an outreach session at Surrey Quays Shopping Centre. This a great opportunity to meet members of the public who you might not normally get a chance to interact with, promote your organisation and recruit some volunteers!
We’re looking for three organisations to do hour-long slots at this session. If you are interested please contact Alasdair: alasdair@communitysouthwark.org.
Peckham outreach – Wed 7 June
On Wednesday 7 June from 11am-2pm we will be hosting an outreach session at Peckham Library. This is also a great opportunity to meet members of the public who you might not normally get a chance to interact with, promote your organisation and recruit some volunteers!
We’re looking for three organisations to do hour-long slots at this session. If you are interested please contact Alasdair: alasdair@communitysouthwark.org.
Our usual Volunteer Advice sessions
We’ll be holding our Volunteer Advice sessions as usual on Tuesday and Thursday, from 10.30-1.00pm and 2.00-4.30pm, at Cambridge House. Please book an appointment here.
Charities and volunteering make Britain Great: NCVO’s manifesto for the 2017 election
NCVO share their thoughts on what the next government can do to help charities and volunteering make an even bigger difference – read it here.
Community Southwark
Dog show of the year
Saturday 24th June2017
1-4pm at Brunswick Park, Camberwell, London SE5
Community summer fete
Community summer fete
Friends of Brunswick Park
Saturday 5th August, 1pm-4pm
Brunswick Park SE5
Key-Holder/ Office Administrator Draper Hall, Draper Estate, London SE1
Job Description:
Key-Holder/ Office Administrator – Draper Hall, Draper Estate, London SE1
Draper Hall is a community Hall situated in the heart of Elephant and Castle, London SE1. It is run by the Draper Residents Association (DRA), a Tenants and Residents Association on the Draper estate.
Draper Hall is very busy 7 days a week, serving its local residents and the wider neighbourhood. The opening times of the Hall are between 9am and 9:30pm everyday.
A committee of volunteers runs Draper Hall but the position of Key-Holder/Office Administrator is a paid position and is being offered on a part-time, contract basis.
Salary: £15 per session, which includes opening and closing the Hall.
Deadline for applications: 11.59pm, 22nd May, 2017, interviews to take place 30th and 31st May.
Job Description for Key-Holder/ Office Administrator – Draper Hall
The Key-Holder is a very important representative of the DRA, as the ‘face’ that the customer meets first and it is of great importance that the Key-Holder has customer-care experience and presents him/herself as clean and smartly dressed with a polite and diplomatic manner.
The DRA Executive committee will provide support on the specific requirements for the role and the KH will report directly to them.
The successful candidate should live within a 3 mile radius of Draper Hall and be ready to promptly attend during the course of a hire to deal with any unforeseen problems e.g. the fire alarm going off, noise complaints from neighbours, loss of power, etc.
The Key-Holder will report primarily to the Chair of the DRA and will be in charge of scheduling the calendar of Draper Hall. They will meet with prospective hirers and inform them of the rules of the Hall.
The Key-Holder will be available to work on weekends and to open and close the Hall half an hour prior to the opening time 9am (at 8.30am) and half an hour after the closing time of 9:30pm (till 10pm).
Essential:
– needs to be internet proficient in order to deal with scheduling the calendar online and corresponding via email with both the DRA executives and the clients hiring the Hall.
– will be responsible to ensure that the Hall has been left clean and ready for the next hire and if the hire has failed to do so report the hire to the DRA committee.
– be prepared to do some basic cleaning and organising of the Hall in case this has not been done and the cleaner is not due to arrive within the day.
Availability:
– needs to be available on the phone (mobile phone provided) and online, via email to the DRA Executive committee and clients hiring the Hall, The KH will be responsible for dealing with some possibly difficult clients and challenging situations, so it is necessary that the person is diplomatic, used to mediating and finding the appropriate solution.
Additional Hours:
If available to work for additional hours, we would also like the Key-Holder to cover some administrative work a couple of hours a week in the Draper Office; filing bills/receipts and organising Hall hire contracts.
If the candidate is First Aid trained and aware of Health and Safety procedures, this would be a bonus.
To apply please enclose a two-page only CV and a one page covering letter to the following email address, with Key-Holder Position in the subject line:
Lambeth’s Voluntary and Community Organisations survey
A steering group of interested representatives of the Voluntary and Community Sector has been holding discussions with the local authority to determine the future support needs of the voluntary sector in the borough.
As part of the discussions, a consultation of all voluntary and community organisations operating in the borough has been commissioned. The consultation is aimed at eliciting information on the support needs of voluntary and community organisations so as to be able to form a view on:
– Building relationships, networks and trust between VCS organisations
– Helping VCS organisations to be resilient, especially considering public sector funding reductions
– Leveraging funding and resources into the borough
– Ensuring the VCS has a voice and can represent their communities in strategic partnerships
We are working on a very short time frame and would be grateful if you could complete the questionnaire by 18 May 2017 so that your views will be heard.
Please complete the online survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r /lambethvcs
Please, circulate this survey widely in your networks to enable others to participate.
The results of the survey will be discussed at a conference of the sector to be held on 15 June 2017.
If you require further information or have any questions please email Maxine M. James lambethvcs@equinoxconsulting.net