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The ‘Health Help Now App’ is a National health resource that is being rolled out across the country by each Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). With your permission, we would like to include your organisation in it. The App will help people in the community search for and access health and wellbeing services provided by the NHS, privately or locally by the Voluntary and Community Sector. It is a good opportunity to promote your services and our sector as a whole!
 

First of all, I would like to wish everyone a happy new year and hope that 2019 is a positive and fruitful year. Last year was a learning year for KCSC as following reviews on key aspects of our work, it provided us with the opportunity to start to deliver new areas of work and to begin to shape what we really want to do for 2019 and beyond. 

KCSC welcomes Voluntary Sector Development Manager Tom Richards to the team, providing maternity cover for Head of Organisational Development, Siobhan Sollis, for the next year.

Tom has a vocational background in organisational and community development and an academic background in international development and media.

KCSC runs a Self Care programme to offer Social Prescribing options to patients over 65 years old in the area, working with local organisations.

Voluntary and community organisations provide a range of services that contribute to greater health and wellbeing. These include services that are condition specific, like dementia support, relate to physical health such as exercise programmes and those that deal with aspects of mental health, such as befriending services or information and advice.

The three borough Funders Fair was held at the Kensington Town Hall this year, on Tuesday 3 July. 176 people were in attendance and took the opportunity to talk directly to funders and voluntary sector support agencies and attend a range of workshops on topics to support their fundraising and governance.

Download the workshop presentations (PDFs) below:

Data Protection law changed on May 25th 2018 to the General Data Protection Regulations which have brought in a number of changes.

It is important for all organisations to be aware of these and to make sure they comply. KCSC compiled some links with useful guidance as well as a series of sample policies that you can download. We intend to add more updated policies to this list over time.

See GDPR resource page

Are you looking to improve your administrative and event management skills? Then this volunteering position is for you. Kensington & Chelsea Social Council (KCSC) is currently seeking a volunteer to work with the Office Administrator.