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THCVS updates: H&W Forum: Test and Trace, Covid in the Bangladeshi Community & THT Digital Inclusion project.

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Welcome to the September eBulletin.

This issue is packed with events around Covid-19 including our next Health and Wellbeing forum which will focus on the Test and Trace system and the Council's Community Champions programme.

We have partnered with LBTH Public Health to start a conversation and hear the voices of the Bangladeshi Community and organisations supporting them around the issues they are facing during the pandemic.

And last but not least, there are still places to join the THT Digital Inclusion Project workshops which will run throughout this and next year and aims to co-develop small ideas to tackle barriers using digital health and care services, and to test them at a micro level.

Enjoy the reading!
Health and Wellbeing Forum - Test & Trace
 
Wed, 23 September
10.30 am – 12.00 pm
Online event

Our September forum will bring the sector together to discuss how we prepare for test and trace in response to covid-19, the Community Champions programme and local interventions to raise awareness and safely returning to work.
 
Book here
Covid-19 in the Bangladeshi community in Tower Hamlets
 
Thu, 24 September
3.00pm – 4.30 pm
Online event

THCVS and LBTH Public Health would like to invite you to a community conversation around the Covid-19 in the Bangladeshi community in Tower Hamlets.

We want to hear from organisations delivering work in the community to fully understand the issues people are facing regarding Covid-19. Ideally, we would like to focus on the messaging and communications around testing and the national Test and Trace service.
 
Book your place
Working Together Groups - THT Digital Access and Inclusion
23 & 24 September 
1.00 pm - 2.30 pm
Online event

The Working Together Groups meetings are aimed at groups of health and care staff, residents and service users and VCSE organisations to meet monthly for the next six months and work together to test out new ideas to help improve digital inclusion.
Book your place 
MyEnds - Violence Reduction Unit briefing event
Tue, 29th September
3.00pm - 4.00pm
Online event

THCVS invites you to a briefing event on the updated Tower Hamlets Violence Reduction plan and on the new GLA Violence Reduction Unit partnership funding opportunity – My End.
Book your place
Tower Hamlets Together - Amy's Monthly briefing September 

Amy Gibbs is the independent chair of the Tower Hamlets Together partnership.

In this issue you will find updates on the work of the  partnership including the progress of the upcoming revised THT Governance and THT Covid19 borough plan which focuses on preparing for a future wave of Covid-19.
Read more
Our role in tackling race inequality
 

As part of the council’s response, Mayor Biggs appointed Deputy Mayor Councillor Asma Begum to lead a new Black, Asian and minority ethnic Race Inequalities Commission to look at what practical improvements could be made especially in the areas of health, employment and community leadership. The commission wants to hear the lived experiences of local people and their ideas for change.
 
Have your say
Staying Safe
Become a Covid-19 community champion
 

The Covid-19 community champions network has been established to empower and support Tower Hamlets residents to stay up to date with the latest advice about Covid-19. 

Champions help their family, friends and the wider community make sense of the latest advice and information about Covid-19, to help ensure we all stay safe and alert to the risks of the virus.
 
More info
Training and Events
Datawise London-  London Community Response Survey
Mon, 21 September
10.00 – 11.30
Online event

Find out how the results of the London Community Response survey are being used in combination with other intelligence to inform the pan-London response to COVID-19.
Book your place
Tuesday nature conservation volunteering
Tue, 22 September 2020
11.00 am – 3.00 pm
Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park

Volunteering is exempt from the "rule of 6". Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park is calling for volunteers for their seasonal nature conservation and gardening work.
Book your place
Productivity Tools for Small Charities
Thu, 24 September
10.00 am – 11:30 am
Online event 

Find out about a range of free or low cost and easy to use online productivity tools that can increase your productivity.
Book your place
E1 Networking Breakfast
Tuesday 22nd September,10am
Online event

The E1 Breakfast is now online!

The E1, E2 and E3 breakfast networking events are a local opportunity to share with colleagues the opportunities and support  your organisation is offering to Tower Hamlets residents.

If you would like to attend contact Malachi Howe to receive the link to join this session.
Book your place
E2 Networking Breakfast
Monday 21st September, 10am
Online event

The E2 breakfast has also moved online!

September may come as an exciting month as services start to reopen the face-to-face activities and services of support. Join an informal and brief opportunity to share what you/your organisation is up to and get some inspiration from others too.
Book your place
Air pollution and You: Empowering Health Professionals to talk
Tue, 22 September
12.00 pm – 1.00 pm
Online event

Abi Whitehouse from Queen Mary University will talk about the current known health impacts of air pollution and where changes might be made. Clair McCowlen from the environmental charity Global Action Plan will then talk about the Tower Hamlets project on sharing air pollution information with your patients, and what the key recommendations for vulnerable people are to help protect them from air pollution.
Book your place
Tackling inequalities in Tower Hamlets webinar with Sir Michael Marmot
Wed, 30 September 
1.30 pm – 3.30 pm
Online event

Join for a webinar with Professor Sir Michael Marmot to discuss health inequalities in light of The Marmot Review and Covid-19.

HealthWatch Tower Hamlets will also be releasing their HealthWatch Tower Hamlets community insights report on health inequalities in our local communities.
Book your place
Play - Living With The Lights On
 

6th, 8th and 10th October
7.30 pm - 9.00pm
St. Margaret's House
21 Old Ford Road
London
E2 9PL

A superb one-man show, written and performed by RSC actor Mark Lockyer, on his experiences surviving and living with bipolar disorder.

This is a play about surviving and living with bipolar disorder. We go on a moving – and often absurdly hilarious - journey with Mark through relationship breakdown, encounters with the justice system and the mental health system. It’s a story filled with humour, tragedy – and a happy ending.
 
Book your place
Peer Learning session: Creating an inclusive environment for BAME volunteers
Volunteer Centre Tower Hamlets
Wed 23 September 2020,
10.30am – 12.30pm
Online event

As a volunteer manager, would you like to improve the diversity of your volunteers and create more inclusive, welcoming environments for BAME volunteers? If so, this Peer Learning session is for you.

Book your place
Made of Money -Helping clients reduce gas and electricity costs 
Quaker Social Action
Thu 24 September
10.00 am -12.00 pm
Online event

With families spending more time at home due to the coronavirus pandemic, there are some simple ways to help them to make significant savings on energy bills.

Made of Money is Quaker Social Action's multiple award-winning financial wellbeing initiative
Book your place
Trauma Informed Practice: Community resilience and toxic stress
Early Help -Tower Hamlets Council
Mon 12 October
10.00am – 11.30am
Online event

This course enables learners to understand key issues in working with people who are living with brain injuries from which they have not yet recovered. It also provides opportunities to develop skills in working effectively with trauma in the community setting.
Book your place
Funding opportunities updates

Westfield East Bank Creative Futures Fund – Small Grant Scheme
Grants of up to £5,000
Deadline: 12 noon on Monday 28th September

The Westfield East Bank Creative Futures Fund has been established by Foundation for Future London, through funding from Westfield Stratford City to support local organisations and individuals to accelerate new project ideas, support start-up enterprises and increase education, training and skills development opportunities for the local community.

The fund will provide a single payment award of £500 to organisations who are supporting vulnerable groups, as part of their emergency response in supporting local communities.

Tower Hamlets Council Small Grants Fund
Grants of up to £5,000
Deadline: 12 noon on 28th September 

The Tower Hamlets Council Small Grants Fund is designed to support voluntary and community sector activity across Tower Hamlets that will make a positive difference to the lives of local residents. The fund consist in seven themes Innovation, Prevention, Neighbourhood Action, Community Cohesion, Partnership, Access and Participation and Loneliness. 

EECF Small Grants Programme
Grants of £800
Deadline: 12 noon on Monday 28th September

Through its Small Grants programme, East End Community Foundation funds one-off items of expenditure or events. Grants are available to support small voluntary and community organisations based in Tower Hamlets.

The Phoenix Fund
Grants of up to £20,000
Deadlines: 30th September

The fund of £1 million aims to put racial justice at the heart of the pandemic response. The fund will support Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups working in the heart of the community, providing essential and emergency services, support, and education tailored to the BAME community.
Job opportunities 

Programme Officer@ Living Wage Foundation
Deadline: 20 September

Project Manager @ Globe Community Project
Deadline: 22 September

Peer Research Network Lead @The Young Foundation
Deadline: 23 September

2 x Part Time Support Worker @ Look Ahead
Deadline: 25 September

Waterway Operative @ Canal & River Trust
Deadline: 27 September 

Chief Executive @ National Lottery Community Fund
Deadline: 29 September

Trustees @ Carers Centre Tower Hamlets 
Deadline: 28 October 
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