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MODA
Workshop: "When Is a Volunteer Not a Volunteer?
Tuesday 21st April 2009,
10-1pm; 5th Floor Class room, Berkley Business Centres,
Citygate House,
246-250 Romford Road, Forest Gate, E7 9HZ (Buses 25/
86 stop outside the building) .
If you pay your workers you need to be able to understand
what their employment status is. People who work a
few hours a week, once a month or less regularly often
just invoice the organisation and act as free-lance,
but does this mean that they are genuinely self-employed?
In reality they are more likely to be part-time employees
and this means that they have certain rights under
employment law.
This useful training session aimed at people volunteering
on Management Committees will look at what a volunteer,
an employee, and a self-employed worker is and is
not. It will explore what organisations can practically
do if their "free-lancers" turn out to be
part-time employees.
Places will be allocated on a first come first served
basis. To book a place on this workshop please click
here. Since this training room is on
the 5th floor please let us know if you have any special
needs. MODA is pleased to be working in partnership
with LVSC PEACE Project and the Volunteer Network
Centre, Newham to run this training session free of
charge. We would like to hear what other training
topics would around Good Practice in Volunteering
would be of interest to MODA groups.
MODA
GoldStar Conference: Thanks to everyone
A big thank you everyone who supported and participated
in MODA's Voluntary Inspiration & Participation Conference
in February. Special thanks to volunteers, MC members
and staff for setting up information stall displays, leading
workshop discussions and providing speakers from the following
organisations:
Age Concern England, Asian People’s Disability
Alliance, Bangladeshi Women's Society, Brookcares Citizens
of the World, Capital Community Foundation, Every Action
Counts, CASH, Evelyn Oldfield Unit, Helping Hands for
Refugees and Disabled, Horn of Africa International
Association for Disabled and Orphans, Ileto Caribbean
People’s Network Community, Communities Advance
Project Global Women, ICIC, Islington Voluntary Action
Council, KANGA, Kurdish Community Centre, Lambeth Voluntary
Action Council, Latin American Disabled People’s
Project, LVSC, NIACE A Woman’s Place Project Newham,
Resources for Autism, Refugee Stories Project, Refugee
Therapy Centre, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Outreach,
Talented Artists International, The Big Opportunity
Direct Greater London Volunteering, V Team East London
Changemakers, Volunteer Network Centre Newham, 2012
Volunteering Legacy Project, West London Refugee Women’s
Forum, Women Asylum Seekers Together, Youth A.I.D. Lewisham
Thanks to volunteers from Brookcares - Citizens of
the World, Global Women, Mind the Gap, Talented Artists
International, KANGA, MODA, Taste the Difference, West
London Refugee Women’s Forum and Women Asylum
Seekers Together for preparing delicious dishes from
around the world, including Carribbean fish, Indian
sweets, Serbian cake, Ugandan patties and a wonderful
array of rice dishes from Kurdish dolma to Nigerian
coconut rice and West African jollof rice!
Thanks to Talented Artists International for creating
a special Voluntary Inspiration acrostic for the day.
Following this day of networking and exchange between
voluntary sector organisations and discussion and learning
about good practice in involving volunteers from diverse
communities, MODA is inviting people to come forward
to volunteer on a steeering committee to plan further
opportunities for people from different groups to come
together for further workshops and discussion. Anyone
interested should please contact MODA by emailing info@moda.org.uk.
Please watch the ebulletin for details of our next meeting
around Good Practice in Volunteering.
MODA
Community Leaders Development Programme
The
Community Leaders Development Programme aims to provide individuals from
Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and Refugee communities who live in London,
with a flexible and tailored range of leadership development opportunities.
This project has two elements: a programme of outreach, taster sessions
and entry level training; and a range of longer support options to provide
more intensive structured personal and professional development.
The programme is funded by the LDA Opportunities Fund Round
2 and is run by London Voluntary Service Council. For more
information click
here
MODA
Training Room Facilities
Good news for MODA members and users. We now have
our own training room at 1 Mark street with enough space
for up to 20 trainees. From January 2008, we will run
regular training programmes every month. We will publish
the details of our programme in the next E-bulletin. Community
groups needing room for meetings and training can hire
the training room from £10 per hour. (19/10/2007)
MODA
AGM 2007
MODA’s AGM was as usual a successful event.
In addition to formal business that included approving
annual report and accounts, election of management committee
and reappointment of auditors, there were interesting
presentations, speeches and poems as well as a specail
seminar on “empowering participation of disadvantaged
groups.
Then MODA members (over 50 people) celebrated International
World Tolerance Day on the 16th November 2007 by inviting
groups to bring and share dishes and cultural artistry
from around the world. Our wonderful feast of delicious
foods included Bursalid and sambusa from Somalia, dolma
and pilaw rice dishes from Kurdistan, chicken biryani
and fish dishes from Bangladesh, pomegranate and lentil
salad, tabouleh and rice dishes from Iraq, aubergine salad
from Romania, West African jollof rice, banana rice cake
and ginger beer from Sierra Leone, a Yugoslavian fish
dish, Burmese salad, curry and naan breads from India
and Pakistan and Kosovan pastries. We were also very pleased
to invite Iraqi artist Ghada Habib to display some of
her paintings. Special thanks to MODA volunteers Sanja
Molloy, Mihaela Baduta, Farhana Chowdhury and Naba Kadhim
for all their assistance with this event and organisation
of AGM.
MODA would like to say a big thank you all groups who
supported the event including Bengali Women and Children’s
Association, Bow and Bethnal Green Somali Community, BRICKS,
Harrow Somali Youth Forum, Iraqi Women’s League,
KANGA, Kurdish Association, Migrant Resource Centre, Myanmar-Burma
Relief and Welfare Association, Gargaar Somali Welfare
Association, Somali Welfare Centre, Talented Artists International,
Ukrainian Migrants’ Voice Initiative, West London
Refugee Women’s Forum, Umubano Rwandan Community
Group and Zhinan Kurdish Women’s Union. Thanks too
to Jospehine Vandi from Talented Artists International
for her acrostic poem written specially for MODA’s
World Tolerance Day celebration.
T- hrough this initiative of Tolerance and Understanding
O-ur world can unite for peace and better living
L – et love be the Key in each deliberation
E- nhance this bond in this year’s Celebration
R-egardless of Race, Colour, or Creed
A –llow this Project to expel all hate and greed
N-obly with Tolerance, Skills and Abilities
C-almly “Make A Difference” in communities
E-xperience God’s blessings in all activities
MODA
Directory of Ethnic Community Organisations 2006
You can now order your copy
of MODA’s Directory. It has 226 pages giving in-depth
information about 513 organisations and networks. It is
a one-stop information resource which helps you to access
various resources and identify organisations with similar
objects for partnerships, exchange and collaboration. It
gives information about the resources which community organisations
have and are prepared to share and the resources which they
need and look for in other organisations. It costs only
£12.00 including packaging and postage. For orders
over 10 copies we give a further 10% discount. To order
a copy please click
here.
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