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Age UK Lincoln & South Lincolnshire (AUKLSL), in partnership with Lincs Independent Living Partnership (LILP) (a consortium consisting of AUKLSL, St Barnabas’ Hospice, LACE Housing Association and Lincolnshire Housing Partnership), will be hosting a Dementia Conference on Wednesday 11^th October 2023 at Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln.

This event will provide some key information and data around dementia and showcase all of the fantastic care and support services which are available for people living with dementia and their carers in Lincolnshire, including AUKLSL’s brand new dementia support service, ‘I Forget’. The day will include various presentations and workshops, delivered by key partners in the health and care system, as well as a special performance by Vicky McClure’s Dementia Choir. We will also have a Dementia Bus on site, which will be open for all to take part in. This is a short, virtual tour which aims to give us some insight into the sensory experience of people living with dementia.  

Further information will follow around this event, including confirmation of timings, a full agenda and also a booking link to confirm your attendance.

In the meantime, please confirm via email response if you wish to attend this event so we can start getting an idea of numbers. Please also confirm if your organisation would be interested in having a marketplace stall at the event.

Further information will follow as soon as possible but please contact Alex Williams Alex.Williams@ageuklsl.org.uk if you have any questions or comments in the meantime.

31st October 2023

Bishops Grosseteste University, Longdales Rd, Lincoln LN1 3DY – 10 am to 3 pm  

Healthwatch Lincolnshire is pleased to announce that our Forward Vision Event is being held on 31st October 2023 in Lincoln. 

Following a short presentation of the Healthwatch Lincolnshire annual report and plans for the next year, we will again be bringing together Lincolnshire’s Health and Social Care leaders to discuss their challenges but also the opportunity to share the positive work that is being done throughout our county, how the people of Lincolnshire can help drive positive change and an opportunity for the public to ask questions. 

The panel will include:

John Turner – Chief Executive, NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board

Glen Garrod – Executive Director for Adult Care and Community Wellbeing, Lincolnshire County Council

Andrew Morgan – Chief Executive, United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) and Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS)

Sarah Connery – Chief Executive, Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LPFT)

Back in 2018 Healthwatch Lincolnshire hosted the 2020 Vision event encouraging the public to come and meet, listen, debate, and question senior county NHS Leaders, to increase awareness of the healthcare challenges and most importantly changes they were facing by 2020. Fast forward to 2023 and many challenges remain but additionally, the landscape of health and social care has changed, for instance, in 2022 the Integrated Care System was established. 

This event will be held in the lecture theatre at Bishop Grosseteste University, with an additional room for stallholders where the public can find helpful information and advice.   There will be opportunities to network and meet key service providers in addition to hearing the latest information from the Panel of Experts.

NOTE: Drinks and a light lunch/buffet will be provided

Event timings  

10am – Registration – Tea & Coffee available  

10.30 – 10.45 Welcome – Short presentation of Healthwatch Annual Report and future plans  

10.50 – 12.30 Panel discussion Q&A with Lincolnshire Integrated Care System Leads  

12.30 – 3pm Marketplace in the side seminar room for the public to access information and advice.  

SIGN UP – Follow the link below to attend

https://www.healthwatchlincolnshire.co.uk/healthwatch-lincolnshire-forward-vision-event-2023

Even if you are unable to attend in person, if you have a question you would like answered send it through to info@healthwatchlincolnshire.co.uk

Lincolnshire’s Bike Donation Scheme – Louth

Join us on 8^th September at Meridian Leisure Centre for a casual bike ride around Louth to celebrate the Wheels for Life campaign launched by Active Lincolnshire.

Wheels for Life is a new scheme for bike donation which will take pre-loved bikes and bring them back to a usable condition for them to be gifted to people who do not have the opportunity to enjoy the varied benefits of owning and using a bike. The first hub has now launched in Louth and will be the first of many across the county that will be open to take donations and be refurbishing bikes.

To celebrate the launch, the Wheels for Life team along with Low Carbon Louth will be leading a bike ride around Louth that will welcome everyone, no matter what your cycling ability is, just come along and enjoy the ride! The circular route will be a maximum of 5 miles and is predominantly flat. We’ll stop on the way round at Low Carbon Louth to see the hub and get refreshments in the Youth Centre before continuing on.  

Bring your own bike or if you haven’t got a bike, or can’t get it there, let us know and we will bring along some refurbished bikes that have been donated through the scheme for you to ride. Please wear suitable outdoor clothing for the weather, and if you can, please wear a helmet. 

Come and have a chat with some of the people involved in the scheme from Active Lincolnshire, Low Carbon Louth and other supporting partners. We’ll be more than happy to talk about the campaign and how it will benefit Louth and the people across other areas of Lincolnshire.  

Arrive from 10:15am for the ride to start at 10:30am.

If you’d like to come along, please fill out this quick RSVP so we have an idea of how many people are joining us and how many refurbished bikes to bring.

https://oqfo0ibycku.typeform.com/to/H743uO7K

Department of Health and Social Care

DHSC has launched a £10m Suicide Prevention VCSE Grant Fund for 2023/24 and 2024/25, to support suicide prevention activities delivered in England by non-profit organisations. 

The application period is open until 1^st October. Applications must be made online via the Find a Grant portal here unless exceptional circumstances apply. 

Guidance can be found here, which provides full details of the objectives of the fund, the eligibility criteria, and details on the application process itself.

DHSC will also be holding Meet the Funder webinars for potential applicants, to answer any questions. To sign up, please could applicants email SuicidePreventionGrant@dhsc.gov.uk

ACIS Group

Monday 25 September 2023

1pm to 6pm

Market Rasen House, 32 King Street, Market Rasen, LN8 3BB

Market Rasen House is set to be transformed into something truly special. Come along on 25 September to find out our plans!

We don’t plan on this just being a place for people to live. We’ve lots of ideas to turn this into a thriving hub of opportunities including animals, horticulture and more. But we want you to be a part of this exciting journey to ensure we deliver what the community needs.

This is your chance to have your say, to share your brilliant ideas, and to tell us how you’d like to use this fantastic redevelopment, and learn more about Acis.

Pop along anytime between 1pm and 6pm on 25 September.

Bring your friends, family, and neighbours – the more, the merrier!

Public parking available at John Street or Festival Hall car parks, a short distance away.

Horncastle and Spalding Community Action Mapping

Children’s Links and LVET have been offered the chance to map community action in Horncastle and Spalding as part of a Lottery funded project, called Understory. 

Understory is a tool for us to map the network of relationships that support our organisations and people. It builds community strength by helping a community to understand itself better. The map will enable us to see who we have here in the community, what goals everyone is working towards, and how each of our organisations connect. This information will tell us how to build stronger ties between people and stronger collaborations around our goals.

It is important to note that Understory explores the relationships between people – the trusted working relationships that allow us to build community power. It’s a wealth of research and understanding that doesn’t exist yet and Understory hope to influence funders and policymakers with aggregate data in the years to come, so it’s an exciting project to be part of. The map will be made together in an online / in-person meeting – with the option to take part in whichever version you are most comfortable with. We would like as many local organisations to participate as possible. Details of where and when will be sent out closer to the time. In the meantime, if you would like to take part, or be kept up to date with information, please send an email to emily.ward@lvet.org. 

Understory has been designed by Onion Collective and Free Ice Cream, (respectively a social enterprise and design studio). More information on it can be found at https://understory.community.

Take the survey, make the change!

Take 5 minutes to share the voice of your voluntary or community group, so we can campaign for systemwide change which will improve everyone’s futures.

Over the last 2 years the Lincolnshire voluntary and community sector has spoken openly about the challenges they face in delivering vital support to local people, including volunteer availability and capacity, workforce recruitment and retention, through to disengagement of communities or the ability to access funding towards costs and overheads.

However, times change, impact of world conflict, cost of living and post pandemic legacy may mean there are now different challenges being faced.  So, hearing from you now will ensure we can share your messages with the people that can bring positive change whether that be through local authorities, local health and care sector or wider policy changes at national level.

During the next 6 months, members of Involving Lincs will be sharing these compounding issues with both statutory and private organisations to explore ways of keeping our much needed voluntary and community sector alive by influencing how they engage with, and fund, localised solutions and collaborative commissioning.

Please help us, to help you, help our communities by taking part and sharing your top 3 issues.

Who are Involving Lincs (IL)?
Involving Lincs is a network of infrastructure organisations from the voluntary and community sector that has come together to create a stronger voice for the third sector through the development of positive links with groups and organisations, to provide a forum for sharing information and act as a route for third sector engagement and involvement in strategic developments bringing a culture of partnership working. Our network includes:

• Voluntary Centre Services (VCS)
• Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service (LCVS)
• Lincolnshire Community Foundation (LCF)
• Lincolnshire Voluntary Engagement Team (LVET)
• BRIC
• Children’s Links
• HWLincs
• and so many more!

The aim of IL is to be able to represent the voice of the sector so that we can create greater opportunities for collaboration.

Take the survey here Involving Lincs Survey 2023 (smartsurvey.co.uk)

Lincolnshire Resilience Forum

LRF will be running a live flood evacuation and shelter exercise on the 4th of October 2023 on the East Coast.

The focus of the exercise is to test the county’s evacuation and shelter provision and new registration and mapping systems.

For this to be successful, they need your help!

There will be two public engagement meetings on the evenings of the 4th and 25th of September at Meridale Youth Centre, Sutton on Sea at 7 pm.

There will be further updates on their social media accounts for information. https://www.facebook.com/Lincolnshireresilienceforum