Contents: Events (5); Training (5); Support (1) ; Funding (5) ; Jobs (4)
Thursday 17th April 2008; 9.30am – 4pm
59 ½ Southwark Street, London SE1 0AL (nearest tube: London Bridge)
This is the first opportunity to learn about the
impact of the recent changes in the structure of London Councils. For
many organisations the image of London Councils is as a grant-maker
or a commissioner of services from the Voluntary and Community Sector,
but in fact it is an organisation of much greater strategic importance
in London. Do not miss this unique opportunity to find out how and why
these changes could affect you, and the new ways in which you can engage
with London
Councils.
How London Works is a programme run by the London Civic Forum that offers up to date information about the politics, infrastructure, society and culture of the Capital. It can often prove difficult to navigate the rapidly changing, multi-level jigsaw that makes up London’s democratic landscape. Therefore, London Civic Forum has devised a series of events on how to get more involved in London’s political life and how to access decision-makers. In the past we have visited Government Office for London and the Greater London Authority. This event is delivered in partnership with London Voluntary Service Council.
Places are limited, so booking is essential. For
further details and to book a place, please contact
Hadiza Bamgbose by 3rd April. However, if you require a language interpreter
please let us know
by 27th March. Email: hadiza@londoncivicforum.org.uk
; Tel 020 8709 9770; Fax 020 8709 9771
T uesday 8th April 2008; 10am- 4pm
UCU Conference Unit, 27 Britannia Street, London WC1X 9JP
The conference will launch ROTA’s two year research and policy report which aims to reduce the potential for hate crime and to assess the applicability of restorative justice with hate crime in London. The event will also disseminate recommendations for multi-agency partnership solutions to address the gaps in criminal justice policy and practice in London. Please consult the attached flyer for more details. Keynote speakers include George Mills, from the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Bennett Obong from the Metropolitan Police Authority and Elena Noel from Southwark Mediation Centre.
Please confirm your attendance by following the link www.rota.org.uk/pages/events/index.aspx or by contacting Giulia Liberatore at giulia@rota.org.uk (telephone number 020 7729 1310).
31st March 2008; 9.30am – 12.30
Conference Room, Southwark Cathedral, London Bridge
Does your staff have the skills to take your organisation forward?
How is your organisation ensuring that it will have the skills needed
to operate successfully in an ever changing and demanding environment?
Increasing knowledge and skills within your organisation helps to reduce
costs, promote loyalty, boost efficiency and, ultimately, improve your
overall performance. Sustainable development of your organisation has
to include skills development of your employees.
Social Enterprise London are delighted to invite you to this session,
which will inform you about programmes available to support development
of employee skills and knowledge, including the SEL apprenticeship programme
and Train to Gain. The event will create a forum for discussion of key
human resources topics. A knowledgeable panel will be on hand to answer
questions all those questions you have on human resource management.
Places are limited so please book in advance: tel. 020.7619.8304 or email ttgleads@prevista.co.uk
Wednesday 19th March 2008, 10am; the Holiday Inn Hotel, Bexley
Presentations from the London Borough of Bexley,
Resources plus and Clifton Consulting.
FREE workshops in: Effective ICT for the Small Business; Health and
Safety; Using ICT to Support the HR Process; Training and Staff Development.
Buffet lunch provided.
This event is suitable to everyone who is: from a social enterprise;
from a trading arm of a charity; consultant; enterprise development
agency; sole trader; Small & Medium Sized Businesses.
To secure your FREE place and to book your preferred workshop please call Sean on 020 8294 6634 or email resources.recruitment@bexley.gov.uk.
Sunday 30 March 2008, 11am to 5pm
Hackney Ocean 270 Mare Street, Hackney, London, E8 1HE
Art of Heritage will include a free family activity day on Sunday 30 March 2008 at the Hackney Ocean, 270 Mare Street, Hackney, London E8. There will be many engaging activities for the whole family. These include craft workshops such as painting, drawing, weaving, storytelling, dance and song. A exiting variety showcase featuring well known and amateur acts is also scheduled to take place. Contact: Enquiries@oda-c.com ; Telephone 0207 748 4364; www.oda-c.com
April- October 2008; London
Looking for free training and support
targeted specifically people involved in BME advocacy? Want to meet other
people and organisations BME advocacy and learn to improve your work in
a structured supported environment? The Advocacy Resource Exchange has
set up Supported Voices action learning set programme in order to offer
you the chance to take part in a free and innovative training and mutual
aid project. Supported Voices will bring people involved in advocacy for
BME people together, providing you with a space to network, share experiences
and learn from each other.
The Supported Voices project is based on the idea of ‘Active Learning
Sets’, where 6-8 people come together in an environment of peer
learning and support. A facilitator from Advocacy Resource Exchange will
be present to guide the group. Each month a new area will be discussed.
Participants will share experiences and ideas, go away and implement them,
and report back in the next session on the challenges and successes.
Meetings will take place once a month for half a day, from April- October
2008.
For further information and bookings
contact:
John Mayford; Supported Voices Worker (Monday-Thursday); Advocacy Resource
Exchange (ARX)
E-mail :johnatv@riseup.net / john@advocacyresource.net
; www.advocacyresource.net
Asylum and immigration law: protecting women from violence and securing
their position in the UK
23 April 2008 9.30am – 4.30pm
NCVO, Regents Wharf, 8 All Saints Street, London N1 9RL
This one-day course will provide
a practical overview of asylum and immigration law with particular emphasis
on the needs of women with experience of genderbased violence.
It will cover the following: The legal framework for protection (including
the Refugee Convention 1951, the European Convention on Human Rights 1950
and the EU Qualification Directive); Applying for asylum in the UK (including
the New Asylum Model and Legacy Cases); EEA nationals, their partners
and rights on relationship breakdown; Supporting a woman making an application
for indefinite leave to remain under the domestic violence rule; Challenging
“No recourse to public funds”. All participants will receive
a copy of our latest publication 'Pathways to Justice: BMER women, violence
and the law'.
For further information and bookings
contact: Rights of Women,
tel. 020 7251 6575/6; email info@row.org.uk
or visit www.rightsofwomen.org.uk
Asylum and immigration law: protecting women from violence and securing
their position in the UK
7 May 2008 9.30am – 4.30pm
NCVO, Regents Wharf, 8 All Saints Street, London N1 9RL
To coincide with the expected implementation of the Forced Marriage (Civil
Protection) Act 2007
in autumn 2008, this exciting, new course will update participants on
the very latest changes to the law of forced marriage and provide an essential
legal grounding on the following issues: Recognising whether a marriage
is legal, particularly in relation to foreign and overseas marriages;
Explaining the legal rights and consequences of getting married; Clarifying
the status of religious
divorces; Examining when an overseas divorce is legally recognised in
England and Wales; Providing a comprehensive overview of the law of forced
marriage; Meeting the needs of diverse
groups of women including refugee or asylum seeking women and women with
an insecure immigration status in the UK. All participants will receive
a copy of our latest publication 'Pathways to Justice: BMER women, violence
and the law'.
For further information and bookings contact: Rights of Women,
tel. 020 7251 6575/6; email info@row.org.uk
or visit www.rightsofwomen.org.uk
March-May 2008 ; Time: 6.30 - 9pm; The Albany, Douglas Way, SE8 4AG
Course Fees: £23.50 per module
A series of seminars for performing, visual, music, media and design artists to assist in the development and delivery of arts and cultural activities to different groups. The Arts in Community Settings programme aims to: provide practical and insightful advice and ideas on ways the arts can be made more accessible; explore the barriers to social and educational inclusion and the role of the arts in contributing to inclusion; sample a number of approaches that can be used when working with the community. Delegates attending the programme can select from the following modules or attend the programme as a whole:
- Introduction to Community Arts - 25 and 27 March 2008
- Arts with Older People - 1 and 2 April 2008
- Arts with Refugees - 22 and 29 April 2008
- Arts with Young People - 24 April and 1 May 2008
- Arts with Disabled People - 6, 7 and 8 May 2008
For further information contact: Sheenique McDonald; Artefacts Edutainment; tel. 020 8691 2323; email: info@artedutain.org ; website: http://www.artedutain.org
Training - Telephony Course for Voluntary Sector Organisations.
Wednesday 26th March 2008; 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Venue: Drake House, 44 St George's Road Wimbledon, SW19 4ED Wimbledon
Course fee: £24 for Superhighways members and £30 for non-members.
Telephony has always been a core business resource in service delivery
and as new technologies and services emerge, organisations have a responsibility
to exploit the benefits and improve operational efficiency.
This telephony course aims at helping voluntary sector organisations to
save money, time, generate income and extend accessibility with existing
telephony systems and expose you to cutting edge telephony systems and
their benefits. If you are the Manager, Office administrator, ICT Officer,
or the person in charge of your organisation, then this course is for
you. Participants will receive a full guide recently developed by the
Telephone Helplines Association for the ICT Hub.
To register, please call: 0208 255 8040 or email: training@superhighways.org.uk
Support - Working Together-Enabling BAME participation
Black Neighbourhood Renewal & Regeneration Network (BNRRN) has a new
and exciting five year project funded by the Big Lottery that will support
Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and Refugee organisations (BAMER) in
20 London boroughs to engage in local decision making partnerships and
regeneration initiatives.
Organisations will be offered tailored support and trained volunteers to support this work. BNRRN would also like to hear from organisations that have over come barriers to local engagement as there is so much that can be shared.
For more information please contact Habiba Nabatu, Community Engagement Officer on 020 8981 3003 or email habiba@bnrrn.org.uk
Funding - Big Lottery's BASIS Programme
Open for applications: 31 March 2006 ; Application closing
date: 30 June 2006
Minimum grant: £10,001 ; Maximum grant: £500,000 for projects
within one region
Infrastructure services do vital work to help voluntary and community groups achieve their aims, through services such as training, providing information, representing community groups' interests, supporting networks and sharing good practice. The BASIS programme aims to improve the infrastructure support available to all voluntary and community sector organisations in England.
Round One of BASIS closed in June 2006. We invited 204 projects, with a value of £91.2 million, to make stage two applications. We expect to open a second round of BASIS in Spring 2008. Round Two will be much more focussed than Round One and we have consulted about what we propose funding. The consultation ended on 16 November. A summary of the responses we received can be more in the more information box on the right.
For further information click here.
Funding - Big Lottery's Young People's Fund 2
Open for applications: 5 December 2007 ; Application closing date:
4 April 2008
Minimum grant: £200,000; Maximum grant: £5 million
Up to £38 million will fund projects of national significance that involve young people in developing, running and reviewing policies and services and help deliver the five ‘Every Child Matters’ outcomes. Grants of up to £5 million are available (with an average grant size of £1 million) for projects that work with young people across England. We expect to fund approximately 20 projects.
Key aspects of the programme are as follows: Our focus is on changing the lives of young people by putting them in the lead; We will only fund projects that involve young people from start to finish; Grants will be available for up to five years; All projects must have beneficiaries from two or more of the nine England regions; Only voluntary and community sector organisations may apply.
For more information click here.
Funding - Future Builders - second phase
Deadline: April 2008
The Adventure Capital Fund (ACF) will take over management of Futurebuilders England on 1 April 2008. The relaunched Futurebuilders will have £65 million of new funds to help the third sector take up a larger role in delivering public services, in addition to the existing £150 million budget. The scheme will also be extended to the delivery of all public services, not just the themes of children and young people, community cohesion, crime, health and education that were covered in the first phase. For further information:www.futurebuilders-england.org.uk
Source: City & Hackney HSCF Newsletter
Funding - Social Enterprise Development Grants
The Adventure Capital Fund provides venture capital funding for community
enterprises. It is reviewing its Main Investment and Managed Workspace
Funds, so these are currently closed. Business Development Grants are
still open. These grants of up to £15,000 are for organisations
working towards the development of a social enterprise arm or trading
activities.
For further information contact: Adventure Capital Fund;
Tel. 020 7488 3455;
Email: info@adventurecapitalfund.org.uk;
website: www.adventurecapitalfund.org.uk
Source: City & Hackney HSCF Newsletter
Funding - Grassroots Grants
Grassroots Grants is a £130 million programme that aims to invest
in a thriving community sector. It is funded by Office of the Third Sector
(OTS) and delivered by the Community Development Foundation (CDF). The
programme, which will run from 2008-2011 will be divided into two parts:
an £80 million small grants fund for community organisations; and
a £50 million endowments programme to enable local funders to generate
additional donations on a matched basis and invest them in endowments,
thereby building their capacity to provide long-term funding for frontline
community organisations.
CDF is currently requesting applications from Third Sector
organisations to manage the small grant and endowment match challenge
elements of the Grassroots Grants programme in their area.
Between now and July 2008, CDF will be allocating the money to Local Funders.
Therefore, funding for grassroots community and voluntary groups will
not open until after July 2008, and will be subject to the timelines set
by the Local Funders. Details of the succesful Local Funders will be available
on CDF's website after July 2008. The deadline for applications to become
a local funder is 30 April 2008.
For further information click here.
Closing date, Friday 5th April 08
Salary: £24,690, 35 hrs a week (plus up to 15% performance related
pay); Three Year Contract
Working in East London and in Uganda, we aim to promote the social
inclusion and integration of the most vulnerable members of society,
particularly those from black and minority ethnic groups and refugees.
We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated person to assist us with
developing new services and fundraising for projects both here in the
UK and in Uganda. Based in Stratford, East London, you will also be
the lead member of staff, line managing the staff team. A minimum of
two years work experience around fundraising, developing new services
and a substantial understanding of the UK Voluntary Sector are absolutely
essential. Understanding of international development issues will be
an added advantage.
Please visit www.oneworldfoundation.org.uk
to download a detailed job description, person specification and application
form or contact us on 020 8555 0788.
The Foundation is striving to be an equal opportunities employer. Previous
applicants need not reapply.
14 hours per week – 1 year contract with possibility for renewal
; £18,200 pro rata
Closing date, Friday 5th April 08
One World Foundation Africa is looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated person to join our friendly and committed staff team. The Foundation is pleased to be running a national youth volunteering programme in partnership with V funding. The post holder will support young people from BME communities in East London around enabling them to access training, information and advice and gain valuable work experience through volunteering and placement projects.
Please visit www.oneworldfoundation.org.uk
to download a detailed job description, person specification and application
form or contact us on 020 8555 0788.
The Foundation is striving to be an equal opportunities employer. Previous
applicants need not reapply.
Closing Date: Friday, 28 March 2008
£22,086 - £23,916 p.a. inc.; Full time
Working with Therapists, you will support a wide range of clients in
their own homes or in the community to help achieve their rehabilitation
goals within 6 - 12 weeks. You could be increasing independence with
communication, mobility and personal care tasks.
You must be able to communicate effectively with a wide range of people
in person and in writing. You will have experience of working with therapists
in a health or social care setting. The ability to work in the community
and access clients' homes by public transport or by foot is also essential.
Through the Local Government Pension Scheme, the Council offer a generous
and competitive final salary scheme.
For further information and an application pack click here.
London Borough of Hackney
PO2: £31,350 - £33,777 p.a. inc. ; Full time; Fixed term
contract for two years initially
Closing Date: Wednesday, 26 March 2008
You will give clients with drug and alcohol issues a voice, enabling them to shape treatment provision by expanding and enhancing the Service User Council and Forum. You’ll also lead on the Hackney Drug and Alcohol User Involvement Strategy, and play a key role in identifying best practice. A trained officer with knowledge of providing services to this client group, you will have experience of liaising with colleagues, service providers and service users from a wide range of backgrounds and with a wide range of experience. You’ll also need an in-depth understanding of the challenges of user consultation.
For further information and an application form click
here.
For informal enquiries, please contact Charity Ukaegbu, Hackney DAAT
on 020 8356 2180.
