Gateway Portsmouth Stakeholder Event

Stakeholder Event Invite

Please click on the invite to the right for information on a Stakeholder Event introducing the Gateway Portsmouth In-Thuse Project which is taking place on :-

Wednesday 16^th January 2013

10am -1.30pm

At  Friendship House, 
Elm Grove,
Southsea, 
Portsmouth, 
PO5 1JT

The project aims to support

Win £50 in high street vouchers - for 3 minutes

Healthwatch is doing another survey - this time into the reasons we go to A&E for urgent care.  It takes about 3 minutes to complete and we will enter you into a prize draw to win £50.  Just click on the link below:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/unscheduledcare

We will announce the winner and the research results at the end of March - to see the results of previous research see the Healthwatch blog.

Southern Water’s work to plan for the future

The long-term strategy for Southern Water is being developed to meet customer and stakeholder expectations and the challenges of the future.

Southern Water's Strategic Statement looks ahead for the next 25 years and is currently being updated for 2015 to 2040.

They have recently published the opening chapters of the Statement. These cover:

• Introduction – Help us plan the water services of the future
• Part 1 – Looking ahead. The challenges that affect your water service
• Part 2 – What matters to you? Understanding what you want and expect from your water provider

They would welcome your feedback on these chapters via their online form, or by writing to Joel Hufford, Public Relations Manager, Southern Water, Southern House, Yeoman Road, Worthing, BN13 3NX.

Further chapters of the Strategic Statement, covering how they plan to meet customers’ expectations, will be published in early 2013, with the final document due to come out in the spring.

You can sign up for e-mail alerts to let you know when these later sections have been published

In their Strategic Statement, they consider how they will manage the challenges of climate change, population growth and new legislation to deliver value for money water and wastewater services for customers.

Enable Ability Sports Club

Fridays at 
Charter Community Sports Centre, 
Greetham Street, 
Portsmouth, 
PO5  4LH 

U12s: 17:00 - 18:45
12+:   18:00 - 19:45

£4.00

A multi-sports club for those aged 5-25 years old who may need support due to mild to moderate disabilities.  The first part of the session will be trampolining and other sports, followed by swimming.

Contact:
Richard Morgan
311-313 Copnor Road
Portsmouth
PO3 5EG
0742 959 6822
023 9267 1846
pals@enableability.org.uk

Work Skills

The Learning Place are providing a series of Work Skills courses and services from January

First Steps to Employment

If you have recently finished college and are looking for work this course can help. Learn about business and customer awareness, job searching, team working, CVs, interview practice. It is an accredited course leading to an award in employability skills. It is free if you are between 19 and 24 years old. Held Monday mornings 10am to 12 noon term time only at The Learning Place. Please phone 023 9262 1860 to book a place.

Employability course

Too Flexible or Too Formal?

Hosted by the Healthwatch Development PartnershipA session to explore the boundaries, roles and responsibilities of volunteering and governance roles at the local level.

The session will address:

• Accountability & Representation - How do we balance keeping a check with keeping a voice?
• Capacity - Rolling back the state? How can volunteers effectively exercise their new community rights?
• Responsibility - How loose can the red tape get?
• Defining community interest - How do we balance door-step issues with city wide priorities? How do we reflect them and “sense check” them?

The first half of the session will comprise snapshots of governance from organisations within the city and the second half will be an interactive exercise to test potential governance models for Healthwatch Portsmouth.

Monday, 28th January 2013 from 10:00 to 13:00

At H M Naval Base,

Action Stations, Horizon Room

<To book a place please click here>

Healthwatch Competition

***COMPETITION***

Win a £15 shopping voucher in our prize draw.

It's open to everyone (people, not business pages) who likes our page before the 20th December at 12noon.

All you have to do is come up with a creative suggestion as to how Healthwatch can best encourage more young men (up to the age of 25) in Portsmouth to get involved in influencing health and care in the City.

Sensible suggestions (!) will be entered into the draw, which will be held on the 21st December 2012 at 12noon. The winner will be notified via facebook.

Please place your entry in the comments box below this post or message us if you prefer.

Only one entry per person is valid.

(We're sorry, but employees of Learning Links, Portsmouth City Council and University of Portsmouth are not eligible to enter).

Japanese Braiding Taster Workshop

Free places available by booking at any city library

Monday 21st January 2013

1.30pm – 4.30pm

Paulsgrove Library

Free Patchwork Sessions At North End Library

Image: The Minature Textiles Company

All patchwork sessions from 1.30 – 4.30pm

Thurs 17th January 

- Diamond Patchwork

Thurs 24th January 

- Somerset Patchwork

Thurs 31st January 

- American Log Cabin Patchwork

Book a free place for these sessions at any Portsmouth Library (Contact details available here)

Council Budget 2013/14 - Public Consultation Session

Come along to our budget consultation session at the Civic Offices this Thursday (6th December) to get an overview of the Council’s proposed budget for 2013/14. This public session will be held between 6pm and 8pm in Conference Room A, Civic Offices, Guildhall Square, Portsmouth. Cllr Gerald Vernon-Jackson, Leader of Portsmouth City Council and Chris Ward, Head of Finance will be in attendance to give a short presentation and answer any questions. 

For more information on the proposed budget recommendations for 2013/14, please go to: http://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/yourcouncil/28088.html