Job Vacancy: Social Prescribing Link Worker
Help on Your Doorstep Social Prescribing Link Worker (30 hours – part time) Hours: 4 days a week Salary: £23,878 _______________________________________________________________ About Help on Your Doorstep Help on Your Doorstep, is a pioneering charity working in the London Borough of Islington to improve the health and wellbeing of people and the communities that they live in. Through our Social Prescribing Service, ‘Connect’ outreach and referral service and Good Neighbour Schemes, we…
Listening Exercise on our Advice, Information and Navigation Service and next steps
Given the current context we wanted to sense check our provision of our advice, information and navigation service by asking: What is the best way to help local people achieve their goals in the current context – given HOYD’s strengths and resources?
Collaborating across Islington
Over the past three years, Help on Your Doorstep has worked with the Bright Lives Alliance and IVAR (as our learning partner) to involve 85 members of our Partner Network
Congratulations to our volunteer of the year
Help On Your Doorstep is thrilled to share the wonderful news that our volunteer, Mary Stanfield, has been highly commended and officially awarded Older Volunteer of the Year.
Exploring our Data: Demand, Disability and Deprivation
Many residents are having to make adjustments to their budgets and have to make some difficult decisions about their spending as they navigate the rises in the cost of living.
Our health and well-being events -linking residents to services and support
We’ve been working hard to ensure that services are being brought to the residents who need support.
Resident reflections on our Cally community music project
In January 2023, our Bemerton Good Neighbours Scheme launched a new community music project in partnership with London Symphony Orchestra (LSO).
Our Connecting for Change evaluation report is launched
Since May 2019, we have been working with the Institute for Voluntary Action Research (IVAR) to evaluate our Connecting for Change programme, a four-year initiative funded by The National Lottery Community Fund (NLCF). This programme provides ongoing support, advice and referrals for residents experiencing challenges in Islington so they get the support they need to thrive and live…