KVA Newsletter January 2013

February 2013

Newsletter The newsletter for Kingston’s voluntary & community sector Love Kingston, Love Volunteering?

Find out about Go Kingston Volunteering speed matching event page 7

Read more about Love Kingston Day page 15

Health conference first step of many to effective joint working As we approach the implementation of the 2012 Health and Social Care Act, new ways of working are being developed both nationally and locally.

With this in mind Kingston Voluntary Action held its inaugural Health Conference on 22nd January 2013. This will now become an annual event and an opportunity to update and inform all our stakeholders of changes within health and social care.

We welcomed partners from the voluntary sector, the local

In this edition Contacts in KVA

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News

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authority and health professionals at the conference and our thanks go to our speakers for their time and for sharing information about the up and coming changes.

Funding

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Go Kingston Volunteering news

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Group development

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Health & Social Care

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The health conference was a first step towards addressing the question of how the sectors can work effectively together to improve health outcomes.

ICT Hub

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Training & events

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Speakers included Dr. Naz Jivani, Chair of the KCCG

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Keep up to date with KVA online:

twitter.com/KingstonVA

Kingston Voluntary Action, Siddeley House, 50 Canbury Park Road, Kingston KT2 6LX Tel: 020 8255 3335 Fax: 020 8255 8804 Email: info@kva.org.uk Website: www.kva.org.uk Registered Charity No. 257551

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Editorial Sorrel Parsons Hilary Garner Lynda Evans

Editor Chief Executive Deputy Chief Executive

Kingston Voluntary Action 020 8255 3335 Hilary Garner Lynda Evans Maria Tunmer Patricia Turner Zahida Saddiq Sanja Kane

Chief Executive Deputy Chief Executive Health & Social Care Manager Interim Health & Social Care Manager Capacity Building Manager Transforming Kingston’s Infrastructure Project Co-ordinator Sorrel Parsons Information & Communications Co-ordinator Judith Naylor Children & Young People First Project Worker Julie Woodhouse Community Accountant Lesley Chesterman Temporary Accountant Polly Healy Administrator Sue Lawrence Finance Administrator Rianne Eimers HealthWatch Kingston Pathfinder Manager Debra McCarthy HealthWatch Kingston Pathfinder Support Co-ordinator

Kingston Community Furniture 020 8942 5500 Adrian Collins James Deane Selo Turanli

Project Manager Operations Manager Driver / Warehouseman

Kingston Eco-Op 020 8942 5503 Bart Ricketts Chris Williamson Sue Illsley Sinead Mccormack Jonathan Rowland Marcus Greatwood Sam Carey

Eco-Op Project Co-ordinator Workshop Supervisor Unit Supervisor Unit Supervisor Bike Trainer Bike Mechanic Support Worker

Superhighways 020 8255 8040 Kate White Colin Cregan Nine Htet Sue Quilter

Manager ICT Support Worker ICT Support Worker Admin Worker

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Single Point of Access (SPA) for safeguarding children in Kingston From 22 January the new Single Point of Access (SPA) offers advice, support and guidance to professionals, families and the public where there are concerns about a child or young person.

Where appropriate they will signpost to other services or ensure progression for social work allocation and assessment. The SPA will include staff from both Children’s Social Care and ASKK. ASKK, as a separate service, ceased to exist from 21 January 2013.

If you are concerned that a child or young person may be at risk of significant harm contact the SPA, by telephone initially and follow up with a written referral. Give as much information as possible including name, address and telephone numbers.

All calls will be reviewed through one number 0208 547 5004.

For non-urgent agency referrals you will need to complete an Interagency Referral Form, available from, and to be returned to: safeguarding@rbk.kingston.gov.uk Don’t forget to amend your safeguarding policies accordingly.

Got some good news to share?

If you have some great news, know of a useful resource to share or would like to advertise in this newsletter please contact the editor.

Next edition: April to June Deadline for copy: 11 March 2012

GO Kingston Volunteering 020 8255 8685 Maria Dockrill Manager Richard Craig Buddy Scheme Co-ordinator Pat Stanley Volunteer Good Practice Advisor Hedley Featherstone GO Kingston Volunteering Project Worker If you would like to amend your contact details or prefer to receive the newsletter by email please contact the editor.

Membership of KVA Membership is open to all voluntary and community groups who are based or work in Kingston. For details of how to become a member contact Polly Healy admin@kva.org.uk

Disclaimer: information contained in the Newsletter and inserts come from a wide range of sources. Opinions or statements expressed may not necessarily reflect those of KVA. KVA aims to ensure all information is correct and up to date.

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KVA Annual General Meeting: Legacy and Sustainability This year’s annual general meeting (AGM) held on 6 December focussed on how we have created a legacy for skills development, volunteering and funding over the past year.

legacy with its flagship projects Love Kingston and Localgiving.com.

Keynote speaker Julie Dawson from Localgiving.com talked about the importance of fundraising In 2012 Kingston Voluntary online to ensure future Action’s Kingston sustainability. Growbaby and Infrastructure Support and Yorda Adventures told the Development (KISD) Project, audience how their funded by the Big Lottery, Localgiving.com page is came to an end. bringing in welcome funds for them.

Our three year project built the capacity of local There are some fully organisations to respond to subsidised places still change, through workforce available for local groups to and infrastructure start their fundraising development. webpage (see page 5 for details).

KISD sowed the seeds for our new project, Transforming Kingston’s Infrastructure (TKI), that began in the same year.

TKI is building a funding

Love Kingston’s fundraising manager, Elaine Miller, updated attendees on developments to the fundraising campaign and

stressed the need for everyone to spread the word about this exciting new venture for the borough.

Hedley Featherstone highlighted how the Olympics and Paralympics 2012 saw a 66% increase in volunteering in our borough, with many of our volunteers continuing to be involved with the community long after the Games were over.

If you missed the event, you can still watch our film and download presentations from the day from our website.

Download presentations: www.kva.org.uk/events-and-training/annual-general-meeting/ Read our Annual Review: http://www.kva.org.uk/publications-2/annual-review/

Watch our new film...

With thanks to the Big Lottery we have been able to tell the tale of our supportive services through the art of film, which premiered at our AGM. Thanks go to Refugee Action Kingston, Kingston Churches Action on Homelessness and Kingston Mencap for taking part.

Watch our video at www.kva.org.uk/support-for-groups/a-sustainable-future/

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Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme becomes law The Small Charitable Donations Bill received Royal Assent on 19 December 2012, becoming the Small Charitable Donations Act 2012.

The Act legislated the Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme (GASDS), which will be implemented from 6 April 2013.

GASDS allows eligible charities and Community Amateur Sports Clubs to claim

Gift Aid style top-up payments on small cash donations without requiring the donor to provide a Gift Aid declaration.

HMRC will also be publishing the guidance accompanying the scheme for consultation in early 2013.

Visit http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/news/ gasds.htm for information

Claiming Gift Aid repayments from April 2013: Charities Online HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) are introducing a new online service which will enable Charities and Community Amateur Sports Clubs (CASCs) to submit repayment claims electronically.

HMRC are planning to launch the new service for Charities and CASCs, called Charities Online, in April 2013.

Charities Online will replace the current R68 (i) Gift Aid and tax repayments claims form.

It will be a way for charities and CASCS to

claim Gift Aid, tax repayments on other income and Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme top-up payments by using an online form.

Charities Online will also introduce new intelligent forms (iForms) to replace the current ChA1 HMRC Charity application form, ChV1 Charities variations form and CASC(A1) registration form.

Visit http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/charities/ online/index.htm for information

Equality Advisory and Support Service website now live From last autumn, information, advice and support on discrimination and human rights are being provided by a new Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS) rather than the Equality and Human Rights Commission. The Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS) is designed to offer bespoke advice and targeted support on issues of discrimination to those who need it most. http://www.equalityadvisoryservice.com

Ban on age discrimination

Minimum wage changes

The ban on age discrimination in services started on 1st October 2012. Guidance on this has been published by the Government Equalities Office. It covers circumstances where age discrimination can continue - by exception, positive action and objective justification.

The National minimum wage increased in October 2012 to ÂŁ6.19 for ages 21 and over, and for apprentices the minimum wage will rise to ÂŁ2.65. ACAS has an employment law update page with this and other recent changes at:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/3ultyz9

http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx? articleid=3898

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Disclosure and Barring Service: is your role regulated?

Major changes are happening to the vetting and barring process for people working with vulnerable groups.

On 1st December the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) merged with the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) to create a new Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

The DBS will continue to accept the old CRB disclosure application forms until the end of February next year. You may have already seen the new forms, which are now being issued, and been relieved to see they have not changed much! It is the

same layout, with certain sections and questions crossed out.

The certificate you receive once the check is complete looks different, with a new logo. However, the DBS will continue to run all the services the old CRB did, and their contact details will remain the same.

Where you previously had a responsibility to report certain safeguarding issues to the ISA, you should now report them to the DBS. Following the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 certain roles were removed in September, meaning you are no longer allowed to ask if applicants for those

roles are barred from working with vulnerable groups – though they can still go through the criminal record checking process.

You should check with the umbrella body you use whether the role you want to fill is still considered to be a regulated activity. It is important to do this, because the Home Office could take action against people incorrectly requesting checks.

Changes to CRB are explained on the Home Office website or take part in training ( see page 15).

Visit www.homeoffice.gov.uk/ crbischanging

What is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)?

The CIO was first proposed in the Charities Act 2006. It is a new legal structure for Charities that want to become incorporated to gain limited liability, without dual registration with the Charity Commission and Company’s House.

This can be a slow and time-consuming process involving initial registration as a company with Companies House and as a charity with the Charity Commission; and on-going regulation and accounting requirements from both bodies.

The CIO aims to provide charities with some of the benefits of being a company, without the additional reporting and legal requirements which incorporated charities may be subject to.

The CIO structure will not be suitable for all charities. The Charity Commission is urging

those thinking about applying to register as a CIO to consider carefully information available on its website before starting their online application as the CIO model will not be the best solution for every organisation.

CIOs will be most beneficial for small to medium sized charities which employ staff or enter into contracts.

The Charity Commission began considering online applications for new charities with incomes of over ÂŁ5,000 on 10th December 2012. There is a timetable for transferring existing unincorporated charities from now until 2014.

For more information and timetable visit http://bit.ly/WifVW6 or contact Zahida Saddiq, Capacity Building Manager, on 020 8255 3335 or zahidas@kva.org.uk

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Funding

KVA Investment Fund for one-off working capital available Kingston Voluntary Action has developed a new Investment Fund targeted specifically to build the capacity of organisations in Kingston to become tender ready for commissioning. The Fund has been established using RBK London Councils (Reduced Contribution) funding.

Local voluntary and community organisations and social enterprises are being invited to submit applications for oneoff investment of working capital to gear their organisation for public service contract delivery. Organisations must provide evidence of their engagement with

statutory providers to be eligible to apply.

Applications for funds must not exceed £50,000. Applications must be made in writing, clearly stating an outline of your proposal including the public service contract you would be aiming to deliver, evidence that you can meet the outcomes for the service you will be delivering, and a detailed budget.

For further information contact Hilary Garner on 020 8255 3335. You can submit your application to Hilary Garner at KVA address (see page 2). Applications will be considered on a rolling basis.

KBC Trust Grants for Youth Projects Applications are requested for grants of up to £2000 for youth projects. The Trustees will consider grant aid from organisations working with young people for specific projects outside of their core funding in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames.

Please email Paul Cox for further information on zottecox@aol.com

Apply now for online fundraising webpage and workshop 23 local voluntary and community groups have webpages on Localgiving.com, a fundraising website for small organisations.

Several more organisations have registered and will soon be fundraising online.

Small community organisations, faith-based organisations, sports groups and more are all welcome to join Localgiving.com.

Some of the groups currently fundraising on the website include Barnfield Riding for the Disabled Trust, Richmond and Kingston ME Group, Cambridge Road Estates Community Group and Express.

Localgiving.com is the only fundraising website that enables groups too small to register with the Charities Commission to receive Gift Aid on donations.

Next Localgiving.com workshop: 27 February, 10am to 1pm Access Learning Centre, Kingston

If you would like KVA to fund your organisation’s subscription to Localgiving.com or attend our workshop contact Sanja Kane on training@kva.org.uk or 020 8255 3335.

GO KINGSTON VOLUNTEERING Celebrating 40 years of volunteering in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames

‘Hot Opportunities’webpage launched to promote your volunteering roles Are your opportunities up to date?

Have you got some new opportunities that you would like us to market?

Each month we feature 3 new ‘Hot Opportunities’ on our website as well as upload them onto a popular national volunteering database.

If you would like to be featured then please get in contact. If you would like to be updated about the latest opportunities you can also subscribe to the webpage newsfeed.

We’ll also be sending out your ‘Hot Opportunities via Twitter, and in our volunteering e-news for volunteers.

Last year we saw a 68% increase in the number of potential volunteers we registered and referred. We always need new opportunities to broker along with new volunteer involving organisations.

Volunteer Coordinators’ Forum 5 March 10am to 12.30 Richard Mayo Centre, Kingston “How the new Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) affects you and your volunteers” See page 15 for booking details

GoKingstonVolunteering

It’s vital that we regularly update our database so that we know which opportunities are active and which ones have been filled. Please let us know any changes to your organisation so that we can make sure the information we are providing is valid.

If you are unsure about what details we hold on you please call Maria on 020 8255 8685.

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GKV Newsletter

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How ‘hot’ are your volunteering opportunities?

Go Kingston Volunteering (GKV) strives to develop and promote volunteering throughout the Royal Borough of Kingston.

Currently we have 317 voluntary and community groups registered with us. These organisations are offering 925 voluntary roles! Yet many of them similar to each other – for instance drivers and administration support.

We want to promote your organisation well, so its really important for you to be a bit creative. Instead of calling an opportunity admin assistant why not name the opportunity office angel? Instead of volunteer driver why not call it car buddy?

If you would like some support in creating and writing new opportunities then you can contact our Good Practice Advisor, Pat, and she will be happy to help you.

GKV promotes volunteering opportunities throughout the borough, including at events such as Voluntary Sector in the Marketplace

Contact Pat Stanley for advice on goodpractice@gokingstonvolunteering.org.uk

or 020 8255 8685

Your opportunity is hot if... ...it is an Information & Communications role.

Last year more than 400 potential volunteers expressed an interest in computers and technology.

Let us know if you have opportunities for volunteers who have I.T. skills such as web design.

We can help you find your perfect match Although we do not screen potential volunteers for you i.e. reference or CRB check we try to see as many people in person as possible so as to make the perfect match.

We’re delighted that we have been able to extend this opportunity to 20 local organisations to attend our Volunteer Speed Matching event on February 14 2013. See page 7 for details.

Tell us about your perfect match by calling us on 020 8255 8685 or email us on info@gokingstonvolunteering.org.uk

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Support from The Cranfield Trust can save you thousands KVA is working in partnership with The Cranfield Trust to deliver business mentoring worth thousands of pounds to voluntary sector managers across Kingston.

Business experts in senior managerial positions from the commercial sector offer their knowledge and advice at no cost to community groups as part of The Cranfield Trust network.

Since the project started in April last year 12 local groups have received a staggering 400 hours of consultancy valued at £40,000. The groups support more than 14,000 beneficiaries.

Consultancy in action: Kingston Carers’ Network Kingston Carers’ Network has been supported by Frances Meredith over the past three months. Frances has been helping them to develop a new business plan.

Director Kate Dudley tells us why this help has been so valuable: In recent years the organisation has experienced huge development and expansion of services, an organic process that has maximised on the opportunities available to support carers.

We have outgrown our business plan and now need a joint plan that reflects our ‘strategic priority’ focus.

Frances and I meet up every fortnight for approximately 2 hours. We have progressed through the early planning stages of business planning, including mapping of services and outcomes, evaluating the current organisational structure and organising an away day.

We are now in the process of consulting with staff, users and volunteers to ensure that the identified priorities reflect the needs of all the stakeholders, particularly those of the carers.

The process has been very helpful and has enabled me to reflect on the organisation, staffing and most importantly, the future of KCN. Frances has been a very positive influence who has enabled us to progress our strategic development in a very clear and inclusive way.

Frances has been a very insightful mentor who is extremely supportive and provides advice on a range of HR and strategic issues.

Her experience in HR has been a very useful added benefit and has shown me that a mentor may be a very useful resource to have beyond the scope of this business planning project. Frances has an excellent corporate approach to the project and this helps me to look beyond the voluntary sector world!

We are already developing a more professional profile and looking at what are doing in a more business-like way. Frances is also providing a lot of practical help and prepares documents to help KCN follow each stage of the business planning process. She also ensures that I get my actions completed on time.

I would recommend this experience to anyone else in this position, whether this is for business and strategic development or other mentoring opportunities. I wish this would be available for longer than six months!

If you need a business mentor, are getting ready for commissioning or would like information on how else The Cranfield Trust consultants can support you contact Sanja Kane, Transforming Kingston’s Infrastructure Project Manager on 020 8255 3335.

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Health & Social Care

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Kingston’s Clinical Commissioning Group gains NHS budget control Kingston’s Clinical Commissioning Group (KCCG) has been given authorisation to take control of its local NHS budget following an announcement on Tuesday 11 December 2012 by the NHS Commissioning Board.

KCCG will formally start commissioning hospital, community and mental health services for the people of Kingston from April 2013.

The KCCG is made up of the 28 GP practices in Kingston. In order to meet its aspirations around improving the health and wellbeing of the population of Kingston, it is working in partnership with its patients, the local authority and providers of services including the voluntary and community sector.

As a first step in building a meaningful relationship with KCCG, KVA invited chair, Dr Naz Jivani, to be a key note speaker at our

first Health Conference on Tuesday 22nd January.

The public are welcome to attend meetings where all formal decisions are taken regarding health services, and there is usually an opportunity for members of the public to share their views.

Now that KCCG is authorised all meetings of the board will be public. The next meeting will be held on: Date: Tuesday 5th March 2013 Time: 1pm - 2.30pm Location: The King's Centre, Coppard Gardens, Chessington, KT9 2GZ Visit www.kingstonccg.nhs.uk for details of how to submit questions to KCCG, supporting papers for board meetings and details of patient forums.

Continued from front page and Dr. Phil Moore, Deputy Chair (Clinical) of the KCCG. Cllr. Derek Osborne, Leader of the Council and Chair of the Health and Well-Being Board also spoke at the conference about the changing role of the local authority in the provision of Public Health.

Responsibility for public health is moving back to the local authority and as it continues to tackle health inequalities and improve the life chances of local people through empowerment of local communities, it is looking to the voluntary and community sector to develop innovative approaches to improving public health.

In its role as strategic partner KVA will be looking at ways the voluntary and community sector can engage in a meaningful way with the KCCG and Local

Authority, in the planning, design and delivery of services.

Workshops were held during the morning with contributions from Victim Support and Kingston Refugee Action and from KVA. Feedback from the workshops will be used to inform the action plan for the soon to be published ‘draft’ Voluntary and Community Sector Strategy and shared with KCCG.

Presentations from the day and short interviews can be downloaded from www.kva.org.uk and we will continue to report back on new developments

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Health theme re-launches Community Development Network The Community Development Network met on 21st November after a break of several months.

for future meetings and discussing how we can improve communication between members.

We welcomed 18 organisations and a number of partners from Kingston Council including the Equalities and Community Engagement Team, Adult Social Care Team and Strategic Business. We had a ‘health’ theme with presentations on:

Community development work cannot be done in isolation and to achieve sustainable and effective communities we need the input of many agencies, resources and perspectives.

Training in Mental Health First Aid from Mind in Kingston; The Implementation of NHS111; A report on the Peer Review of Kingston’s Adult Safeguarding Service; The Draft Mental Well Being Needs Assessment.

There was an opportunity during the meeting for networking and we spent some time looking at themes

We were delighted with the interest and engagement of those that attended the Network and hope to build on this for future partnership work.

The feedback from the network meeting is now being taken to the Community Development Working Group of the Voluntary and Community Sector Strategy Group.

This will help inform an Action Plan attached to the Voluntary and Community

A mental health workshop by Mind in Kingston created empathetic understanding

Sector Strategy which is to be launched in March 2013.

The Community Development Network will next meet on 6 March, 10am to 12.30pm followed by lunch. A theme and agenda will be announced shortly in our monthly e-bulletin.

To join the Community Development Network contact Patricia Turner on health@kva.org.uk

Adult Safeguarding Partnership Board and VCS meeting 12 February, 10am to 12.30pm, Richard Mayo Centre, Eden St, Kingston upon Thames KT1 1HZ Lunch will be provided at the end of the session The local Safeguarding Adults Partnership Board would like to have a conversation with colleagues in the voluntary sector to think about how we can make adult safeguarding a valued and effective part of the local community. We would like to invite colleagues from any local voluntary agency that engages with adults in Kingston to think about:    

What is adult safeguarding?

Understand what each other have to offer Understand what each other want or need from each other Next steps

To book your place contact Patricia Turner on health@kva.org.uk or 020 8255 3335.

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ICT Hub

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Superhighways is a registered UK Online Centres Partner and in December they launched the Community How To - Doing more with Digital website which also showcases a range of tools that can help support community activity.

Superhighways have a small pot of funding from UK Online Centres to be a community How To Advocate. If registering on the CommunityHowTo site, please use our UK Online Centre ID 3453271 in the promotional code box, so we can evidence that we have signposted our target of 30 groups registering.Also – if you are interested to find out more – Superhighways will be running a session at the next KVA Community Development Network on 6th March, so please come along…Visit www.communityhowto.com

Social Media in Action Superhighway’s community IT project Community Connected has a new Facebook page. Have a look at some of the activities we are running – refurbished PC programme, fully subsidised IT training in internet and email plus a computer repairs workshop.

And if you like what you see, please like us.

Back in May 2012, Lasa held a Tweetchat encouraging people to contribute their top online tools. Amazingly #lasatechtools trended (top 10 tweets on that day) and 70 tools were submitted. These have now been organised into 4 tool boxes - Back Office, Publishing, Collaboration & Events and Meetings - so go and have a look if you are interested in finding out how such tools can help your organisation.

Visit http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/cloudtoolbox

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Transforming your ICT using AudioBoo is a fantastic new social media platform for sharing audio. You can share interviews, music you record or any other short audio recordings on the AudioBoo website or even on your own website.

You can download an app for your smartphone and various mobile devices so that you can record on the move and upload straight to the web.

Community Connected have recently been using AudioBoo to capture carers’ experience of its IT training programme.

We also used it to record a short interview with the director of the media company that produced

our new film—and played it on the day of our annual general meeting before the film started.

It was as if Jude Habib was talking to us via satellite!

AudioBoo is a great way of capturing what people are talking about at your events, interviewing your service users about their stories or experiences of your activities and anything else you can think of!

Create a free account to share multiple recordings that are no more than 3 minutes in length.

You can upgrade to paid packages that allow for much longer recordings if you wish.

Jude Habib from Sounddelivery kindly recorded an AudioBoo for us to be played at our AGM. Thanks Jude

Visit http://audioboo.fm/ to create your free account and start sharing. If anyone needs some support using this resource contact Superhighways on 020 8255 8040.

Visit http://www.kva.org.uk/support-for-groups/a-sustainable-future/ to see Jude’s ‘Boo’ in action or http://audioboo.fm/Superhighways to listen to Kingston’s carers talk

Do you work with carers?

There are just a few spaces left on our free IT training programme. Do you work with carers in Kingston? If you do, Community Connected has a tailor-made internet and email training programme for them which is fully paid for.

Upcoming training dates are February 5th, 12th and 26th, and March 12th and 26th.

This is delivered as part of our Kingston Carers’ Network UK Online Project.

Contact Philippa Leary at Superhighways on 020 8255 8040 to find out more.

As you get older you need to learn more than what you normally know. You gain stuff over the years but there’s always something you don’t know. I’ve come round here for the last three weeks to learn how to use the computer. I’ve seen other people using them and they seem to enjoy doing it. You learn a lot on the internet Albert, regular attendee, aged 77

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Training & Events

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We need you and your memories of Norbiton!

Join in with the Pride of Place Project run by Community Connected and share memories of living and working in Norbiton over the last 50 years.

Come along to Piper Hall on Thursday 14th March, from 2pm-6pm, with photos and all your stories of the estates or the surrounding area over the years.

We are building a collection of all the best stories, photos and recollections from residents of Norbiton over the last 50 years, so none of our collective histories are lost in time. Maybe someone can remember when the Cambridge Road Estate was actually built in the 1960s and the Silver Jubilee celebrations in 1977?

We will scan and upload personal histories to a community website, and show you how to keep adding your stories to the virtual village we are building online. We would like to document every decade from 1960 to the present day – scanning your photographs and Community Connected is working with recording you memories, so they can take CREst, One Norbiton and other partners on pride of place in our history. this project.

Call 020 8255 8040 or email info@communityconnected.org.uk. You can also find us on Facebook. Go to www.facebook.com/KingstonCommunityConnected and click ‘like’.

Children and Young Peoples VCS Network Meeting Sylvia Chew, RBK’s Head of Children’s Social Care will be giving a presentation on the changes to children’s social care following the Improvement Plan. This is a great opportunity to find out about the latest developments and to ask questions. The meeting will be held on Monday 18 March, 10am to 12pm, United Reformed Church, Kingtson.

Book your place by 1 February. Email Judith Naylor on cwd@kva.org.uk

Safeguarding Children Level 1/2 training The next Safeguarding Children Level 1/2 course takes place on Saturday 4 May, 10am to 1pm, venue to be confirmed. Free but booking essential.

Email Sanja Kane on training@kva.org.uk or call 020 8255 3335

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Training & Events

Join in Love Kingston Day - February 14th What a remarkable nation we are – in spite of the economic downturn and extreme austerity measures – 2012 was a memorable year.

We celebrated the Queens’ Diamond Jubilee, raised more money than ever for Comic Relief, BBC’s Children in Need, and Sport Relief and hosted a hugely successful Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Now is the time to unite once again for ourselves and turn the spot light on our own community.

Love Kingston is inviting everyone who lives or works

in the borough, from school children, students, individuals, businesses and groups, to get creative, get involved, and have some fun in fundraising on LOVE KINGSTON DAY – Thursday 14th February. This is set to become an annual event.

Love Kingston supports five local projects and is building a Kingston Legacy Fund for the future of the voluntary and community sector across the borough.

We are delighted that both the Surrey Comet and Kingston Guardian are supporters of Love Kingston.

Ross Logan, Chief Reporter, would like to hear about

what you are doing to fundraise on Love Kingston Day. Please send your story, with any supporting pictures, to ross.logan@ london.newsquest.co.uk Kingston Voluntary Action works in partnership with The London Community Foundation on Love Kingston. It is funded by the Big Fund on behalf of the Office for Civil Society.

For more information contact Elaine Miller, Fundraising Manager on 07834 362 120 or email elaine@londoncf.org.uk

FOLLOW LOVE KINGSTON ON FACEBOOK @ www.facebook.com/LoveKingstonDay DOWNLOAD A LOVE KINGSTON DAY POSTER @ www.love-kingston.org.uk With thanks to George P Johnson: Experience Marketing for their support

Volunteer Co-ordinators Forum: Disclosure and Barring Service 5 March 10-12.30 at Richard Mayo Centre, Kingston “How the new Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) affects you and your volunteers” The CRB and ISA have now merged and there are changes for both organisations and volunteers.

Do you have responsibility for recruiting or managing volunteers?

If so then please come along to our free forum and find out how the changes affect you.

The session will focus on giving an overview of the changes, when and what level of DBS check is appropriate, and how to assess suitability if a DBS is positive. How the changes to ID checking creates additional barriers to volunteering for young people, refugees and asylum seekers. Discuss how a DBS check if just one aspect of safer recruitment.

The forum is a good networking opportunity to discuss volunteer management issues.

To book your place email Pat Stanley on goodpractice@gokingstonvolunteering.org.uk