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
4 July 2007,
The Abbey Centre, 34 Great Smith Street, Westminster, London, SW1P 3BU
Bassac is running a one-day ChangeCheck workshop
on Community Impact Assessment on Wednesday 4th July. The workshop will
be held at Abbey Community Centre, 34 Great Smith Street, Westminster
and is aimed at community development workers who support community
centres and senior staff who run community centres or community anchors.
After attending the workshop, delegates will be able to use the ChangeCheck approach to demonstrate the impact of community centres or community anchors. For further information click here or contact Carole Macqueen on carole@bassac.org.uk.
Thursday 12 July 2007, 10.30am - 3pm
Resource Centre, 356 Holloway Road, Islington, N7 (Lunch and travel
costs provided)
A carer may be someone who looks after a friend or family member because they have a physical or mental health problem, this may be a child with a disability or an elderly parent. A carer may spend time with that person to keep them company or help them to wash, dress and eat or accompany them to appointments. In many communities this may be a role that someone takes on without realising they are entitled to certain benefits and can access support.
Those attending the event can find out about support services that exist for carers including: help with applying for benefits, help with equipment, help with transport, help with breaks and holidays, and emotional support. The day is suitable for carers as well as workers from organisations who may need to support clients who have caring responsibilites and want to find out more about their rights.
Publicity for this event is also available in Arabic, Kurdish Sorani, Somali, Spanish and Turkish.
Please give me a ring if you would like to discuss the day further or to let me know if you would like to attend - Olivia Cavanagh on 020 7527 7134 or olivia.cavanagh@islington.gov.uk
14 July,11.00am to 5.00pm (Open Day) 7.00pm onwards (Evening Party)
Islington Central Library, 2 Fieldway Crescent, London N5 1PF
To celebrate its 30th anniversary, Carila is organising an open day which will close with a big Latin American evening party at the Central Library in Islington where funders, second tier organisations, local business, BME organisations and local government will play an important role. The organisations that take part in this celebration can take this opportunity to promote themselves and show how truly dynamic, diverse and international, the city of London is and how much local communities as well as Londoners benefit. There will be: Great diversity of food; Art and cultural exhibitions; Information stalls; Children entertainments; Musicians and Dancers; Networking Opportunities.
For further information click here.
Thursday 5 July, 10.00 am – 3.30 pm
Indian YMCA, 41 Fitzroy Square, London, W1T6AQ, (Near Warren St tube)
A seminar for Businesses, Employers, Service Providers, Individual Disabled People, their Carers & Families and Trustees of Places of Worship
To book a place contact The Asian Health Agency on 020 8538 7703 or e-mail: azad@taha.org.uk
2 July 2007
Planning Aid for London is running a half-day conference on Monday 2nd July, with the aim to encourage planners to carry out more effective community participation by looking at diverse methods of involvement. There are 20 free places for voluntary and community groups to raise their awareness of different techniques. Lunch will be provided.
To take part, email info@planningaidforlondon.org.uk, stating your interest with a few lines about your group and what it does.
19 July 2007, 9am-5pm
St Paul’s, Robert Adam St, London W1
Voluntary church and faith groups are good at giving essential help like food and clothes to people who are homeless and excluded. Is there a tension between meeting immediate needs and encouraging people toward independence? How best can we help people move on from homelessness? And who decides?
How many times have you been to a meeting or a conference, most likely filled with inspiring speakers, only to find the most interesting conversations take place during the coffee breaks? Open Space Technology takes advantage of this type of interaction. Participants’ own questions and interests will drive the event. By the end of the event every issue of concern to anybody will be raised, if they took responsibility for doing that.
For more information or to book contact Ellen Byrne or Alastair Murray at Housing Justice email: e.byrne@housingjustice.org.uk, 020 7723 7273/235
25 July 2007, 10am - 3pm
London’s Living Room, City Hall, London SE1
The London Domestic Violence Forum has been re-structured since the publication of the Mayor’s Second London Domestic Violence Strategy.
There are now two open meetings of the London Domestic
Violence Forum per year and the next meeting will be held on the Wednesday,
25th July 2007. These meetings are intended to encourage active participation
and offer a space for networking and co-working.
For further information click
here or contact Rochelle at rochelle.dancel@gldvp.org.uk
11 September 2007, 18.30
Directory of Social Change, London NW1
The Women's Resource Centre, in association with the Directory of Social Change, is hosting a debate on the role of feminism in the women's voluntary and community sector. Do you have to be a feminist to work in the women's sector? Is feminism the key to women's activism or an exclusive, outdated or unhelpful concept?
Chaired by Natasha Walter (Guardian columnist, author of The New Feminism, and co-ordinator of Women for Refugee Women), this event will bring together speakers from within the sector and beyond to debate the importance of feminism in the modern women's voluntary sector.
Speakers:
- Brita Fernandez-Schmidt, Head of Programmes & Policy at Womankind Worldwide
- Ranjit Kaur, Director of Rights of Women
- Humera Khan, founder of the An-Nisa Society
- Denise King, Chief Executive of Girlguiding UK
Contact Leah on info@wrc.org.uk or 020 7324 3040 to request a booking form or click here.
2 and 6 July 2007, London
This LVSC two-day course is for people with responsi bility for running an information service and are new to this role. It will look at the concepts, principles and systems of information management and enable participants to identify good systems and maintain them. It will also cover how to deal effectively with enquiries. For further information click here.
27 July 2007, London
This LVSC course will provide the tools necessary to discover the various sources of funding and to research the funders.It will equip you with the practical skills needed to present and profile your organisation's financial needs to prospective funders. Aimed at: anyone new to fundraising is highly recommended to take this introductory course. For further information click here.
This LVSC course will look at the importance and practicalities of developing
relationships/networks outside of your immediate work-place team/organisation.
It will identify different networking situations, making a positive
first impression, building and maintaining relationships and networking
"etiquette". For further information click
here.
10th July 2007, Voluntary Action Westminster
This is a practical one day course that will examine the value and importance of developing and owning a business plan for your organisation. It will provide an overview of the areas you need to think about when developing your business plan. It will consider the aims and objectives of your plan and how to effectively use a good business plan as a marketing tool for your organisation.
To book your place, please contact Rujina Begum on 0207 723 1216.
The Governance Hub as recently published this a guide aimed at helping
small voluntary organisations and community groups understand the Trustee
and Management Committee National Occupational Standards and to provide
an introduction to key issues related to the running of their organisations.
It is aimed at trustees, management committee members and paid workers
who are helping committees to understand their role. For further information
and to download the guide in pdf format click
here.
Read on to find out what your community organisation can do to tackle
race and faith hate crime, and to claim a bursary of £200.
As part of the drive to “One City” the Safer Westminster Partnership is determined to ensure that race and faith hate crime is not tolerated or accepted. We are committed to taking a stand against these actions.
VAW believes that youhold the key to this issue; you are uniquely placed to encourage and support community members to report race and faith crimes (anonymously if they prefer), so that they are no longer tolerated, accepted or covered up in Westminster.
VAW is looking to work with 20 community groups between now and March 2008 to tackle this issue. They can offer:
- bursaries of £200 for community groups which hold meetings or one to one discussions with at least 50 members of their communities on this subject.
- One to one support and training for community groups leaders so that they are fully briefed on race and faith hate crime.
- Partnership development, capacity building and fundraising support for groups which would like to undertake more work in this field.
For more information, or to register your interest in this scheme contact Lucy Asquith on lasquith@vawcvs.org or 0207 535 0482 by FRIDAY 13th JULY.
Funding - Governance Hub Partnership Programme
The Governance Hub has launched the next round of its Partnership
Programme. The Hub is looking to work with umbrella organisations and
federated charities to fund initiatives that catalyse a significant
improvement in the quality of governance within the sector. Closing
date for applications to the programme is 23 August 2007. Click
here for more information.
Funding - The John Ellerman Foundation
The Foundation makes grants in the following five categories: Health and
Disability;Social Welfare; • Arts; Conservation; Overseas(closed
until 2009).
They make grants only to UK registered charities which work nationally,
not locally. Please visit their website and look at their detailed guidelines
which also explain how to apply for a grant.
The Foundation will only consider applications from registered charities
with a UK office. Their resources allow them to give significant grants
which they hope will enable charities to make a difference to the cause
they serve. The minimum grant is £10k.
For more information click here.
Source: BTEG Alert n.15
Funding - European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008 - Call for proposals
Deadline: 31 July 2007
The purpose of this call is to co-finance a limited number of emblematic actions on a European scale aimed at promoting intercultural dialogue, involving directly or otherwise reaching as many people as possible and highlighting achievements and experiences on the theme of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008. These actions may consist of specific events and activities which will raise awareness of the objectives of the European Year and underline the meaning and importance of intercultural dialogue, illustrating various areas, methods and dimensions of intercultural dialogue in the European Union in a manner which is visible and attractive in particular, but not exclusively, to young people. This grant, which may cover up to 80% of total costs, will be awarded to approximately 8 to 10 projects.
The total budget earmarked, under this call, for the co-financing of projects on a Community scale is EUR 2 400 000 (opening and closing events not included). Financial support will be granted to approximately 8 to 10 events and initiatives. Financial contribution from the Commission cannot exceed 80 % of total eligible cost of each project Each grant will receive the amount between minimum EUR 200 000 and maximum EUR 400 000.
For further information click here.
Starting salary £18-20,000 pro rata (depends on experience);
based at West Drayton UB7;
28 hours/4 days a week; 1 year contract initially, to be extended subject
to funding.
Deadline for applications 12 Noon Mon 9th July 2007; Interviews will
be held on 11th July
REAP (Refugee in Effective and Active Partnership) works to empower refugees and asylum seekers in West London, to reach their full potential and to rebuild their lives within the UK. REAP works with individuals, refugee organisations and communities and with voluntary and statutory bodies that support them.
For further details and application form email enquiries@REAP.org.uk or tel. 01895 441530
£32-36,000 p.a. (full-time), London
Closing date for completed applications: 20th July 2007; interviews
will be held on 26 July 2007.
The Employability Forum is looking to appoint an experienced manager to run an exciting new project to focus opportunities for refugees who want to work in the education sector in London. The London Hub will act as a key mechanism, bringing together specialist voluntary sector agencies, mainstream training providers and local employers. As Hub Coordinator you will need to demonstrate experience of managing partnerships, projects and finance, an understanding of the education system in the UK, effective communication skills, an ability to work across cultures, and a commitment to the project aims.
For further information please contact Yaminee Pande on 020 7785 6274 or email your postal address to y.pande@employabilityforum.co.uk.
