Contents: Moda's News (2); Events (4); Training (5); Calls (1); Resources (1); Funding (2); Jobs (4)
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
Celebrate London’s diversity and the creative achievements
of our local refugee community
Saturday 31st January 2009, 11.30am –
5.00pm
100 London Road Forest Hill, London SE23 3PQ
Play along with the Grand Union Youth Orchestra, make your own face
in fabric, touch objects and hear stories from around the world and
learn to dance with Nzinga.
Please contact Community Education by emailing communityed@horniman.ac.uk
or call 020 8291 8690 or click
here
10 January - 29th March 2009
V&A Museum of Childhood, Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9PA
What makes a place into a home? Why do we think of other places as 'away'?
Home and Away looks at how children from South Asian communities in East London think about the different places they encounter in their everyday lives, as well as the distant journeys they make. The exhibition features works by children aged 9 and 10 years including stories, diaries, and artwork, resulting from research carried out by Sussex University.
The Home and Away project took place over 2007-2008 and was funded
by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
For more information please click
here
19– 20 February 2009
Tavistock Centre, 120 Belsize Lane, London NW3 5BA
Once again a series of shocking and tragic cases of child death have surfaced around the country, gripping the nation in an outpouring of anger, disbelief and outrage. Once again there are ‘lessons to be learned’, as there were following the Climbié Inquiry. As society tries to assuage collective guilt about the apparently ineffective functioning of its powerful professions and systems, is there a risk that political responses will drive further unhelpful reform of the child protection and welfare system? We need to ensure that the response will lead to helpful reforms of the system. But what will really make a difference? What do ‘systems’ really have to do to learn? Are there really solutions to these tragedies or will there always be a small minority of ‘hard cases’ that will defy our best safeguarding procedures?
This conference brings together leading researchers, practitioners and thinkers in the field to analyse contemporary experiences of child protection, and child welfare practice and management, and to explore the way ahead for reform. There will be ample space for conference participants to reflect and think about the conference presentations in smaller groups.
For more information, please contact Pauline Noble, Tavistock Centre, 020 8938 2548, events@tavi-port.org
Thursday 19th March 2009, 10:15am — 3:40pm
One Whitehall Place, Westminster, London
It has long been recognised that charities, voluntary organisations and local community-based groups play an invaluable role in society. Indeed, a decade after the launch of the ‘Compact’, an accord between Government and the voluntary and community sector, the results are tangible. The impact of social enterprises, in particular, has demonstrated the vast potential that exists within communities – a successful alternative model that both the public and private sector can learn and benefit from.
This special Public Policy Exchange symposium, hosted by the Centre for Parliamentary Studies offers a timely opportunity for third sector practitioners, local authorities, central government departments and other stakeholders to assess the impact of recent developments and explore what next steps should be taken to firmly embed the third sector at the heart of the Government’s public service reform agenda. Delegates will have the opportunity to debate, share ideas and network with colleagues from across the third sector, public service delivery, local authority and government landscape
Community
Accountancy Self Help (CASH) is a charity based in West London, providing
financial management support advice and training for voluntary and community
groups across London. They organise Financial Management Training
for BME and Refugee Voluntary and Community Groups called “Six Steps
to Better Financial Management”. This course is modular –
you can take as many or as few modules as you need.
- Module 1 - Budgets and Cash-flow (Thursday, 12
February 2009 9.45 am – 4.00 pm)
Budgets are used for grant applications and for your internal financial control. - Module 2 - Basic Book-keeping (Thursday, 26
February 2009 9.45 am – 4.00 pm)
For small organisations, up to £150,000 a year income/expenditure. - Module 3 - Bank Reconciliation (Thursday, 5
March 2009 9.45 am – 1.00 pm)
This module can be taken by itself, or as an extension of Basic Book-keeping. - Module 4 - Petty Cash (Thursday, 5 March 2009
1.50 pm – 4.00 pm)
Introducing the imprest system. - Module 5 - Management Accounts (Thursday, 12
March 2009 9.45 am – 4.00 pm)
Reporting on your finances to your management committee. - Module 6 - Final Accounts (Thursday, 19 March
2009 9.45 am – 4.00 pm)
The end of year accounts to meet legal requirements.
The training will take place at the London Muslim Centre, 46 Whitechapel Road, London E1 1JX
If you need further information, please call CASH, tel.
020 8969 0747 or email janet@cash-online.org.uk
RAGU is pleased to announce the start of our IAG programme for Refugee
Healthcare Professionals (RHP), funded by NHS London. The Refugee Healthcare
Professionals Programme can support you with a range of activities including:
• information, advice and guidance
• IELTS and advanced language
• support with your professional requalification (PLAB, ORE, Overseas Nurses Programme)
• workshops and courses to help develop your skills and career prospects
• help to explore alternative routes to employment in healthcare
• work placements in healthcare
• job search support.
This programme is for refugee healthcare professionals, living in London, unemployed or employed, with refugee status (or ILR, HP, DL, including spouses of refugees) or asylum seekers with permission to work. Refugee healthcare professionals include doctors, dentists, nurses, midwives, pharmacists, allied health professionals or healthcare scientists
To book an initial IAG appointment with a Careers Adviser clients should contact RAGU on 020 7133 2110 or email ragu@londonmet.ac.uk and leave a clear message with their name and contact details. We will respond within 24 hours.
10 February, 9:30-16:30
IARS, Clifford's Inn, Fetter Lane, London, EC4A 1BZ
ROTA is now advertising training places for further hate crime training
sessions. The training which previously received excellent feedback takes
forward the findings and recommendations from the Restoring Relations
Project drawing attention to the dynamics of hate crime (victims and perpetrators),
the role of mediation and the value of multi-agency cross-sector partnerships.
Training will be delivered by:
Liz Dixon - Senior Probation Officer at London Probation.
Elena Noel - Manager of the Hate Crimes Project at Southwark Mediation
Centre.
The training is useful for people working in: Conflict resolution; Community
tensions; Gang mediation; Domestic Violence; Sex offenders; Housing disputes;
Schools; Work disputes; Criminal Justice agencies and Safer Neighbourhood
Teams; and Hate Crime coordinators with little or no understanding of
restorative justice amongst other areas.
To register your interest and book your place or if you have any queries regarding the training, please contact jacky@rota.org.uk
Please note:
MiNet Members: ROTA and London Probation will also be delivering hate
crime training on 4th March. If you are a MiNet member you can attend
this training for free. Contact anthony@rota.org.uk
if you are a MiNet member and would like to attend or join Minet.
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew offer community voluntary groups and organisations
a workshop based on the life of Marianne North (1830-1890), Victorian
traveller and botanical artist. The aim of the workshop is to explore
Victorian times and inspire workshop participants by the adventures of
a woman who decided to travel the world on her own in search of tropical
plants. During the workshop participants will be able to handle unique
Victorian items, read Marianne’s diary, sample exotic fruits and
spices, try botanical painting and learn about life and travel in the
19th century.
The workshop is delivered offsite-in your premises, your time and date. Minimum number of participants is 6. The workshop is about 2 hours long and could be adapted to your needs (e.g. for ESOL students, women’s groups).
Please contact: Jana Haragalova, Community Outreach Officer to book and
enquire, on 02083325696 or email: j.haragalova@rbgkew.org.uk
Migrants Resource Centre - 24 Churton Street, London SW1V 2LP
CV and cover letter cover letter writing (Friday
30 January 2009 1-3pm)
We will learn how to write a CV and Cover Letter. We will get examples
and formats that will help us compile a CV.
Discover the right job for you (Friday 6 February
2009 1-3pm)
We will look into how you can get on to the path of happiness and success
by discovering the right job for you.
Job search strategies (Friday 13 February 2009 1-3pm)
We will discover different ways to search and apply for jobs.
Action planning for your future (Friday 20 February
2009 1-3pm)
We will develop an individual, effective and realistic action plan for
your future.
Interview techniques (Friday 27 February 2009 1-3pm)
We will go through all the stages of the interview process and explore
the most frequent questions employers ask and how we can be successful
during an interview.
Networking for job search (Friday 6 March 2009 1-3pm)
We will discuss how you can use your network to increase your chances
of finding that job.
There is free access to the crèche during all workshops!
To register for a session, please contact Laura Marziale or Bianca Galluccio
by email:laura@migrants.org.uk
or bianca@migrants.org.uk
, Tel: 02078211273
- Are you confident that you are making the provisions you need for retirement?
- Would you welcome free staff training on options for saving for retirement?
- Would you like to know more about Financial Inclusion and how you can incorporate it into your work?
Toynbee Hall’s Innovative Financial Inclusion team has received funding from the Department for Work and Pensions to provide workers within voluntary and community organisations in London with information about saving for retirement. At Toynbee Hall we recognise that Financial Inclusion is a state that you can move into and out of throughout your life and that even a person earning a good salary can become financially excluded if they have not made provision for when they retire.
Toynbee Hall are offering this opportunity to attend a short session on Financial Inclusion and saving for retirement. The session would be free of charge and conducted on your premises.
For more information or to book a workshop email Rosanna Donovan at rosanna.donovan@toynbeehall.org.uk (020 7392 2993) or Martha Lawton at martha.lawton@toynbeehall.org.uk (020 7392 2959)
Calls - LVSC's Big Squeeze campaign
In a recession Londoners need the support that the voluntary and community
sector provides more than ever. However, pressures on funders mean there's
a very real danger of our services being squeezed. LVSC's Big Squeeze
campaign needs your support and evidence of the recession's impact. We
hope that together we can convince our funding partners across London
to reaffirm their support for the services we all provide.
It'd be really great if could produce a really strong response and use
this campaign to express your view. Please complete our short
online survey now. The more groups who sign up, the stronger
our message to funders.
By signing up to The Big Squeeze you'll be helping your organisation's
profile and the VCS to have a strong voice in what will be a difficult
funding environment.
For further information please contact Karin Podschun at karin@lvsc.org.uk
Resources - Migrations and Identities: A journal of people and ideas in motion
A relevant new journal has just rolled off the press (vol 1, issue 1),
published by Liverpool University Press. Called 'Migrations and Identities:
A journal of people and ideas in motion', the aim is 'to interrogate notions
of "identity" while asking how the facts of mobility and displacement
shape understandings of self and the wider world, among both migrants
and "host" societies'.
Please see website, www.migrationsandidentities.org,
for further details and information about paper submission.
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 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: 32,119 - 42,602 (NJC scale PO2 - PO5, point 35 - 47), 5% pension
Closing Date: Monday 23rd February 2009 11:00pm (by post or email).
Interview Date:Monday 2nd March 2009t.
Race on the Agenda (ROTA) is London's leading social policy think-tank
focusing on issues affecting Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME)
communities and the Third Sector that serves them. We are committed
to working towards achieving social justice and the elimination of discrimination
and promoting human rights, diversity, equality of opportunity and best
practice.
This post offers the opportunity to lead on the organisation's policy and research programme working with the experienced and passionate policy team. Current policy priorities include crime and antisocial behaviour, health inequalities, community cohesion and regional governance. You will need demonstrable knowledge of social policy priorities for the BAME sector and communities. You will also need demonstrable experience of staff and project management as well as experience of fundraising and writing clear and concise reports.
