Everyone working or volunteering with us, including our trustees, employees, agency staff and volunteers is responsible for ensuring all children and vulnerable adults are safe.

Gather Collective Safeguarding Policy Statement

FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS

Gather Collective is committed to the safeguarding of children and adults with care and support needs and ensuring their well-being.

• We recognise that we all have a responsibility to help prevent the physical, sexual, psychological, financial and discriminatory abuse and neglect of adults at risk of harm and abuse and to report any such abuse that we discover or suspect.
• We recognise the personal dignity and rights of adults and will ensure all our policies and procedures will reflect this.
• We believe all adults should enjoy and have access to every aspect of the life of Gather Collective.
• We undertake to exercise proper care in the appointment and selection of those who will work with children and adults with care and support needs.
• We believe every child should be valued, safe and happy. We want to make sure that children we have contact with know this and are empowered to tell us if they are experiencing significant harm.

We are committed to:

• Following statutory guidelines in relation to safeguarding children and adults and will ensure that as an organisation, all workers will work within the agreed procedure of our safeguarding policy.
• Implementing the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Acts 1995 and 2005, Equality Act 2010 and all other relevant legislation.
• Supporting, resourcing and training those who undertake this work.
• Ensuring that we are keeping up to date with national and local developments relating to safeguarding.
• Ensuring that everyone agrees to abide by these recommendations and the guidelines established by Gather Collective.
• Supporting all in the organisation affected by abuse.

We recognise:

• Children’s Social Services has lead responsibility for investigating all allegations or suspicions of abuse where there are concerns about a child. Adult Social Care has lead responsibility for investigating all allegations or suspicions of abuse where there are concerns about an adult with care and support needs.
• Where an allegation suggests that a criminal offence may have been committed then the police should be contacted as a matter of urgency.
• Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility.

We will review this statement and our policy annually. The last review was: April 2024

If you have any concerns for a child or adult, then speak to one of the following who have been approved as Designated Safeguarding Lead for Gather Collective.

Designated Safeguarding Lead: Dave Roberts

Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead: Vacant at this moment

Gather Collective’s Safeguarding Policy Documents can be viewed by clicking the links below.

Gather Collective CYP Anti Bullying Policy 2024
Gather Collective E-safety Bullying Policy 2024
Gather Collective Online Safety Policy 2024
Gather Collective Safeguarding Adults Policy 2024
Gather Collective Safeguarding Children Policy 2024
Gather Collective Safeguarding Statement for Website 2024

Further details about safeguarding policies, training and our Disclosure Service can be obtained from Thirtyoneeight.org

The form below has more details and will only take 1 minute to complete.

Are you interested in well-being and mental health, and how we can live well together? Wondering about the effects of biodiversity? Curious about growing food? Want to discover perspectives from the ancient Christian faith that may have something to say about all of this? If so, would you consider joining us for our first session on Sunday 2nd March at 10.30am and finishing by 12pm (Additional dates include the 16th and 30th of March. After that it will be every other Sunday.)

We’ll spend some time working in the garden, weeding, sowing, planting, harvesting, cooking, etc, as the seasons allow. There will be time for tea/coffee, biscuits – and possibly homemade cake! During this time we will look at some of the above issues, using resources from an ecological organisation www.arocha.org.uk. You can check them out using the QR code above.

It would help in our planning if you could indicate by signing up at our website – gathercommunitygarden.com
if you are interested. The sessions are open to everyone – there will be activities for children too.

GROUP DISCUSSIONS * REFRESHMENTS * VIDEOS * FREE

Videos – Group Discussions – Refreshments – Free

Would you like to be part of a group to help ‘do our bit’? Interested in well-being and mental health, and how we can live well together?

Wondering about the effects of biodiversity? Curious about growing food? Want to discover together whether the ancient Christian faith has something to say about all of this?

If so, would you consider joining us for our first session on Sunday 2nd March at 10.30 am, finishing by 12pm. We’ll spend some time working in the garden, weeding, sowing, planting, harvesting, cooking, etc, as the seasons allow. There will be time for tea/coffee, biscuits (and possibly homemade cake.)

During this time, we’ll look at some of the above issues, using resources from an ecological organisation www.arocha.org.uk. (You can check them out using the QR code below.) It would help in our planning if you could indicate by signing up below if you are interested. The sessions are open to everyone – there will be activities for children too.

Next sessions 16th, 30th March. Then every other week.

Hope you can come. Scroll down for a booking form

Arocha QR Code

You cannot park on the footpath but you can turn around and return to the main road. We have places where you can park a bike inside the garden.

The garden is wheelchair and pushchair accessible.