September is Older Person's Month

Launch Event:
Date: Thursday 26 August
Time: 10.30am - 3pm
Location: Age Concern, Clarence House, Humberstone Gate, Leicester

Come along and have a great day. There is a comedienne in the morning, and Wii Fit throughout the day, as well as a wide range of information stands and activities - with a singalong in the afternoon planned.

Family Intervention Project Worker, Oakham

Remuneration: £19,621 -£21,519 plus essential car user allowance
Closing: 03/09/2010

• Do you like working with young people?
• Are you looking for a challenging but very rewarding job?
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Life Skills & Training

Relate Leicestershire offers courses to statutory and voluntary agencies, businesses and the general public. Courses can be ‘tailor-made' to suit the needs of individual groups or organisations or arranged from our portfolio of accredited courses.

Leicester Interfaith Youth Hub - Volunteers looking for a project

Do you have a project that your longing to get done but don't have any willing hands?

The Leicester Interfaith Youth HUB an initiative of the St. Philip's Centre based in the city is looking for one off projects in Leicester that between 10 to 20 young people aged 16 to 22 could get involved in.

You're Welcome

You're Welcome is national quality framework, designed to support providers of health services to improve their service and be more young-people friendly. The You're Welcome quality mark is open to all health, local authority, community, voluntary and private organisations that provide a health service to young people.

NCVYS appeals for organisations to trial big society vision

The National Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS) is appealing for six community-based organisations to help them produce a blueprint for how the big society vision could work in practice.
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Free delegate places for East Midlands Community Groups wishing to attend the DTA

Sponsors help community groups think big!

Three top businesses have demonstrated their commitment to stronger East Midlands communities by helping local community groups to attend a major national conference on community enterprise and regeneration.

Rayne Fellowships for Refugees (Grants for Individuals wanting to set up a community project)

Grants for individual refugees with a "big idea". £15,000 available for personal development. Apply by 03 September 2010.

Fellowships enable individuals of a refugee background to be supported with a resource fund of £15,000 to help grow their 'big idea'. This could be in sport, culture, social enterprise or anything that supports development in your community.

Grants for IT and computing

Grants of up to £10,000 must be spent within one year and can be spent on capital expenditure, training and website development.

All applications must be discussed with NetSolutions Wales and supported by a quote from them.

COIN - Climate Outreach and Information Network

Date: Wednesday 8 September
Time: 9.30am - 1.30pm
Location: LCB Depot, Rutland Street, Leicester

Communicating Climate Change - a free half day training course that will present the latest research on public attitudes and behaviour towards climate change and the environment, and techniques for climate change communications.