It's important that we celebrate the personal achievements of individuals from the NCVS team, and tell you more about us from time to time, especially where those efforts and activities can bring significant changes to the lives of families you work with.

Did you know that bereaved cohabiting parents can now claim bereavement benefits?

Please inform your beneficiaries that, as of 9 February 2023, the eligibility criteria for bereavement benefits has changed, meaning cohabiting parents and their children will be able to get financial support. These families were previously denied support because the parents weren’t married or in a civil partnership.

The campaign to change the law has taken 11 years. It was led by NCVS staff member, Georgia Elms, who is also Campaigns Ambassador (and previous Chair) of the charity WAY Widowed and Young, along with Alison Penny MBE, Director of Childhood Bereavement Network and the Child Poverty Action Group.

Georgia has been working with NCVS since April 2022, covering the Communications and Engagement Officer role while a colleague is on maternity leave. Georgia was widowed in 2006 when her husband Jon died suddenly from meningitis aged just 38. The next day she discovered she was pregnant with the couple’s second child.
Read Georgia's story on the WAY website.

Families who were previously unable to claim these benefits, some of them bereaved as long ago as 2001, will also be able to make a new claim for retrospective payments if they were eligible on or after 30 August 2018. The Childhood Bereavement Network (CBN) estimates that this could be up to 21,000 families. This is provided they claim within a 12-month window.

Georgia said, "When something really horrendous happens in your life (like being widowed), that’s what the welfare state was set up to do and it should step in to support people. But over the past 12 years, the system has really been letting thousands of bereaved families down.

"There have been so many setbacks...but to know that over 20,000 people will now benefit and WAY has helped with this change is amazing! I just didn’t realise it would take quite so long."

To find out who is eligible, see Bereavement Support Payment on the gov.uk website.

More information about the background to the campaign and further support is on the WAY Widowed and Young website.

Thank you, Georgia!

We've added a new page to the NCVS website to guide you to relevant information around the cost of living crisis. The primary aim of our page is to support you in the running of your organisation, including opportunities to network and share ideas with other voluntary and community groups.

We will update the page regularly with details of events and briefings you can participate in - whether local or national.

Emma Bates, lead for Nottingham Financial Resilience Partnership (NFRP), will be continuing the monthly online information sharing sessions soon, and we'll bring you news of how you can get involved as soon as we have it.

The Carer Poverty Coalition formed this month (February 2023), and is made up of 100 national and local organisations. 

Collectively, they will be campaigning to:

• End poverty amongst carers by advocating for policy change that adequately values, recognises and supports unpaid carers
• Reform the benefits system to better support carers financially in the short and long term
• Bring in better systems to support carers to continue with paid work
• Build awareness of carer poverty and the impact of the cost of living crisis on unpaid carers with Government, parliamentarians, decision makers and the general public.

A full list of strategic group members and other member organisations is on the Carers UK website, along with details about how to join the Coalition.

The next joint meeting of the Children and Young People's Providers Network (CYPPN) and the Vulnerable Adults' Providers Network (VAPN), hosted by NCVS, will take place on Thursday 16 March 2023, from 10am to 12 noon, via Zoom.

Members will be sent the proposed agenda and a reminder to register attendance next week.

If you would like to attend the meeting, please register your place. Registration will remain open until 4pm on Wednesday 15 March (the day before the meeting). It is important to register your attendance so that you are sent the Zoom meeting link.

This is a quick reminder that the VCSE Provider Alliance is currently recruiting for a Chair. This new role is an important one, as the person appointed will be instrumental in continuing to build relationships across the local VCSE sector and wider health and care partners.

The role is an appointment and not an employed role. The Chair role will be eligible for appropriate remuneration, to be agreed with the successful candidate once appointed. It is estimated that the Chair will be expected to commit up to 19 days within a 12-month period.

The Chair will be appointed via a transparent and robust process, to ensure effective management of potential conflicts of interest.

Please view the recruitment pack for details of how to submit expressions of interest by the closing date of 12 noon on Friday 3 March 2023.

Futures For You has been funded through the UK Social Prosperity Fund (UKSPF): Multiply programme to provide numeracy support in Nottinghamshire.

Multiply offers easy access to free numeracy courses and initiatives that can help your employees and volunteers brush up on their Maths skills and help them to become more confident with numbers.

Courses can be tailored around the specific needs and skills of your workplace, meaning you’ll be plugging the gaps in your employees’ knowledge that can support your business to grow, as well as helping your team feel more confident in their
work and home life.

The course takes 12 hours on average over a timeframe that suits you, depending on the needs of your business, and can be delivered on-site, at a nearby suitable location or online.

These courses are also available for individuals you may be working with in local communities.

All support through Multiply is aimed at people over 19, who don’t have Maths level 2 (GCSE 4) and who are permanent residents of the UK or an EU/EEA country for the last three years.

As February is LGBT+ History Month, it's a good time to remind you of this local fund which launched in October 2021. Applications are welcome at any time.

The Spencer Trust Fund focuses on the LGBT+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans) community and is specifically for the people of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.

The Fund supports projects that will help LGBT+ people to get the right support, advice, opportunities and development to become healthy and active.

Grants are available to groups who aren't already funded to specifically benefit the LGBT+ community. Your project or activity should benefit a minimum of 70% LGBT+ people.

Grants of up to £400 will usually be allocated, with an additional discretionary £200 available. The board meets bi-monthly to review applications.

Applications to become a participating charity close at 5pm on Friday 24 March 2023.

The Big Give's Mental Health Match Fund is designed for charities improving mental health as part of their work. Charities can apply for three tiers of match funding - £2,500, £5,000, or £10,000.

The Mental Health Match Fund 2023 will run from Monday 15 May until Monday 22 May. This an opportunity for charities to come together and shine a light on their work during Mental Health Awareness Week.

Applications close on Wednesday 1 March 2023

Table Tennis England has launched a grant funding initiative to support clubs and community groups to deliver table tennis sessions for people living with Parkinson’s.

Thanks to funding via Parkinson’s UK, clubs and community groups can apply to Table Tennis England for small grants (between £250 and £500) to encourage people living with the condition into the sport.

Awareness of Gift Aid has apparently been decreasing steadily since 2010, but why? A blog by Ben Roberts of nfp Research explores what can be done to bring more awareness of this scheme to the demographics who aren't engaging with it.

The biggest obstacle in the data is the lack of awareness among young people aged 16 to 24. Ben suggests that the sector has been slow to shift its attention towards the next generation of donors and that more needs to be done to encourage Gen Z away from disintermediation.

Disintermediation is when donors bypass charities to give their money directly to personal appeals. Young people, in particular, are more open to personal appeals, with more than one-in-five preferring personal fundraising over charity campaigns.

This has significant implications for the charity sector. It can fragment funds which could more usefully come to charities who are often better equipped to respond to complex and long-term social and humanitarian challenges. It can also lead to accountability issues and the potential misuse of funds.

For many years, some employers from all sectors have been willing to give their staff paid time to take part in volunteering. Some voluntary and community organisations have embraced this and have involved volunteers effectively in this way. Others have found it very difficult, or even impossible, to engage with this kind of volunteering.

It’s a real shame that Employer Supported Volunteering (ESV) isn’t universally seen as an integral part of the overall volunteering picture because those of us who haven’t embraced it really are missing out on long-term relationships that can offer skills and experience that last far longer than a day’s volunteering by a team of people.

But the fault isn’t only with those of us in the voluntary sector. So many teams of potential business volunteers get in touch at the last minute and want to turn up in a few days’ time with a large team.

Perhaps this is the key message that we need to get across to potential employee volunteers. We will be more likely to be able to involve volunteers if we are given enough notice.

When we develop a volunteer role, we have taken the time to work out all the details of how many bodies we can cope with, the tasks, the resources needed and the support that we can offer, etc. So a last minute request to accommodate 30 people to do – “well, anything really” – is unrealistic.

Or is it?...

In Dave's blog above, you'll see that we're encouraging voluntary and community groups to engage effectively with employee volunteers.

We get a lot of requests for employee volunteering projects with very little notice, but here are two organisations who are planning ahead and giving us time to help them.

Thursday 24 March 2023
Team of volunteers from Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVLA) available
If you’re based in or within easy travelling distance of Nottingham City Centre, a team of up to 40 volunteers is available for half a day on Thursday 23 March. They are from the DVLA and are willing to consider anything that will only take two or three hours. This could be leafleting outside your charity shop, a litter picking or gardening project or that quick task that you’ve been wanting to do, but have never had time.

If a big team is too much, they’ll be happy to split up into smaller groups, so please let Dave know how we can help them to help you.

Wednesday 26 April 2023
Team of volunteers from Sunbelt Rentals available
Here is another great offer from Sunbelt Rentals, part of the Ashtead group plc. Their Learning & Development team are looking to support the community in Nottinghamshire. “We are a team of six all specialising in different areas from Digital E-Learning, Early careers, Leadership and Customer service skills. We want to give back and dedicate a day of our time to help others!”

They are looking to volunteer on Wednesday 26 April, which gives plenty of time for planning. If you can use their skills to support your staff or volunteer training and development programme, please let us know. They are also willing to consider any kind of project, so even if you can’t use their professional skills, they are more than ready to pitch in.

Email davet@nottinghamcvs.co.uk or call 07564 040767 to register your interest and Dave will pass on your idea to the teams.

If you can’t offer anything on these dates, but you have a potential project that could be supported by employee volunteers, please also let us know.

Green social prescribing is a way of connecting people to nature-based activities and green groups, projects and schemes in their local community for support with health and wellbeing. Often this will be through a referral from a Link Worker based at a GP practice or another primary care professional.

Our scheme in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, called GreenSpace, is one of seven government Green Social Prescribing Test and Learn sites. It's all about improving people’s mental health. Green providers, social prescribers, voluntary organisations and community initiatives will help connect many more people with nature-based activities, helping everyone to feel better.

The latest update of the Nottingham City version of The Big Green Book (dated 9 February 2023) is live on the NCVS website.

It is designed to be used by social prescribers and healthcare workers who want to find activities for their clients, as well as individuals who are looking for an activity to get involved in. The information is organised by location, to help people choose an activity that is local and easily accessible to them.

Social Prescribing Day is an annual celebration of social prescribing, recognising link
workers, local community groups and regional and national organisations which support people’s health and wellbeing.

Visit the National Academy for Social Prescribing (NASP) website to find out how to get involved.

Saturday 25 February 2023, 2pm to 10pm
Rough Trade, 5 Broad Street, Nottingham NG1 3AJ

This event has a clear message that Nottingham will stand against attacks on asylum seekers and welcomes refugees.

The afternoon session (2.30pm-4.30pm) will focus on the support we can provide for refugees and asylum seekers in Nottingham, with the help of Refugee Week 2023, Nottingham Refugee Forum, Care4Calais, Poets Against Racism, NTU Global Lounge, Notts TUC and Nottingham Stand Up To Racism.

This session is aimed at students, refugees, artists from refugee communities and any refugee organisations in the city.

The evening session (6.30pm-10pm) has a number of poets who have agreed to perform, including Abiodun (Abbey) Abdul, UNESCO Cities of Literature Global Poetry Slam champion 2022. There will be an open mic section to allow stories or poems from any of the attendees on the day.

Tuesday 21 March 2023, 9.15am to 1pm
Nottingham Mechanics Institute, 3 North Sherwood Street Nottingham NG1 4EZ
Free to attend

This event is for community groups, charities and organisations working with survivors of domestic abuse and will provide an introduction into the different domestic abuse support services within Nottingham, offering a comprehensive view of all the support that's available to survivors.

The event is a collaboration between Juno Women's Aid, Equation, Nottingham City Council and Nottingham Women's Centre. Registration is essential.

Email gwvnotts@nottinghamwomenscentre.com if you need more information.

Wednesday 12 April 2023, 10am to 12.30pm

An online course giving a basic understanding of roles and responsibilities in the safeguarding of adults and how to respond to concerns.

Cost: £25 per participant

Tuesday 25 April 2023, 10:30am to 1pm

An online course giving a basic understanding of roles and responsibilities in the safeguarding of children and young people and how to respond to concerns.

Cost: £25 per participant

Tuesday 28 February 2023, 10.30am to 12.45pm

An online course giving a basic understanding of the roles and responsibilities of the Designated Safeguarding Lead Person.

Cost: £25 per participant

Thursday 18 May 2023, 10.30am to 12 noon

An interactive online session for Trustees (or members of Management Committees) of organisations whose activities put them in contact with vulnerable adults or children.

Cost: £15 per participant

Tuesday 18 April 2023, 10:30am to 12:30pm

This two-hour online session covers the basic information for all trustees, whether you are new to the role or long-established.

Cost: £20 per participant

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 10am to 12.15pm

An interactive hands-on workshop for organisations and community groups who want to practice their skills and would welcome constructive feedback to further develop their skills in writing successful funding applications.
Cost: £20 per participant

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 11am to 1pm

Do you manage a space, office or building? This two-hour online session will take your Fire Wardens and/or Fire Marshal through the basics. As a result, they will be better equipped to carry out these very important roles.

Cost: £20 per participant

Tuesday 16 May 2023, 10:30am to 12:30pm

This two-hour online session is intended for trustees who have completed our 'Being a Trustee' course, who want to further develop their involvement and awareness of trustee duties and improve their personal skill set.

Cost: £20 per participant

Monday 22 May 2023, 6pm to 8pm

Are you acting as secretary or note taker, or do you need to record meetings? Learn how to take effective minutes and make your task easier. This two-hour online session replaces our previous face-to-face three-hour course and will take you through the process of producing a 'minute'.

Cost: £20 per participant

Wednesday 21 June 2023, 10.30am to 12.30pm

This two-hour online session will explain the basics of health and safety, then take you through the process of carrying out a risk assessment in an organisational environment.

Cost: £20 per participant

Tuesday 21 March 2023, 10:30am to 12:30pm

What is the right structure for your organisation? This two-hour online session will explain your options and provide you with some useful tips to help you through the process of registration and beyond.

Cost: £20 per participant

Wednesday 22 March 2023, 10am to 11.15am

For organisations and community groups who are new to applying for funding, or for those in need of a refresher. Relevant for groups applying for cost of living funding and recovery support as well as other general funding.

Cost: £10 per participant

Thursday 29 June 2023, 10am to 11am

In this one-hour online session, we will identify some of the barriers that potential volunteers face to becoming involved in your organisation and share ideas to remove these barriers.

Cost: £10 per participant

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 10am to 11am

This one-hour online session aims to share some ideas about how best to deal with the inevitable disagreements, personality clashes and conflicts that arise from time to time among a team of volunteers.

Cost: £10 per participant

Tuesday 4 April 2023, 10am to 11am

This one-hour online session looks at methods that have proved to be effective in volunteer leadership, including the best ways to plan, involve, support and retain volunteers.

Cost: £10 per participant

Wednesday 24 May 2023, 10am to 12 noon

For some time, we’ve been asked about training that goes beyond the basics of managing and supporting volunteers. In this two-hour online session, we’ll explore some of the real-life issues that you are facing.

Cost: £20 per participant

Tuesday 9 May 2023, 10am to 12 noon

A two-hour online course for Leaders of Volunteers to start to develop an understanding of some of the legal requirements that relate to your volunteering programme.

Cost: £20 per participant

Wednesday 12 April 2023, 2pm to 3pm

A one-hour online session to help your volunteer role descriptions stand out, ensuring you attract enthusiastic volunteers.

Cost: £10 per participant

The PDU aims to promote and facilitate collaborative learning and the sharing of good practice among professionals and volunteers from all sectors, in Nottingham and neighbouring areas, who work with people experiencing multiple disadvantage (understood as a combination of mental ill-health, substance misuse, homelessness, offending and domestic abuse, among other issues).

Contact Katie Hall, our PDU Programme Manager, for more information: enquiries@pdunottingham.org

Join our free online hub www.pdunottingham.org

Follow us on Twitter @NottinghamCVS #PDUNottingham.

Thursday 9 March 2023, 10am to 3.30pm
Cleaves Hall Conference Centre, 6 Castle Gate, Nottingham NG1 7AS
Free to attend, but registration is essential. Lunch provided.

Join us for a free workshop exploring financial resilience and financial capability, including what services are available to support people who face financial exclusion and difficulty, and what we can do as workers.

This session, run by Emma Bates, Sessional Specialist for Nottingham Financial Resilience Partnership, will include:

• Understanding what financial resilience is about
• Exploring different aspects of ensuring people are financially included (such as credit, banking, debt, income, saving, and service access) and also of financial capability / education
• Awareness of available services that can help people with financial matters
  Group discussions on issues faced by service users / residents and what we can do as workers to support them.

Advance booking is essential. Registrations close on Monday 6 March 2023.

Our group provides a forum for professionals and volunteers with a passion for, and commitment to, collaboration with people who use services, with a focus on empowering people to get the most out of their involvement.

By joining our community of practice you will have the opportunity to come together with local practitioners and volunteers with lived experience in a vibrant but informal space to share good practice and ideas around co-production.

In this setting you will be supported to reflect on co-production in your own organisation and understand what steps you might take to develop co-productive approaches. The sessions are designed to respond to issues raised and requests made by our CoP members.

In our last meeting themed around the topic of “Holding Effective Meetings” we discussed the question:

"How can you plan meetings so they run smoothly, feel like safe spaces for sharing, and ensure that all voices are heard, validated and acknowledged?"

We reflected on what we felt were the things that help and hinder this, taking into account our own experiences as both participants and facilitators.

You can view the learning shared during this session (link opens pdf).

Our next meeting is on Wednesday 19 April from 10am to 12 noon. People at all stages of their co-production journey are welcome.

Please email enquiries@pdunottingham.org if you would like to join this group and be added to the mailing list. Our group meets on a quarterly basis.

Monday 27 February 2023, 12.30pm to 1pm
Online webinar, free to attend

Exercise in a Box is an online tool from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) which helps organisations test and practise their response to a cyber attack. It is completely free to use.

This short webinar, in partnership with The FSI, will help you understand what Exercise in a Box is, why and how you should use it, and will also discuss some key areas of NCSC guidance used to develop the catalogue of exercises. The webinar will empower charities of any size to use the tool effectively, providing a straightforward insight into how well protected your organisation is, and where there might be opportunities to improve your security.

The BITC Community Academy is hosting a series of webinars to help community organisations upskill so that they can increase their social impact on local communities.

Attract more funding by measuring your impact
Wednesday 8 March 2023, 11am to 12.30pm, online via Zoom
You will learn:

• How you can gather insights to measure your impact
• How to prove that impact and your social value to funders
• How to use 'impact' to attract corporate sponsors, partners or donors.

How to write a successful application for funding
Tuesday 21 March 2023, 11am to 12.30pm, online via Zoom
You will learn:

• How to plan for all the grants you could apply for
• The dos and don’ts of writing a successful funding application
• Funding opportunities available through DWF Law’s Foundation.

Places are limited, so it is requested that you register only if you know you can definitely attend.

Wednesday 22 March 2023, 10am to 11am
Free to attend online

Ever wondered what a Balance Sheet is all about? Join John O'Brien, CEO of CA Plus, who will explain how accounts are put together and how to understand and interpret the finished documents - from simple Receipts and Payments accounts through to the more complex Accruals accounts.

Self Harm Awareness Day takes place around the world on 1 March every year. In 2023, organisations including Harmless and The Samaritans will join others from across the UK to raise awareness and dispel myths around this often misunderstood issue.

Harmless is seeing an increase in self harm across all age groups regardless of gender, ethnicity or cultural background. Although they are seeing increasing levels of self harm, it is important to reassure those affected that hope and help is available.

You can join in to help spread the word by downloading a campaign pack, including a poster, factsheet, logos and social media graphics.

The deadline has been extended to midnight on Wednesday 8 March 2023

The awards celebrate outstanding governance and trusteeship. It is free to enter and the awards are open to all registered charities in the UK, with categories suitable for both large and small organisations. Entries are accepted online, with the shortlist announced in April.

The winner of each category will receive a £5,000 unrestricted grant as a prize. Runners-up will receive cash prizes of £1,000, and each shortlisted charity will be offered a paid one-year membership to the Association of Chairs for its chair or vice chair as well as a complimentary place on a Cause4 Trustee Leadership Programme for a new or inexperienced trustee.

In Summer 2023, Nottingham’s new Central Library will open its doors to the public. This long-awaited opening is the start of a new chapter for Nottingham and will be celebrated across the city with a whole Year of Stories and storytelling.

Building on existing networks, over 10 partner organisations – including Nottingham City Council, Nottingham City Libraries, Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature, Read On Nottingham, ChalleNGe Nottingham, University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University – will deliver a diverse range of activities, events and projects to connect and celebrate Nottingham’s people, their stories and the power of storytelling in all forms – from literature to dance, and poetry to film.

Organisations, groups and charities are encouraged to hold their own Nottingham Year of Stories events and activities.

The latest Nottinghamshire Adult Social Care Services Directory is available. This is a free publication for people looking for care services and care information across Nottingham city and Nottinghamshire.

There’s guidance on types of care in the home, different sorts of care homes, and council payments towards the cost of care.

An online version of the publication can be browsed online at the Care Choices website, or downloaded as a pdf. Printed copies are also available, free of charge, for those who do not have online access.

To order a copy or copies of the Nottinghamshire Adult Social Care Directory, please contact Care Choices on 01223 207770 or click the 'Order Directory' button which is on the website link below.

My Whole Self is Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) England's campaign for workplace culture change, culminating in My Whole Self Day on Tuesday 14 March 2023.

This year, they are focusing on managers' critical role in creating working environments where everyone is safe to bring their whole self to work. Managers are the vital link between wellbeing and productivity. Despite this, data reveals that a third of managers feel out of depth supporting their team with mental health concerns, rising to almost half of managers under 25.  Over a quarter of those asked said more support and training from their employer would help them to create a team where everyone feels they can bring their whole selves to work.

A free Managers’ Toolkit is due to be published on My Whole Self Day. You can sign up to receive it at the weblink below, where there is more information about how to get involved in the campaign.

Applications close at 12 noon on Friday 24 March 2023

In every community there are people with lived experience of the big issues facing the UK today; from homelessness to modern slavery, domestic abuse to gang violence. Their insights could identify solutions and create lasting change, but their voices and stories often go unheard.

This training programme has been developed collaboratively with a network of leaders with lived experience and is looking to equip a new network of 14 leaders with the skills, confidence and networks to share their experience. The eight month programme aims to diversify voices in the media to make them more representative of society, building the confidence of their network to influence policy and practice.

This programme is free and travel expenses to any in-person workshops will be covered by Sounddelivery Media.

This is a practical and intensive (and fun!) programme with a considerable time commitment. Your are asked to reflect on this commitment before applying. Over the eight months, the total training is 11 days plus travel to the training days and any one-to-one support. During the programme, participants are asked to produce a blog, and a vlog, and media opportunities will come from being part of the programme too.

Frontline is a social work charity working to ensure that all children in England have a safe and stable home, and that their life chances are not limited by their social or family circumstance. Frontline creates social change for children and their families by developing excellent social work practice and leadership.

Do you want to qualify as a social worker, or know someone who does? Nottingham placements are available through the Frontline programme and applications are now open for the 2023 cohort in the East Midlands region. You are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as each area will close once sufficient applications have been received.

The two-year, salaried social work training programme offers a unique opportunity to work directly with children and families, helping them make positive changes in their lives.

On the Frontline programme, you will qualify as a social worker and complete a fully-funded master’s degree. Intensive training and support will develop your skills in leadership, conflict resolution, analysis and relationship building, which will help you drive social change inside the social work profession and beyond.

This engagement survey will close on Sunday 12 March 2023

Tomorrow’s NUH (TNUH) is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform the hospital services and facilities run by Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH). It is part of the Government’s New Hospital Programme, which is investing in buildings and equipment across the NHS, to ensure patients and staff have the facilities they need for the future - modern, safe and designed to provide the best possible care.

Following the second phase of engagement last year, conversations with patients, carers, staff and stakeholders have continued to gain further feedback about how, and where, people would like to access care in the future.

Three topics are being looked at in this latest engagement:

• Services at Ropewalk House (Audiology, Diabetic Eye Screening, Breast Screening and Cochlear Implants)
  These services could possibly move to a different hospital site or into a community setting, and people are being asked on their thoughts about this.
  
  
• The experience of residents of Basford, Bestwood or Sherwood, who use services at City Hospital
  It is possible that some of the services currently delivered at City Hospital would move to the Queen's Medical Centre (QMC). More work is being undertaken, ahead of the full public consultation, to understand what the residents and communities living in these Wards would feel about this, and where they might choose to access those services, should they move.
  
  
• Women's, children and family services (e.g. maternity, neonatal and children's services, including children's emergency care and gynaecology)
  As part of the TNUH proposals, a brand new facility could be built on the QMC site, providing, in one location, services for women, children and families. This element of the engagement work is looking at suitable names for the facility, ahead of the public consultation.

The NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) has produced a survey to fill in and complete, which can be circulated to communities, contacts and networks.

The ICB Engagement Team is also offering the opportunity to talk to any groups who may be interested in finding out more about this work. Call 07385 360071 or email nnicb-nn.engagement@nhs.net.