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 )

• General Health information
• Health checks (weight measuring, blood pressure, diabetes) and Sexual & Reproductive Health advice & information
• Stop smoking information
• Physical activity/ stress relief [women only]
• Healthy living & community dieticians

For further information please phone on 020 8960 4000.

Age Exchange aims to improve the quality of life of older people by emphasising the value of their reminiscences to young and old, through pioneering artistic, educational and therapeutic activities.

Age Exchange is internationally known for work in all fields of reminiscence, including theatre, publishing, exhibitions, inter-generational and dementia care projects and training workshops.

For further information click here.

If you wish to discuss these courses please contact berniearigho@age-exchange.org.uk

Rights of Women works to attain justice and equality by informing, educating and empowering women on their legal rights. They core services include two advice lines which offer free, confidential legal advice to women. They also specialise in providing high quality, practical and accredited legal training in the area of women’s rights.

They offer the following list of training for autumn/winter 2008:

• Meeting the needs of trafficked women: immigration and criminal law
  London 10 September 2008, 9.30am – 1pm
  
• Pathways to Justice: BMER women, domestic violence and relationship breakdown
  London 5 November 2008, 9.30am – 1pm

• Forced marriage: the new law
  London 6 October 2008, 9.30am – 1pm
  
• Protecting women from persecution: claiming asylum in the UK and financial support throughout the process
  London 22 September 2008, 9.30am – 4.30pm
  
• Finding refuge: gender-based violence and seeking asylum in the UK
  London 1 October 2008, 9.30am – 1pm
  
• Supporting survivors of domestic violence: law and practice
  London 27 November 2008, 9.30am – 4.30pm
  
• Supporting survivors of sexual violence: law and practice
  London 3 December 2008, 9.30am – 4.30pm

Please contact the Training Officer with any enquiries on 020 7251 6575/6 or training@row.org.uk.

9 and 11 September 2008

AdviceUK London Team is holding 2 free seminars in September for advice organisations looking at workforce sustainability and governance issues. Please distribute this information to your members and feel free to advertise it in your mailings, website and other media.

Workforce sustainability - Getting the balance right
How can advice centres invest in workforce development in the current funding environment?

The Sustainable Advice Project (S.A.P.) and the Governance Project will host a joint seminar on workforce sustainability. Advice organisations and Trustees will have the opportunity to meet together with other members and at the same time hear from a range of speakers that will seek to address questions on how members can meet the challenges and opportunities presented by workforce sustainability.
The sessions will focus on the following issues around workforce development:

• Attracting the right people - skills recruitment and retention
• Overcoming barriers to staff development
• Addressing skills and training needs
  

Click here to download info and booking form. If you are interested in attending or have any queries please complete the Booking Form and return to: Siobhan Hogan, Advice Services Development Worker, tel: 020 7407 662 or email: siobhan.hogan@adviceuk.org.uk for further information.

Wednesday 3rd September 2008, 9.30am-4pm
Paddington Arts

ENYAN (English National Youth Arts Network), is pleased to announce this FREE one-day seminar providing clarity around existing youth and arts related policy with particular reference to facilities and provision. Hear from the Greater London Authority who will be providing an overview of how the above has been integrated and will be delivered specifically within London.

This event also features a live youth consultation workshop with a diverse range of young people from across the city, facilitated by the British Youth Council, providing a fantastic opportunity to pose your questions and find out what young people actually want!

For further information regarding ENYAN please contact Anna Rubycz, ENYAN Development Manager, hello@enyan.co.uk or call 023 8063 0960.

RWA organises courses for refugee and migrant women.

For information & to book a place please come to the open days on:
Wednesday 10 September 2008 & Wednesday 17 September 2008, 11 am – 4 pm
Leroy House, 436 Essex Road, Room 3G (3rd floor), London N1 3QP

The Course is funded by London Development Agency. You do not pay any fee.
It is for unemployed Refugee women with ILR, ELR/HP and unemployed Migrant women
The course will run 4 days a week for 7 weeks from 10.00 to 2.30.
Travel Expenses will be paid.
RWA will contribute to your childcare expenses

For information & registration please contact: Roya or Hindu at RWA on 020 7923 2412 or email roya@refugeewomen.org.uk

Deadline for submission of bid is 13th August, 5pm

City & Hackney Teaching Primary Care Trust (CHtPCT) invites interested voluntary sector organisations to bid for a local bereavement counselling service for people aged 18 to 50, who are either registered with a City & Hackney GP or resident of London Borough of Hackney or Corporation of London.

During autumn 2007, City & Hackney tPCT undertook a baseline review of local End of Life Care Services. This review involved a wide range of organisations involved in local end of life services; it highlighted an initial range of key areas that further work or investment needed to take place, during 2008/2009. One such service that needed to be developed was a local bereavement counselling service for 18 to 50 year olds.

The overarching aims and objectives of this service are to:

• Deliver a Bereavement service to individuals and carers of individuals, aged 50 and under, living in the City and Hackney boroughs, who have been identified, either by themselves or by other health and social care professionals, as coping with the last phase of life;
• Work with identified individuals and their families and carers in both the pre- and post- EOLC phase;
• By means of this service, to enable a greater understanding locally of the issues facing individuals and their carers coping with the last phase of life and to feed this back by;
• Contributing to and participating in strategic discussions with regard to the development of End of Life Care services;
• Providing training for allied health professionals and others as identified on bereavement issues;
• To deliver the service in a flexible manner which takes account of Service Users racial and cultural or religious background and respects individual dignity and privacy.

If you are interested in receiving a copy of the service specification please contact Kelvin Hankins, Commissioning Manager – Community Health Services, Adults, at kelvin.hankins@chpct.nhs.uk

This free foundation-level course is aimed at students with a strong interest in Music and/or Arts Management. This foundation-level module is designed as a precursor to undergraduate study in Music & Arts Management, Performance or Composition; its six lectures and seminars also form a stand-alone "taster" course on the techniques, composition, history, performance and business of music.

Students who opt to take and pass the voluntary assessment will have the opportunity to progress to a degree programme, regardless of formal qualifications. Students not wishing to undertake assessment will receive a certificate of attendance outlining the areas studied.

Please note - All dates must be attended to participate in this course:

5th, 7th, 12th, 14th, 19th, and 21st August from 10.30-1.30pm daily - Middlesex University (Trent Park Campus)

To book your place go to www.summerunilondon.org and click on Barnet to view the course.

Application closing date: 27 August 2008
Ggrant: £10,001 - £500,000 for projects within one region (£750,000 for England-wide projects)
Total available: Up to £151 million (up to £50 million for Round two)

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 ensure that voluntary and community organisations throughout England have access to high quality support that will help them be more effective.

Before you apply, please read about the priorities, to find out if your project is something they may support (click here)

Deadline for applications to round one: 1 November 2008.

Faiths in Action is a £4 million grants programme open to faith, inter-faith, voluntary and community sector organisations at national, regional and local levels in England. The Fund aims to help faith communities and others to promote understanding, dialogue, and develop strong and sustainable partnerships.

Grants of up to £12,000 are now available in round one, to be spent over two years from April 2009 to the end of March 2011. Grants in round two will be up to £2,500, to be spent in one year from April 2010 to the end of March 2011.

There are four priorities for funding:

• Developing the confidence and skills to ‘bridge’ and ‘link’ - for activities that strengthen and increase the links between and within faith communities, and help develop good relationships between people of different faiths and beliefs;
• Supporting shared spaces for interaction and social action - funding to help establish and develop shared spaces for interaction and social action. This includes both physical and virtual spaces;
• Developing structures and processes which support dialogue and social action - work that supports meaningful interaction between different faith and belief communities and the wider community;
• Improving opportunities for learning which build understanding - for work that improves local formal and informal opportunities for learning about different faiths and beliefs.

More information on all this, along with the guidance notes, application form and details of the briefing events, is available from the Community Development Foundation website.

The maximum amount of funding:£750.
Deadline for completed applications: 29th August
Applicants will be informed by 5th September

The Peace Fund is a fundraising scheme which gives grants to local initiatives with the sole aim of bringing HOPE (Helping Other People Excel).

The Peace Fund will support a grassroots grant giving scheme to enable isolated and vulnerablecommunities develop their own peace initiatives. The Peace Fund will ensure that young people in particular are able to get involved in making their schools and communities better places to be in.

If you would like to apply for a small grant to participate in London Peace Week click here

Next deadline for applications: 12th August

Grants of between £50 and £500 are available from the Njoya Foundation, which aims to advance the life and education of boys between the ages of five and 15 of African and African-Caribbean descent.

The Foundation will fund projects that promote academic achievement and young people's growth through community-based personal development programmes. It is especially interested in funding projects teaching young people an awareness of business and finance. The Foundation only supports London-based projects, where the main benefactors are young males of African descent aged five to 15.

If you would like to apply click here

Part-time: 3 days a week starting immediately until mid October 2008

Olmec, a community investment foundation, is looking for a Promotion Assistant Volunteer to work alongside the Promotion Coordinator on the Bronze Woman Monument Project.

The Bronze Woman Monument Project is a wonderful community empowerment example. Thirty years ago, Cécile Nobrega had a vision, to see a statue erected as a lasting and public tribute to the contribution made by Caribbean women to the cultural, social and economic life of London. She believed their struggles and achievements would inspire future generations. Thanks to Olmec’s support, her dream will become reality when on the 8th of October 2008 the monument is unveiled in South London.

Olmec is offering a unique opportunity to gain solid event and marketing experience whilst being part of an amazing and dynamic project. You will be responsible for supporting with the planning, running and promotion of the unveiling ceremony and celebratory event. Key responsibilities include:

• Events coordination for both events
• Marketing support in developing promotion material
• Invitations management

They are looking for a graduate or post-grad student, confident with excellent English communication skills and able to commit at least 3 days a week until October. Lunch and travel expenses will be reimbursed.

Please email your CV with covering note to: brenda.poggio@olmec-ec.org.uk