Thursday 24 May 2007, 6.30pm;
The Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA

Amnesty International UK and Anti-Slavery International are holding a special screening of Nick Broomfield's Ghosts, inspired by the deaths of 21 Chinese cockle pickers in Morecambe Bay in 2004.
The screening will be followed by a Q and A with Nick Broomfield and Klara Skrivankova, Anti-Slavery International, author of the report Trafficking for forced labour in the UK, 2006. The discussion will be chaired by Tim Hancock, Campaigns Director, Amnesty International UK. Free entry, no booking required.

Thursday 24th May, Southall Community Alliance10 High Street, Southall

Climate Change in the UK and South Asia
Monica Saini, London Sustainability Exchange

The British Asian Community tackling poverty in South Asia
Nimmi Unadkat, Asian Foundation for Philanthropy

FOr further info contact: Janpal Basran janpal1967@hotmail.com, tel. 020 8574 8855

Open Day: Monday 25th June 2007; 10:30 - 2:30
Leroy House, 436 Essex Road, London, N1 3OP

This training programme for refugee women will include workshops on: Understanding the NHS; Meeting NHS; Professionals; Communication Skills; Support in registering with NMC; Confidence Building; CV Writing; Interview Skills.
You can join the programme if you: have refugee status or ELR/ ILR/HP; qualified as a nurse or midwife overseas; and wish to work as a nurse or midwife. Travel expenses paid. Contribution to childcare.

To book your place contact Jasmina on 020 7923 2412 or email jasmina@refugeewomen.org.uk

Course starts Wednesday 30 May (14:00) and ends Thursday 23 August (last practice session).
Venue: Community Media Design Training Centre, 220 Farmers Road, Camberwell, London SE5 0TW

Community Media Design (CMD) is a non-profit social enterprise organisation set up to run community-interest courses in several computer subject areas for organisations and individuals. Examples of courses CMD has sucessfully run include Digital Music Production (for 16-25 year olds) and Basic Computers (for 50+ age group). CMD specialise in running courses for ethnic minorities and has experienced and patient tutors teaching in an informal and friendly atmosphere.

CMD would like to inform all interested persons of our latest Introduction to Computers and the Internet course “IT Workshops For You” for Refugees and Asylum Seekers. This is an introductory course if you have never used a computer before or need to refresh your computer skills. The course covers File Management, Word Processing, Spreadsheets, Computer Management, Using the Internet and Emailing. This is a FREE course, and is part-time: one Wednesday afternoon and one Thursday afternoon practice session – if you want to practice. Each student will receive a certificate stating the areas covered, and will have the option to take an OCR accredited assessment with certificate. Enrolment and registration runs from Tues 15 May to Fri 25 May 2007 (11:00 to 18:30), and will take less than 30mins. Course days: Wednesday 14:00 – 16:30 and Thursday 14:00 – 16:30 (optional practice session).

Contact: Course Tutor on 02071932239 or 02075822555; website: www.commediadesign.org. Places are limited so if you are interested contact us now.

The 'Holding and Moving On' offer runs throughout the year and has been designed for voluntary and community sector (VCS) organisations which manage projects co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the European Social Fund (ESF) to improve their ESF projects and organisational capacity. All events are FREE for VCS are scheduled to run in the morning from 9.30am to 1.00pm, for more information and booking details go to www.lvstc.org.uk/events

Other sectors are welcome to attend, they will need to contact LVSTC on 0845 262 2006 / 020 7538 4309 before booking a workshop or seminar.

Advocacy in Action UK is a training & consultancy organisation delivering services to individuals, organisations (and more recently, accredited training for young people ‘not in education, employment or training. Please contact us for more details) within local communities across the UK. They provide accredited training in a range of advocacy skill areas and they aim to bring about social change in various groups and communities through providing workshops and training for adults and young people which informs and empowers individuals with knowledge and information about their community, particularly in the areas of access to welfare, health, social care and community development.

Please visit www.advocatetraining.org.uk or call 020 8690 4035 for a chat about a programme that could be tailor-made to suit your organisational needs.

The next 8 Day Fast Track accredited training begins on 12th June 2007.

GB Disability Training & Consultancy is pleased to announce the launch of its new website – providing practical solutions to the challenge of disability equality: www.gbdtc.org.uk

Apart from general information about the excellent services GB DTC can offer, it also includes free factsheets and other downloads, covering a range of issues: Understanding disability; Applying the Social Model of Disability; Terminology; Understanding equal opportunities & diversity;- Understanding the different types of training; DRC’s Closing the Gap DVD – Learning Notes for trainers; Disability Equality & Etiquette Learning (DEEL) National Framework for health and social care staff.

The NCVO established reference guide for everyone involved in the voluntary sector, this directory lists over 2,000 organisations including a concise description of the charities’ aims and objectives plus a subject index grouping organisations by their field of interest. The guide will be launched in June, you can pre-order your copy now at £35 (£24.50 NCVO members).

For more information visit www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/vad. To order copies of this or any other NCVO publication call the NCVO HelpDesk on 0800 2 798 798 or visit www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/publications.

The Coffeehouse Challenge is a project from the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) which aims to get local people to come together over coffee to talk about community issues they care about and to take action. There's a small funding pot to help ideas develop with events taking place in June, July or August, supported by Starbucks who can provide space and complimentary refreshments. Where ideas do develop into projects, the RSA, Starbucks and T-Mobile are offering a share of over £20,000 in awards to help some of the best initiatives get off the ground. For further information click here.

The Kings Fund, in association with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has announced that the next round of the Community Health IMPACT awards will be launched on the 2nd July 2007.

The awards are designed to recognise and reward the work of small- to medium-sized voluntary organisations in the UK with a proven track record in community health care. The awards are open to registered charities who are at least three years old, work in a health-related field in the UK and have a total annual income of less than £1 million. During the last bidding round, the ten winners received £20,000 with the overall winner receiving an extra £10,000. Ten highly commended organisations each received £5,000. The deadline for completed applications will be the 28th September 2007.

For further information click here.

Salary: £23,000 p.a. Closing date: Friday 25 May. Interview date: week beginning Monday 4 june

Black Cultural Archives (BCA) is recruiting an experienced Documentation Manager, initially for an 18 month period, to a design and lead its major documentation project to retrospectively document the BCA's collection. The collection, includes a library, a mixed archive of manuscripts and printed materials, prints and photographs as well as paintings and some artefacts.

The post-holder will be required to administrate the collections management database and implement approved levels of collections care and basic environmental controls in the store. They will also be expected to supervise the digital reproduction and storage of parts of the collection and make it accessible to the public online. The post-holder will be required to complete the documentation plan and policy for the BCA, in addition to the appointment, training and management two Documentation Officers and volunteers.

For a full application pack or more information visit www.bcaheritage.org.uk/recruitment or call Jemma Desai on 020 7582 8516. Please send complete application forms to Black Cultural Archives, 1 Othello Close, London, SE11 4RE, email recruitment@bcaheritage.org.uk.

c£25 - c£30 (depending on experience). Part-time (17.5 hours per week) until end of May 2008
Based in London, 1-3 Dufferin Street, London EC1Y.
Closing date: Wednesday 23 May 2007. Interviews will take place on 30 May 2007.

Education Action is an international development organisation that works with the some of the most marginalised communities in areas affected by conflict. We passionately believe that everyone has the right to a quality education that enables people to transform their lives.

There are two programme areas within the Programme Team with UK and international focus, which are linked to the two strategic themes: Education for Social Change and Teaching and Learning Effectiveness. The UK programme work focuses on direct advice and guidance support to refugees and asylum seekers around their access to education and training. The post holder will be involved in direct advice delivery (office and outreach) for the SKILLS TRANSFER project funded by the LDA ESF Co-financing. Additionally, the post holder will be involved in partnership co-operation.
The post will suit an experienced adviser with proven advice and advocacy skills and knowledge of the black/ethnic minority/refugee communities in the UK. The post holder will also need to hold NVQ Level 3 in Advice and Guidance qualification.

To get an application pack visit: www.education-action.org/workwithus. If you have any questions, or would like informal chat about the role, please call Sanja on 020 7426 5842.

c£25 - c£30 (depending on experience)
Full time fixed contract until end of December 2007.vBased in London.
Closing date: Wednesday 23 May 2007. Interviews will take place on 29 May 2007.

Education Action is an international development organisation that works with the some of the most marginalised communities in areas affected by conflict. We passionately believe that everyone has the right to a quality education that enables people to transform their lives.

There are two programme areas within the Programme Team (UK and international focus), which are linked to the two strategic themes: Education for Social Change and Teaching and Learning Effectiveness. The UK programme work focuses on direct advice and guidance support to refugees and asylum seekers around their access to education and the delivery of a series of human rights advocacy training courses as part of the REAP (The Refugee Advocacy Project) project. The post holder will manage the selection and recruitment of the REAP course participants, provide an ongoing support to them, recruit REAP course facilitators, trainers and resource persons and will also be undertaking logistic arrangements for the REAP training.
The post will suit an experienced co-ordinator with proven skills in co-ordinating and facilitating training provision. Additionally, the post holder will have experience of advocacy/campaigning work and a demonstrable interest in development and human rights.

To get an application pack visit: www.education-action.org/workwithus. If you have any questions, or would like informal chat about the role, please call Sanja on 020 7426 5842.

One year fixed term contract: from 1 July 2007 (with possibility of extension)
Salary: (Pay scale 0.5) £13,642 Gross per annum
Deadline for completed applications: Monday 11 of June 2007, 5pm.

Job tasks: To set up and coordinate a self-help group. Organise seminars, training and language exchanges. To promote volunteering of UK nationals and provide initial and basic advice and advocacy on matters such as social welfare, housing, education, employment and health.
This post, funded by City Parochial, is part of a new advice-giving initiative to promote the inclusion of asylum seekers, refused asylum seekers, refugees, migrant workers and undocumented migrants.

Essential requirements: Bilingual in Spanish and English; Knowledge of needs of Latin-American refugees and migrants in the UK; At least two years recent ongoing experience of providing advice and advocacy on the areas of social welfare and housing; Experience in running self help groups; High standard of competence in written and oral Spanish and English.

To obtain an application pack: email mail@irmo.org.uk or f.morett@irmo.org.uk
For further information about the post please telephone Rafael ayala Silva on 020 77335151.

We would like to train a group of volunteers who would be able to assist, on an ad-hoc basis, newly registered Migrant Domestic Workers (MDWs) at Kalayaan. Many MDWs who are new to London need initial support in accessing services and navigating their way around the city.

We would provide training for volunteers to: Assist a MDW to report a passport as stolen to the police; Accompany a MDW to their embassy; Accompany a MDW to find new accommodation; Assist a MDW to register with a GP; Accompany them to a lawyer/other agency.

How to I apply?: Please contact Camilla@kalayaan.org.uk with CV and availability by 25th May 2007.
For more information about Kalayaan please visit www.kalayaan.org.uk