| Please complete our annual service review survey, link below. The survey allows us to obtain information from you on the challenges faced over the past year and for you to share ideas on how Rainbow Services can support you in the future. |
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| If you would like to become an affiliated member of Rainbow Services this year please complete the form, link below, and return it to:
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Membership is free of charge. |
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Drama lessons aimed at Primary aged children involving interactive games, songs and stories. It’s all designed to help keep our young people active and having some fun (whilst giving parents a chance for cup of tea!).
The link to the last session is below.
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| Open Road are recruiting to various volunteer roles. Please see the link below for further information. |
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Mind in West Essex would like to invite you to be a part of their exciting new community project ‘Parent-to-Parent’. Parent to Parent is there to help with emotional support, friendship, advice and a safe place to chat about the challenges and loneliness that can, at times, come with parenting. Follow link for more information https://www.mindinwestessex.org.uk/services/parent-to-parent/
Parent to Parent’s are recruiting for the following voluntary positions:
Parent Pod Zoom Group Hosts
1-2-1 Parent Buddies
Parent-to-Parent Facebook Community Group Administrators
Follow the link for more information https://www.mindinwestessex.org.uk/get-involved/volunteer/ |
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Young people’s listening project: If you are a youth group/ club in Essex, Southend or Thurrock and have previously received funding from the VVU, Active Essex, the PFCC, ECC or district councils, or are affiliated to a local or national umbrella organisation/ governing body, OR you are a school in Essex, Southend or Thurrock then you can take part.ECVYS have a session plan for you to run with your young people with an icebreaker game and nine questions they would like you to engage your young people in. This can be through your virtual sessions, detached work, in a covid-19 support bubble or school setting, but all young people must be between the ages of 10-18 (up to 25 with SEN). It would be great if you could engage as many of your young people as possible, but if you are able to feed back at least 20 young people’s answers by the closing date of 18th March, then your group/ club/ school will receive £200 as a donation towards taking part.
The funding is limited, so all groups will need to have confirmed their place by emailing Rachel Brett on
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and then Rachel will email you the session plan so you can take part.
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Community listening project:
If you live in Essex, Southend or Thurrock then you invited to take part in the violence and vulnerability units new listening project around youth violence & vulnerability in your community. All views are so important and will help to prioritise work and funding for the violence and vulnerability teams work for 2021-2022.Any local resident can take part, and you will even get the chance to nominate a local registered community group/youth club/ school to receive £500 to spend making their group/ community safer for young people. Take part here https://form.jotform.com/210141629817049 Open for views NOW, until March 18th 2021
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The Essex Strategic Hate Crime Prevention Partnership would like to raise awareness of what they do and what services are available for victims of hate crime in Essex. They want to encourage people to report disability hate crime to Essex Police, or another reporting service. But crucially, they want to encourage anyone affected by hate crime to contact Victim Support. Victim Support are a national charity, with a service based in Essex, that provide practical and emotional support to people affected by hate crime. They are open 24/7 and can be contacted using a range of contact methods, including:
· Call 0808 168 9111,
· Visit www.victimsupport.org.uk or,
· use Next Generation Text by adding 18001 before any of Victim Support’s phone numbers.
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| Please see the link below for Census 2021 promotional materials and resources to help local authorities and community groups spread the word about the census and support people to complete it. |
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| Apply for funding for your grassroots or national youth organisation affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. |
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The Department for Health and Social Care has put forward some recommendations for changes to the Mental Health Act. They have issued a consultation asking for views on these changes to be submitted to them by 21 April. The changes are based on 4 principles that have been developed with people with lived experience of the MHA. They are:
- choice and autonomy – ensuring service users’ views and choices are respected
- least restriction – ensuring the MHA’s powers are used in the least restrictive way
- therapeutic benefit – ensuring patients are supported to get better, so they can be discharged from the MHA
- the person as an individual – ensuring patients are viewed and treated as individuals
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This course aims to support parents through relationship breakdown/divorce to ensure good outcomes for both the parents and children. It’s free and designed with the purpose of helping participants transition to a life post-relationship/divorce and do what’s best for any children in the family.
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| Information on the link below regarding the Green Doctor service from Groundwork. This service allows Groundwork to visit vulnerable people’s homes and determine how we can help make them be more energy efficient, lower their energy bills, save money, warm their homes up and improve their quality of life. Please note that at the moment this service is delivered virtually, mainly via the telephone. |
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Changing Lives will be running a variety of sessions including Gym, Football, Cricket, Multi Sports, Fitness and more from their new Community Hub in West Walk. They will also be including mentoring, mental health and educational booster sessions, which will be taking place in the Educational Zone. Their early intervention project will be running, educating the young about the risks of carrying knives and joining a gang. They will also have an ex gang member partnering with them to discuss real life stories. These sessions are available to book now.
Due to COVID 19 we have to ensure we are safe and comply with our risk assessments and we will be running groups of up to 6 children per session. This will mean spaces will go very quickly. All sessions will be FREE. (The educational booster sessions will vary between £12 - £15 per session).
1.Download the BOOKFIT App
2. Search Changing Lives Community Services
3. Request to book a session
4. Changing Lives will approve
5. Search calendar for your desired sessions and book via the app.
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Harlow Chamber & Rainbow Services in partnership helping Harlow & District
