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March 20, 2020 By Rebecca White

Your Own Place News & Updates

November 20

Hi there. So it’s back – lockdown 2.0. We’re so sorry that so many people are struggling right now and want you to know we’re still here, still supporting our people, doing more digital support than ever as well as trying to find ways to overcome the many digital barriers people face.

Stay in touch with us across our social media if you can.

Click on the button below for an amazing podcast from the incredible Brené Brown – it feels like the right one for now. Self-care is not the way to avoid burn-out – caring for others is. No matter what you’re doing, think of others too and share the caring. There’s plenty to go around.

How to Complete the Stress Cycle

October 20

On October 8th our blog and vlog series goes live on our blogs page. Rebecca, our CEO, has been commissioned by the Carnegie UK Trust to share our digital journey into lockdown.

Designed to be a useful resource for the sector, it will be a set of honest reflections and helpful tips as we all navigate the digital.

September 20

Keeping our training Covid19 secure – we will:

  • book larger than normal venues with smaller than normal groups
  • ensure social distancing guidelines are followed
  • remind people of the symptoms and ask them to stay away if experiencing any
  • assure people that they can wear a mask if preferred
  • ensure trainers and trainees have opportunities to regularly wash their hands as well as provide anti-bacterial gel
  • provide clear one-way signage
  • provide personalised learning packs so that no resources are passed between people
  • only provide individually wrapped refreshments and invite trainees to bring their own lunches
  • check in with all trainees up to 14 days following training and follow government guidance if any is displaying Covid19 symptoms
  • adapt all our training methods to provide ample space and ample fun!

September 7th

Our #privaterenters campaign goes live

It is estimated by Shelter that over 250,000 people in private rented accommodation are now in rent arrears.  With a one-month delay to eviction proceedings being reinstated, a homelessness crisis is looming later this month.

What can you do? 

  1. You can share our content
  2. Get your organisation to share our content
  3. Use our content and images, tag your networks and us to increase reach

If you’re renting privately and seeking help, check out our social media posts too.

Your Own Place Twitter
Your Own Place Facebook
Your Own Place Instagram

Our Aim:

– to raise awareness of the crisis 
– to provide solutions and encourage people to seek help
– to work across sectors, not in silos and reach as many different audiences as we can – we’re in the same storm with this pandemic – but not in the same boat

Click on the Social Media Content below to copy and paste into your own social media channels. Tag your own networks and reach more people.

Social Media Content

Click on the buttons below for social media images to use and tag us too.

Twitter Images
Facebook Images
Instagram Images

August 1st – online Volunteer training went live

We create high quality, interactive online courses so you can keep recruiting and training your volunteers.

Visit our online Volunteer training page for more information

DigiTILS+ is also live.

On 1st May we launched ten online and interactive tenancy training modules

Find out more on our new webpage

You are keeping us open!

Your Own Place, like many our others, has postponed face to face delivery. Whilst we’re re-starting very soon:

  • TILS+ has gone digital – and still interactive and fun
  • We are still taking referrals of mentees
  • We are still supporting existing mentors and mentees to stay in touch, get online and find new ways of mentoring
  • YOPAB is virtual, designing online socials, quizzes and testing our ideas
  • We are still taking bookings of face-to-face TILS+ courses
  • eMentoring Training is live alongside socially distanced mentoring training face to face
  • Business Training as we support our people and our teams with compassion and involving them in the shape of your business

Our Covid19 YouTube updates

YouTube – Update 1 – Covid 19 – Benefits & the changes

This is how we are spending your donations – our short graphic videos – giving you the updates you need.

YouTube – Update 2 – Covid 19 – Work & pay

YouTube Update 3. Covid19 – Housing & rent

YouTube Update 4. Covid19 – Getting online- safely

YouTube Update 5. Covid19 – Getting help

YouTube Update 6. Covid19 – Finding Work

Simple Online Guides

We’re pleased to share this freebie that Jarrod put together too. We were approached by a YOP friend who supports volunteers to help dementia sufferers using music. They found it really hard to help people get online and do the basics, as all the information is online! So we’re really pleased to have created a Simple Guide to Online & Email that can be printed out and used directly with people getting started.

Simple Guide To Online & EmailDownload

Joining a Zoom session

Another simple guide for you – this time, Jarrod’s one-page guide to getting safely onto Zoom – as now we’re all using it every day.

YOP Zoom Safety Toolkit-2020Download

Stay in touch, here are our social media links:

  • Your Own Place Twitter
  • Your Own Place Instagram
  • Your Own Place Facebook
  • Your Own Place Facebook for mentors
  • Your Own Place LinkedIn
  • Mentoring Training2 on Twitter

We’re one of 2020’s top 100 social enterprises in the UK!

Announced in May 2020 after an extraordinarily hard couple of months, this is lovely news to receive for the team.

December 31, 2018 By Rebecca White

2018…

Thanks everyone for a great year.

See you in 2019 for more innovation, creativity and impact!

December 3, 2018 By Rebecca White

TILS+ Launch

Thank you to everyone that crammed into The Training Flat on 30th November.

There were so many enthusiasts and great conversations.

One way of having more impact is to reach more people and that’s what 2019 is all about.

So big thanks for giving us your time and passion for what we do. Our 24 TILS+ modules are coming to a town near you…

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