Organisational Development

 Wandsworth

What next after the riots?

A lot of activity is taking place around the Winstanley Estate and York Gardens in response to last year's riots. Several major initiatives have been launched by Big Local, London Citizens and Wandsworth Council to come up with plans and actions. Significant investment is planned for this area in the immediate future. We have listed upcoming events in our Events Calendar if you want to get involved.

Know Your Rights

South West London Law Centres have teamed up with law firm Eversheds to offer a one day introduction to people in Wandsworth around learning their legal rights in areas such as debt, housing and employment.

Help with neighbourhood planning

Planning aid for London (PAL) has contacted Lifetimes to offer free help for community groups that are interested in creating their local neighbourhood plans under the Localism Bill. Read more about PAL here or contact Sophie Hall-Thompson

Rate Relief

Robyn Lynch at Kenwright & Lynch Solicitors has kindly offered to give initial legal advice to local voluntary and community organisations facing challenges around their Discretionary Rate Relief bill. Click here for contact information. 

Disorder in Wandworth - Independent Review Report Published

Wandsworth Council launched an independent review into the disorder that took place in Clapham Junction, and other parts of the borough on 8th August. The independent review report has now been published. Read it here. See pages 78 - 80 for the Key Findings.

LawWorks Riot Help 

The LawWorks Riot Help Project provides a legal service for those affected by the civil unrest during 2011. They offer assistance to individuals and small business owners who have suffered loss or difficulty because of the riots. They also offer help to community groups who will play a vital role in the rebuilding of these communities, and also to any new or existing not-for-profit in an area affected by riots. Read more …

State of the Sector

We have recently published the second edition of our research into the State of the Voluntary and Community Sector in Wandsworth. It was launched on the 30th of March. Download it here.

Community Organising

20 organisations came together in mid February to explore what community organising means and how they could use it to galvanise their own communities. More here...

Transforming Local Infrastructure Support in Wandsworth

Shall we Compact?

You may remember that we have a document called the Wandsworth Compact that is intended to lay down the ground rules for interaction between the public sector and voluntary and community organisations. It's time to restart the conversation about partnership working in Wandsworth - read more here

Health & Wellbeing

We are organising events and creating spaces for dialogue with local decision makers to respond to the changing health and social care agenda. Our latest meeting took place on Dec 12 Forum. Read the report here.

To catch up on the debate from previous meetings, watch a short video from our September event or download the report here

Community Directory

We have started building a directory for local organisations to advertise their services and activities to people in Wandsworth. Please bear with us as we work out bugs and apply fixes, but please take a look at www.care4me.org.uk in the meantime!

Funding cuts

The Voluntary and Community Sector is facing income losses that are affecting local organisations and the communities we serve. Are you facing cuts? Tell us about them policy@life-times.org.uk

We have also compiled some information that may be useful in trying to deal with funding challenges. Read more here.