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Free Training Websites

The world have been forced into hitting the pause button on critical workplace learning due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. To continue developing your team within these uncertain times, a strategic training plan with alternative methods must be explored. Developing a training plan during COVID-19 comes alongside a number of challenges. Our Free Training Website initiative removes these difficulties by supporting organisations recovery through a fully funded custom training website, hosting a variety of distance learning online courses.

All organisations can supply free online training courses and qualifications to staff, communities, or customers via their very own custom branded website. The online training is funded by the Adult Education Budget (AEB) via the UK Government in the form of the Education & Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) – providing communities throughout England access to fully funded training and qualifications. Apply Now

The training suite of over 50 market-leading online courses is created to suit individuals who aim to gain a deeper and wider understanding of a particular topic. These include; Mental Health, Health and Social Care, Business, I.T, Hospitality plus many more…

Organisations in any sector can benefit from

  • Better team performances
  • Employee motivation
  • Boosted engagement
  • Financial performance
  • Positive employee retention
  • Cutting training costs

Learn More

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Masbro Elders Autumn Tea Club Programme Online

For our online Autumn programme, please click here. Please do contact me via tina@upg.org.uk for your personal zoom invitation if you intend to join us and if you need any help getting onto zoom – please do not hesitate to contact me for assistance.

Unfortunately, further to the recent ‘Rule of 6’ government restrictions on numbers allowed to attend social gatherings, we are suspending our original plans to restart in-person Elders Tea Club meetings at the Masbro in October and will re-evaluate how we proceed following further clarification of the government guidelines, paying particular care to the guidance for older people. So please watch this space and we hope to have further in-person news shortly!

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What are Maths on Toast Stay-In Sessions?

Every 3rd Saturday of the month at 2.30pm we will release an online session with fun, hands-on, creative maths activities for families to follow.   In our first monthly Maths on Toast Stay-In video session we’ll be showing how to make your own pair of ‘maths glasses’ and exploring the idea to help us see the maths all around us in our everyday lives!  

Join us for our first family maths stay-in session at 2.30pm on Saturday 19th September.  It will go ‘live’ at 2.30pm on our website, YouTube channel and Facebook page: https://www.mathsontoast.org.uk/stay-in-sessions/   Maths on Toast staff will be on hand via our Facebook page to answer any questions as you are watching – find us on social media @mathsontoast. Don’t worry if you’re not able to watch along during the live session – the videos will remain up on our website and Facebook page so you can watch them at a later time or date that suits you.  Families can check our webpage in advance, for any accompanying PDFs or suggested resources to help with the activity. 

Look out for further Maths on Toast Stay-In Sessions on Saturdays 17th October, 21st November and Saturday tbc in December.  We always love to hear how you’ve got on, so don’t forget to share your creations or comments on social media tagging @mathsontoast or email info@mathsontoast.org.uk   

 

 

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10th Young Muslim Writers Awards 2020 Competition Closing 30th September

We recognise it has been a challenging year for teachers, parents, and pupils. To continue our support in nurturing young writers, we have taken our writing workshops online and have extended the closing the date of the Young Muslim Writers Awards to 30th September to allow teachers additional time to enter their pupils’ work in the nationwide competition.

  • Pupils aged 5 to 11 can submit a short story and a poem
  • Pupils aged 11 to 16 can submit a short story, poem, article, screenplay, and a play script.

A panel of acclaimed judges will be selecting the winners over autumn, to be announced at the awards ceremony later this year. Shortlisted writers will be invited to the awards ceremony, receive a certificate to mark their achievement, and be awarded a gift bag filled with books to further encourage their love for reading and writing. Extracts from the shortlisted entries will also be featured in our annual anthology, past copies of which are available at www.issuu.com/ymwawards.

The Young Muslim Writers Awards has provided a platform for young writers, and new opportunities can lie ahead for them; 7-year-old Umar and 15-year-old Lamees were invited to speak at the Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival in the UAE, Safeerah read her poem at TEDxTeen at The O2 and was the youngest finalist at the Asian Women of Achievement Awards 2016, and Mina published her debut novel at the age of just 16. Last year we travelled with the 2018 Writer of the Year, Sabir, on a unique trip to Pakistan where he learned more about charity’s global projects there.

For the third year we are proud to be partnering with the Institute of English Studies at the School of Advanced Study (University of London), and are supported by our Official Media Partner, Islam Channel who broadcast our awards ceremonies to millions around the world.

Teachers and parents can make submissions at www.ymwa.org.uk. If you have any queries, I will be more than happy to help. You may also be interested with a poetry workshop this Sunday 13th September, and a catch-up with some of last year’s winners on Saturday 19th September.

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#NeverMoreNeeded Campaign Pack Launched

Want to be part of making sure charities get the support they need right now? The Never More Needed campaign has made it even easier for you to share the fantastic work you do, so that we can inform and inspire the politicians, policy makers, decision makers and supporters that we need on our side.

You can now download a campaign pack with template letters, great copy that you can just paste into your existing communications, and a whole host of critical facts and figures to help tell the story of how now, more than ever, charities are #NeverMoreNeeded. 

We need your help! Find out more and tell us what you’re doing on Twitter using #NeverMoreNeeded.

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FREE In-Work Skills Development for Your staff

New London Educational Trust are pleased to announce the launch of the brand new London Learning Project (LLP) in conjunction with Greater London Authority and funded through the European Social Fund, to support London companies, and their local staff, to re-energise their business activities through training and education.

The LLP focuses on the Health and Social Care, Retail and Hospitality and Catering sectors and is designed to support employees who live in the 7 associated London Boroughs*, to gain accredited units from recognised national awarding bodies. Participants will also receive individualised advice and guidance from trained specialist staff to identify what activities will help them achieve progression in their job roles, develop their skills and understanding and the added benefit of access to a range of online courses that will support their personal and professional development and increase their efficiency and effectiveness as employees.

This project is completely FREE to all eligible employees and their employers. In response to Covid-19 the LLP is currently available to eligible furloughed staff. The LLP has been devised to ensure all eligible staff will be able to access safe, secure, and flexible delivery with online sign up, 1-2-1 advice through Zoom sessions, a personal tutor to support each participant and, access to NLET’s fully Covid-19 complaint main campus in Hounslow. For more information please contact an NLET advisor at londonlearning@nletrust.org

* Eligible participants must be resident in one of the following 7 West London boroughs: 1) Barnet, 2) Brent, 3) Harrow, 4) Hillingdon (includes Hayes/ Uxbridge) 5) Hounslow, 6) Ealing, 7) Hammersmith.

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Support for Fundraisers Made Redundant

The Chartered Institute of Fundraising has moved to ensure that as many fundraisers as possible have access to learning and development opportunities, should they be made redundant. Existing individual members who are made redundant will be offered three months worth of free membership, and fundraisers facing redundancy who want to join will get three free membership.

They are also offering organisational members the opportunity to buy individual membership for fundraisers they are making redundant at a discounted rate. Find out more.

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Kickstart Jobs Scheme

The government has introduced a new Kickstart Scheme in Great Britain, a £2 billion fund to create hundreds of thousands of high quality 6-month work placements aimed at those aged 16 to 24 who are on Universal Credit and are deemed to be at risk of long term unemployment.

Funding available for each job will cover 100% of the relevant National Minimum Wage for 25 hours a week, plus the associated employer National Insurance contributions and employer minimum automatic enrolment contributions.

To help smaller businesses, employers offering fewer than 30 placements will be asked to make a bid through an intermediary, such as a Local Authority or Chamber of Commerce, who will then bid for 30 or more placements as a combined bid from several businesses. This will make the process easier and less labour intensive to apply for these smaller companies who only want to hire one or two Kickstarters.

Find out more here: http://bit.ly/kickstart-jobs

Please consider amplifying this tweet: https://twitter.com/HMGLondonSE/status/1301192420563005441

If you, or any local businesses you work with, are looking to make use of the Kickstart team, we would love to hear from you.

Green Homes Grant

Updates to the Simple Energy Advice website, allowing homeowners and landlords to check how the government’s new Green Homes Grant scheme can help make their homes warmer and more energy efficient, have been launched.

The Green Home Grants scheme, due to open by the end of September, will allow consumers to obtain funding for up to two-thirds of the cost of the energy saving measures identified, in the form of vouchers.

 

Find out more here: http://bit.ly/greenhomes1

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DHSC Invites Charities to Join Health & Wellbeing Alliance

The Department of Health and Social Care has invited charities to apply to join the Voluntary,  Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) Health and Wellbeing Alliance. Members of the alliance receive grant funding on an annual basis of up to £80,000 for their core work.  The Health and Wellbeing Alliance is part of the Health and Wellbeing Programme to promote health equalities and reduce health inequalities. Read more here.

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Guide to Unlocking Furlough Bonus

New guidance has landed on the Job Retention Bonus, giving you fresh info on how to claim £1,000 for every furloughed employee you bring back to work.

But before you can unlock your funding, you need to meet a range of new rules that could impact how you bring staff back to work.

That’s why our HR experts have created an easy-to-read guide to help you unlock your furlough bonus when the time comes.

It’s completely free to read on the Peninsula website—there are no forms to fill in and no personal details required. Just click here to get it instantly.

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