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Starting next week, we’re inviting CTM UHB staff, patients, and community members to embrace the spirit of giving and make a meaningful impact through local charity initiatives that support our health and wellbeing.

From putting pounds in a collection box, to volunteering your time or making a kind gesture, this campaign is built on the idea that there’s something for everyone who wants to spread joy and make a difference.

Our Cwm Taf Morgannwg NHS Charity, along with a network of local charity partners, will promote diverse initiatives to encourage everyone to get involved. By showcasing inspiring stories and celebrating generosity, we want to increase awareness of local opportunities and hopefully inspire even more support from the community.

Get Involved: Tell us About Your Charity Initiative!

Are you a local charity or community organisation planning a festive fundraiser, event, or campaign across Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil or Rhondda Cynon Taf?

Do you have a story to share about community kindness this festive season?

We would love to support by sharing it with our community through our Gift of Kindness campaign. We will help spread the word because we know every contribution makes a difference.

You can submit the details of your initiative through our survey.

Stay up to date with the Gift of Kindness campaign by following our CTM UHB social media channels.

For more information on how to get involved, get in touch with ctm.charity@wales.nhs.uk

 

Applications to the Weston Charity Awards are now open!

For charities working in the fields of Community, Environment, Welfare, or Youth and based in Wales — you could be eligible for a package of support, worth just over £22,000.

Join our virtual Zoom session on 18 November at 11am to find out what the Weston Charity Awards have to offer and bring any questions you may have.

Register for the event here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1049412740757?aff=oddtdtcreator

 

Transport for Wales (TfW) currently have a voluntary unpaid vacancy for an Accessibility and Inclusion Panel Member, which is three hours a month, based in Pontypool and comes with free rail travel across TfW:

https://comeaboard.co.uk/ce0523li_webrecruitment/wrd/run/etrec179gf.open?WVID=55383415pc&LANG=USA&VACANCY_ID=867157Hlk7

It is a good opportunity for an individual with lived experience to become involved, please see below for a brief overview:

“We are currently recruiting an Accessibility and Inclusion Panel member. Our Accessibility and Inclusion Panel is made up of up to 20 individuals with lived experience of all facets of disability and protected characteristics, providing representation of intersectionality within the disabled, deaf, neurodivergent and older people's communities.

Influencing TfW’s multimodal policies and infrastructure, panel members advise the business on how to best support customers with protected characteristics, as referenced within the equalities act 2010, to use our services safely, effectively and sustainably”

If you are interested in being part of this panel to ensure the voices of people are heard, please use the link above to find out more

Date: Thursday, 14th November

Time: 10am – 11am

E-mail ctmsafeguarding@rctcbc.gov.uk to book onto this session

As part of Safeguarding Week, which takes place from 11th – 15th November, the ‘Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse’ is hosting an online session on ‘Improving the response to Child Sexual Abuse: The Child Sexual Abuse Response Pathway’.

The Child Sexual Abuse Response Pathway is an interactive online resource that sets out how to respond to concerns of child sexual abuse at key points: From first concerns and early help safeguarding through to child protection and criminal justice. It focuses on meeting the needs of children and their families and is designed to empower professionals to understand the role they, and their colleagues, can play to best protect and support children. What is unique about this pathway is that it doesn’t just tell professionals what to do, it helps them to understand how to do it.

The Response Pathway is designed for professionals working with children, each with their own safeguarding responsibilities and is particularly helpful for social workers, teachers, police officers, health professionals and those in the voluntary sector who work with children and families. It has been developed to supplement, not replace, existing statutory guidance and is carefully grounded in the principles of Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023.

If you are a practitioner seeking to improve your knowledge, skills and confidence in your response to concerns of child sexual abuse, this is a session that you can’t afford to miss as it will provide you with the most up to date evidence-based guidance at the touch of a button in helping you to do the right thing with confidence.

Beth Melhuish   07385 039608

Communications & Engagement Officer, Cwm Taf Morgannwg Safeguarding Board

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