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Emergency Budget Action Meeting

Date: 8 Sep 2010
Time: 10am - 3:30pm
Location: Parklands Leisure Centre Wigston Road Oadby Leicester LE2 5QG

Leicester Peace & Love Festival 2010

Date: 31 July 2010
Time: From 12pm
Location: Humberstone Gate West (under the Big Screen)

The Leicester Peace & Love Festival 2010 is Leicester's flagship combined arts festival, promoting the messages of community cohesion, the prevention of violent crime and the building of inter-communal respect. It's an opportunity for us all to come together in a peaceful environment; recognise our similarities - and work towards building and sustaining safer, harmonious neighbourhood relations.

Emergency Budget Action Meeting

Date: Wednesday 8 Sep 2010
Time: 10am - 3:30pm
Location: Parklands Leisure Centre Wigston Road Oadby Leicester LE2 5QG

An event is taking place to discuss what changes, resulting from the new budget and the new government concern groups, and what we can do to respond to these changes.

The VCS Assembly Consultation: Terms of Reference

The VCS Assembly steering group has drafted Terms of Reference for The Assembly going forward after the launch event later on this year.

The Vetting and Barring Scheme

The Vetting and Barring Scheme has been halted. This means registration will not start as scheduled on 26th July. New safeguards brought in under the scheme in October 2009 are still in place.

More info at:

http://www.childrensworkforcematters.org.uk/news/2010/jun/vetting-and-ba...

Leicestershire's Hidden Hero of the Year 2010 - the final five

After receiving an overwhelming number of fantastic nominations the Hidden Hero panel had the difficult task of choosing the top five.

The five have now been decided and your votes are now needed to decide on the winner. Voting begins on Monday 14 June.

You can vote by clicking here after Monday 14 June or by calling 0116 257 5050.

Voting ends at 12pm on Wednesday 14 July.

Click below to see the final 5.

Compact Leicestershire Consultation Event

Compact Leicestershire is an event that will be of interest to all groups and organisations that undertake work within Leicestershire County and currently do, or anticipate, working with statutory agencies and bodies. Compact is about the relationship between the Voluntary and Community Sector and the statutory service and funding providers.

The first Leicestershire Compact was launched in June 2003. Compact Leicestershire seeks to build upon the work undertaken through the original Compact agreement, reflect the new National Guidance and address local issues and opportunities in this time of economic and social change.

Grassroots Grants up to £5000 available

If you are a small group working in Leicester and have an average turnover of less than £30,000 over the last three years you may be eligible to apply to the Grassroots Grants programme available in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Elections for Voluntary & Community Sector (VCS) representation on the Leicester Children's Trust Board

Starts: 26 May 2010 - 2:00pm
Ends: 26 May 2010 - 5:00pm
Location: Venue TBC

A meeting is being held to elect VCS representatives for the Leicester Children's Trust Board, which is the top level multi-agency partnership for developing services for children & young people in the City. The Leicester Children and Young People's Strategic Partnership (LCYPSP) has changed into the Leicester Children's Trust Board.

Policy and Partnership Officer - Health and Social Care

VAL has a vacancy for the post of Policy and Partnership Officer - Health and Social Care available at Voluntary Action LeicesterShire.

The application and job details can be downloaded by clciking here: http://www.valonline.org.uk/vacancies

Please note we do not accept CV's. If you would like a hard copy of the application pack sent to you please contact our Helpline on 0116 257 5050.

The closing date is Wednesday 19 May 2010 at 12pm

If you would like an informal discussion about the post, please contact Becky Nixon - Deputy Chief Executive on 0116 257 5057.