Community connections
Providers: Ealing and Hounslow CVS BEfriend, Southall Community Alliance, and Golden Opportunities, Skills and Development
Categories:
- Community connections (Acton)
- Community connections (Central Ealing),
- Community connections (Southall)
- Community connections (Greenford, Northolt and Perivale)
Contacts:
- info@ehcvs.org.uk
- rachel@befriend.london
- manager@southallcommunityalliance.com
- mukhtar.handule@gosad.org.uk
A programme of sustainable community-based activities for local people of all ages with the purpose of:
- reducing social isolation
- strengthening communities
- improving health and wellbeing
- Increasing activity and independence
Information and advice
Provider: Ealing Mencap
Category: Information and advice
Contact: matthew.coulam@ealingmencap.org.uk
- a ‘one stop shop’ for Ealing residents to be able to access free of charge information, advice and customer representation, with priority given to the most vulnerable, specifically:
- adult social care groups in line with the Care Act 2014 requirements (see above)
- families with children with additional needs, or disabilities as defined in the Children and Families Act 2014
- socially excluded and vulnerable people needing support in areas of debt, housing, immigration and welfare benefits and other entitlements
- provision of a forum to bring together all advice services in the borough
Mental Health
Provider: Ealing Abbey Counselling Service
Category: Talking therapies – common needs
Contact: deborah@eacs.org.uk
The services will provide talking therapies for adults in Ealing with common mental health needs, such as depression, anxiety, simple trauma and obsessive-compulsive disorder, working in partnership with statutory services to offer a choice of options for therapeutic support.
Provider: CAPE
Category: Talking therapies – complex needs
Contact: tracey@capeproject.org.uk
The service will provide talking therapies for adults in Ealing with mental health needs with some complexity, such as complex depression and anxiety, trauma and personality disorder, working in partnership with statutory services to offer a choice of options for therapeutic support.
Provider: EACH Counselling and support
Category: Community support – common needs
Contact: speters@eachcounselling.org.uk
The services will provide campaign and outreach to aid understanding and challenge stigma and discrimination associated with mental health. The service(s) will work in partnership and coproduction with local communities to reach a wide variety of groups to support understanding and knowledge of, and access to, mental health services
Provider: CAPE
Category: Community support – complex needs
Contact : tracey@capeproject.org.uk
The services will provide people who have serious and long-term mental health needs support to be able to be part of their communities, supported to access services and maintain employment and housing, and benefit from what is available to all Ealing residents and contribute as all Ealing residents can.
Provider: Hillingdon Autistic Care and Support
Category: Opportunities for adults with autism
Contact: stephanie@hacs.org.uk
The funding will support autistic adults in living their lives as they wish, accessing opportunities to benefit from and contribute to their communities including through employment, learning, leisure, health services, friendships and relationships. It will aim to reach individuals and communities who face additional barriers to accessing services and opportunities and to contribute to supporting others to understand more about autism and to be more autism friendly.
Respite care
Provider: Carers Trust Hillingdon
Category: Adult Carers Short Breaks
Contact: office@carerstrusthillingdon.org
Provides planned and emergency short term, time limited breaks for families and other unpaid carers of adults with the intention that families/carers resume care at the end of the respite period. Both the planned and emergency respite provision is focused on helping individuals remain at home, sustaining caring relationships and preventing crises developing. The service will be available 365 days per year.
Provider: Brentford FC in the community
Category: Short breaks for children and young people with disabilities
Contact: ctribe@brentfordfccst.com
This grant contributes to the placement cost of short breaks for children and young people that that meet the threshold for assessment but may not meet the threshold for statutory specialist and social care support.
Provider: Brentford FC Community Sport Trust
Category: Young carers
Contact: Ksobczak@brentfordfccst.com
Brentford Community Sport Trust runs the Ealing Young Carers Project. The project provides one to one support as well as a programme of fun activities offering young carers a break from their caring role and to meet other young carers who are in a similar situation. The project will
- support Ealing young carers ‘No Wrong Door’ protocol, raising awareness and improving identification and support to young carers through joint working and improved access
- provide and manage a targeted young carers support service to all identified and referred young carers
- provide a range of services to meet their needs
- work with schools to improve awareness and young carers support available in schools, promoting initiatives such as the Young Carers in Schools award and improved understanding and support
Domestic violence
Provider: Lasting Support Services
Category: Therapeutic support for children and young people
Contact: info@lastingsupportservices.com
The service will provide therapeutic support to children and young people experiencing the effects of domestic violence through direct individual or group work with a view to:
- contributing to the reduction of the impact of domestic violence on children and young people
- reducing the chances of children and young people becoming victims or perpetrators of domestic violence
- improving the social, emotional and psychological well-being of children affected by domestic violence
- improving family relationship and resilience
Provider: Advance Advocacy and Non-Violence Community Education
Category: Generalist independent domestic violence advocacy service
Contact: summer.a@advancecharity.org.uk
Advance offer a general independent domestic violence advocacy service based on comprehensive risk and needs assessment to all victims, including male victims. The key aims of the services are to:
- provide an effective domestic abuse service to ensure the safety of all victims of domestic abuse and their children
- promote the victim’s independence to rebuild their lives and reduce the impact that domestic abuse has had on their health, social and psychological wellbeing
Provider: Southall Black Sisters
Category: BAME specialist independent domestic violence advocacy service
Contact: selma@southallblacksisters.co.uk
Southall Black Sisters offer an Independent Domestic Violence Advocacy Service with the emphasis on the needs of BAME clients excluding male victims. The key aims of the services are to
- provide an effective domestic abuse service to ensure the safety of all victims of domestic abuse and their children
- promote the victim’s independence to rebuild their lives and reduce the impact that domestic abuse has had on their health, social and psychological wellbeing
Infrastructure support
Provider: Ealing and Hounslow Community and Voluntary Service
Category: VCS Development, capacity building and the voice of the sector
Contact: info@ehcvs.org.uk
ECVS will provide a VCS capacity building and development service for all voluntary and community groups working in the Ealing. Key activities include:
- providing funding advice, with associated capacity building and development support to local VCS groups. In particular to support the development of small and black, Asian and minority ethnic groups reflecting the diversity of Ealing’s communities.
- supporting communities and VCS organisations to take advantage of digital opportunities to help residents take action and meet their own needs
- developing the capabilities of the VCS to become more financially sustainable and work with other local organisations to attract investment into our local communities
- providing a voice for the sector which will ensure the views of all VCS organisations working in Ealing are represented and to enable partnership work between the sector and statutory agencies.
Provider: Ealing and Hounslow Community and Voluntary Service
Category: Support for volunteering and social action
Contact: info@ehcvs.org.uk
The ECVS Volunteer Centre will provide volunteer support for all voluntary and community groups working in the Borough of Ealing. Key activities include:
- increasing the number of volunteering and social action hours delivered
- increasing the number of residents involved in helping each other and peer to peer support
- increasing the number of residents who use digital technology to get involved in social action
- the creation of new volunteering projects, or extensions to existing projects, with additional volunteers that will increase the number and diversity of volunteers, in particular those who experience disadvantage or who need additional support