VAL E-Briefing 12 August 2010

This weekly update provides voluntary and community groups with the latest news, opportunities and upcoming events.

Upcoming Events

Volunteer Managers Network meeting

Date: 16 September 2010
Time: 9.30am - 12.30pm
Location: Voluntary Action LeicesterShire, 9 Newarke Street, Leicester, LE1 5SN

Does your organisation involve volunteers? Please refer this item about a network for managers of volunteers to the manager/s of volunteering in your organisation.

The Volunteer Network provides a space for reflection, learning, creativity and inspiration. Discussions cover a range of issues of interest to managers of volunteers in the voluntary and public sectors, such as workforce development, and issues in managing volunteers given the different motivation and reward culture in volunteering.

Local transport consultation for people with learning disabilities

Date: Thursday 7 October
Time: 10.30am - 2.30pm
Location: Highfields Community Centre TBC

Leicester City Council is in the process of developing its 15 year Local Transport Plan - LTP3 and in order to ensure the views of people with learning disabilities and their family carers are heard and taken on board a consultation event is being hosted by Ansaar in partnership with the City Council's Sustainable Transport Team, the Carers Action Group, and the Learning Disability Partnership Board.

Short residential courses at Fircroft College

Fircroft College of Adult Education has announced its new programme for short residential courses running between September 2010 and March 2011. Most courses last three days and many are tailored to the voluntary and community sector.

Make videos professionally, efficiently and economically

Want videos for your presentations, conferences or website? But don't have the budget of a big corporation or agency?

If you're a small business or chrity worried about costs we'll show you how to be economical and professional. Make videos professionally and save yoursefl time and money. Don't spend £1000s on Equipment & Training before you understand video production.

Supporting Groups with their ICT - Free Courses

ICT Workshops for Development Workers are now avaiable. These are aimed at development workers and other staff involved in providing support to frontline organisations.

The purpose of these workshops is to enable development workers to be more skilled and confident about supporting organisations with their ICT needs. The workshop will provide key tools for signposting organisations to appropriate sources of help, including the wide range of ICT resources which are available online.

Shine - project investment available

Shine is The Health Foundation's new annual award focusing on innovation. Each year they will be looking for ideas that tackle a key challenge to high quality care. The Shine challenge for 2011 is: Find new approaches to delivering healthcare that reduce the need for acute hospital care - while improving quality and saving money.

They are looking to invest up to £75,000 in each of up to 18 projects. Over 12 months, teams will be supported to put their approach into practice to gather evidence about its impact and effectiveness. They welcome applications from teams from across the health service, including the voluntary sector.

Do you want to raise free funds for your cause while also supporting some of the world's most vulnerable people?

European Disaster Volunteers, a Leicester based charity, are currently working in Haiti in response to January's massive earthquake. Through EasyFundraising you're group can now raise money to be spent in Leicestershire while supporting vital international aid.

Equality and Diversity Officer

Salary Band E - £11,110 - £12,736 per annum
Post 1 (18.125 hrs/wk) would cover Charnwood, Melton and Hinckley & Bosworth - temp for one year
Post 2 (18.125 hrs/wk) would cover Blaby, Oadby & Wigston, Harborough - temp for one year

The district and borough councils of Leicestershire are looking to recruit two part time Equality and Diversity Officers for one year. This is an exciting new role which will provide advice and support to members and officers of the Partnership District Councils in Leicestershire on Equality, Diversity and Human Rights.

Latest news releases from the NHS

Are your child's immunisations up to date?

Parents are being urged to make sure their child's immunisations are up to date in a new commercial being screened on NHS Leicestershire County and Rutland's website and in antenatal waiting rooms.

Trust publishes second annual equality report

NHS Leicestershire County and Rutland has published its second dedicated annual equality report, detailing its achievements and progress with equality and diversity across the trust.

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