Announcements
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.
We'd like to invite you to host a session to talk about mental health with your members and communities - Join our information session to find out more.
We're working on a VCS mental health strategy and as part of that, we want to speak to people who live and access support in our boroughs, about what they need for their mental health. Many of you joined us for an open session to plan for this engagement back in October, thank you again for your input!
The Council are looking for views on their budget consultation, with key proposals on the draft budget for 2026/27 including:
• raising council tax by five per cent each year
• reviewing changes to the Council Tax Reduction Scheme
• considering introducing a Council Tax premium on second homes
• setting fees and charges for 2026/27
The deadline to take part in the consultation is Friday 9 January 2026.
Childhood Neglect is one of the priorities for the London Safeguarding Children Partnership (LSCP), therefore they have chosen to focus their next FREE on-line conference on this topic.
The conference is a whole day conference, taking place online over two half days.
You will hear from an exiting line-up of speakers (see agenda below).
The council announced last week that it had experienced a cyber attack, and have released the following statement clarifying the situation:
"We can confirm that we are now investigating a data breach as a result of a cyber attack earlier this week at the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
After discovering unusual activity first thing Monday morning, we have been taking all necessary steps to shut down and isolate systems and make them as safe as possible.
Join a panel discussion - Thursday 27 November, 6.30pm to 7.45pm at Kensington Central Library and online.
Learn how to influence political decisions and become an active citizen. Join the launch of a free conversation series exploring how citizens can shape political decisions beyond the ballot box.
The first session - led by experts from UCL’s Constitution Unit, Operation Black Vote and Unlock Democracy - will unpack what democracy means, how it developed and the challenges and alternatives it faces today.