Contents: Moda's News (1); Events (7); Training (2); Publications (2); Funding (3) ; Jobs (6)
Deadline: 31 August 2008
This project aims to support small and medium community organisations in areas of capacity-building needs identified by the groups themselves. As part of our 2008 progarmme. we are now in the process of recruiting 10-15 community groups to provide them with free1-2-1 targeted technical support to build up their governance and operational structures, help them with business and project planning and management and increase their access to resources and funding. The groups will be selected on ‘first come, first serve” basis. If you wish to be considered for support please fill in the online form: Outreach Capacity Building Support. (Click here )
Making Youth Led Policy Recommendations to address Gangs and Weapons
use in London
ROTA Conference, Monday 21st July 2008, 10.00-16.00
Boyhood to Manhood Foundation, The Can Mezzanine, 32-36 Loman Street,
SE1 0EE
This youth-led project aims to provide evidence-based
policy recommendations around the existence of gangs and the use of
weapons in London. The event will present the findings of this two year
project which combined desk research, training and fieldwork with young
Londoners from all backgrounds. This study provides guidance and actively
encourages youth led approaches to tackling gangs and the use of weapons.
The event will launch the report and DVD and also gain feedback on the
study’s recommendations and provide a forum for discussion. The
event will feature presentations by young people and youth led workshops
by Foundation 4 Life, Independent Academic Research Studies and Choice
FM’s Peace on the Streets Team, among many others.
Further information: Carlene Firmin carlene@rota.org.uk
: 020 7729 1310
To Book a place please go to http://www.rota.org.uk/pages/ROTAEvents.aspx
Seminar, Friday 25th July 10.30 – 16.30
Middlesex University, The Burroughs, Hendon
The Middlesex University Social Policy Research Centre is launching two recent comparative European research projects which explore aspects of the integration and inclusion of non-EU migrants. It will also discuss the broader conceptual and policy issues arising from these projects. Presentations will focus on both the UK situation and recent developments in the EU and include researchers from the projects at Middlesex University as well as external speakers.
The Research Projects
The MITI (Migrant Integration Territorial Index (UK, Italy (lead), France, Spain, Portugal) part of the EU’s INTI programme, critically explored the meaning of integration and the EU agenda of measuring integration in order to develop policy targets. This project reviewed national and EU policy on integration and explored the possibilities of using existing data sets to measure integration.
Civic stratification, gender and family migration policies in Europe (UK, Austria, Spain, France, Czech Republic, Netherlands) examined how immigration legislation affected different kinds of family migrants and their responses to it. It was based on policy analysis and interviews with NGOs, policy makers, academics and individual family migrants.
For further information and to register please contact Eleonore Kofman: e.kofman@mdx.ac.uk
Discussion Meetin - Saturday 9 August, 2pm, London
A message from Sandi Rance, Community Champions:
Since the Community Champions and Big Boost programmes
ended in March this year the London office has closed and Scarman is
now part of the national Novas Scarman group. Community Champions (Years
2000 - 2007) are now looking for a way to keep in touch with each other
and grow. To this end we have a discussion meeting arranged for Saturday,
2 pm August 9 at Gharweg, the Multi Resource Centre 5 (5a Westminster
Bridge Road, 5 minutes from Waterloo and Elephant and Castle stations).
Unfunded, we are asking for a £5 entry fee - towards the hall
hire and a 'fighting fund'. Our aim is to set up a Council of Community
Champions, a Londonwide network.
I would ask those interested to let me know ASAP by e-mail sandirance@talktalk.net
and I will keep them informed.
10 July, 9.30 - 16.00; NCVO, London
This event will bring together refugees and refugee community organisations with other voluntary and community sector organisations to discuss how all services can work better with refugees.
What the event aims to do: Increase people's confidence in providing
services to refugees; Help with signposting to specialist services;
Make mainstream services more accessible and available to refugees;
Challenge some of the assumptions about working with refugees.
We want to link the work at this event with the recommendations made
by the Board of Refugee and Asylum Seeker Integration in London's strategy,
"London Enriched".
This event is particularly aimed at mainstream Voluntary and Community Sector organisations who want to improve how they work with refugees, but we are also keen for refugees and members of refugee community organisations to attend to share their experiences and inform the debate.
For further information click here.
Tuesday, 24th July 2008; 13:00pm – 4:00pm (including lunch)
City Parochial Foundation Offices: 6 Middle Street, London, EC1A 7PH
The Safeguarding African Children Network has been established by AFRUCA to provide an opportunity for mutual learning and support among African communities and faith organisations working in the area of or interested in the welfare of African children in London. The Network also aims bring to the attention of policy makers and practitioners issues and concerns regarding the needs of African children and their own experiences and expertise in addressing them. Guest Speaker: Leethen Bartolomew, Community Partnership Officer, London Borough of Hackney.
RSVP - Justin Bahunga, Policy Officer, AFRUCA. Tel: 0207 704 2261, Email: Justin@Afruca.org
CITAS (Community Interpreting, Translation and Access Service) is a
non-profit making organisation that provides interpreting and translation
services in over 55 languages to local people accessing health, social
services, housing legal and education services.
CITAS Annual General Meeting will take place on 9 July 2008 from 6.00pm at The Irish Centre, Blacks Road, W6 9DT. Everone is invited! For further information click here.
2 August 2008, 2-4pm
EPI Centre, 41 West Street, Leytonstone E11 4LJ.
Bangladeshi Women’s Society (BWS) is inviting
all their networking partners to attend their AGM and support the event.
For further information tel. 02085395523 or email: h_bangladesh@hotmail.com.
Thursday 10th July; 3pm
– 4.30pm; City and Hackney Mind, 312, Kingsland Road, E8 4DE
Training by Claudia Anderson - Employment Coach for Team Hackney/East
London NHS
Race, Equality and Cultural Competency training programme was devised in order to address cultural differences in society, and to look specifically at inequality and racism in mental health services, focusing on the importance of BME service users and carers involvement in mental health service development in order to provide good practice and improve mental health services for everyone.
As part of the Race Equality and Cultural Competency Programme, the objectives of this training session is to identify themes of institutional discrimination and inequality, to highlight the broader patterns of institutional discrimination in mental health services, and define more clearly what is meant by race equality in services. The session will enable us to discuss ways in which mental health parishioners operate within their own services and highlights models that compare service – led professional approaches to a more holistic approach generated by service users.
To book a place contact Claudia on: 07507–644601 or email: claudia.anderson@eastlondon.nhs.uk
Trustee roles and responsibilities - Wednesday
16 July 08
Introduction to fundraising - Monday 21 July 08
Business planning - Monday 28 July 08
Preparing a funding application - Friday 08 August 08
Strategic planning - Thursday 21 August 08
To book a place, please call our training programme support officers at 020 7723 1216 or email at training@vawcvs.org. For further details on any of our courses, please visit our website at www.vawcvs.org/uploads/training_programme_final.pdf
Publications - UK Borders Agency singles out BME Businesses for fines
UKBA's recent "name and shame" list shows that the majority
of businesses fined in May for the employment of undocumented migrants
were black and minority ethnic takeaway shops and restaurants. This information
supports wider concerns about the negative impact of the new Points Based
System on ethnic minority businesses.
Further analysis and information in the latest Migrant
Rights Network special bulletin:
http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/enews/2008/specialbulletin_june.pdf
Publications - The New Londoners Newspaper - issue 2
Colin Firth, Mark Haddon and Eugene Hutz of Gogol Bordello are all featured
in the second issue of the New Londoners, a free London paper put together
by volunteers to offer a voice to refugees and immigrant living in London.
By reporting on the issues of the contributions made by immigrants to
London, the Newspaper hopes to dispel some of the myths often heard about
refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants.
Further information can be accessed here: http://www.thenewlondoners.co.uk
For copies of the paper, please contact the Editor, Nazek Ramadan: nazek@migrants.org.uk
source: UKREN Update
Funding - Hackney Funding Programme 2009/10
Applications open 8 July; Closing date 5pm, Monday 29 September
2008
Hackney Council is inviting the Voluntary and Community Sector organisations and groups based in Hackney to apply for 2009/10 Hackney Funding Programme. Funding is available to support activities that fit with the objectives below:
1 - Cohesive Communities - Contributing to cohesive communities
by reducing inequalities.
2 – Promoting health and well being - Supporting independent living
and tackling health inequalities by promoting health, well being and healthy
lifestyles.
3 – Citizenship and pride in Hackney and its environment - Facilitating
and encouraging more people to get involved as active citizens in community
life.
4 – Advice Services - Delivering social welfare advice against the
priorities set out in the Hackney Advice Strategy.
5 – Improving outcomes and life chances for children and young people
- Encouraging healthy lifestyles, improving services for families with
children with disabilities, safety, increasing education and training
opportunities for 14-19 year olds, and play in each of Hackney’s
four neighbourhoods.
Application packs are available at: www.hackney.gov.uk/communitypartnerships.htm
or call 020 8356 4066 or email: communitypartnerships@hackney.gov.uk
For help and support please contact Hackney Council for Voluntary Service
(HCVS) on 020 7923 1962 or email:info@hcvs.org.uk.
HCVS will run funding workshops between July and September.
Information is also available from the website at www.hcvs.org.uk
Funding - Opportunities for Volunteering 2009-12
Closing date for receipt of application: Friday 29th August 2008.
Volunteering England funding programme is now open for applications. This year VE is interested in funding projects that involve volunteers in the following types of health and social care activities:
• Health promotion
• Health advocacy
• Supported volunteering
• Support for people with specific health conditions not covered
by other National Agents
• Befriending and support for people with specific health and social
care needs
• Projects that demonstrate a link between volunteering in health
and social care activities and employment.
Last year VE made 15 grants out of a total 476 applications. If you have
any questions regarding this grants programme or your application, please
contact the grants helpline on 020 7520 8991 Tuesday – Thursday
between 1- 4pm. For further information and to download the application
form and guidelines click
here.
Funding - Community Empowerment Cross Cutting Network Investment programme
Closing Date: Monday, 14 July
Are you a local community network for local people or organisations in Hackney which helps shape the way services are delivered? You could apply for a CEN Cross-cutting network grant of up to £3000. Please contact: Liz Hughes on 020 7923 8184 or email liz@hcvs.org.uk
source: HSCF Newsletter
Closing date: Friday 11 July 2008. Interviews w/c 21 July 2008.
Time banking brings people together to share their skills and support each other. Paxton Green Time Bank is just starting up. This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in its development.
Development Manager - Hours: 35 hours per week;
Salary: £31,500; Contract : To March 2010
The Development Manager will manage and develop the Time Banking service
and secure its long-term viability. The successful applicant will be a
strategic thinker, with effective project and planning skills, able to
motivate and influence others. The person will be a self-starter with
proven leadership experience and a track record of successful fundraising
and delivering outcomes.
Time Bank Broker - Hours: 35 hours per week; Salary:
£25,000; Contract: To March 2010
The Time Bank Broker will run the day-to-day operations of the Time Bank,
engaging and developing relationships with local partners and members
and building the reputation and effectiveness of the Time Bank. The successful
applicant will have excellent communication and administrative skills.
They will have experience of working with people from disadvantaged backgrounds
and with groups.
For an application pack email pgtimebank@googlemail.com.
Please state which post you are applying for.
Closing date for receipt of applications: Wednesday 16th July
Islington Voluntary Action Council is recruiting to two posts, which will develop innovative new work with people involved in local voluntary and community action.
Development Officer: Training - £30,014 p.a.
Hours 35 pw
To lead on the development of local training opportunities.
Development Officer: EC1 New Deal - £30,014
p.a. Hours 35pw
To lead on supporting individuals and organisations involved in building
a strong and sustainable community in the EC1 area
This work is supported with funding from EC1 New Deal for Communities. IVAC is adjacent to the Angel shopping centre with excellent public transport links. We provide 30 days annual leave plus public holidays and have negotiated substantial discounts on use of borough leisure facilities for our staff. Salaries are paid on the NJC scale.
For further details about these posts and an application form please visit IVAC web site (click here). For an application pack please call or write to IVAC' recruitment advisor, Anne Gadson, on 01494 478801, email ivac@hradvantage.co.uk.
Are you a woman living in Tower Hamlet, Newham, Redbridge or Waltham
Forest? Want valuable experience for your CV? Then, please join our
Management Committee.
BWS is a registered charity organisation. It is managed and run by
an elected management committee, who are governed by a constitution.
Elections for the management committee, takes place every two years
at the Annual General Meeting of the Bangladeshi Women’s Society.
The management Committee is made up of a number of people, mainly Bangladeshi
women or other community, who believes our aims and objective also have
a wider range of talents, abilities and experience from all sectors
and fields appropriate to the work of BWS. We are also constantly talking
to people in the local area who may be able to add their skills to the
board.
For further information contact BWS on 0208 539 5523 or email: h_bangladesh@hotmail.com.
Closing day: 11 July 2008
Salary: £ 25,000 pro rata (£ 15,000 per annum based on 3
days a week)
Naz Project London provides sexual health and HIV services to targetted Black and Minority Ethnic communities in London. We are looking for an energetic and innovative permanent part-time South-Asian Gay Men's Worker to lead on our sexual health promotion and STI/HIV prevention work with South Asian gay and bisexual men in North West London.
To apply contact Laurent Burel, Laurent@naz.org.uk or 020.8741.1879
Salary £23,279 Fixed term to March 2012; Ref No: L/00144/R
Closing date for applications: Monday 21st July 2008
Refugee communities have a history of establishing Refugee Community Organisations (RCOs). In ‘Integration Matters’, the national strategy for refugee integration, Refugee Community Organisations are defined as “organisations run by and for refugees. They provide advice and support, often informally, and act as bridges to mainstream services and other local groups”. The number of RCOs, estimated through the development phase of the ‘BASIS – RCO Infrastructure Building’ Project is 668 RCOs across all the English regions.
The Project Assistant is key to ensuring the Project operates effectively. A vital point of contact for the team and steady administrator, the post-holder also needs to be able to engage intelligently with a range of subject areas to help ensure decision-making is well informed and evidence-based. The Project is at an early, exciting stage of development as such this role may best suit someone who will thrive in an environment that is under development.
For furhter information and an application pack click here.
