Peckham and Nunhead Newsletter October 2018
Southwark Council sent this bulletin at 27-09-2018 11:43 AM BST
It's very easy to create your project on Spacehive, the website takes you through the steps and allows you to save your project and come back to it. The Spacehive team are also very helpful and can be easily contacted. Once you're site is validated, you are ready to go. If people or companies are looking for projects to support, they visit the Spacehive site and can filter to certain categories or areas. It's important to make your project stand up, use lots of colourful photos or videos and explain your project in clearly and succinctly. The people that visit the site are essentially window shopping and you need your project to catch their eye. We also created a QR code for ours and added this to business cards, along with the web site address, so that we could give the information to our members, families, friends and contacts. You can also email the web site address and post it up on all your social media. The process from creation to go live, is simple and easy to follow. The real work comes when you are trying to promote your site and you should not underestimate the time needed for this. We spent many weekends walking around the Peckham area visiting businesses to promote the project. We also contacted local papers, councillors and anyone else that we thought might help. The people that pledge money to your project, only pay the money if your project reaches its financial target. This gives the pledger the security of knowing that they are only contributing to successful, well supported projects. We managed to reach our target, with only days to go before the end date. Would we do it again? Yes, I think we would. Crowdfunding allows you to raise money for specific projects. In our case it was new kit and equipment, but now we want to raise money to further develop our coaches and crowdfunding could be the way to go. We all know how difficult it is to raise funds for community groups in this day and age and crowdfunding is another way of doing that.
Looking for Volunteers
If you are interested in joining Fc Jéan Té Lé as a member or as a volunteer, please call 07939 620230.
  Housing for keyworkers - what do you think?With the current housing crisis in London it is important that that homes of all tenures are built and that there is a supply of housing available that is truly affordable for our residents who are on low and medium incomes. As a council we are committed to ensuring that we do what we can to play our part in meeting the housing needs of our residents and that we have homes that are available across a range of incomes. There is a clear need to provide housing that is affordable to our keyworkers in Southwark. Our teachers and teaching assistants, our social workers and healthcare workers who are finding it increasingly harder to rent in Southwark due to the increasing rental prices in the private rented sector. We also need to make sure that we help those residents fleeing from domestic abuse and ensure that there are safe and suitable housing arrangements available.
ConsultationSouthwark Council is currently asking residents for their thoughts on a new intermediate rent and keyworker housing scheme in Southwark.
Under this proposal ‘Intermediate rent’ will mean that rent is discounted at around half of the private market rent amount for those on incomes below £60,000, and then discounted by a minimum of 20% for those earning between £60,000 - £90,000 per household.
The consultation asks who should be eligible and prioritised for this new housing. Should this prioritise keyworkers so that teachers, health and social workers, firefighters and police officers can afford to stay in central London near where they work and where they are needed to provide vital services?
The council is also proposing special priority for foster carers, carers, those leaving the armed forces and people who need housing following domestic abuse.
You can take part in the consultation via the online consultation hub
https://consultations.southwark.gov.uk/ - Please search for “intermediate rent”
The consultation closes on the
11th October 2018
Calling alll choirs!!!
Southwark Stars
Following on from the success of last year's Southwark Stars Awards we are very excited that Tate Exchange will once again be the venue for the awards ceremony.
The Awards Ceremony will be held on Friday 16 November from 6pm to which successful nominees and a designated number of organisation and family representatives will be invited.
For full details please go to: http://bit.ly/southwarkstars2018
How
to nominate?
We will be awarding '100 Hours Southwark Star' certificates - this is a recognition award which all volunteers who have contributed 100 or more hours with an organisation in the past year are eligible for. You can nominate up to two volunteers per organisation for the 100 Hours certificate by downloading a nomination form. Spaces for this category are limited and will be awarded on a first come, first served basis. Due to space restrictions, we may have to close nominations for this category early if necessary. Download and complete the application form below:
Download 100 Hour certificate nomination form
Nominating for Special award categories:
As well as being able to nominate volunteers for the 100+ hours certificate, you can also nominate volunteers for the ten special awards. These celebrate outstanding contributions from volunteers and examples of good practice across the voluntary and community sector as a whole. Below are the award categories:
· Volunteer Coordinator of the Year
· Community Group of the Year
· Charity of the Year
· Best Corporate Partnership of the Year
· Trustee of the Year
· Award for Positive Contribution to Wellbeing
· Keib Thomas Active Citizen of the year
· Young Volunteer of the Year
· Older volunteer of the year
· Disabled People’s Champion of the Year
You can download an application form for these ten individual categories and find out about the eligibility criteria below.
Organisations can nominate themselves for these
awards as well as their volunteers, but for no more than two categories.
Special award categories and key criteria
See our Top Tips for Nominating for more information
The closing date for all nominations is Thursday 27 September after which applications will be shortlisted by a panel. We will aim to notify all winners by 16 October 2018.
Please e-mail your nominations to:
Volunteering@communitysouthwark.org LGBT Domestic Abuse Partnership
Southwark Council supports The LGBT Domestic Abuse Partnership (DAP) to deliver a pan-London service for LGBT Londoners who need help with domestic abuse. Between April 2017 and June 2018 the DAP has so far provided support to nearly 800 LGBT victims/survivors of DVA from across all London boroughs, via telephone helpline, advocacy, housing advice and counselling services. What is the DAP?
DAP provides a way for LGBT victims/survivors of domestic abuse to get the maximum amount of help with a minimum amount of hassle. The DAP is open to any LGBT person experiencing domestic violence who is living in London. The DAP is made up of 4 LGBT agencies who each provide different services for LGBT victims/survivors of domestic abuse. With one phone call or email to one of the DAP partners you will be linked into the appropriate help and support . .www.lgbtdap.org.uk
Young and Fast?? Southwark Fireworks
Fireworks – Tickets are on sale
Free for residents and charged for non-residents. Residents use their postcode as an access key to unlock the free tickets. Taking place on Monday 5 November in Southwark Park, the display is free to residents and one of few fireworks events in the capital to fall on the very night that Guy Fawkes was discovered, guarding explosives beneath parliament, 5 Nov, 1605. Southwark’s fireworks display is named one of the best in the capital by visitlondon.com, and this year’s promises another superlative show, uniquely synchronised to music. As this is a popular event everyone will need a ticket to attend. We recommend booking your ticket in advance to guarantee entry. If you are a Southwark resident, please have your postcode ready and enter it without a space when prompted for the access key.
Creative ideas neededPartner with the Science MuseumThe Science Museum are looking for designers, brands and businesses to create an exclusive science-inspired product. They are inviting proposals in the following categories: Tech (STEM), apparel and textiles, food and drink, homewares, gifting, stationery. Contact: product@sciencemuseum.ac.uk. Full details here. A little extra!!Southwark under the Romans..... just for your interest!! 
I hope you have enjoyed this newsletter. If you have a community event or project that you would like to promote in the newsletter, please send it before the 25 of the month. Articles should be up to 200/300 words and pictures in JPG format, and we reserve editorial control. No overtly political, religious or commercial items please.
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