4th August
Welcome to ‘A Little (or should I say ‘a lot’ of!) TLC’ … Tackling Loneliness Collaborative’s ‘very useful information’ – 31st July 2023.
Please feel free to have a little look through…
The focus this time is on: ‘a bit of everything!’ (There are 3 areas of funding listed below. £££££)
It includes:
- Community Transformation Questionnaire – see links below
- £££££ Funding £££££ Screwfix Foundation Grants - Screwfix Foundation | Help | Screwfix
- Nott Alone – Anxiety Self Sooth Toolkit - Poster
- Notts Help Yourself – data cleanse check your organisations/groups details are correct Nottshelpyourself
- Book list - Reading Well Books on Prescription for dementia | Resources | Reading Well (reading-well.org.uk)
- Cares – Building a Connection Manifesto - Building-Connection-A-Manifesto.pdf (thecaresfamily.org.uk)
- Social Prescribing Evidence - Evidence programme - The National Academy for Social Prescribing | NASP (socialprescribingacademy.org.uk)
- Find a rainbow call companion: LGBT+ phone befriending (reengage.org.uk) – a national service
- Tea Parties for Older People: Companionship & Friendship Clubs (reengage.org.uk)
- Friendship Calendars | RushcliffeHealth
- Nottinghamshire Jobs – a Mixture of - Job Vacancies – Mansfield CVS
- Activity Posters – various one off events
- Dementia – Information and Support Course. Dementia Trip. See both lots of details below
- Neurodivergent Employment Opportunities – email: NEO@nottingham.ac.uk – see poster below
- Women’s Aid Recruitment - Email: recruitment@nottswa.org
- Monthly Local History Café – Ashfield Voluntary Action Heritage group - Ashfield Voluntary Action
- £££££ Funding £££££ The Community Organisations Cost of Living Fund | The National Lottery Community Fund (tnlcommunityfund.org.uk)
- One Team: How sport can build more connected communities Tickets, Thu 21 Sep 2023 at 10:00 | Eventbrite – free webinar
- The Power of Connection through Volunteering toolkit workshop Tickets, Thu 7 Sep 2023 at 10:30 | Eventbrite – free webinar
- £££££ Funding £££££ Apply for a grant | Barchester Charitable Foundation (bhcfoundation.org.uk)
Thank you so much for keeping in touch! Keep sharing information that you think may be useful. Please feel free to share!
Our next wider Tackling Loneliness Collaborative (TLC) meeting takes place on Tuesday 8th August 2023 9:30am-11:00am on MS Teams.
Click here to join the August 8th TLC meeting. It would be really lovely to have you there! (Our September meeting is aiming to be in person.)
Many thanks again, Kirsty
Tackling Loneliness Collaborative Lead
Find us on Facebook and Twitter
Loneliness Page - Tackling Loneliness Collaborative Nottingham and Nottinghamshire | Bassetlaw CVS (bcvs.org.uk)
Research and Service Database - www.tlin.co.uk
The TLC Loneliness Research Infographic The TLC Infographic - recently updated versions
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Community Transformation Questionnaire: Closing date August 25th 2023
To support system community transformation, our team have developed the below questionnaire. Would it be possible for you to share across your established networks please? Happy to discuss further with you as required.
What does good look like for Specialist Community Support – Have your say
Local community transformation leads would like to understand the current experiences and feedback of people with lived experience, carers, and professionals, with regards to accessing specialist community support, in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.
Your feedback will help shape how specialist community health, social and voluntary sector support is provided to the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire population.
If you are a citizen or carer in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire and would like to share your thoughts click here or please use your smartphone to scan the QR code below:
If you work in health, social, community services or the voluntary sector in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire and would like to share your thoughts click here or please use your smartphone to scan the QR code below:
For any queries, please contact the Community Transformation Team at:
nnicb-nn.communitytransformation@nhs.net
or call 0115 883 93 98.
The Screwfix Foundation
The Screwfix Foundation is a registered charity set up in 2013. They have a clear purpose of raising funds to support projects that will fix, repair, maintain and improve properties and community facilities for those in need throughout the UK. They work with both national and local charities, donating much needed funds to help all sorts of projects, from repairing buildings and improving facilities in deprived areas, to decorating the homes of people living with sickness and disabilities.
For more information and to apply visit Screwfix Foundation | Help | Screwfix
Local mental health advice and help for young people in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. | NottAlone
Over the summer break, young people might need to take extra care to look after themselves and manage their anxious feelings. Here are some ideas you could try to help create an anxiety self-sooth box. See the poster below:
Notts Help Yourself – data cleanse… check your groups details are up to date!
This list is being updated, look out for different books in the future.
Building-Connection-A-Manifesto.pdf (thecaresfamily.org.uk)
The Cares Family believe that they are well-placed to support politicians and officials to consider how building connection ambitions could be realised. In this manifesto paper, they set out five big and bold ideas through which policymakers could strengthen the ties that bind us together during the next parliament
For those working in social prescribing here is a summary of the evidence available.
Find a rainbow call companion: LGBT+ phone befriending (reengage.org.uk) – a national service for people aged 75+
Following the success of our call companions service, we launched rainbow call companions: a free telephone befriending service for LGBT+ people who are lonely, isolated or in need of companionship and feel they would benefit from a friendly phone call every week or two. This is a service specifically for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender plus (LGBT+) people aged 75+ who would like to speak to someone who’s also LGBT+.
Tea Parties for Older People: Companionship & Friendship Clubs (reengage.org.uk)
Friendship Calendars | RushcliffeHealth
A Mixture of Activity Posters:
Dementia Related Information Programme and Activities
Email: nottspdss@alzheimers.org.uk
Email: NEO@nottingham.ac.uk
Email: recruitment@nottswa.org
Local History Café – Monthly
Heritage group - Ashfield Voluntary Action
Apply for a grant | Barchester Charitable Foundation (bhcfoundation.org.uk)
Apply for a grant
Our funding focus is about connecting or re-connecting people with others in their local community. We support applications that combat loneliness and enable people to be active and engaged.
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