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“I am because you are.”
Ubuntu refers to behaving well towards others or acting in ways that benefit the community. Such acts could be as simple as helping a stranger in need or more complex ways of relating with others. A person who behaves in these ways has ubuntu.
Community Base Assets
Desired Service
CHAMPIONing SOCIAL VALUES
Social Values
Social Social Value is a principle that champions the holistic well-being of both current and future generations. Emphasizing the importance of supporting both individual welfare and planetary sustainability, it traverses three central areas:
1. Social: This revolves around enhancing the well-being of individuals and communities, advocating for interconnectedness and mutual support.
2. Economic: This focuses on the promotion of economic policies and business practices that uplift societal well-being, recognizing that economic prosperity should be intertwined with societal progress.
3. Environmental: This stresses the criticality of sustainable processes which look after both the social and physical environment, ensuring a viable future for all.
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A NEW MODEL OF CARE WITH PEOPLE AT THE CENTRE
Getting the right help at the right time
B y operating as a local Community Hub service we will act as a consumer champion for users of health and social care services, for both Caribbean and African Ethics, and the wider community in the Kingston and South West Region of London, Making sure that people know where to go to raise concerns and obtain information about health and social care services. People’s views and experiences are heard and acted upon, improving the scrutiny of health and social care services; and Enable local peple to influence commissioning decisions and service design, development and improvement.
Community Base Assets
KVA
Kingston Voluntary Action (KVA) is the infrastructure and umbrella organisation for voluntary and community organisations in the Borough of Kingston upon Thames.
We are a registered charity, with Charitable Incorporated Organisation number 1160403 (formerly 257551).
KVA works to create, support and amplify community action in Kingston upon Thames. We offer a comprehensive wrap-around service to charities and community groups of advice, guidance, training, networking, representation and brokerage.
We work closely with Kingston stakeholders, ensuring that the work of the VCS sector is best utilised to benefit those who live, work or study in Kingston.
We want - and work towards - a Kingston where communities are active, strong and connected.
Kingston Voluntary Action includes the projects Superhighways, Connected Kingston and Kingston Eco-op.
What are integrated care systems?
Integrated care is about giving people the support they need, joined up across local councils, the NHS, and other partners including social care providers, voluntary and community enterprise sectors and charities.
When the NHS was set up it focussed on treating single conditions or illnesses. Since then our health and care needs have changed. More of us are living longer, and many of us have multiple conditions that require regular, ongoing care. Although our needs have changed, the structure of health and care services has mostly stayed the same, with a patchwork of organisations often working independently from each other.
Health and care staff and leaders have brought organisations together to better meet our needs by working in a joined-up, integrated way.
Primary and secondary care, social care, mental health and community health services have been seeking to partner with each other in different ways to plan and deliver joined-up health and care services to improve the lives of people in their area and to reduce inequalities.
Kingston Race and Equalities Council’s
Kingston Race and Equalities Council’s (KREC) objectives are:
To work towards the elimination of racial discrimination and associated inequalities
To promote equality of opportunity and good relations between persons of different racial groups
To address the Human Rights and needs of all communities
In order to achieve these aims KREC carries out the following main areas of work in furtherance of its public benefit duties:
KREC has over 40 years of experience as the recognised body in South London for tackling discrimination and hate crime and promoting the message that Race Equality is a human right.
We are experts in the field of Race Equality. KREC is now the only Race and Equalities Council in South London with the specific remit to address discrimination and associated inequalities and we are one of the few Race and Equalities Councils in the UK with expertise on casework
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Centre - Booted and Rooted
Mobility Taxis – Wheelchair Accessible Taxis
We are a family-run business that started due to the challenges of finding our elderly and disabled mother a reliable transport service that also provided a high level of customer care and consideration.
We discovered many families were facing the same issues and that’s how the inspiration for Mobility Taxis was established with the ethos of treating clients with patience, care, and dignity.
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Portal Project
We promote, for the benefit of those that are being affected by the impacts of social isolation among disadvantaged and vulnerable
Getting vulnerable from behind the doorways, to the Gateways. and we know how.
To provide or assist in the provision of free Portal facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation or other leisure time occupation of individuals who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age infirmity or disability, financial hardship or social circumstances with the object of improving their conditions of life.
Portal projects
Cherry Rose
A person-centred approach to all services offered to service users.
The work undertaken within the Cherry Rose significantly enhances the lives of vulnerable older adults through health promotion, information and guidance on social reform and adult welfare.
We work collaboratively with other agencies and community groups ensuring inclusion is integrated into our services whilst supporting the rights, independence, interdependence, and choice of our service users.
POETRY WORKSHOP
“Come Rhyme with Me"
Series of writing workshops with food provided
BBC Multi-Award winning Poet, Michael Groce, presents 'Come Rhyme with me', a FREE writing workshop/initiative.
We work collaboratively with other agencies and community groups ensuring inclusion is integrated into our services whilst supporting the rights, independence, interdependence, and choice of our service users.
Initiatives
Derick Mulondo Foundation - DMF
'He's never coming back - Mum's heartbreak at losing son to knife crime
Losing a child to knife crime is every parent’s worst nightmare.
Now a mother whose son was killed on an estate in Kingston is working with her local community to try to make sure other families don't have to suffer in the same way.
Sophie Kafeero launched the Drop the Knife, Save a Life campaign in 2017 after her son Derick Mulondo was murdered on the Cambridge Road Estate in Norbiton.
Kingston Courier - Danai Nesta Kupemba
“I was scared I was going to die”: Sickle cell patient files complaint against Kingston Hospital for negligence
Daniela Williams, 22, had planned a short visit to a family friend in Kingston from her home in Scotland. She didn’t expect to find herself at Kingston Hospital battling a sickle cell crisis. What’s worse is she did not expect the cold reception she received when she arrived.
Williams was in severe pain because of her sickle cell crisis and despite explaining her diagnosis to the hospital staff they were dismissive and cold.
Community worker Michael Groce launches project to reduce assaults on police
The man whose mother’s shooting sparked the 1985 Brixton riot has launched a project to improve police and community relations – by reducing violence against police officers.
Michael Groce’s social enterprise Rooted and Booted has created Pass the Baton, which aims to reduce the number of assaults on police through educating the community about what to expect during enquiries or arrest.
In 1985, while searching for Mr Groce, police shot his mother Cherry Groce in a dawn raid of her home, causing a three day riot in Brixton.
Emotional Health and Well-being and Health and Lifestyle