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Creating a Sheffield City Region Quality Network
A healthy slice of grant scheme
Community groups in Doncaster can team up to apply for a maximum amount of £1,000 during Healthwatch Doncaster’s annual micro- grant scheme that has recently launched. With the success of previous
years, Healthwatch Doncaster are keen for organisations to join up for this year’s campaign and apply for a bigger pot of funding to deliver an activity, based on Healthwatch’s core values, that results in positive outcomes.
This might involve: • Engagement activities to gather people’s experiences of local health and social care services
• Promoting different ways of communicating with local people, groups and communities
• Empowering people and communities to ask questions about local health and social care services
Once approved, the funding could be used to purchase equipment, help support an event or additional activities to expand an existing funded project. A requirement of the scheme for successful groups would be to attend a celebration event to showcase their work with the funding provided, and write a report detailing their outcomes. In its third year, the grant
scheme has allowed community organisations to apply for a pot of money up to £500, and innovatively produce results touching on a range of subjects such as social isolation, loneliness and men’s health.
For background guidance, application form and summary report from last year’s micro-grant visit
www.healthwatchdoncaster.
org.uk/hwdmicrogrants The deadline is 31 May 2019.
8 CHAMBERconnect Spring 2019
Whyy? Change is renowned for its insightful and professional networking events, and the quality networking event was no exception to the rule. This was the first of many events that will develop and build Sheffield City Region’s network of quality professionals. The event was attended by
quality managers from across South Yorkshire, and led by Sheffield City Region Quality specialists. It was a chance for attendees to check and challenge their own quality processes and benchmark their journey towards quality excellence. Jack Tsouramanis,
‘There are
more than one million ISO
Commercial Director at Bureau Veritas, the world’s largest quality auditing and certification organisation, talked about the types of standards and the size of the certification market. He said: “There are more than one million ISO 9001 certified companies in over 170 countries. There are many things that drive companies to achieve certification, and one key reason might be that the bigger companies require their suppliers to be ISO certified.”
9001 certified companies’
The event was attended by regional quality managers Richard
Dolman, quality- focused Business Consultant, told
the group that good customer focus is at
the heart of ISO9001. He
said: “What you are monitoring and measuring is really important to help you understand your business, and becoming certified has many benefits to your business.” Jack added: “As a quality manager, you can use an auditor as an opportunity to highlight issues that you have been flagging up. You can make sure these issues are being taken seriously.”
Shorts has made the list at Tolleys Taxation Awards
Shorts Chartered Accountants, which has offices in Chesterfield and Sheffield, has been shortlisted as a finalist for Best Private Client Tax Practice at the 2019 Tolleys Taxation Awards. These highly-regarded awards recognise the finest
achievements and talents of remarkable individuals and teams across the entire UK tax profession. Tolley’s Taxation Awards uniquely bring together
every corner of the tax profession at this highly contested annual event. This category was open to practices of all sizes
across the UK, and the winning firm will have provided sufficient evidence and documentation to provide the judges with a clear picture of their business and the service provided to clients. Senior Partner and Head of Shorts’ Private Client
practice, Chris Chambers, said: “I am intensely proud of the team we have built here at Shorts. “The Tolley’s Taxation awards are widely regarded as
the Industry's Elite, recognising the very best and we are absolutely delighted to be Finalists at this year’s awards. We recently also received confirmation that Shorts are
Chris Chambers
Finalists in three categories at the 2019 Yorkshire Accountancy Awards, for Corporate Finance team of the year, Mid-Tier firm of the year and Advisory team of the year (also recognising the work of their Private Client team). “To continue receiving acknowledgement for our
work is testament to the quality and strength of the team we have built and the quality of the service that we continue to provide to local businesses.”
Richard Clegg, Systems Specialist and Alan Roddis, Continuous Improvement Expert, also delivered insightful talks about the importance of good quality systems. Delegates fed back that they’d like to take the quality conversations further. They would like to go into more depth about quality management systems, look at excellent practice from other organisations, and collaborate to share and learn together. Barnsley & Rotherham Chamber
has created some future Whyy? Change workshops to meet these delegate needs, so look out for more events soon.
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