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E-Bulletin 01
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Derry City Council
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The Alec
Dickson Trust provides grants of up to £500 to help young people of up to
30, or small groups of young people, run a volunteering project in their
local area. The fund seeks to support projects that enhance the lives of
others, particularly those most marginalised by society such as: |
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McCausland
calls for applications to £250k Innovation Fund Voluntary and
community organisations from across The £250k
Innovation Fund, announced by Minister for Social Development, Nelson
McCausland, is the first of its kind for the Social Security Agency. It
aims to work with partners from the voluntary and community sector to
identify and test new benefit uptake approaches which will encourage
customers to claim their full benefit
entitlement. Seamus
McAleavey, Chief Executive of NICVA said, “NICVA
welcomes this new partnership working approach with the Social Security
Agency and the voluntary and community sector to help reach the most
vulnerable in our society. We would encourage all organisations to bring
forward their best ideas and plans to maximise benefit
uptake”. Details of how
to apply for this funding will be made available on the eSourcing NI
Portal www.e-sourcingni.bravosolution.co.uk
Successful awards will be made from September
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Leonardo,
Grundtvig and Transversal are three parts of the European Union Lifelong
Learning Programme. If you are involved in education or vocational
training, the programmes offer a range of exciting European opportunities
for you, your colleagues and your learners. The UK
National Agency has finalised plans for this years information days and
bookings are now being taken. This years Northern Ireland Information Day
will be held in For further
information regarding the information days and booking arrangements please
visit http://tinyurl.com/meb6wq
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Awards
For Sport Information Sessions Awards for
Sport aims to increase participation in sport and physical recreation
especially among groups such as women/girls, older people and people with
a disability. The potential awards range from £1,000 to
£10,000. The following
information sessions will all take place between 7pm and 9pm with the
exception of the - 8 August
- 15 August,
Riversdale Leisure Centre,
Strabane - 18 August,
Dungannon Leisure Centre - 22 August,
Joey Dunlop Centre, Ballymoney - 25 August,
QUB, Contact
Conleth Donnelly on 028 9038 3233 or email conlethdonnelly@sportni.net
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Student
Placement (48 weeks) - Community Relations Development
Department – Community Services Section Wages: £232.92
gross per 37 hour week Applicants
must be in full-time education from an HND/Degree Course, undertaking
relevant studies e.g. Peace and Conflict Studies, Community Development,
Youth Work or Education, Social Sciences, Business Studies and be eligible
for an industrial placement. It is
desirable that applicants have practical experience (as a paid or
volunteer worker, trainee or participant) in at least two of the following
areas: -
Community
Development work -
Community
Relations work (e.g. Anti-Prejudice, Equality
and - Good
Relations, Anti-Racism, Anti-Sectarianism,
Cultural - Diversity,
Cross-Community or Single Identity Work) -
Youth or
schools work -
Citizenship
work (e.g. Human Rights, Democracy,
Participation) -
Work related
to local History and/or Politics Application
forms and further details for the above position may be obtained online at
www.derrycity.gov.uk/recruitment
or from the Human Resources Section, Council Offices, Derry
City Council is committed to equality of employment opportunity and
welcomes applications from all suitably qualified applicants regardless or
religious belief, political belief, racial group, gender, age, marital
status, sexual orientation and whether or not they possess a disability or
have or do not have dependants. In accordance with its Equal Opportunities
Policy it particularly welcomes applicants from the Protestant Community –
all applicants will be considered on
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Working in
collaboration with Fitni to offer Free Training Courses in September
2011.* CPCAB Award in
Introduction to Counselling Skills L2 12 Weeks, Monday 10am –
1pm CPCAB Award in
Listening Support Skills L2
10Weeks, Thursday 10am –
12pm CPCAB
Certificate in Counselling Skills L2
23 Weeks, Wednesday 5.30 –
9.30pm NOCN L1
Introduction to Computers
6 Weeks, Monday 10am –
12pm First Aid
7 Weeks,
Wednesday 10am – 12pm Digital
Photography
6 Weeks,
Thursday 7 – 9pm CPCAB Drug and
Alcohol Awareness
6 Weeks, Tuesday 2 – 4pm
If you would
like to book a place on any of these courses please contact HURT on 71
369696 or email Linda on lindakelly08@live.co.uk
* All courses
offered will be subject to demand. Courses will be offered on a priority
basis to individuals who are unemployed & without a level 2
qualification or above. |
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Acknowledging
and dealing with the past Tuesday
09 August 2011, 2 – 5pm, St
Augustines Church Hall, A storytelling
event exploring the use of family photos, music, news footage and social
history facilitated by Geraldine Gallagher with Rosemary
Lawlor. For more
information please contact Eamonn at Towards Understanding and Healing on:
07921210703 |
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Community
Empowerment Programme Clooney
Hall, Derry/Londonderry 9th-10th November 2011
This unique
programme is for those individuals who, through their work and activities,
are directly involved in working to make their communities better places
to live. This program
is not about negotiating, resolving conflicts, solving problems, or coming
up with answers. Instead, it is designed to empower people in their
relationship to their communities, giving them a new power and new tools
to make their communities the places they want them to
be. The workshop
is designed to shift the common experience of a lack of connection or a
lack of power within a community into the experience of having real power
to make things happen and a central role to play in creating the
future. It does this by asking participants to question and explore
their assumptions and ways of thinking about community and by giving them
access to new possibilities with which they can reclaim their power and
create the communities they desire.
The cost of
the workshop is £50, and we ask you to attend all sessions of the
workshop, which will run from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. each day. Lunch will be
provided both days. Thanks in advance for your
consideration. The course
will be facilitated by the Mastery
Foundation. For further
information or to book a place contact: Tony Carlin
Tel.
71350026/07843587757 email tony.carlin@btinternet.com or
Marella Fyffe, Tel. 8224 1973 Promise
of this program: We will gain
access to our own power to create a new future for ourselves and our
communities—the kind of future that is not merely an extension of the
past, but rather a future of our own creation. During our two
days together we will: Reveal the
nature of our power as human beings, and what is in the way of our
accessing it transform our
relationship to community – that is to our ideas about community and to
what we see as possible for our community. Examine what
is already in our future and how it came to be that
way. Gain access to
the kind of speaking and listening that creates new possibilities and new
results. Practice
standing for what we say is possible for ourselves and for our community.
Recognize the
gifts each of us brings to our
community. |
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Health
Improvement Department - Training Brochure The Health
Improvement Department has launched their Training Brochure for September
2011 - March 2012, please click here: http://www.westerntrust.hscni.net/pdf/HI_Training_Brochure_Sept_to_Mar(1).p For a copy of
the Training Brochure. To
apply for any of the courses please complete the Booking Form, click here
http://www.westerntrust.hscni.net/pdf/Health_Improvement_Booking_Form.pdf For Booking
Form, and return by post or email to: Health
Improvement Department, Western Health & Social Care Trust, T: 028 7186 5127 / F: 028 7186 5128 / E: health.improvement@westerntrust.hscni.net
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Free
Tool for Voluntary Organisations Ready for
Change is a free tool developed by Rocket Science to help organisations
measure their readiness to adapt and respond to change. |
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Payments
Council to keep cheques and cancels 2018 target The Payments
Council has announced that cheques will continue for as long as customers
need them and the target for possible closure of the cheque clearing in
2018 has been cancelled. The Payments Council Board will continue to focus
on security, efficiency and encouraging innovation in all types of
payments to ensure customers have options best suited to the 21st century.
Richard North,
the Chairman of the Payments Council said: "It's in the
DNA of the Payments Council to consult and listen to all those people who
actually make payments and use cheques. Listening to over 600 stakeholder
groups, working with the banks and following our appearance before the
Treasury Select Committee, we have concluded we should reassure customers
that the cheque is staying. “Over the last
two years we have learnt a great deal about what is important to our many
stakeholders and we are really grateful to all of those groups and
individuals who took the time to talk to us and help us reach this
decision. We will use what we’ve learnt to keep improving existing
systems, as well as introducing innovation, so that customers benefit from
21st century ways to pay. Innovation must be at the heart of what we
do.” Please find
fact sheet attached For further
information contact the Payments Council press office: Sandra Quinn: 020
3217 8234 / 07768 044656 Jemma Smith: 020 3217 8340 / 07811 113075 Mark
Bowerman: 020 3217 8251 / 07799 627256 Neil Aitken: 020 3217 8316 / 07920
045271 Doriena Koldenhof: 020 3217 8368 / 07857 754475 press@ukpayments.org.uk
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Act
for Culture in The European
Commission has published its proposal for the future EU budget: time to
mobilise for culture and call on our policymakers to make the right
choices. A Message book full of arguments and advocacy tips is now
available to help you make the case for culture! |
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We need your
help to collect for ½ hour on Thursday 11th
August 2011 in aid of Africa Famine
Appeal. To help us in
this worthy cause please contact the Destined office
on: Phone: 028
7136 2424
Address:
Email: d@destined.ie DESTINED
– Empowering people with learning
disabilities |
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‘Evictions
and Forced Demolitions in A Trócaire
event on 5
August on Gasyard Feile opening
night. Trocaire,
cordially invites you to a talk by our partner, the Israeli Committee
Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) on ‘Evictions and Forced Demolitions’,
Itay Epshtain, Co-Director of ICAHD, will speak about the ongoing plight
of Palestinians facing eviction and the forced demolition of their homes
in East Jerusalem and the Both events
are part of the Gasyard Festival. For more information please contact
Lawrence McBride: imcbride@trocaire.ie or 02871
357288. |
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Ford
introduces new sport ground laws |
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Knitters
needed urgently for mini hat-making! The race to
make The Big Knit 2011 a huge success has begun! Age NI has a target of
50,000 mini hats to reach. Age NI (the
new charity combining Age Concern and Help the Aged) and innocent are
calling on nimble knitters across Northern Ireland to take up the
challenge and help improve later life for us all by reaching a marathon
target of 50,000 miniature hats. Knitters are being asked to support
The Big Knit 2011 by creating little woolly hats which will sit on
innocent smoothie bottles in stores from 16- 30 November. For each
be-hatted smoothie sold, innocent will give 25p to Age
NI. Tracey Hall,
Style Academy Director and Age NI Ambassador said, 'I'm delighted to be
involved in The Big Knit 2011. This is an opportunity for people to raise
money for a great cause and have fun too! As a fashion director, I really
hope this campaign encourages everyone to start knitting and explore their
creative side. I’m looking forward to seeing the miniature creations the
knitters come up with!' Anne O’Reilly,
Age NI Chief Executive, said: 'The Big Knit is a really fun way to support
Age NI, and we are hopeful that knitters of all levels will get their
needles and wool out to help us reach our huge target this year. We have
patterns for beginners as well as intermediate and advanced
knitters. Every hat knitted means more money towards improving the
quality of life for many older people in To register
for The Big Knit 2011 and receive patterns, contact Dorothy McConkey on
028 9024 5729 or email dorothy.mcconkey@ageni.org.
Further information and patterns are available at www.ageni.org/thebigknit Please send
completed hats to Age NI, Find out more
about Tracey Hall at www.styleacademy.com |
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