Plans for more joined up health and social care services for patients in Tameside and Glossop are underway. GPs, social care, hospital clinicians, the community and voluntary sector are coming together to improve how these different services work with one another. It is believed that this will increase the quality of clinical care, empower patients and improve their experiences.

Local health and care leaders from NHS Tameside and Glossop Clinical Commissioning Group,Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council and Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust will explain why the changes are needed.

Glossop: Tuesday 21 July 10am–12pm, Bradbury House, Glossop
To book contact: Rebecca Hyde, Volunteer Centre Glossop, Tel: 01457 865722,
Email: rebecca@vcglossop.org.uk. 
Book online at: bit.ly/care-together-glossop

Tameside: Wednesday 22 July 9.30am–11.30am, St. John’s Church, Dukinfield
To book contact: Ruth Madden, Community & Voluntary Action Tameside, Tel: 0161 339 4985,ext. 2020, Email: ruth.madden@cvat.org.uk. 
Book online at: bit.ly/care-together-tameside

To further develop the recovery community in Derbyshire from 2015 onwards, organisations can apply for a single, non-recurring, 12 month grant up to a maximum of £40,000.

DCC want to support applications which are best placed to achieve the overarching health outcome for recovery - improvement in the physical and emotional health of the beneficiaries of services and a self-reported personal sense of positive well-being. They welcome applications from small, local projects and organisations which deliver or support one or more of the identified recovery elements.

Full details on DCC website

The newly established NRCN website is www.nationalruralcrimenetwork.net  

The Survey is at:
www.nationalruralcrimenetwork.net/survey?member=Derbyshire 

Others who have completed the course say that it has given them the confidence to manage their COPD better which has enabled them to be more active while others say they are now more positive about their condition.  

The course is free and is running at Manor House Surgery in Glossop, commencing on 6 July 2015.  Each course runs for half a day each week for 6 weeks 

Book by ringing Diane from Respiratory Education UK on 0151 529 8308 or email gill.hall4@nhs.net  or Lynda Daniels on 0161 304 5412 Lynda.daniels@nhs.net  

Got a little money - lump sum or recurrent - you want a decent return from, but you want put to good use, avoiding unwise and ethically unsound investment? Or, maybe, you find ordinary credit lines difficult to access and want a responsible lender? 

Sustainable Hayfield invites you to an evening focused on ethical finance - the use of money to achieve commercial returns via ethically and environmentally sound practices.

Senior people from some key financial institutions have agreed to come to wee Hayfield, to make presentations on what they do, their ethical stance, the products and advice they offer - and take questions from audience members. They include 

• The Co-operative Bank, 
• Investing Ethically (nationally-renowned independent ethical advisers with a deep commitment to ethical financial planning, linked to Quakers and Business) and the 
• Manchester and High Peak Credit Union. 

The event will be chaired by a staff member from Ethical Consumer magazine, based in Manchester

It's quite a coup to get these all to come. We're fairly sure there's not been anything like it in Hayfield before or possibly even in the High Peak! 

Many Sustainable Hayfield supporters may have considered - at least in principle - about how their investments might be more ethically-based, but maybe haven't known where to go for advice and information.

The evening follows Sustainable Hayfield’s AGM at 7.30pm and short refreshment break, with a chance to find out more about what Sustainable Hayfield does in total.

The Alzheimer’s Society is sending a representative to meet local groups with a view to setting up dementia-friendly status for Buxton, which would aim to create a greater awareness of the problems and needs of this growing section of the population.

Co-hosted by the University and the Buxton older people’s charity The Hall Bank Trust, the meeting will hear how Buxton could form a Dementia Action Alliance.

The Alzheimer’s Society focused on Buxton after helping student Janet Brookes research tourism for those with dementia as part of a dissertation for her MSc in International Hospitality Management.

The Society’s East Midlands Alliance Coordinator Gill Collins said  a diagnosis of dementia is issued every three minutes in the UK. A dementia-friendly community is one in which people with dementia are empowered to have aspirations and feel confident. With proper planning and care, people living with dementia  can stay in their homes longer, lead an active life and continue to participate in society.

But local knowledge is key, said Gill: "People who are local know what the local issues are, and as a group you can draw up a plan to decide what to do.

"The benefit to people with dementia and their carers is that they will feel that they can still participate in community life without stigma or fear. 

"For every one person with dementia that is able to stay in their own home for a year longer, rather than entering residential care, it would save over £11,000.”

If an Alliance were to be formed in Buxton, then the Society would support it via its own page on their website where participating businesses would be identified as being dementia friendly, as well as being able to use  logos recognised nationwide for display in shops and cafes.

"Visitors who come from Cornwall, for example, will recognise the logo on a shop or café and know that they are welcome,” said Gill.

Another way in which a town can become dementia-friendly is to offer specific organised activities, and ensure that existing leisure services and entertainment activities are more inclusive of people with dementia. 

The meeting will start at 2pm. To book a place, email John Phillips, Community Liaison Officer, University of Derby, at j.phillips@derby.ac.uk

The Alzheimer Society website is www.alzheimers.org.uk 

Social Media Surgeries are completely free advice sessions for community and voluntary groups, clubs, societies, small arts organisations and sports groups.

Come and find out how to use free internet sites and tools to publicise your group or organisation and stay in touch with members and supporters. Get help from knowledgeable volunteers on how to set up and run blogs, and use video, photos, and social media sites including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other free web tools to get your messages out.

Please book at socialmediasurgery.com/surgeries/highpeak so we know to expect you (or we may go home early and you’ll be disappointed)

For further information about the Social Media Surgeries contact Claire or Esther at High Peak CVS (claire@highpeakcvs.org.uk / esther@highpeakcvs.org.uk )

Following the surgery next Tuesday, the next surgery will not be until Tuesday 15 September. 

To be eligible to apply your group needs to have an annual net profit of under £10,000 and not be registered as a charity with the Charity Commission.

For more information and to apply see www.skiptongrg.co.uk/apply-for-funding/ - do look closely at the criteria, how applications are judged and the overall process.  

Applications will be shortlisted and the public at large (including your members and supporters) invited to vote for the group / project they’d like to see funded – so you need to be prepared to work at getting your friends and relations to vote for you, but it’s a great opportunity for getting your group known too.

The closing date for applications is 31 July (but they say the sooner the better for submitting applications) and awards will be made in November.

If you are aged 16-25 and unemployed you can apply to join the programme where you will:

• Work towards a Level 2 in Spectator Safety Qualification
• Increase your knowledge of crowd control and emergency first aid
• Enjoy a fun and rewarding week improving your teamwork, communication and confidence
• Gain certificates and references upon completion
• Be supported with travel costs and have lunch provided every day
• Receive three months support after the programme to help you progress

Programme dates: Monday 27 to Friday 31 July 2015

Location: Nottingham Forest Football Club

To register your interest or to find out more please contact:

Text: ‘football’ to 07717 488 538 and they will call you back

Call: Ellen on 07717 488 538

Email: ellen.jackson@princes-trust.org.uk

Law Centre Housing solicitor Lisa Haythorne was nominated by her colleagues. She is one of three lawyers to achieve the shortlist for the very competitive Social and Welfare Law category.

Lisa, who has worked with legally aided clients for almost 20 years, said: "I am thrilled to have been selected as a finalist for these awards. They are the highlight of the year for those of us working in legal aid and providing free legal advice. "

Carol Storer, the Director of the Legal Aid Practitioners Group which co-ordinates the awards, said: "The awards are a fantastic opportunity to celebrate the people who work long hours providing advice and representation to people who are often at moments of great crisis in their lives. It is therefore very fitting that three Law Centres are recognised in the awards. Although there have been severe cuts to legal aid it still ensures that people can enforce their rights in  some areas of law and are not prevented from doing so because of their finances.”