Superhighways: Recent Episodes
Superhighways
Superhighways offers advice, training and IT support to help small charities and community organisations across London be more effective, raise their profile and demonstrate their impact using digital technology.
Connecting communities at the grassroots.
Superhighways, Siddeley House, 50 Canbury Park Road, Kingston upon Thames, KT2 6LX
Zoe Amar talks about how small charities can benefit from using the new Charity Digital Code of Practice launched in November 2018.
We asked attendees at the December 2018 Enfield Volunteer Organisers Network what kind of volunteer roles they need to fill in 2019. There's a fantastic range - from growing to cooking, driving to drama...
Making videos is a good way to share your impact on social media but you need to spend time planning before you start.
Kew Neighbourhood Association is a very small charity in Kew. We support about 180 clients who have mobility difficulties and we have over 100 volunteers who shop, drive, befriend and do light gardening. I am the co-ordinator of this service and I match up the clients with the volunteers and schedule the trips and outings for both our clients and volunteers
Rebecca Knowles - takes us through all the many community services delivered here in Dulwich at the Kingswood Community Shop
How can measurement and evaluation support greater impact among charities and social enterprises—and what does it mean for those that fund them? Ruth Gripper introduces New Philanthropy Capital's new research, Global Innovations in Measurement and Evaluation at Superhighways' conference, Impact Aloud 2017 #impactaloud
Sylvia the event manager and founder of Wellbeing talks about why she set up the charity and how she felt the event went.
Daisy from dance bump fitness talks about why she went to the Wellderlies event and what she thought was positive about it.
Reading a case study I can see a pow toons style animation explainer video for this optional content
Yvonne from families apart tells us what Families Apart does, how it helps families with a loved one in prison and what her role is.
A brief interview about the benefits of #volunteering #volunteerrichmond #foodwaste #bereavement
Hilary talks about how she has engaged with the Superhighways Impact Aloud project and discovered Canva - a really useful tool, both in her charity day job and in the two trustee roles she has.
Graham speaking about how to make websites easy to access for people with sight inpairments
Me and my daughter both will use the computer and it will make a difference to our lives.
I'm going to apply in a business management course, which will help ultimately get me a job.
Leigh Jenkinson on her experience of joining Superhighways for #impactaloud #smallcharities #techforgood
Zoe from PhotoVoice on how they've learned the art of a simple thank you from Howard Lake at UKFundraising at #impactaloud
Ben Proctor from Data Orchard talks about his experience of #impactaloud and how tailored advice on making best use of data can really help #smallcharities
Nick Booth at #impactaloud talks about the range of tools that are available to #smallcharities to demonstrate impact and explains what really works!
The Bromley children and Families Voluntary Sector Forum ticks all the boxes for me- in terms of its reach and the opportunities it offers the members
The support we have received from the Bromley Children and Families Forum has been excellent. As a newly formed group we have been supported to network and find our place in the large family that is the BCFF.
Andy from YMCA London South West talks about how achieving the Kingston Quality Award for volunteering gives them the recognition that they are giving their volunteers - who help them deliver many services, the best possible support and environment.
Michael Birtwistle, - Senior Policy Officer on Charity Funding & Finance, NCVO - tells us the 3 key messages he included in his talk at Communitly Links Bromley Leading the Sector towards 2020 conference #CLBconf2020
Doug tells us the key 3 takeaways from his presentation at Community Links Bromley's Leading the Sector towards 2020 conference, November 2015.
There’s a real chance that if you don’t modernise the way you operate you risk losing out. #impactaloud
What we want to see underpinning any work on digital is good thoughtful monitoring and evaluation practice. #impactaloud
Ddigital is going to be a much bigger driver of service delivery and we’re all at the beginning of a long journey. #impactaloud
I was asking organisations to step back a bit and see what they actually need to say about their organisations. #impactaloud
Teresa, a volunteer at Community Communicated talks about her time at Community connected, what she does and the benefits it brings to her and the community
Lathea from the Calabash Centre found it helpful for planning how she is going to set up a gardening project.
Norren talks about how today's session helped her think more about the Women's Centre she is keen to set up and use to encourage creativity.
Independent Support for parents/carers of children and young people with special education needs and disabilities who are being assessed for,or transferring to, an education, Health Care Plan
A great opportunity to talk face to face with organisations and services supporting carers and disabled people in Croydon.
DEPACT is a user-led community interest company working on behalf of disabled parents, carers and other adversely affected by disability.
Pippa talks about concerns raised and possible solutions at the Kingston Digital Inclusion conference on 30 January 2015.
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Tim Wilson talks about Superhighways #impactaloud 2014 digital conference and his session on funder requirements for impact measurement.
Oct 2014 - I ran a session on digital tools to capture and communicate impact. Hear what the attendees get out of coming along to these meetings facilitated by Community Links Bromley.
Keith Head, Area Director for CAYSH, talks at the Croydon Advice Providers Together Network meeting www.captadmin.wordpress.com, following a presentation from CitA on Evidence Based Campaigning.
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Anne Mawer from MiD Mediation & Counselling asks the Chair of the Clinical Commissioning Group a question at the Richmond CVS led Health & Social Care Network Meeting, June 2014.
Seeing patients come in for advice or to fill their prescriptions is rewarding because you are helping them change their lifestyle.
Patricia Turner from Kingston Voluntary Action on benefits of the Community Development Network.
What are the barriers your organisation is experiencing when trying to capture its impact using digital tools.
Tom Strannix from Sutton CVS talks about the benefits of using an outcomes framework to monitor and evaluate the services of non-profits.
Alma has lived in Cambridge Gardens for fifty-three years and she would never want to leave the area. Her cover photo was taken at a fancy dress party organised on the by her parents to celebrate the end of the second world war.
Listen to some reflections on the King's Stone. Apparently there is a proposal to move it again.
Brief History of how the stone came to its current location.
"In the Museum is a poster advertising events on 19th September 1850 when Kingston's Coronation Stone was inaugurated. The Stone now stands to the right of the Guildhall in High Street as you face the building. Made of Greywether sandstone or sarsen, it is traditionally thought to have been used for the Coronation of up to seven Saxon Kings in the tenth century.
The Coronation Stone
The Stone may have originally been kept in the Saxon Chapel of St Mary, which used to about All Saints Parish Church on the Market Place side. The Chapel collapsed in 1730, undermined by grave-digging. The Sexton was killed, and his daughter, Esther Hammerton, was injured. She survived and became Kingston's sextoness. The Stone was later used as a mounting block for horsemen in the Market Place. In 1850 it was set, with great ceremony, on a special base, surrounded by ornamental railings and placed to the south of the Market Place. The names of the seven kings were written around the base. The seven kings were: Edward the Elder, Athelstan, Edmund, Edred, Edwy, Edward the Martyr, and Ethelred. It was moved to its present position after the building of the Guildhall in 1935."
(source: RBK website) Photo source: The Kingston Book by June Sampson Publisher: Historical Publications Ltd Date published: 15/10/2006 ISBN-13: 9781905286058 ISBN: 1905286058
Kingston's oldest church has not be dealt kindly with by the long history of town planning, one local resident told us. Another shared the story that her father and step mother were married by special licence in the church's grounds rather than in the church itself. Read more about All Saints http://www.allsaintskingston.co.uk/
The recording itself starts in the middle of the story - sorry still fighting with balancing interviewing skills and the technology, but well worth a listen to.
Photo taken from pictorial history of Old Kingston by June Sampson. We used three of her lovely books to start our Pride of Place reminiscences. All photos were well studied and many stories swapped on the back of them. We learned a lot about Kingston, but more about eachother. Photo source: The Kingston Book by June Sampson Publisher: Historical Publications Ltd Date published: 15/10/2006 ISBN-13: 9781905286058 ISBN: 1905286058
Doreen remembers the close knit community she brought her children up in: sharing a happy memory of the Queen's Silver Jubilee street party. Is Doreen right? Has the community changed? Or is it that a point in the past is a place and time that feels warm and welcoming? Did you have a street party last year? How was it? Will your children and your neighbours still be talking about it 35 years later? Let us know your thoughts by commenting below.
Our Digital Champion Kevin, is taking time out before the Pride of Place event starts to familiarise himself with all the different log ins for we set up with digital platforms to record the event.
Eddie using a donated computer supplied to the after school club, Coombe Boys School through Superhighways and run by Oxygen.