The Integrated Care System process is gaining pace in Northamptonshire, and VIN recently contributed to the proposed Government White Paper on People and Places.
The focus session was led by the NHS Voluntary Partnerships Team and included contributors from across the VCSE Sector within the UK.
The response can be seen here
Continue to view the VIN website for more updates on the ICS as it progresses: What’s new | Voluntary Impact Northampton
Its Mental Health Awareness Week next week and this year’s theme is loneliness – something we can all experience at some point in our lives.
We all know the effect that loneliness and social isolation can have, and how it can impact on an individual’s health and wellbeing.
As part of the Better Health: Every Mind Matters Campaign the Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport along with the Department for Health and Social Care are encouraging people to lift someone out of loneliness by taking a simple action to help.
VIN runs a Volunteer Befriender Scheme called Happy at Home which matches those who are lonely with those willing to help. In this way, relationships are forged over time and the crushing reality of loneliness and isolation blunted.
If you know someone who is lonely, or if you want to become a Volunteer Befriender then contact our Happy at Home Team at Debbie.larkins@voluntaryimpact.org.uk or roz.bates@voluntaryimpact.org.uk
Let’s all help to lift someone out of loneliness.
If you live, work or reside in Northamptonshire and have a story to tell about poverty or financial vulnerability, or are just interested in the issue of Poverty then why not join VIN on the 26th of May 2022 between 12 noon and 1.30PM.
Location: 15 St Giles Street: Northampton: NN1 1JA
Refreshments: Drink and Cakes.
Learn more about the work of the Poverty Truth Commission in Northampton shire and what it can do to raise the profile of Poverty in the County. Learn how to be a Community Commissioner, and what’s involved.
Just turn up on the day – no booking required. For further information contact Russell.rolph@voluntaryimpact.org.uk
Voluntary Impact Northamptonshire is looking to recruit a new Trustee to its already burgeoning Board. If you want to help and support a local charity or understand a little more about the importance of Infrastructure Organisations that connect People to Places, then this might be a role for you.
Voluntary Impact Northamptonshire has been part of the Northamptonshire landscape for thirty years. It started life as a Volunteer Bureau and has developed over time to provide a range of support and advice services. Find out more about us and our recent two-year strategy can be found here.
We are ideally looking for one specialist who has current or past experience in human resources and three generalists. Any potential interest should be directed to russell.rolph@voluntaryimpact.org.uk in the first instance. Please leave your name, contact number, and provide a short paragraph on why you are interested in the role and your experiences.
In general, trustees will have to attend four board meetings per year plus our annual AGM. Board meetings normally take place between 5 pm and 7 pm quarterly on a Thursday. On occasions, extra meetings are called throughout the year to cover certain specific subjects or if there is urgent business to conduct.
We are once again asking you to reflect on the year that has just passed and complete our State of the Sector Survey for 2021/22.
There are questions about your workforce, activities and beneficiaries. The impact that you make, The challenges you have overcome and your plans for the future.
The surveys will be used to produce a report building a picture of the VCSE in Northamptonshire that demonstrates the valuable role the sector plays in the health, wellbeing and economy of our county.
Please take 10 minutes out of your day to complete the survey – its important.
In this week’s bulletin, a forthcoming Integrated Care System event in North Northants, we are looking for a new Trustee, the State of the Sector report and much more.
Over 50 Voluntary and community organisations attended the first Integrated Care Workshop delivered by Voluntary Impact Northamptonshire and funded by both NHS England and the Big Lottery Community Fund. The event took place at Northamptonshire Saints Rugby Club, and speakers included Naomi Eisenstadt (the Independent Chair of the Health and Care Partnership Board), Katie Brown of West Northamptonshire Council and Joanne Fletcher of the Northamptonshire Heath Foundation Trust. Voluntary Sector speakers included Sarah Hillier, the CEO of Northamptonshire MIND and Chris Duff, the CEO of Age UK and VCSE Assembly Board Member. All of the slides from these speakers can be found here:
Mental Health Northants Collaboration
The Northamptonshire VCSE Assembly and Thematic Groups
Children and Young People’s Transformation Programme
Russell Rolph, the CEO of VIN stated:
The Integrated Care System is a massive change in the way in which Healthcare is delivered in Northamptonshire. The VCSE has a major role to play in this Transformation, but the concept of the ICS is complex, and our sector is far reaching and diverse. This is the first of hopefully many discussions which take place over the next 12 months.
Voluntary Impact Northamptonshire recently participated in a UK wide discussion seminar on the likely impacts of the Government White Paper on Point of Place Delivery within the newly to be formed Integrated Care Systems. The collective response, delivered through NAVCA, can be viewed here:
Russell Rolph, the CEO of VIN stated:
Its always nice to be invited to these UK wide discussions on important subjects, and I am grateful to NAVCA for the opportunity. How healthcare and health inequality is delivered and addressed at a point of place will be crucial moving forward. Big complex ideas always become clearer at a local Neighbourhood level, so it will be interesting to see how the implications of the White Paper play out, and particularly in Northamptonshire which is experiencing significant Transformation in its own right beyond the Integrated Care System.
The Local Authority is coordinating all aspects of the Ukrainian welcome in conjunction with a range of different community and statutory partners.
Information relating to all aspects of Ukrainian resettlement can be found on the West Northamptonshire Council website here.
Any individual sponsor or community response can register their support offer here.
A fundraising campaign has also been established and donations can be offered here.
Emmaus Village Carlton is about to host several Ukrainian refugees soon, all displaced by the ongoing conflict with Russia. Emmaus Village Carlton will be providing accommodation which consists of one three-bedroom house, two one-bedroom flats and three bedrooms of shared accommodation. The accommodation will need regular cleaning and a call for volunteers is requested.
Potential volunteers are asked to bring all relevant cleaning equipment and chemicals. Emmaus Village Carlton is located here. For more information, please contact Conroy Whitebrook on 07743 019482.
