Let’s Do The Right Thing Solihull – Newsletter

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Please see items in this week’s newsletter for your information, and to share with those you feel could be interested:

1. Cava’s COVID-19 Newsletter
2. Silverline – Telephone support for older adults
3. Solihull Parenting Team – Free Online Solihull Approach Courses
4. Bosworth Centre – Online healthy eating and meditation classes
5. Bosworth Centre – Covid 19 Health and Wellbeing Workshop: Solutions to Manage income/jobs
6. Heart of England – The Winter Wellbeing fund
7. Heart of England – The Winter Wellbeing fund: Festive Fun
8. Aerosol Poster (Droplet Transmission) – For venues to display

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1. Cava’s COVID-19 Newsletter

The newsletter is attached at the bottom of these weekly updates. Please scroll down to see, and contact solihullinfo@wcava.org.uk should you wish to be added to Cava’s mailing list and receive the newsletter direct.

1. Silverline

Loneliness can impact the older generation at any time of the year, but with winter months approaching and the current Covid situation, means there is a higher chance of this occurring. We therefore wanted to promote Silverlines telephone service for older people:

• The Silverline 24 hour line – Need help? Call us ANYTIME on: 0800 4 70 80 90 -The Silver Line is the only free confidential helpline providing information, friendship and advice to older people, open 24 hours a day, every day of the year. People call us just for a chat, to say Good Night or Good Morning to someone, or tell us how their day was. Others call for information, seek advice about something, or share a concern or worry.
• Telephone Friendship – We also offer telephone friendship where we match volunteers with older people based on their interests
• Silver Circles – Group calls of 6-8 where people can share their interests
• Silver Connects – Provides older people with support, advice, and help with connecting to local services

See website for further information: https://www.thesilverline.org.uk/what-we-do/

1. Solihull Parenting Team – Online courses/ activities

Solihull Approach online courses are FREE for ALL Solihull residents to gain knowledge, confidence and skills to support their parenting. A certificate can be downloaded once the course has been completed, although you don’t have to do all the modules in one go – on returning to the website and signing in, your account will ‘remember’ where you have got up to.

HOW TO ACCESS:

1. a) Go to inourplace.co.uk
2. b) Create an account using an email address &

password

1. c) Scroll down to choose a course
2. d) Click on ‘Already got a discount coupon?’

Select the relevant course:

• Understanding Your Child
• Understanding Your Teenager’s Brain
• Understanding Your Baby
• Understanding Your Pregnancy

Insert the access code – APPLEJACKS

1. e) Click ‘Apply coupon’

See attachment 1 – Online Courses or contact bsmhft.parenting@nhs.net for further information.

1. Bosworth Centre – Online healthy eating and meditation classes

Please see further Youtube videos created by Bosworth Community Centre, for community members to access in their own time. These videos are around healthy eating and meditation, but there are also others on yoga and art. Please see links below, and contact Punam should you wish to receive future emails direct to your email inbox: Punam.Singh@accordgroup.org.uk

https://youtu.be/2BHjdnRKrLw – Meditation

https://youtu.be/Sm1-_KI_HNI – Healthy Eating

1. Bosworth Centre – Online Covid 19 Health and Wellbeing Workshop: Solutions to Manage income/jobs

Bosworth Centre are launching a new exciting topic on their next Covid workshop at 11am on Wednesday 2nd December which will be about income and jobs as many individuals have been effected by this. This workshop will help those who are struggling and need support in finding ways to manage stress as well. Please contact Isha for further details and to join: Isha.Hussain@accordgroup.org.uk

See attachment 2 – Poster lesson 5

1. Heart of England – The Winter Wellbeing Fund

The Winter Wellbeing Fund has grants of up to £10,000 available to support organisations providing holistic support for the wellbeing and changing economic circumstances of the community due to the impact of COVID-19. This grant is to help organisations respond to a COVID-19 winter. Note: Applications will be assessed from January 2021. For further information and eligibility please look at the website: https://www.heartofenglandcf.co.uk/winter-wellbeing-funds/

1. Heart of England – The Winter Wellbeing Fund: Festive Fun

The Winter Wellbeing Fund: Festive Fun has grants of up to £1,000 for one-off projects that are in time for Christmas. Examples of suitable projects include: delivered Christmas lunches, festive fitness/wellbeing session, virtual pantomime, Christmas choir/story telling. Note: The deadline for this fund is 10th December 2020 and all funding must be spent by the end of January 2021. For further information and eligibility please look at the website: https://www.heartofenglandcf.co.uk/the-winter-wellbeing-fund-festive-fun/

1. Aerosol Poster (Droplet Transmission) – For venues to display

We have been asked to share the attached Aerosol Posters, for community venues to consider displaying. Please see attachment 3-4, and consider displaying in your venues for public/volunteers/workers etc to see.