North Meets South is recruiting! For full details please click below:

COMMUNITY CONSULTATION!

PLEASE GIVE US YOUR VIEWS ON THE ROLES GROVE GARAGES & DEPOT SITE:

Join us by zoom on Thursday 18 February 10am-11.30am to tell us your ideas or concerns. Book your free ticket for the zoom session here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/roles-grove-garagesconsultation-online-event-tickets-137958847627

You can also call 0800 288 9845 free between 10am-7pm on Friday 19 February to give us your views. Our Roles Grove site survey will go live on 19 February. To complete it online, please use the QR code above or go to https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/Q5R8YWR

If you prefer to receive a paper copy of the survey to post back free, please email studio@avraarcher.com or nmsworker17@gmail.com or ring 07419 285839.

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: 

and open windows from time to time for fresh air!

NEW RESTRICTIONS FROM JANUARY 2021:

Help keep yourself and others safe – please follow the latest lockdown rules and stay at home. Only leave home for exceptional reasons, such as to:

• go shopping for essential items for you or a vulnerable person

• go to work, or provide voluntary or charitable services, if you can’t do so from home

• exercise with your household (or support bubble) or one other person - this should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area

• meet your support bubble or childcare bubble where necessary, but only if you are legally permitted to form one

• seek medical assistance or avoid injury, illness or risk of harm including domestic abuse

• attend education or childcare – for those eligible

If you are are clinically vulnerable, you can get help with things like food shopping and picking up medicine, by contacting BD CAN via the council on 020 8215 3000.

If you have symptoms of coronavirus - a high temperature or a new, continuous cough, or a loss or change in sense of smell or taste - do not leave your house other than to get a test. It takes less than a minute and is free. The test can be booked or ordered as soon as symptoms begin at nhs.uk/coronavirus or by calling 119, and you can expect your result the next day. 

Keep up to date with the latest government guidelines: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus

Financial worries?

Contact homesandmoneyhub@lbbd.gov.uk or ring 020 8724 2115 or 020 8227 2927

Feeling stressed or anxious?

Click Wellbeing Toolkit for useful resources. Also please see the 3 fliers and further help below:

MORE HELP WITH MENTAL WELLBEING DURING COVID:

• Mind in Barking & Dagenham's Gateway Telephone Service is to be the first point of contact for people seeking support for their own or someone else’s mental health, including carers, GPs, health workers, family, friends, and colleagues. It is available on 01708 457040 Monday to Friday, 9am–7pm or Saturday and Sunday, 10am–3pm. Email help@haveringmind.org.uk or reach.us@haveringmind.org.uk  Referral forms are available from www.haveringmind.org.uk

• Good Thinking provides digital mental wellbeing support for London. This includes free NHS-approved apps to help you deal with stress, anxiety, low mood and poor sleep. Visit https://www.good-thinking.uk/

• Visit https://www.good-thinking.uk/coronavirus/ for Covid-related mental wellbeing support

• They have also partnered with Wellmind Health to offer free access to their guided meditations: https://www.meditainment.com/

• Healthy London Partnership has developed a series of webinars to support anyone feeling anxious about coronavirus and how it is impacting them,  including money worries. Each 60-minute webinar is delivered in a clinically led way by Emily Gardner, Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, East London NHS Foundation Trust: https://thriveldn.co.uk/resources/coping-well-during-covid/

• iHASCO has produced a useful guide to mental health and wellbeing

• 10 min chair-based yoga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKW8X0-2Eww

  10 min guided mindfulness meditation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPebkk7xjF0

LOOKING FOR A JOB?

Click VACANCIES and MORE VACANCIES to download local and nearby jobs. Also check out the opportunities below:

Healthwatch Redbridge is recruiting a Projects Officer

14 hrs per week £21,590 (£8,636 pro rata)

Overview of Role:
To support the development of various projects working with diverse communities in Redbridge. To work closely with the staff team, to plan project time lines to complete on time and within an agreed budget. Support the development and organisation of multiple projects running simultaneously.                                                                         For information and to pply:  http://www.healthwatchredbridge.co.uk/jobs 

(Closing date 19 February with interviews scheduled for week beginning 8 March 2021)

YOUNG PERSON INTERESTED IN A CAREER 

IN CLOUD SUPPORT?

AWS re/Start is a free 12 week bootcamp to kickstart your career in tech as a Cloud Support Practitioner, run in collaboration with Amazon Web Services and Prince’s Trust. You don’t need any existing experience or qualifications to be part of this training programme.

Visit https://uk.generation.org/london/get-into-technology 

Eligibility requirements:

- Aged 18-29

- Not currently in education, training, or stable employment

- Able to travel into central London

- Available for 12 weeks, and ready to start a full time job straight after the course

Census 2021 high-volume recruitment:

Get involved in the first ‘digital census’ in history! A wide range of temporary part-time and full-time roles will be available offering contractual periods between a couple of weeks to several months.

Candidates can apply for officer (those working in the field), supervisory or managerial roles (subject to individual experience). All adverts are accessible on www.censusjobs.co.uk 

FREE TRAINING:

Learn My Way - for people who are new to digital/computer technology:

 There lots of bite-sized units including using a computer, office programmes, internet safety, and internet skills for money, health, universal credit and more - all free!.

Perhaps start with internet safety, and then choose the ones that are most relevant to you. When you complete a whole unit you can download a certificate. 

You can use a smartphone, tablet, laptop or pc, and can start and stop when you choose:

Name, email account and password are needed to register:

• Go to www.learnmyway.com

• Please enter centre number 3453711

• Then click on register (next time you go in, you will just need to sign in)

Upskill your job prospects:

North Meets South is offering free, flexible online courses delivered by iHASCO for Marks Gate/Chadwell Heath community, with a certificate when completed:

• Food Safety & Hygiene Level 2 (includes Level 1)

• Mental Health Awareness

• Essential Health & Safety

• Equality & Diversity

• Fire Awareness

• Customer Service Skills

• Manual Handling

• Risk Assessment 

• Safeguarding Children Level 2

• Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults

• Coronavirus Awareness

Email nmsworker17@gmail.com to register, free!

Click the picture below to read our January/February 2021 newsletter:

You can also read our Spring/Summer 2020 and Summer 2020 newsletters by clicking the pictures below:

SOME USEFUL LINKS:

Citizens Advice: Coronavirus and what it means for you

Money Advice: Coronavirus and what it means for you

Stepchange (debt support): Coronavirus and your finances

Online learning resource for all ages: https://www.london.gov.uk/coronavirus/london-learning-at-home

The government's online home-schooling classroom: https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom

Read our newsletters for more. Or click on the Community Links tab on our website for helplines.

Loan sharks are NOT your friends – they are highly manipulative criminals who take advantage in times of hardship. Find out how to get help if you or someone you know is a victim of illegal money lending: http://bit.ly/2Q0Yej9  You can check if a company is authorised to lend money at www.loansmart.org.uk                       For confidential help, call 0300 555 2222 or text 07860022116 or visit www.stoploansharks.co.uk

Click here to get involved with NMS:

OUR SMALL GRANTS ARE ALWAYS OPEN! 

Want to do something special for our community? See the Dragon's Den section below left for how you can apply for a small grant to turn your idea into a reality! 

Click here for the Training Bursary criteria & application form.

Check out the latest news on the Padnall housing development.

Watch a video: https://youtu.be/4pJWgnPcfDw                    or read about it here.