MODA moved from its old address at 64 Broadway, Stratford E15 to a new
address close by.
The new address is: MODA, 1 Mark Street,
Stratford, E15 4GY.
Our new telephone number is 020 8555 8948.
It is a nice building with all facilities including training room and meeting rooms. On this occasion MODA will provide five days free training in community and organisational development to bame charities. We will inform you of the dates and programme soon. Watch this space!
N.B. Our email address is still: info@moda.org.uk
We have been producing MODA E-bulletin every week since April 2005.
It has been regular, consistent, and totally open and inclusive. It
goes now free, every week, to over 1700 organisations, institutions,
and networks, bringing together every one, in all public, private and
voluntary and community sectors.
Please do not ignore this simple one-page questionnaire that takes only few minutes to complete and submit on-line. We need your feedback to keep us going!
Monday 18 June 2007, 6.30 doors, 8.00 performance
The Comedy Store, 1a Oxendon St, London SW1Y 4EE
The Refugee Council's fantastic comedy night is back - 18 June 2007, London's
Comedy Store - with an amazing line-up of comedians who will be 'standing
up' for refugee' rights: Alistair Barrie, Jeff Innocent, Joe K, Shappi
Khorsandi, Paul Thorne.
No Laughing Matter 2007 marks the start of Refugee Week, a UK-wide programme
of arts, cultural and educational events that celebrate the contribution
of refugees to the UK. The Refugee Council acts as a voice for people
who have come to the UK to seek safety from torture and persecution. We
provide direct advice and support - and also campaign to retain the human
rights and dignity of asylum seekers, which have been eroded by successive
Acts of Parliament.
Tickets: £20
Booking: Tickets are available from the Refugee Council
telephone 020 7346 6737, contact nolaughingmatter@refugeecouncil.org.uk
or click
here
Thursday 21 June, Islington Town Hall, Upper Street, London
Preparing for the labour market and finding work
is crucial to the successful integration of asylum seekers and refugees.
Access to employment or running a business brings independence and builds
self-esteem. It also brings other benefits through strengthening social
inclusion, community cohesion and contributing to economic regeneration.
From the perspective of tackling discrimination in the labour market
and promoting a more integrated society, this conference focuses on:
Asylum and refugee experiences of access to employment and the integration
process. Work restrictions on most asylum seekers. The importance of
asylum seekers accessing ESOL from the day of arrival. Providing asylum
seekers and refugees with information about their rights and entitlements.
Benefits of volunteering, mentoring and work placement schemes for asylum
seekers, refugees, employers and community. Identifying alternative
routes to employment. The economic benefits of employing asylum seekers
and refugees.
This conference has been organised by the EASI and PRESTO partnerships for Refugee Week. If you would like to attend this conference or would like further information please email: geri.mckenna@education-action.org
4 June 2007, 10am to 3.30pm; Scope, 6 Market Road, London N7
The Association of Volunteer Managers is a new organisation run by volunteer managers for volunteer managers. This informative and interactive event would allow participants to contribute to the developmernt of the association. This is an event for anyone, paid or unpaid, who is responsible for leading volunteers in any size organisation, in any sector.
For further information, or to book a place, please email: launch@volunteermanagers.org.uk or call 020 7619 7107.
22 June 2007 - 09.30 - 16.30; The Living Room, City Hall, The Queen's
Walk, London SE1 2AA
This free conference, supported by both the TDA (Training and Development Agency for Schools) and GLA (Greater London Authority), aims to encourage dialogue between those responsible for selection and recruitment decisions and those seeking to become fully qualified teachers. It will explore issues surrounding diversity in the school workforce and links to individual pupil chievement as well as drawing on lessons learnt from employing refugees in the National Health Service.
UK NARIC, the national agency for comparing overseas qualifications, will also launch their guidance report on teacher training in ten relevant countries, and will be exploring issues surrounding qualifications and AP(E)L with higher education and teacher training providers.
The event is aimed at refugee and other teachers, employers and advisors, senior management in schools, headteachers, CPD coordinators, school governors, local authority staff, school workforce advisors, teacher trainers, and those with an interest in the topic.
The conference will include: Keynote speakers from the GLA and TDA; Workshops exploring issues around employment and assessment of qualifications; Discussion and networking sessions.
Registration with refreshments begins at 9:30, and lunch will also be served. For a booking form, and for programme details, please contact rit@refugeecouncil.org.uk or call 020 7346 1166.
15 May, 16.30 - 18.30, Refugee Council, 240-250 Ferndale Road, Brixton.
The Refugee Council's RiT (Refugees into Teaching) project will be running half-termly teachers meetings for refugee teachers and providers to get together. The aim of the meetings is to provide a forum for refugee teachers and providers to meet, discuss issues, and update each other on progress in an informal setting.
The first meeting will take place on the 15 May. If you would like to find out more, please contact Juliette on 020 7346 1166 or rit@refugeecouncil.org.uk . You can also get in touch to suggest any particular topics to be discussed at this meeting or in the future. Refreshments will be served.
Deadline for applications: Friday 15th June 2007
The Refugee Therapy Centre is running an introductory course on counselling for people who would like to learn about working with refugees and asylum seekers in the community. This course is free for unemployed refugees and asylum seekers. People already volunteering or working in the community will also be welcomed.
The Introductory Course on Counselling Refugees offers you the opportunity to use your own experiences to help others. We are looking for refugees and asylum-seekers from diverse backgrounds to share their experiences and learn from each other, in working with refugees and asylum seekers. The course is aimed at people with an intermediate level of English, although no previous academic experience is necessary and we make every effort to support students with their learning.
The course will run on Friday afternoons from 1.30 -6.00pm, between October
2007 – July 2008.
If you would like more information or are interested in applying, please
contact the course administrator via e-mail: miriam@refugeetherapy.org.uk
or telephone: 020 7272 2565.
Friday 25 May 2007 9:45am – 16:30pm
Ethical Trading Initiative in Chancery Lane
The training follows a carefully developed programme of interactive activities - experiential and rooted in intercultural learning. The programme will focus on:
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Explore issues that affect your daily life in thousand different ways
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Examine and confront stereotypes, prejudices, racism, discrimination
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Find out ways of promoting diversity in your environment
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Exchange views and experiences with others
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Increase your confidence in dealing with such important issues
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Provide for an inclusive and productive environment in your organisation
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Improve your communication with your diverse clients
Fees:
- £120 individuals and small voluntary organisations with less than
15,000 annual income
- £160 voluntary organisations with more than 15,000 annual income
and other institutions
- Two places of £100 each for organisations with less than 5,000
annual income
For more information and a booking form, please contact elina.stamou@orama4diversity.org on 0208 342 9686 or click here
Tuesday 12 June
MIC Hotel and Conference Centre, 81-103 Euston Street, London NW1 2EZ
Are you implementing or planning to implement the RARPA approach?
In September 2005, RARPA was implemented and embedded across LSC–funded provision as the “New Measure of Success” for non-accredited learning. RARPA is relevant to all non-accredited learning, future self-assessments and scoping for inspection. Even for organisations without LSC funding, RARPA is still a useful learner-centred approach for assuring the quality of the learner’s experience.
This broad and varied one-day training programme is based on the RARPA approach. All participants attending the training will receive a CD-Rom of the programme presentations and a selection of key materials based on the latest developments in RARPA.
For more details and to apply, please click here.
These are the dates of the next 2-day accredited workshops run by Advocacy
in Action:
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18th & 19th June 2007 Advocates dealing with discrimination & working in diverse communities
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21 st & 22nd June 2007 Advocacy in the BME communities
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25th & 26th June 2007 Bi-Lingual Health Advocacy
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2nd & 3rd July 2007 Advocacy for Disability Access
All workshop cost £150.00 + registration fee £ 10.00. For further information and bookings please call 020 8 699 7153.
Deadline for online responses: 29 June 2007
The Women’s Resource Centre (WRC), in partnership with the Commission
on the Future of Volunteering, are currently gathering information on
women and volunteering for the Commission’s report to be published
later this year.
The Commission on the Future of Volunteering is seeking contributions
from the voluntary and community sector, government, and business, and
wants to discover what people think is happening to volunteering in
the present, and what they believe should happen to volunteering in
ten years time.
The WRC will be holding an event on 6th June 2007 from 10am-1pm at the Women’s Resource Centre, for female volunteers and/or volunteer managers, in partnership with the Commission on the Future of Volunteering, to discuss volunteering. This will be a fabulous networking opportunity for those who play a vital role in their organisations, and who often do not get the support and recognition they deserve. The event will include a networking lunch and opportunities to contribute your experiences and opinions to the Commission. The event will be attended by Meta Zimmeck, of Volunteering England, and by Baroness Neuberger, Chair of the Commission.
If you’d like to attend the event please download and fill in a booking form from here.
Funding - Oppotunities for Volunteering funding programme
Volunteering England has announced that it is currently inviting organisations
to submit preliminary applications forms for its 2008-2011 funding round
under the Opportunities for Volunteering (OFV) programme. Opportunities
for Volunteering (OFV) is a Department of Health initiative which provides
grants to local health and social care organisations in England. OFV
grants aim to enable organisations to involve volunteers in the delivery
of their services. Grants of up to £35,000 per year for up to
three years are available to local voluntary sector organisations, charities
and formally constituted community groups and self help groups.
There is a two stage application process for Volunteering England. The application deadline for preliminary submissions is 5 pm on the 30th July 2007 and successful applicants will be invited to submit full applications by the 24th September 2007. For further information click here.
Funding - ICT Connect bursary scheme for VCS organisations
The ICT Connect scheme enables voluntary and community organisations to
explore their ICT needs by arranging and paying for a visit to another
organisation that is using ICT well or in an innovative way. So, if you
would like to learn more about ICT strategy, working with an IT volunteer,
how to integrate telephone calls over the internet into your office, networking
your computers, making use of open source software and more, then apply
for ICT Connect.
For more information, including application forms, click here.
source: CLLS Forum
Funding - Passage of Music grants programme and marketing support
Passage of Music is a season of events marking the Bicentenary of the
Abolition of the Slave Trade Act supported by Arts Council England.
The season will put the spotlight on new areas of artistic freedom and
experimentation, including cross-artform work, in order to raise the
profile of music of black origin. They are looking for events commemorating
the bicentenary taking place between late August and the end of November
2007 with a London focus to be part of Passage of Music.
Passage of Music can offer two kinds of support:
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Small Grants Programme. Passage of Music is offering a limited number of small grants to support bicentenary events planned for the period. This is not open to regularly funded Arts Council England clients, but applications from individual artists and organisations that don't receive regular Arts Council funding are welcome. For details of how to apply, please visit
www.serious.org.uk and click on "Passage of Music" to download the pdf guidelines. Please note that the deadline is Mon 14th May. -
Supplementary Marketing Support. Passage of Music can also help to raise the profile of planned events marking the bicentenary, by including them in the programme and umbrella marketing campaign, allowing organisations to be part of a collective identity.
If you would like your bicentennial event to considered for inclusion in publicity for the Passage of Music season please submit the following information: Organisation name, contact name and details; Name of event; Venue, time, price, box office details (if applicable); 80 words copy. Please send to: Passage of Music, c/o Serious, 51 Kingsway Place, Sans Walk, London EC1 OLU or email to: education@serious.org.uk. All information should be received by Thursday 31st May 2007.
For further details visit www.serious.org.uk
Funding - Comic Relief's Disadvantaged Communities Programme
Local community groups, community enterprises and registered charities
that address social and economic deprivation within specific geographic
areas such as a housing estate, neighbourhood or village may be eligible
to apply for grants of up to £5,000 through Comic Relief’s
Disadvantaged Communities programme. The focus of the programme is on
small scale local projects which were started by local residents who came
together to try to make their community better. This programme does not
support work over a larger area, for example, city-wide initiatives or
across a whole town. To be eligible applicants need to have a turnover
of less than £150,000. Applications can be made at any time. For
further information click
here.
Funding - Enterprising Solutions Awards 2007
The Social Enterprise Coalition has announced the launch of the Enterprising
Solutions Awards 2007. The awards - run by the Social Enterprise Coalition
on behalf of the Office of the Third Sector, Royal Bank of Scotland and
NatWest in association with the Department of Trade and Industry, Department
for Education and Skills, Capacity Builders and The Observer - are open
to applications from established social enterprises that are original
and dynamic. This year the Overall Winner will receive a cash prize of
£10,000 and a year's free membership to the Coalition. Three other
finalists and the winner of the New Social Enterprise Award will receive
£5,000 each.
The closing date for applications is Friday June 1st
2007. For further information click
here.
Funding - EU Year of Intercultural Dialogue
The European Commission has announced that the deadline for applications
for projects in support of the EU Year of Intercultural Dialogue will
be the 10th July 2007.
The Commission will seek to support two types of projects. This will include up to 10 trans-national European projects and one national project from each of the 27 Member States. The projects supported will concentrate on Cultural, educational, youth, sports and citizenship activities that contribute to intercultural dialogue and to “better living” amongst the increasingly culturally diverse people living in the European Union. Applicants for both the UK and the European projects must be not-for-profit organisation’s (including independent organisations, NGOs, local authorities, universities, etc.) having experience in the field of intercultural dialogue. It is expected that for the European projects grants of up to €400,000 will be available. For the national project the maximum funding available is likely to be €300,000.
For further information click
here.
£25,395 per annum (pro rata) plus 5.5% company pension
Closing date: 5pm, Monday 14th May 2007.
The successful candidate should be proactive and have experience of
developing and maintaining networks. You will be responsible for updating
the membership database, carrying out fundraising research, planning
network events and facilitating the email/text alert service to disseminate
fundraising network information. The ability to support small voluntary
and community sector organisations in fundraising and knowledge of fundraising
sources and techniques is important.
For information and an application pack please contact BTEG on Tel:
0207 713 6161 or email Angeline@bteg.co.uk
quoting Ref number: NF/01.
The pack can also be downloaded from here
UCRA is a registered charity working for the black and ethnic minorities
in London including refugees and asylum seekers.
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Job Broker/Employment Officer –Full time 37hrs per week. £25,000 p.a (Job Share Welcome).
An officer is required to provide individual assessment, advice and guidance and assist unemployed women to get into work or further training. Based on three sites. Experience of job brokerage, working with the unemployed, advice giving, guidance and liaison with employers is necessary. -
Sustainability Manager- Hours Negotiable. You will be required to develop and sustain programmes through seeking grants and contracts.
Closing date: 25th May 2007. For an application form and further details, call Allen on 0208 808 6221 or download from www.adviceuk.org.uk/jobs
Rate of pay: SO2 scp 33: £29,289 (including ILW). Hours /
week: 35 hours
Duration: June 2007 to end March 2008 (with possibility of extension
to end June 2008)
Closing date 12pm Thursday 31st May. Interviews will take place on Wednesday
6th June.
This post, funded by the Capacity Builders Consortia Development Fund, is based at, and supported by, London Voluntary Service Council. You will work as part of a team to support and develop the 39 London ChangeUp Consortia in fulfilling their obligations under the Consortia Development Fund to develop a delivery plan, undergo an assessment and complete Infrastructure Development Strategy and Consortium Infrastructure Business Plans.
The successful candidate will work with ChangeUp Consortia across London,
develop membership, provide support to existing members, liase with
regional agencies and organise regular events.
You will be an experienced development officer with good knowledge of
the voluntary and community sector, second tier work and London. You
will have experience of working strategically on policy issues, in partnership
with other organisations. You will have strong written and verbal communication
skills. Your proactive approach will enable you to plan, develop and
deliver this project successfully with vision, commitment and autonomy.
For an application pack: email cleo@lvsc.org.uk
citing reference LVSC/CDF or download from: www.lvsc.org.uk/CDF.
For further information about the post please telephone Rachel Carter
on 020 7700 8206.
