Contents: Events (6); Training (3); Awards (1); Funding (5) ; Jobs (4)
Wednesday 23 April 2008 ; 11:00 - 16:00
NCVYS, 3rd Floor, Lancaster House, 33 Islington High Street, N1 9LH
This round table event will inaugurate NCVYS (National Council for Voluntary Youth Services) BME Community of Interest and give participants the chance to discuss a range of issues informed by a number of key documents and reports. The draft agenda will be available online shorthly (click here).
The community of interest aims to provide a forum for on-going discussions that would empower staff and volunteers from member organisations in addressing some of the current challenges and opportunities around BME issues, social action and community cohesion. The group will discuss issues of common interest, share and develop good practice and receive targeted information around their specific area of youth work.
For further information and bookings contact Victor
Nkwo (telephone 020 7278 1041) or click
here.
The attendance is free-of-charge and lunch will be provided. The deadline
for bookings April 14th.
18th April 2008 ; 6-9pm
Ellen Brown Centre 145 Grange Road Bermondsey SE1 3EB
MyHealthnet is an innovative, frontline organisation
set up to provide health promotion, counselling and advocacy services
on health matters, targeting teenagers and young adults. MyHealthnet
also collaborates with local service providers, youth groups, other
VSO projects and other stakeholders locally in delivering our goals.
The events will incorporate AGM and MyHealthnet services including sexual
and reproductive health, counselling and psychosexual health and video
presentations and provide excellent networking opportunities. Speakers
will give presentations on the following themes:
- STIs and HIV / AIDS – Ending Stigma and Discrimination in sexual
health service delivery
- Mind the Gap: Sexual health and Mental health links under the microscope
- Sex Trafficking – the social and community health impact
For more information and to book a place please email secretary@myhealthnet.org.uk or tel: 07900241390
23 April 2008 - 7pm-9pm
SOAS, School of Oriental and African Studies, London WC1
Institutional racism, community cohesion, segregation, terrorism, Britishness, civil liberties ... the debate over the future of Britain is increasingly focused on race. One of the UKs leading community based anti-racist organisations has therefore brought together a distinguished panel to debate the issue of race in Britain.
Panel includes: Benjamin Zephaniah (poet and writer); Yasmin Alibhai Brown (Independent columnist); Nick Hardwick (Chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission); Gareth Peirce (Human Rights lawyer); Moazzam Begg (former detainee at Guantanamo Bay); Chair: Asad Rehman (Newham Monitoring Project).
Delegate fee £5. For further information click here.
Addressing mental ill-health, criminality and violence in the young
black community
13th May 2008 Time: 9.00am - 4.00pm
The Mermaid Conference & Events Centre, Puddle Dock, Blackfriars,
London EC4V 3DB
2008 is the year of the Mental Health Act implementation and the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Review. This event will play host to a keynote presentation by the internationally renowned Dr Na'im Akbar, one of the most inspirational and dynamic scholars in the field of Black mental health.
To download a flyer with ooking form click here.
REP KC(Race Equality Partnership Kensington and Chelsea) Membership
Meeting
17 April 2008; 4.00pm - 5.30pm); Westway Trust, 1 Thorpe Close, London
W10 5XL
Speakers: Sathnam Sanghera (The Times; Author of Recent Memoir which Explores Mental Illness among South Asians in UK); Malcolm Phillips (Oremi Centre); Patrick Williams (TUC, Black LGBT - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender - Network); Jayne Richardson (Race Relations & Hate Crime Co-ordinator, K&C Police); Karen Clarke (Police Community Consultative Group)
To book places, please email us at info@repkc.org.uk. For further information on REPKC click here.
The Terrence Higgins Trust is inviting migrant men who identify
as gay/bisexual to a 2-hour workshop on Thursday April 17th at 6.30pm
to assist with developing an information booklet and a website. They
need to have been in the UK for 3 years or less and come from countries
that are more economically disadvantaged, and/or English is not their
first language. THT us offering a small fee of £20 for people
who give us their time. Anyone interested should contact:
Sophia Purushothaman; Programme Development Officer; Health Promotion,
Terrence Higgins Trust
Tel. 020 7812 1788 ; Email: Sophia.Purushothaman@tht.org.uk;
Website:www.tht.org.uk
These are the new dates for the DLS (Disability Law Service) courses
for advisers and advocates
Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance, a Guide to
Successful Claims
Monday 12th May 2008; 10am - 1pm
An Introduction to Community Care Law
Wednesday 14th May 2008 ; 10am - 1pm
Disability Discrimination and Employment
Thursday 15th May 2008 ; 10am - 1pm
All sessions cost £65 per delegate per session for voluntary organisations
and £100 for other agencies. All courses are held at DLS offices
in Whitechapel, E1, which are fully accessible.
For full information about the courses and to book online please go to
www.dls.org.uk and
follow the links for training. If you would like to speak to someone about
the training or like more information via email please telephone Christine
Goodall, Development Officer on 0207 791 9828 or email christine@dls.org.uk.
Claiming asylum in the UK and financial support throughout the process.
One-day training course - 2 June and 22 September 2008; 9.30am –
4.30pm
NCVO, Regent’s Wharf, 8 All Saints Street, London N1 9RL
This new and practical one day course from Rights of Women (ROW) and the Asylum Support Appeals Project (ASAP) introduces participants to the law that determines who should receive asylum or human rights protection in the UK, how their claim is determined and what financial support they are entitled to. The course has a particular focus on the needs of asylum seeking women who are experiencing or have experienced gender-based violence.
All participants will receive a free copy of Rights of
Women’s latest publication 'Pathways to Justice:
BMER women, violence and the law'. For further information visit www.rightsofwomen.org.uk
or contact 020 7251 6575/6.
Training - Alice Tligui Training Courses - Summer 2008 London Programme
Alice Tligui is an experienced trainer specialising in subjects relating
to migration, community cohesion and integration. A former international
aid worker with experience in DRC, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Romania,
Sri Lanka, Uganda and Zambia, as well as 3 years as Chief Executive of
the International Health Exchange – a charity that trains health
workers to work abroad - she has a wealth of personal experience to draw
from in her current work. Since 2002, she has worked with refugee organisations
in the North West, training many public and voluntary sector workers in
the region in refugee awareness before setting up Alice Tligui Training
in 2005.
New Migrants: Rights & Entitlements
25 July 2008; Medact, The Grayston Centre, Central London
This information packed one day course will help those who work with new migrants to better understand the diversity of this group
The course will help participants to gain an understanding of the complexity
of the current systems of welfare, health and education entitlements for
new migrant groups including :
• Eastern European migrants
• Asylum Seekers and Refugees
• Workers and work seekers from Europe and beyond
• International students
• Those who have come to the UK to join family members
Women from Abroad and Domestic Violence
25 July 2008; Medact, The Grayston Centre, Central London
This one day course:
• Discusses the barriers faced by women from abroad in accessing
support services.
• Looks in detail at the immigration rules as they apply to women
who have suffered domestic violence.
• Looks at the current policy and availability of support for both
those who have suffered domestic abuse and trafficked women.
• Works through a number of cases and scenarios.
• Examines what individuals and organisations can do to help.
Course Fees: Statutory sector £105 Voluntary sector £85
Community sector £55
For further information and booking forms please email Val Kay, Course
Co-ordinator: val_virgo1@yahoo.co.uk
or visit www.alicetliguitraining.co.uk
Awards - London Health Commission Awards 2008
The London Health Commission Awards 2008 aim to recognise and reward achievement
in tackling health inequalities across London. This year the focus is
'Community Action for Health and Well-being'. Voluntary and community
groups located in the 33 London boroughs and working on health and well-being
will be able to apply for awards in six categories. Winners will receive
£1000, a promotional film about their organisation made to their
requirements, training courses, meeting and exhibition space, photography
and web site support.
For further information click here or contact: Alison Blackwood tel: 020 7700 8217 e-mail: alison@lvsc.org.uk. The deadline for application forms is 30th April 2008.
Funding - Grassroots Grants
The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust generally funds work under programme
areas including:
Peace - Work that promotes the nonviolent resolution of conflict, including work on the arms trade, the creation of a culture of peace, developing effective peacebuilding measures and supporting the right to conscientious objection to military service.
Racial justice - Work which promotes racial justice in all parts of society, including empowering black and minority ethnic people to engage in decision making and policy development, and work which monitors and challenges racism and racial injustice whether relating to colour or culture.
Power and responsibility - Work that encourages an appropriate relationship between people and the institutions that affect them; including the promotion of accountability, openness, responsiveness and a respect for human rights across the public and private sectors.
Applications can be sent in at any time. However, at present the Trust has only three grant cycles each year. The next round's deadline is 28 April 2008 (decisions by 14 July).
For further information click here.
Funding - Prince's Trust Community Cash Awards
Community Cash Awards are grants of up to £5,000 to help young people
set up a project that will benefit their community.
What's the catch? There isn’t one. You just have to come up with an idea for a project that will improve life in a local community in the UK. Maybe a new basketball court, a music studio, a youth club, sex education workshops in schools, a youth advisory board, even a local magazine.
Who can apply? Anyone who is aged 14-16 and is in school, but struggling; or aged 16-25, unemployed or working less than 16 hours a week.
For further information click here or call 0800 842 842.
Funding - Funding for Disabled People Organisations
Next deadline for applications: 30 May 2008
The Trust for London is calling for applications from small, disabled-led
organisations involved in, or who are interested in developing, campaigning
and advocacy activities. One of the Trust’s key current aims is
to support user-led work that directly challenges discrimination faced
by disabled people. The Trust works within the social model of disability.
This includes all disabled people including those with mental health issues,
people living with HIV/AIDS, and those living with other chronic health
conditions. We are particularly interested in work that addresses multiple
disadvantages, for example, the double discrimination faced by disabled
people from Black and minority ethnic (BME) communities.
Funding is available for work that: Encourages disabled people to have
a stronger voice with service providers, policy-makers and increases involvement
in public debate; Campaigns to improve the quality of life for disabled
people, locally or nationally; Includes self-advocacy groups of people
with learning difficulties.
Full guidelines are available at www.trustforlondon.org.uk. For further information you can contact one of Trust for London officers on 020 7606 6145 or e-mail trustforlondon@cityparochial.org.uk
Source: HSCF Mailout
Funding - Bursaries to study cultural management
Deadline: 30 May 2008
Bursaries to the value of £550 are on offer to study Culture, Policy and Management at City University in London to eligible candidates who have had substantial involvement with the cultural sector on a voluntary basis. This is designed to help volunteers pursue careers in theatres, museums, galleries etc. For further informatio visit: www.city.ac.uk/cpm/courses/scholarships.html
Source: HSCF Mailout
Funding - Tree Council Grants
The Trees for Schools' and ‘Community Trees' grants will fund projects
between £100 and £700 for schools and community groups within
the UK who can demonstrate that children under the age of 16 will be actively
engaged in planting projects.
Successful applicants will have to focus there planting projects during
National Tree Week from the 26th November – 7th December 2008. The
closing date for applications is 31st May 2008.
For further information visit: http://www.treecouncil.org.uk/?q=grants
Source: BTEG e-alert
Salary £23,279. Location: London. Ref No: L/00122
Closing date for applications is Tuesday 29th April 2008
The Secretary to the Chief Executive plays a key role by providing high-level administrative and organisational support to the Chief Executive and the Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive, ensuring that all the functions of the office are organised effectively. This includes pro-actively managing the Chief Executive’s diary, co-ordinating and servicing internal and external meetings, liaising with a wide range of people and organisations, including senior staff in government departments, voluntary sector and refugee community organisations, managing information systems and dealing with correspondence, and carrying out a wide range of administrative duties.
For further information and an application pack click here.
Salary:£31,351 - £33,777 ; Location:City of London
Closing Date:21 April 2008
You will lead and manage WRC’s Development and Sustainability
team and the new Building a Sustainable Women’s Sector Project,
ensuring all targets are met.
The Building a Sustainable Women’s Sector Project will support
the Women’s Voluntary and Community Sector, including visiting
organisations based in London who are working to improve the status
of women individually and in groups to help diagnose concerns, issues
and opportunities and provide strategic support and advice to management
committees and staff for their ongoing development and sustainability.
You will be a key member of WRC's Senior Management Team and an integral
part of our passionate and committed staff team.
Excellent terms & conditions, including 5% pension contribution, 25 days annual leave (pro rata, plus bank holidays), flexible working and time off in lieu.
For further information and an application pack click here.
Hours negotiable: 28 to 35 ; £30,000 - £34,000pa pro
rata
Closing date : Friday 18th April. Interviews held Tuesday 29th April
The Mapesbury Clinic provides refugees and asylum seekers with culturally and linguistically appropriate counselling, psychotherapy and support services. The Clinical Manager will be responsible for all clinical aspects of the service. The post holder will have the opportunity to play a leading role in shaping the direction of the Clinic, building upon the services currently offered. Working as part of a small team, the Manager will ensure high clinical standards, undertake client assessments and supervision, provide oversight of counsellors and possibly carrying a small caseload.
The successful applicant will need a minimum of five years post-qualification experience as an Adult Psychotherapist, including work with refugees or experience of refugeedom. Experience of assessment and supervision and registration with the UKCP or with a similar recognised professional body is also essential. Fluency in a second language relevant to the Clinic’s population would be an advantage.
For further information and application materials visit www.minstercentre.org.uk
or www.mapesburyclinic.org.uk
; e-mail Clinic@minstercentre.org.uk,
Tel: 020 7644 6250.
Recruitment: The Minster Centre, 20 Lonsdale Road, London NW6 6RD
Salary:£22,295 per rata; 10 hours per week. Location:Kensington
& Chelsea
Closing Date:22 April 2008
We are a local active voluntary group funded by City Bridge Trust. The main focus of our work is campaigning on local issues that impact on the lives of older people, and we need an enthusiastic and committed individual to come and help us co-ordinate and adminster our activites and workload.
Your main duties will include, managing our membership database for which you must be computer literate, organising and overseeing our mail outs to members and contacts, some typing, help to develop a forum newsletter, helping organise and manage events, booking venues for our meetings, taking and sending out minutes, filing and photocopying, and dealing with forum members and other callers on the phone.
For further information and application pack contact 020 7820 6781.
