The awards categories for 2013 are:

Sponsorship offers are welcomed in any of these award categories.

For more information:  exhibition at the event, advertising in the event brochure, sponsorships, and early birds tickets offers, contact 020 7277 7333 or email info@bbinitiative.com and or visit www.bbinitiative.com

If you are interested in joining in please contact: Christina Borgenstierna  07703 625 682  or nickybashall@yahoo.co.uk  Community Garden at Peckham Park Rd Baptist Church, Peckham Park Rd, SE15 6SX

For Further Information see flyer Community Garden PPRBC (2) Poster 04 13

Grant: £100- £200

Extended Deadline: 24th May 2013

Contact: 07841 115875 (please leave a message/voice mail if you do not get through) or email: info@cancerequality.co.uk

For an application form: Grant Application Form EMCAW

For application guidance notes: EMCAW 2013 Guidance Notes

See news reports:

* Peckham Vision  ‘Deputation to Cabinet to stop wholesale clearance of businesses on station site 16 April 2013′ -  http://goo.gl/2XXVs

* South London Press 23 April 2013 – http://goo.gl/O5cYj

* Southwark News 25 April 2013 – http://goo.gl/eYzQS

* ARTWEEKLY – http://goo.gl/rQfmX

Because of the lack of clarity, we have produced a summary explanation with a map of the different parts of the station site to assist the community discussion about the issues and the possibilities. See http://goo.gl/PnMPw

The Council’s Overview Scrutiny Committee decided that there were issues which needed to be probed before the Cabinet decision was implemented. The Scrutiny Committee paper summarising the issue is here: http://goo.gl/NQowI

This meeting took place on  7th May. More news to come about the decisions from the meeting.

 A petiion is being organisided by local people to petition Southwark Council and Network Rail to provide public toilets as part of the work to improve the areas around Peckham Rye station.”

The petition will be available in shops in Rye Lane and in local cafes and pubs etc for signature.

It can also be downloaded – see http://goo.gl/exNmy – to collect signatures and returned to the RLTA ‘Suggestion Box’, at Khan’s Bargain Ltd, 135 Rye Lane, as indicated on the petition.

So if you think you can collect signatures in your neighbourhood or get a petition into your local shops or pubs, do please download and take them round.

The agenda and brief supporting papers for the meeting follow:

 1 Agenda

 3 Minutes 29jan2013 meeting

5 aims se15 SG , and 5 SG REASONS AND AMBITIONS

7 Workplan

8 PVSF Forum Meeting workshop feedback

9 PVSF Quality Standards Development for SE15 Consortium Members

The draft minutes of the meeting are now available and can be accessed below: Draft minutes 26mar2013 meeting 

The Steering Group will now move to regular bi-monthly meetings: the dates have been set as:

• Tuesday 28th May 2013
• Tuesday 23 July 2013
• Tuesday 24 September 2013
• Tuesday 26 November 2013

All meetings take place at PVSF’s offices, and run from 10.00am to 12.00noon.

Draft minutes of the meeting, featuring key messages from the presentations, can be found via this link …… PVSF Forum Meeting minutes 21 03 2013 draft .

The workshop sessions engaged Forum members in discussion about four important questions if Voice and Representation is to be strengthened:

• Who Do You Need To Influence?
• How And Where Can You Influence?
• What Messages Do We Want Those People To Hear?
• How Do We Organise Ourselves To Ensure This Can Happen?

The points made in response are briefly dealt with in the minutes, but a more detailed list was prepared from all of the workshop notes in order to provide the next meeting of the SE15 Consortium Steering Group on 26th March with a more comprehensive document on which to plan its work over the next year. This can be accessed via this link …..  PVSF Forum Meeting workshop feedback

Forum Meetings are held quarterly, the next is due to be held in June 2013. The date, time and subject will be confirmed shortly.

Although the initiative was developed by Peckham Voluntary Sector Forum to build upon and formalise collaborative working in which they were already beginning to engage, it is hoped that in time all who provide services to SE15 residents, address their particular social problems, campaign on their behalf, advocate for them on complex issues, etc. will also join.

If you are interested in joining please complete this initial form …  Preliminary application and send it to Ian Redding (address details are on the form).  This seeks basic details about you but, more specifically, asks you to outline

• what are your reasons for wanting to join the Consortium,
• what it will enable you to achieve for SE15 residents that you can’t now,
• and what skills, knowledge and experience you’ll bring to the Consortium.

This is necessary to ensure that your motivation for joining the Consortium will help it to achieve its aims, and will enhance what can be achieved both by you and by the wider Consortium membership to better meet the needs of SE15 residents: if there is doubt about your motivation the Steering Group will decide whether to allow you to join or not.

Assuming there is no such problem to overcome, you will be required to sign a Memorandum of Understanding by which you/your organisation agree to collaborate in a number of specified ways, all of which are focused upon gaining the maximum benefit for each and every Consortium Member, and of course for SE15 residents, whilst still protecting the interests and responsibilities of each Consortium Member too.

Alongside that document there will be a further short form to begin to collect some key details about, the areas of activity in which you currently work, plus the areas in which you would want to work in the future. This will help the Consortium to develop the appropriate networks, forums, and communication channels that will be needed; and in time the partnerships to deliver services jointly and/or bid together for grants and contracts.

What follows is a brief guide to the Memorandum of Understanding. You should read this carefully so that you are clear what you are signing up for as an SE15 Consortium Member; if in doubt on any issue please email Ian Redding at ian@peckhamforum.org.uk in the first instance and he will then be in touch to talk through that issue with you. 

BRIEF GUIDE TO MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

This brief guide should help any prospective SE15 Consortium member to quickly understand what they are signing up to and the commitment they are making.

Membership

Any organisation and/or active citizen working to benefit SE15 residents can join so long as it is evident they are committed to working in collaboration and to enable groups of organisations to

• tender for contracts to deliver public services;
• bid for grants and other funding from various independent sources; and
• provide a stronger voice to represent VCS organisations, and their clients.

The Steering Group established to drive consortium working, will have the final say if there is any doubt.

Working together

Members must be committed to share experiences and resources to benefit Consortium working, and to work together to a common set of values; these being openness, honesty, commitment, to work for the benefit of the people of SE15, and sharing a long term vision for sustainable services in SE15.

Good partners

To succeed, the Consortium needs good working relationships, strong networks and mutual trust; and to:

• Share plans for activities, research, and development to minimise overlap;
• Develop priorities for joint research, and joint activities to maximise service impact;
• Develop priorities for joint fundraising activities;
• Work together to ensure representation on all working and consultation groups affecting SE15;
• Ensure that the SE15 communities are involved in all key strategic meetings or events;

Good collaborative working recognises the varying degrees to which Members need or are able to contribute to different issues. Support can be arranged by the Steering Group if capability is an issue.

Consortium members don’t just need to plan and deliver together; they must also monitor and evaluate the work and its impact, to demonstrate the difference they are making in SE15. The Consortium will also work with other non-Member organisations as appropriate where this benefits the people of SE15.

Each Member has other responsibilities too

The Agreement cannot over-ride the individual organisational and governance responsibilities of each Member; individual Members will continue to be engaged in work and service delivery beyond the Consortium. So, whilst every Member has the responsibility to share information necessary to uphold the Agreement it also must protect the individual work and reputation of each Consortium member. 

 The Trustee Boards of every Member organisation will receive a Board Report in Common every year about the impact of the Consortium’s work; risks identified; and any issue affecting Member governance.

Membership Fees

In time it is intended that success in securing contracts/grants, will enable the Consortium to finance the costs of administration of activities without needing to charge Membership Fees. In the early stages of establishing the Consortium, it is not intended to charge a Membership Fee unless it proves unavoidable, in which event Members will contribute an annual amount to be determined by the Steering Group.

Indicators of Success

The Consortium will mark success in a number of ways, including

• An increase in joint projects and “good news” stories resulting from collaborating;
• Successful joint fund raising;
• Increased capability of Members and raised aspirations for the local sector;
• Improved influence of SE15 organisations and residents on public policy strategies.

Steering Group

A  Steering Group made up of representatives nominated and/or elected by Consortium Members, determines the key business priorities and activities of the Consortium:

• Comprises 12 to 15 representatives, requiring at least 5 for any meeting to be quorate;
• Elections take place every 12 months, usually in December;
• Meets bi-monthly usually at the offices of Peckham Voluntary Sector Forum (PVSF);
• Can co-opt other persons whose expertise they need including from outside the Consortium;
• Will convene specialist meetings focused upon the service areas in which Members are active;
• Will develop work plans for better coordinated and more effective service delivery in all areas.    

Confidentiality

Consortium members need to share information with each other, some confidential, in order to help improve their services, but must maintain this confidentiality during and after membership.

Operational policies and procedures

Policies and procedures will be drawn up and adopted from time to time to support higher quality working practices and consistency of approach across the Consortium membership. These will include Equality & Diversity; Data Protection; Safeguarding; and Health & Safety. A Code of Conduct has already been agreed to help ensure that relationships are as productive as possible. It covers declarations of interest; confidentiality; behaviour; and exclusion of Members breaching the Code until they agree to abide by it.

Members delivering services together

When Consortium Members develop joint bids for funding and/or joint approaches to delivering services, the standard form Agreement attached as Schedule D to the Memorandum must be used. This can be adapted by those Members to meet the requirements of the specific circumstances, The Agreement is very similar in detail to this Memorandum of Understanding, but most importantly becomes a binding contract between the signatories to the Agreement, define the delivery requirements for each Member party to it.

 Instead of a Steering Group you have a Management Group, made up of a senior representative of every member organisation; and working in a similar way except for rotation of the venue for meetings, who Chairs them (with each lead person chairing two consecutive meetings), and who’s administrative staff will take notes. Also the Board Report in Common would need to be produced at least six-monthly.

Marketing and Communications

A Communications Strategy and Marketing Plan will be agreed by the Consortium annually stating how the Consortium will promote itself, how specific services will be marketed and how it will more widely communicate both within, and externally from, the Consortium membership.  This will include how the Consortium logo, as well as those of Member organisations, is to be used.

Intellectual Property Rights

This clause applies where the exchange and development of technical information involves intellectual property rights (IPR). It provides a framework of key points that protect the IPR of individual Members, but works on the basis that specific IPR developed under the Consortium will be jointly owned and that “going to market” will require the consent of both parties. 

 In many cases, more detailed licence agreements may be appropriate to cover the IPR arrangements, particularly where a Member’s own IPR is made available for use by another member in the Consortium.

Resolving disputes

Matters of disagreement or dispute must be raised with the Steering Group, who will seek to resolve them. If this proves impossible, PVSF will provide appropriate advice and guidance. 

Period for which the Memorandum of Understanding applies

The Agreement takes effect from the date it is signed and delivered to PVSF Forum, and continues until the Member organisation decides to withdraw from the Consortium, or the Steering Group decides to dissolve the Consortium.

A Member must give 3 month’s notice to the Steering Group of intent to withdraw; the Consortium will continue despite any Member leaving it.

 

Welcome to  PVSF’s 

Wednesday E -Bulletin

6th March 2013

FUNDING

• Money available  for projects that will create a new series of events and festivals in Nunhead 
•  The Near Neighbours Grant Programme  is open to fund projects which aim to bring together  …. grants form £250 to £500
•  Veolia Southwark is offering voluntary and community groups an opportunity to apply for their Envirogrant funding programme 
• £20,000 available for projcets that will improve health and well being in Unwin and Friary Neighbourhood, Peckham….

TRAINING

• Microsoft’s will be hosting an afternoon aimed at 16- 24 year olds and will give an introduction to Microsoft and working in the IT industry.
• Community Development Training Organisation is running a free introduction to Hair and Beauty Care for young people and adults

MEETINGS AND EVENTS

• PVSF’s next Forum Meeting ” Stronger Voice and Representation” Thurs 21st March 10.3oam - 1pm at Bells Garden CommunityCentre…
• Southwark Legal Advice Network invites you to a briefing event on The Big London Energy Switch
• FREE evening buisness networking event for people and businesses located in Peckham, Nunhead, Dulwich and surrouding areas.
• Southwark Hate Crime Network would like to invite you to their disability hate crime conference.

Community Council Meetings:

• The next Peckham and Nunhead and Peckham Rye Community Council meeting to be announced.

GENERAL INFORMATION

• Update on Southwark Budgets 2013/14 Key elements of direct relevance to the Voluntary and Community Sector
• Office and Desk space still available at 48 Willowbrook Rd, SE15. Ideal for small community group or social enterprise
• Volunteer Centre Southwark is looking to increase  awareness of their  s volunteering services . Competition and Prizes to be won.
• Photos available for inter – faith event held in January. where people  visited several faiths groups located in Peckham.

PVSF services is funded by Southwark Council, Big Lottery, NHS Southwark

PVSF has taken all reasonable measures to ensure the accuracy of the information included in this bulletin.  Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed, does not necessarily reflect our views.

As with any networking event bring lots of business cards and be ready to talk to lots of interesting local business people.

There will be representatives of local banks attending in support of the event and to offer guidance and input.

If you would like to attend or have any questions please contact Dominic Boyle via email dcb@palacecomms.com

Date: 14th March 2013

Time:  6.30 – 8.30pm Venue: The Gardens Café, 184 Peckham Rye, SE22 9QA

More information:  http://www.thegardensdulwich.com