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Network FAREHAM EDITION FEBRUARY 2019 A Shop Window Onto Fareham’s Green Spaces Would you be able to recognise an animal by its skull? Do you know your shells? Would you like to know what mysterious items can be found in and around our region? One Community is currently hosting a quiz like no other. Come along to our Information Centre in Osborn Mall, Fareham Shopping Centre, and try to identify 10 mysterious objects found nearby. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust—Swanwick Lakes—is keen to share with everyone the delights of our local green spaces. They currently hold guided walks showing you different breeds of birds, trees and much more. Come and have a go at the quiz, find out more, not just about Swanwick Lakes but Fareham Creek and many more places besides. Our Information Centre provides a shop window in Fareham town centre for local voluntary and community groups to highlight their activities. One Community News It’s cold and 3. Use the stick to press the waste into the bottle, understandably ensuring that it is tightly packed all the way we all stay from the bottom. It’s easier to do this from indoors as much when you start, than later as we can to 4. Keep compressing until the bottle weighs the keep warm, so required amount maybe 5. Put the lid back on and pat yourself on the back! members are The bricks have to weigh a certain amount, to ensure not coming to they are robust enough to build with. The amount is club sessions or roughly 1/3 of the millilitres in grams, for eg: getting out as they might normally do? If you know of 500 ml – 180 grams anyone struggling with the cold weather, we don’t 600 ml – 200 grams have a magic wand but we might be able to signpost 1000ml (1L) – 350 grams people to someone or a service who can help, so do 2 litres – 660 grams let us know. The bricks can then be made into all sorts of brilliant If you’re anything like us you’ll be planning things. Check out the Eco Bricks website: events and activities for the year ahead, let us know https://www.ecobricks.org about them. We can promote them in this One Community staff make eco bricks in the newsletter, in our Information Centre, and through office- here’s one that’s half filled: social media. So do keep us in the loop. If you look after the Volunteers in your organisation, whether you are a member of staff or a volunteer yourself, don’t miss our Volunteer Managers’ Network Meeting on Tuesday 26 February - see page 4. Jean Roberts-Jones Chief Executive One Community Green Tips Sri Kandiah, Chair of One Community, There are a few things we can all do to have a Set to Retire positive impact on the planet, Professor Sri Kandiah, to avoid waste, conserve Chair of Trustees at One resources and fight climate Community, following change. Here’s our monthly tip many years of devoted from our environmental service as both Trustee friend: and Chair, has made the decision to retire on 31 Eco Bricks March 2019, as announced Eco bricks are a great way of lessening the amount of at our AGM last Septem- volume that you send to landfill, ensuring that small ber. bits of unrecyclable plastic are kept safely away from At an election at wildlife, and providing a sustainable building the Trustee’s January material. To make eco bricks: Board Meeting, Adrian Hughes, currently one of two 1. Get a clean and dry bottle of any size, with a lid, vice chairs, was elected to succeed Sri from 1 April and a long stick! 2019. 2. Collect non-recyclable plastics, for example We are immensely grateful to Sri for his hard packaging, sweet wrappers, plastic tags, crisp work and dedication to One Community, seeing the bags, and ensure it’s clean and dry organisation through a number of significant changes. ONE COMMUNITY NETWOR K : P A G E 2 One Community News January Drop-Ins, One Community Information Centre, Osborn Mall, Fareham Shopping Centre Friday 1 Marvels & Meltdowns 10am-1pm Parkinsons Local Support Group 10am-12 noon; Monday 18 Fareham Disability Forum 1-3pm Disabled People’s Voice 1-3pm Monday 4 Tuesday 19 Home-Start Hampshire 10am-12 noon; Quit4Life 11am-1pm Disabled People’s Voice 1-3pm Wednesday 20 Tuesday 5 One Community Knitters 11am-1pm; Osteoporosis Quit4Life 11am-1pm Arthritis Advice & Support from QA 1-3pm Wednesday 6 - One Community Knitters 11am-1pm; Friday 22 Thursday 7 Richmond Fellowship 10am-12 noon Open Sight 10am-3pm Monday 25 - Southern Domestic Abuse Service 10am- Friday 8 12 noon Richmond Fellowship 10am-12 noon Tuesday 26 Monday 11 Quit4Life 11am-1pm Southern Domestic Abuse Service 10am-12 noon Wednesday 27 Tuesday 12 One Community Knitters 11am-1pm; Local Crime Clinic Quit4Life 11am-1pm 10am-12 noon Wednesday 13 Thursday 28 One Community Knitters 11am-1pm; The You Trust 11am-12 noon Royal British Legion 1-3pm For further information contact the Information Thursday 14 Centre on 0770 2802 556 ONE COMMUNITY NETWOR K : P A G E 3 One Community News ONE COMMUNITY NETWOR K : P A G E 4 Governance Guidance Governance Guidance Understanding What Vicarious Liability If you are an Organiser or a Committee Member then Means to You you are most likely a Trustee for your organisation and Vicarious liability refers you should be aware of your responsibilities and to a situation where requirements. At One Community we realise the someone is held complexities of your roles and this regular column is responsible for the designed to support you with this. actions or omissions of “Trustees have overall control of a charity and another person. In a are responsible for making sure it’s doing what it was workplace context, an set up to do. They may be known by other titles, such employer can be liable as: Directors, Board Members, Governors, Committee for the acts or omissions Members. of its employees, Whatever they are called, trustees are the including volunteers, people who lead the charity and decide how it is run. provided it can be shown Being a trustee means making decisions that will that they took place in the course of their impact on people’s lives. Depending on what the employment. charity does, you will be making a difference to your Many employers are unaware that they can be local community or to society as a whole. liable for a range of actions committed by their Trustees use their skills and experience to employees in the course of their employment - these support their charities, helping them achieve their can include bullying and harassment, violent or aims. Trustees also often learn new skills during their discriminatory acts or even libel and breach of time on the board.” copyright. It's also possible to take action against an From: Charity Commission /Charity trustee: what’s employer for the behaviour of third parties, such as involved (CC3a)/: clients and customers, provided these parties are https://www.gov.uk/guidance/charity-trustee-whats deemed to be under the control of the employer. -involved#find-out-more-about-being-a-trustee The key question of any case of vicarious liability is whether the employee was acting in a personal We are here to help capacity, or in the course of their employment. This At One Community, we are can often be difficult to determine. Nor does an always happy to offer direct, employer's liability end once the employee leaves the specific support and advice to organisation - as the law stands, action can still be you and your organisation, taken against an employer even though the person in whenever you need it. Please question no longer works for them. contact Carol Grant (pictured), So what practical steps can employers take to our Community Development avoid vicarious liability for the acts of their employees? Manager on 023 8090 2460 The most important thing that employers can do is to [email protected] with ensure that they have taken all reasonable steps to any queries about being a Trustee prevent such acts or omissions from occurring. For or governance issues such as constitutions, policies, example, maintaining an up-to-date Equalities & safeguarding, funding. Diversity policy and providing anti-discrimination Be confident that if we don’t know the answers, we’ll training to staff serve to demonstrate an active know someone who does! commitment on the part of the employer towards combating discriminatory practices in the workplace. This would then reduce the likelihood of an employer Topic this month: being held vicariously liable for any discriminatory acts Understanding what vicarious liability means to you committed by its employees. ONE COMMUNITY NETWOR K : P A G E 5 Information High Sheriff of Hampshire Community Awards Hitting the Cold Spots Open for Nomination – Deadline 4 February 2019 The High Sheriff of Hampshire 2018-19, Mark Thistlethwayte, has launched this year’s High Sheriff Community Awards, calling for Hampshire based The successful Hitting the Cold Spots campaign is there public servants, individuals, to help you keep warm and healthy through the volunteers, charities and wintry weather. community groups to While the weather is cold some people struggle to submit their entries for the keep their homes warm. Cold weather doesn't just annual honours. make life a little uncomfortable, it can lead to serious The awards aim to make health problems in the very young, vulnerable and the county a better and elderly, such as respiratory diseases, depression, heart safer place to live and work for all residents, and are disease or stroke.