Hi all, I hope you and your loved ones are all keeping safe and well. Welcome to your regular Ready Friends update.
Social Prescribing Service - extended
This month RVA welcomes four new Social Prescribing Link Workers: Sharon Fitton, Louise Keane, Helen Murphy and Charlotte Netherton-Sinclair, extending its existing Social Prescribing service to work with Primary Care Networks across Reading. The Social Prescribing team will be working with Primary Care Networks (PCNs) across Reading, taking referrals from GPs and healthcare practitioners, as well as Reading Borough Council Adult Social Care, Royal Berkshire Hospital Occupational Therapists and Talking Therapies.
Loneliness and social isolation are frequent drivers for people contacting the service, which aims to link people aged 16 and over to the activities and support offered by Reading’s voluntary and community groups, empowering people to improve their health and wellbeing. http://rva.org.uk/article/rva-launches-expanded-social-prescribing-service/
Here are a couple of examples of current funding opportunities, but there are many more on RVA’s Funding page:http://rva.org.uk/funding/
Deadline 16 November - Peter Sowerby Foundation
The new Increasing Access Fund is targeted to support organisations to develop new services that respond to the Covid-19 situation, or to adapt existing services to meet local and national needs. https://www.petersowerbyfoundation.com/increasing-access-fund
Deadline 23rd December - Masonic Charitable Foundation – Later life inclusion grant
Lockdown2 - new national restrictions and what it means for your charity or community group
If you are a charity manager or trustee you may be facing the task of looking at your services following the announcements this weekend and trying to work out how these apply to you, whether you can continue services or if you need to suspend or adapt these. We appreciate this is not an easy task to undertake. This article outlines the summary of the new national restrictions to help you and we have spoken to NCVO for an update on their discussions with DCMS, to help shed some more light. As always, RVA is here to help, so if you would like to talk this through with us, just get in touch. http://rva.org.uk/article/how-do-the-new-national-restrictions-apply-to-charities/
Promising Approaches
An update of the 2015 Guide from the Campaign to End Loneliness. The framework helps to make sense of the different ways we can address loneliness, and explains how these approaches fit together to create an effective community response. The guide offers examples of these approaches in action so that organisations can find inspiration from others. https://www.campaigntoendloneliness.org/wp-content/uploads/Promising_Approaches_Revisited_FULL_REPORT.pdf
November 13 #Kindfest2020 is a celebration of kindness. A festival of light in a time of darkness
Seniors - Barking & Dagenham, Guildford and Waverley
Companionship, encouragement and ideas to help over-65s rediscover old interests and make new friends. https://www.independentage.org/reconnections/service
Young people - Stoke on Trent
Rise is a social action project funded by #iwill. Make Some Noise’s work with the Cooperative Academy Students in Stoke on Trent culminated in the creation of these three films to share with young people who in Year 6 / 7 of school about the subjects of Loneliness, Moving to High School and Helping Others. http://www.make-some-noise.com/rise/
