We have added some new resources to our ‘How to... guides’ page to help you market your group.

As well as the A4 sheets on marketing, press releases and radio interviews we now have two more on websites. We are often asked about setting up websites for groups and for advice on what to put on them - these new sheets cover the best practice on website content (the dos and don’ts) and also setting up a free easy site. 

Setting up a website is now quick and simple, using a number of new free online resources. If you can use Microsoft Word then you can make a website for your group. The ‘Setting up a website’ sheet covers a few different websites that offer free simple web creation, so why not have a go? A website is a great way to attract new members and show funders and potential funders what you have been doing.

If you have any problems and need some help or advice then contact Hannah or Kirsty, Tel: 0161 339 4985 Email: info@t3sc.org 

We hope you will find them useful.

Here is our latest compiled  Funding Bulletin - August 2010

If you don't find what you are looking for here, book an appointment with Support and Development Team to discuss other funding options by calling 0161 339 4985 or email us. We also have access to GRANTfinder and Funderfinder databases and other funding resources in our resource room.
 
There are resources on our website www.t3sc.org including themed Funding Guides, under areas like Children and Young People and BME (Black and Minority Ethnic) groups, factsheets on completing funding applications and a Funding page with top ten tips amongst other things.

In May 2010, over 90 people came to Ashton Town Hall to tell the LINk about their experiences of care at Tameside Hospital. The two hour event gave people a chance to share their experiences with each other and to talk about ideas for improving care. Whilst some people had positive stories to tell, it was inevitable that much of the talk would be about things that people were unhappy with.

The LINk’s hospital working group has analysed everything people said and come up with eight key recommendations:

Staffing

1. Improvements in staffing levels and planning required by the Care Quality Commission (as a condition of Registration in April 2010) must be monitored for effectiveness.
   
   Communication
   
2. Where falls and accidents occur in the hospital these must always be recorded in patient notes and reported to relatives as well as recorded in statutory accident recording mechanisms. Referral to relevant clinicians must always take place following an accident or fall.
   
3. * Patients and their families should be more effectively involved in decisions about their care.
   
   Information
   
4. * Every patient and their family should be given clear, accessible and effective information about their diagnosis, treatment and how they can manage their ongoing care.
   
   Leadership
   
5. Leadership at the highest levels within the hospital must be seen to drive improvements at the hospital and must take responsibility for engaging with the communities they serve.
6. * Leadership at a ward/clinic level must focus on ensuring that all aspects of care are delivered consistently to all patients and that sufficient checks are made on patients most likely to need higher levels of care, especially at night.
   
   Eating and Drinking
   
7. The effectiveness of the hospital’s systems for ensuring that everyone gets sufficient food and drink should be reviewed.
   
   Bathing and Toileting
   
8. * All patients must have the help and support they need, when they need it, to meet their toileting and bathing needs. This should be consistent across all hospital areas including A&E, day surgery and wards.
   
   

The hospital has agreed to work with us to make sure that these turn into improved care for patients.

Copies of the report can be downloaded here:

 LINk Tameside Hospital Improvement Report - July 2010

 LINk Tameside Hospital Improvement Summary Report

 LINk Tameside Hospital Improvement Summary Report - large print

For more information contact Peter the LINk Co-ordinator on 0161 339 4985 or email tamesidelink@t3sc.org

Hello

Just a reminder if you would like to have an article in the T3SC Autumn Newsletter (September 2010-November 2010) please send me articles by next week - Friday 6 August! The Newsletter will be sent by 1 September. 
 
Due to space articles need to be a max of 150 words and an image or two would be great in jpeg format if possible.
 
Types of articles
T3SC’s Newsletter focuses on news in Tameside’s voluntary and community sector, publicising voluntary and community groups or providing information or news that is relevant to them. We want the articles to be ‘news’ so if it is looking back at an event – what next? (we prefer to cover events coming up rather than past). If you can include a call to action - something that is going to happen. This will catch the reader’s eye. What can they do? Also have you received funding recently with any help from T3SC? Get in touch. The Newsletter has limited space which gets filled very quickly so I’m afraid I can’t guarantee I will be able to use your article but I will try.
 
Please see the Writing for T3SC publications - guidelines – basically keep it short clear and in plain English (avoid jargon and acronyms) and try and think of how the reader can get involved.

If you want to get an idea of the articles we feature in the T3SC Newsletter have a look at our  T3SC Summer 2010 Newsletter 

If you need any help or you would like us to interview your group or take some photos please contact me.
 
Thanks
Hannah

 White Paper - Equity and Excellence Liberating the NHS - briefing

The Coalition Government’s White Paper on health – Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS has been delivered to parliament and sets out the most dramatic whole system changes the NHS has seen since its inception. From abolishing Primary Care Trusts (PCT’s), expanding the creation of Social Enterprises to unprecedented proportions, to the future of Local Involvement Networks (LINks) the next few years is set to be very different and challenging for all health providers including those from the third sector, but will undoubtedly bring many opportunities too.

Government policy update

This short briefing paper is to update you about (some) policy announcements from the new Conservative / Liberal Democrat coalition government. This is a fast moving environment, with new announcements daily, and so we have concentrated here on what might affect T3SC or the wider voluntary and community sectors in Tameside, although it is currently too early to say with any certainty about the impact of any of these.

T3SCplus is a new, innovative and genuine social enterprise... T3SC is now badging all of the additional services it offers, including consultancy, research and training  as T3SCplus. T3SCplus enables us to offer these services both to clients in Tameside, and our skills and expertise to new clients in a wider geographic area. Any surpluses generated from activities and projects undertaken through T3SCplus gets reinvested in delivering our core services for the benefit of voluntary and community action in Tameside.

Product areas we can offer...

• Developing organisations
• Civic particpation projects
• Grant scheme development and administration
• Equality and diversity

Tools and techniques - We use a wide range of tools and techniques, dependent on the needs of your project:

• Consultancy
• 1-2-1 coaching
• Group work and facilitation
• Qualitative, quantitative and participatory research
• Grant management and administration
• Participatory budgeting
• Training delivery

For more information on T3SCplus: see the T3SCplus page, download our  T3SCplus leaflet or contact us, Email: plus@t3sc.org Tel: 0161 339 4985

Volunteers are vital to the life of Tameside, in shaping and delivering local services, building community cohesion and driving social change. The Tameside Strategic Partnership has a borough wide commitment to the importance of volunteering and aims to build a coherent partnership approach to promoting and sustaining volunteering and improving the volunteering experience for all involved. The development of a borough wide strategy is central to that commitment and a draft of this strategy is now ready.

The future of volunteering in Tameside will be strengthened and supported by the Volunteering Strategy. It was developed in consultation as part of Tameside’s first Volunteering Summit held in February 2010.

Click here to download the Volunteering Strategy.

Please take some time to read the draft strategy, and to answer the ‘prompt’ questions. Views and recommendations will be incorporated into the final version which will be presented to Tameside Strategic Partnership in September and formally launched during Compact Week in November.

Please send any views and comments by 16 July 2010 to Sue Vickers, Manager, Volunteer Centre Tameside, Tel: 0161 339 2345 Email: sue@tamesidevb.org.uk

T3SC's latest quarterly Newsletter is now out!

If you haven't already seen the Newsletter you can download this PDF  T3SC Summer 2010 Newsletter

This issue covers June - August 2010 and features T3SC news, local news from Tameside's voluntary and community groups, news from the networks, funding, voluntary opportunities and summer events. 

If you would like to have an article in the next Autumn Newsletter (September-November) please send it to Hannah Powell at info@t3sc.org. The next deadline is Friday 6 August.

Articles need to be 150 words maximum and preferably have an accompanying image sent as a jpeg.

For more guidelines and the deadlines for both the Newsletter and the E-Bulletin for 2010 see our E-Bulletin and Newsletter page. 

 Tameside Sport Physical Activity Strategy Draft has been developed in partnership with stakeholders through the Sport and Physical Activity Alliance.

This above strategy is now available for consultation with stakeholders and the public for a period of 12 weeks. The final strategy will be published in July 2010 and will be subject to some minor reformatting, including full page images of the soon. The SPAA Executive Board welcomes your responses to this draft strategy. Please email mark.tweedie@tameside.gov.uk

Deadline: Monday 7 June 2010.