Contents: Moda's News (2); Events (3); Training (3); Calls (2); Funding (5); Jobs (6)
and 4pm – 5pm (AGM)
MODA’s
Goldstar Conference and Annual General Meeting will take place on Thursday
19th February 2009 at St John’s Church (opposite Stratford shopping
centre with disabled access). The theme of the day is “Voluntary
Inspiration and Participation:involving volunteers from diverse communities”.
At our last AGM we had a wonderful celebration of exotic cuisines from
around the world from our diverse London communities. By popular demand
we are again inviting groups to apply to MODA for a small grant (£50
towards ingredients and travel costs) to bring some cultural foods. Grants
will be awarded to the first 10 applicants on a first come first served
basis. Please hurry to return the form below if your group wishes to take
part. We will then contact you to let you know if we are able to award
your group a display stall, or a grant to bring foods. Food will be served
at 1pm and there will be a prize awarded for the best presented culinary
dish!
Attendance to the conference and AGM is free. Please click here to book a place.
19th February is very close to the International Day for Mother Tongue Languages. We are encouraging groups to contact us if they would like to feature a MODA multilingual publication celebrating and promoting volunteering.
The
Community Leaders Development Programme aims to provide individuals from
Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and Refugee communities who live in London,
with a flexible and tailored range of leadership development opportunities.
This project has two elements: a programme of outreach, taster sessions
and entry level training; and a range of longer support options to provide
more intensive structured personal and professional development.
The programme is funded by the LDA Opportunities Fund Round 2 and is run
by London Voluntary Service Council in partnership with the School for
Social Entrepreneurs, Race on the Agenda, MODA and Charitytraining.com.
For
more information please click
here
Barnado's Lecture Series
Wednesday 21st January 2009; 6.15pm - 8.30pm; 61 Whitehall, London SW1A
2ET
This lecture is the third event in Barnardo's lecture series and addresses the tensions around our moral duty to protect asylum seeking children while they are in the UK whilst many children and their families awaiting decisions on their futures face destitution, abject poverty, racial harassment and demoralising uncertainty.
Why shouldn't this vulnerable group of children have the same rights as any other child? Why shouldn't this vulnerable group of families have the same rights as any other family? Hear Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty, give her views on the asylum system and answer questions from the audience.
The lecture will start at 6.15pm and will be followed by a free drinks reception at around 7.30pm where you can continue the debate and find out more about Barnardo's work helping children, young people and families survive the asylum application process. The lecture is open to the public and free to attend but please RSVP to lectures@barnardos.org.uk to guarantee your place. For further information click here.
Wednesday 4 February 2009, 9.30-5pm
The Graduate Centre, London Metropolitan University, Holloway Road,
London N7
This final Conference marks the successful completion of a European
project on Undocumented Worker Transitions. The project was funded
under the 6th Framework Programme of European
Commission, coordinated by the Working Lives Research Institute, London
Metropolitan University and carried out by seven partner institutions.
The Conference will report on the main findings of the project, focusing
on the pathways and experiences of undocumented migrants in seven
European Member States: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Italy,
Spain and the UK.
A platform of distinguished experts in the field of migration will contribrute in sessions on: Migration in Europe Today: Trends, Perspectives, Challenges; Shadow Economies, Legal Status and Migration; Managing Migration in the European Union; Migration and Labour Market Impacts.
For further information and to book a place visit: http://www.undocumentedmigrants.eu/
25th March 2009, London
For everyone who works with refugees: Your chance to influence
Government thinking on refugee integration.
The Home Office will publish a progress update on Refugee Integration
in early 2009. United Kingdom Border Agency (UKBA) has committed to
respond to the recommendations made by this conference – including
how we as practitioners can be involved in the solutions.
Click
here for a full programme
Keynote speakers include:
Jacqui Smith - Home Secretary (invited)
Trevor Phillips - Chair, Equalities and Human Rights Commission
Boris Johnson - Mayor of London (invited)
Donna Covey - Chief Executive, Refugee Council
Delegates will be invited to participate in a choice of four workshops run by our partner organisations. The workshops will examine integration issues from the perspective of:
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Housing - hosted by Caroline Davey, Deputy Director of Communications, Policy & Campaigns, Shelter
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Volunteering - hosted by Sian Greenhead, Project Manager, TimeBank and Chris Badman, Volunteer Development Manager, Refugee Council
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Education and employment - hosted by Chris Taylor, Development Officer (Literacy, Language and Numeracy), NIACE
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Children and families - hosted by Kim Maynard, Acting Senior Policy Officer, Barnardo’s
For more details or to book your place click here
Tuesday 3 March; 9:30 - 4:00; The Resource Centre; 356
Holloway Road; N7 6PA
Children England and VCS Engage are organising a series of workshops for small organisations on understanding contracting and becoming more ‘tender ready.' The sessions are open to organisations with annual incomes of under £50k who have not had a contract to deliver public services, but want to be ready to tender when the opportunity arises. They will be free of charge and limited to 25 participants.
For further information contact Jordan Thompson jordan@childrenengland.org.uk or click here.
3rd February 2009; Stratford, East London
12th March 2009, Notting Hill Gate
The Common Assessment Framework has created an opportunity to introduce a unique set of resources to help young people move from their present state to a desired state based around well-formed outcomes. The sets of CAF Cards and Road Sign Cards have been developed with young people by Positive Steps Oldham, and have recently, been named as winners at ICG The National Career Awards 2008, for initiatives focusing on social inclusion, innovation and outstanding practice.
London East Connexions has the opportunity to roll out CAF Card training across London and the South East. The cards allow the exploration of imagery to plan brighter futures and identify how to support and resource the change process. The cards are underpinned by Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) principles. They create an environment that encourages young people to explore new possibilities. They can help to lift the barriers. The young person becomes the owner of the keys for change. The cards will help young people to look at their lives differently, before exploring what to do and build a desire to change and set new goals.
Please note that this training day is NOT about how the Common Assessment Framework will work generally, but is about providing practitioners with a tool which will enhance their young person centred work.
For further information on this opportunity and to get an application
form contact:
Training & Development, London East Connexions Partnership,
email: training@londoneastconnexions.co.uk;
Tel: 020-8536-3630, Fax: 020-8534-2830
For further information on CAF cards visit: http://www.cafcards.co.uk/
Would you like to know:
What can you achieve through collecting oral history testimonies?
The benefits of Oral history to your community and to wider society?
And the availability of resources to enable you to do this?
Places are limited so please make sure you book your place by Friday
30th Jan 2009
Along with your application form you need to send a cheque of £20
deposit which is refundable when you attend the course
For a booking form and further information please contact: Refugeestories@evelynoldfield.co.uk
Calls - The Charity Awards 2009 – now open for entries
The Charity Awards recognise excellence in the leadership and management
of charities. They provide a wonderful opportunity for you propel your
charity’s work into the spotlight, to influence policy makers and
funders and to boost the morale of your staff and stakeholders.
The carefully designed nomination and judging process encourages a clear focus on the stages of a project from inception through to delivery, always keeping a close eye on the end results and the lessons learned along the way. The process is equally applicable to charities of all sizes.
Charities can nominate either a specific project or all of the work you undertake.The independent judging panel will take a range of factors into account and successful nominees will be able to demonstrate achievement in the Hallmarks of Excellence used to assess all entries.
The closing date for entries is Monday 9 March 2009. For further information click here.
Calls - Survey of organisations intered or working on FGM
The Women's Resource Centre has been asked by a group of independent charitable
funders to conduct an assessment of voluntary and community organisations
and projects in the UK which are:
- Currently working in the FGM (female genital mutilation) field; or
- Supporting women and girls who have experienced or are at risk of FGM;
or
- Interested in, or have the potential to work in this area.
The group of charitable funders is looking at possibly funding FGM work in the future. If you want to help shape decisions about possible future funding, complete our very brief survey available online (click here).
The survey closes on Tuesday 17 February at 3pm. For more information, please contact Tania Pouwhare at tania@wrc.org.uk or 020 7324 3030.
Funding - Women's Resource Centre - Hacnkey Funding Seminar
Thursday 29 January 2009; 9.30am - 2.00pm; Hackney CVS
Come listen and pose your questions to inspiring experts in fundraising, commissioning, trading and partnership building. They will share pearls of wisdom about how you could make your organisation more financially stable. There will also be an opportunity to network with other women'sorganisations at the event.
This event is free and open to all women’s organisations in London. Lunch will be provided whilst you network. You will also have the opportunity to sign up for further support offered by the Women’s Resource Centre to enable you to diversify your income and make yourselves more sustainable.
For further information and bookings click here.
Sport England has published its new funding strategy, setting out the
investment programmes that will be available to organisations delivering
grassroots sport from April 2009.
Funding sport in the community explains how investment will be focussed on organisations and projects that can deliver the key outcomes of Sport England’s overall strategy - ‘grow, sustain and excel’.
Sports clubs, voluntary and community organisations, local authorities and education establishments will be able to apply to these four open-access funding streams worth a maximum of £45 million per year:
- Up to £30 million will be invested via regular themed funding
rounds that meet specific needs of community sport
- £7 million will be available in small grants of between £300
and £10,000 to support sporting projects across England
- £3 million will be distributed through Sportsmatch, enabling community
clubs to make the most of the funding they receive from the private sector
by matching that investment
- £5 million will be invested, through a new Innovation Fund, in
projects that identify and pilot new ways of promoting and supporting
grassroots sport.
Sport England will also invest £10 million per year of capital funding in projects that promote a sustainable approach to community facilities. This capital funding will be in addition to the facilities funding awarded to national governing bodies of sport (NGBs).
For further information click here.
CapacityBuilders is making available grants of up to £30,000 to
support smaller-scale improvements within existing resource centres, such
as improvements to the availability, accessibility or quality of accommodation
- or shared facilities such as additional meeting rooms, office or storage
space - better ICT, or access to resources such as a common library.
The first phase is open for applications until the 31st January. For further information click here
London Rebuilding Society (LRS) has achieved a milestone in lending: in
December it made its100th loan since it was launched in 2001. LRS has
now made loans totalling £2.7 million, with an average loan size
of £27k.
The target was reached with a recent loan of £14,000 to African Women Enterprise Group. AWEG improves the quality of life of people of African origin in Greater London by providing youth mentoring and coaching, women’s health and employment support, and cultural activities. This loan was made from LRS’ Mutual Aid Fund, a scheme to provide microfinance loans by training communities to manage their own microloan fund.
LRS provides loan finance and business training to social and ethical enterprises – organisations which have social, ethical or environmental aims in addition to making profits. Unlike the commercial banking sector, where lending has almost stopped, LRS is continuing to lend where its funds can provide most benefit to the community, creating and sustaining jobs as well as supporting the voluntary sector.
For further information about LRS's work click
here.
The Fund distributed over £4 million last year with grants ranging
from £500 to £150,000.
Deadline: Meetings of the Trustees are usually held in June and early
December each year.
Applications should be submitted no later than 1 May or 1 October for
consideration at the next meeting.
The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund’s area of interest is learning disability. By the term ‘learning disability’, the Fund means the conditions generally referred to as severe learning difficulties, together with autism. In this area, they consider projects concerning children or adults. They do not give grants for research into, or care of, those with mental illness or dyslexia.
For more infromation please click here.
London Voluntary Service Council are looking for new voluntary trustee
board members to help lead the organisation up to and beyond its centenary
celebrations in 2010.
This is a great opportunity to contribute to strategic leadership in a regional voluntary sector body. The Board meets five times a year in North London. For more information click here.
Salary: PO1 starting at £15,764 (actual) + 5% pension supplement;
Hours: 17.5 per week
Closing date: 5.00 pm on Monday 2 February 2009; Interview date: Wednesday
11 February 2009
This is a new project funded for 4 years by London Councils to establish a South East London Advice Network for Refugees and Asylum Seekers and recently arrived BAME communities. It will provide generalist advice on an outreach basis across the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lewisham and Southwark.
We are now recruiting for the Senior Adviser who will be employed by Southwark CABx Service as the lead agency. In addition to providing advice directly to clients, you will be responsible for monitoring the quality of work of 2 part time advisers and for ensuring that London Councils monitoring requirements are met. You will need significant recent experience (paid or unpaid) of generalist advice work and be able to demonstrate an understanding of the issues facing BAME and refugee communities. An ability to speak one or more of the following languages is desirable: Spanish, Portuguese, French, Somali, Kurdish, Farsi.
For an application pack please email : franchise@southwarkcabservice.org.uk
£35,000 pa, plus 4% employers pension contribution
Closing date for applications: 10.00am Monday 9 February 2009
Asylum Aid is a unique charity that combines the provision of legal
representation, with highly effective campaigning for a fair asylum
system in the UK and Europe.
We are recruiting to a new, senior, post of Operations Manager, who
will be responsible for overseeing the core business activities of the
charity, including finance, human resources, premises management, IT
and general administration. We are looking for someone with excellent
organisational skills, a good understanding of finance and IT issues,
and the all-round confidence and ability to deliver core services of
the highest standard in support of our vital work.
Download the recruitment pack from www.asylumaid.org.uk.
For an informal, confidential, conversation about the post, please call
Asylum Aid’s Director, Maurice Wren, on 020 7354 9631 (ext 201).
Salary 54,498 -57,336; Contract Permanent; Hours Full Time
At the Learning Trust, we know just how exciting Hackney's future looks. A future that's largely going to be determined by today's younger generation - the very people we're working so hard to help and develop
Linden Children's Centre has grown from the combination of an existing Sure Start local programme and an early years nursery. We are registered to provide 89 childcare places including creche and playgroup facilities. We provide quality health care and education to all families particularly focusing on vulnerable and low income families.
We are seeking a dynamic, innovative, forward-thinking individual with effective leadership skills, to lead a multi agency team consisting of nursery education officers, teachers, midwives, public health coordinators, family support workers, social workers, psychologists, etc. You will ensure that Hackney's Children's Centre core offer is planned and coordinated across the Children's Centre cluster in collaboration with key stakeholders to ensure high quality integrated services for young children and their families.
For further information and an application pack click here.
Child Trafficking Officer
Salary £26,000, plus 6% pension contribution (pro rata 21
hours per week) (one year initial contract)
Closing Date: 5pm, 9 February 2009 ; Interviews: Week beginning 23 February
2009
AFRUCA – Africans Unite Against Child Abuse is the premier charity
promoting the rights and welfare of African children in the UK.
Our Safeguarding Victims of Child Trafficking in London project is aimed
at strengthening our ongoing provision of support to young Africans
(12-21 years) who have been abused through trafficking for sexual exploitation
and domestic servitude in London and the South East. We are looking
for a Child Trafficking Officer to manage this project. Their key role
will be the provision of practical support and assistance to young survivors
of trafficking as well as conducting awareness raising activities on
child trafficking within the London African community.
With at least 3 years experience of working with vulnerable young people,
you must have a strong commitment to the rights and welfare of children
and young people, a sound understanding of child trafficking and exploitation
issues in the UK and in Africa and the impact on victims. You must be
a self starter, able to work on your own initiative while delivering
impressive results. You must be a good communicator, with excellent
written, oral as well as presentation skills. You must have at least
2 years experience of outreach work in the African community sector.
As our Child Trafficking Officer, you will champion AFRUCA’s role
of combating the trafficking of African children and young people and
in providing support to those who approach us for help.
All staff are required to undergo a National Records Bureau enhanced
disclosure to confirm their suitability working for a children’s
charity.
Family Outreach Worker
Starting Salary £25,000, plus 6% pension contribution
(one year initial contract)
Closing Date: 5pm, Monday 9 February 2009; Interviews: Week beginning
23 February 2009
AFRUCA – Africans Unite Against Child Abuse is the premier charity
promoting the rights and welfare of African children in the UK.
Our Child Protection Training for African Parents in London project
is a five year project working with parents in four local authorities
across London to develop positive parenting skills and enhance their
knowledge of the indicators of child abuse so children can be better
protected from abuse and harm. We are looking for a Family Support Officer
to manage this project.
With five year’s experience of community outreach work, you must
have a strong commitment to the rights and welfare of children. You
must be a self starter, able to work on your own initiative while delivering
impressive results. You must be a good communicator, with excellent
written, oral as well as presentation skills. You must have a sound
knowledge and awareness of the socio-economic as well as demographic
issues faced by newly arrived African families in the UK and a strong
understanding of the implications of these for child protection and
safeguarding. You must be enthusiastic, able to take on a key role in
a small but dynamic organization.
All staff are required to undergo a National Records Bureau enhanced
disclosure to confirm their suitability working for a children’s
charity.
For further inquiries and a job pack (for either post) including application form, job description and person specification, visit our website at www.afruca.org or call us on 0207 7042261 or email info@afruca.org, or write to: AFRUCA, Unit 3D/F Leroy House, 436 Essex Road, London N1 3Q
Location: Islington Refugee Forum N5 2EA
Part time: 17.5 hrs per week. Salary: NJC Scale 6
Closing date: 5pm Monday 19th January 2009
Interviews: Tuesday 27th January 2009 (afternoon)
The Refugee Forum is recruiting a Development Outreach Worker in order to bring together refugee/migrant community organisations to promote dialogue and partnership with other service providers and statutory bodies. Key areas of responsibility are to provide
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Outreach to refugee/migrant community organisations
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Administration and communication
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Policy support and development
For application packs please email Colette Joyce info@islingtonrefugeeforum.org
