VAL E-Briefing 20 August 2010

Local transport consultation for people with learning disabilities - new venue

Date: Thursday 7 October
Time: 10.30am - 2.30pm
Location: New venue - Age Concern Leicester, Clarence House, 46 Humberstone Gate, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE1 3PJ

Voluntary Action South Leicestershire - AGM

Date: Monday 13 September
Time: 7pm
Location: Evangelical Church, Bath Street, Market Harborough

VASL are holding their 2nd Annual General Meeting with guest speakers Fiona Smith, Alternative Choices and Maxine Fasching, Progress Group.

Highfields Rangers Car Boot Sale

Dates: Sunday 22 and Sunday 29 August 2010
Time: Gates open at 6am - finishes at 1pm
Location: Highfields Rangers FC, 443 Gleneagles Avenue, Leicester, LE4 7XJ

Car boot sales to raise funds and support the children at the local Football club.

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 Action Break the Cycle Leicester - Working with Fathers Workshop

A short workshop on working with fatehrs. It is designed to be an introductory session, raising awareness and beginning to look at good practice.

Free training for organisations who are thinking of setting up a mentoring and befriending scheme

Date: Wednesday 29 September at 10:30am - 1pm
Location: Notts County Football Club, County Conferences and Events, Meadow Lane, Nottingham, NG2 3HJ

The event is free to attend and is open to anyone who is either running or starting up a mentoring or befriending project or has an interest in commissioning or funding mentoring and befriending.

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.

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.

Neighbourhood Learning for Deprived Communities

Leicester City Council are inviting applications from Voluntary and Community Sector organisations who wish to offer pre-employment and vocational training activities.

Training providers must be able to offer a safe, healthy and supportive environment, employ recruitment processes that comply with the law and ensure that vulnerable adults are protected. Beneficiaries must be within one of Leicester city's priority areas and grants of up £5,000 are available.

Environment grants

Grants of up to £2,000 for environment projects. Closing date: 29 August.

The Green Insurance Company is offering grants of up to £2,000 to help your local community become more environmentally-friendly.

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.

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.

Family Intervention Project Worker, Oakham

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

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Institute for Volunteering Research launches new evidence bank

The Institute for Volunteering Research, the research arm of Volunteering England, has today launched a new evidence bank for volunteering research.

This searchable database is free to use and accessible to everyone. It is home to all publicly available Institute for Volunteering Research (IVR) reports and publications produced since 1997. It also contains articles from the Voluntary Action Journal published between 1998 and 2007.

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.