Voice4Change England is carrying out an important national survey to build a clear picture of the current landscape, challenges and opportunities within England’s Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise infrastructure sector (VCSE). This includes both general infrastructure support and the specific support needs of Black and Minoritised Ethnic organisations.

Volunteer Centre Kensington and Chelsea (VCKC) have published a Best Practice page on their website, bringing together guidance, resources and templates to support organisations across Kensington and Chelsea to deliver volunteering that is inclusive, accessible and safe. 

You can find volunteer handbooks, volunteer agreements, role descriptions and training and induction guideline documents. You can also contact VCKC for help on developing your volunteering programme.

Looking for a simple way to bring in extra funds for your community group? Come along to this free online session and find out how you can unlock unrestricted funding through easyfundraising – just by encouraging your supporters to shop online!

Becky Coleman from easyfundraising will show you how your members, volunteers, and wider community can raise free donations for your group every time they shop online with leading retailers including Tesco, John Lewis, Trainline, Booking.com, Sainsburys, Argos and a thousand more.

London Resilience have shared information with us on an upcoming webinar, “Food Resilient London: mapping our community food assets”, taking place on Tuesday 13 January 2026 from 2-3pm.  

Association of Chairs co-mentoring scheme for Chairs - applications open now - matching happening end of January 2026

Association of Chairs matches applicants with a partner to co-mentor each other over a period of 6 months. They provide you with guidance on how to make it work. 

They recommend you have monthly meetings together, which could happen virtually or in person. 

Healthwatch Kensington & Chelsea offers confidential advice and signposting to inform residents of their options and how to get the help they need. They also ensure that people’s experiences about health and social care services are fed into decision-making processes to improve care.  

About the role

To provide practical domestic assistance to older people in their own homes to help them maintain their independence and enjoy an acceptable quality of life and to deliver a series of chair-based exercises and/or walking support (training will be provided) to help people to stay active by improving their strength mobility and confidence.

To provide a “respite” service for carers for an agreed period of time in order to allow the Carer to take a break. Please note Age UK do not provide personal care.

The annual AI survey from CAST (the charity that helps UK charities use digital for social good) is now live! 

For the third year running, CAST is gathering AI views, experiences and needs from across the sector, in order to help shape the most relevant and useful support - and influence the wider sector response. Your insights make a real difference: the results of previous surveys have led CAST to develop a range of support resources, including their AI self-serve courses, AI experiments library and AI hub. 

Charity Excellence offer a range of free AI Training Courses for UK Charities which they have been delivering since 2023. 

Their courses include;

Our neighbours in Westminster are looking for VCS organisations in the borough to fill out their state of the sector survey.

They plan to take the information from the survey as a resource to help advocate for the work of the voluntary sector, to assist with the understanding of new and unmet community needs, and to help support and strengthen the work all VCS organisations do.

You can fill out the survey here.