October's Get Involved Updates

Coventry Food Network (CFN): Christmas Donations Campaign

The Community Resilience Team have been supporting the Coventry Food Network with their Christmas donations campaign by helping with their Just Giving Page, creating posters and linking food hubs to businesses across the city.

CFN is a registered charity and a partnership of 15 charitable organisations running social supermarkets that operate across the city supporting families that need it most with food. These include: Henley Green Grub Hub, The Hope Centre, Canley Community Centre, Cheylesmore Food Hub, SDA Food Hubs in Radford & Tile Hill, Holbrooks Community Centre, Feeding Coventry, Hope Community Project, Carriers of Hope: World Food Hub, Stoke Heath Community Centre, Stoke Aldermoor Life Centre, Hope Community project, Willenhall Food Hub, St Francis Food Hub & The Rose Centre in Spon end.

With the cost of living crisis these organisations have been struggling with regular donations of food and demand for their services continues to increase across the city.

People can make a donations by clicking the link, scanning a QR code or donating food items to 15+ drop off points across the city. Coventry City Council, Friargate & Whitley depot staff will be supporting the campaign, collecting and donating food. To find your local supermarket please click Here(External link)

These donations will make such a significant difference to them ensuring those families and people who need support get that help over the festive period and beyond.

Adult Social Care- Have you Say Engagement Event!

Adult Social Care are hosting a drop in event on Thursday 10th November 10am-3pm at Central Methodist Hall (Lower Hall).

The event is to speak to the community about what support is available through Adult Social Care as well an opportunity to have a warm drink and get to know staff and the teams.

Save the date and pop in to speak to them!

Drug and Alcohol Needs Assessment

Coventry City Council and its partners would like your help to try and understand and address the impact of drug and alcohol use on the local area. By receiving your feedback, we will be able to improve our response to the issues caused by drug and alcohol use and target our resources more effectively.

The information collected in this survey will be used by Coventry City Council officers to help improve our services through feeding into a Drug and Alcohol Needs Assessment that we are completing. The information will also be used to inform our Drug and Alcohol Strategy.

Please take a few minutes to complete the survey below.

Your views are confidential and anonymous. The deadline for responses is October 28th 2022

https://letstalk.coventry.gov.uk/drug-and-alcohol-needs-assessment

Mental Health Transformation Programmes

As VCSE Community Mental Health Transformation Liaison Officers with Voluntary Action Coventry our work is to liaise with voluntary and community groups to find out what services are being delivered, what issues organisations are encountering and to explore how we can work collaboratively to ensure people with poor mental health in Coventry are receiving the right support at the right time.

To achieve the aims and objectives of our role we are constantly in touch with the community groups to take their feedback about their experiences of using mental health services. As a part of Mental Health Transformation programme, we also run forums and workshops where the leads of VCSE groups have opportunities to share their experiences they had while working with people. The outcome of this is then raised to the stake holders, strategic partners, and higher authorities who are involved in making the decisions about the mental health services. So, the future services will be according to the needs of the common man and easy to access by reducing all the barriers.

If anyone wants to get further information or get involved in improving the mental health services, feel free to contact us either by subscribing our newsletter on Voluntary Action Coventry website or on following contact details:

Khadija Bakali
VCSE Coventry Mental Health Liason Officer Coventry

Email: K.bakali@vacoventry.org.uk(External link)

Tel: 07719206418

Frances Flint
VCSE Coventry Mental Health Liason Officer Coventry

Email: f.flint@vacoventry.org.uk(External link)(External link)

Tel: 07547208362