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Youth Zine West: Call to Young People (16+) to Join Photojournalism Hub Online Sessions

Call to young people (16+) to join the Photojournalism Hub online sessions to produce the Youth Zine West magazine. I am very excited about Youth Zine West mag and I would love as many as possible to benefit from this opportunity to produce content, gain skills and build a portfolio of published material to showcase for future educational and work opportunities. I have added a lot of more time to the project to allow one to one sessions as well as group ones, etc and would like to give this opportunity to a greater number of young adults than initially planned  Registration page

 

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Ready for the Leadership Challenge?

Don’t miss this online panel discussion and Q&A – Monday 11 May

Leadership is always important – but especially at times like this. Join our expert online panel discussion for CEOs, senior managers and trustees. We will cover:

  • current challenges for charity leaders
  • looking at those challenges from different perspectives
  • the value of acceptance and resilience
  • why making hard decisions are sometimes the best decisions

This online course is available from only £20, so find out more and book your space now.

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Doorstep Library Network

Doorstep Library Network is a children’s literacy charity who believe in the power of reading and sharing stories with children from a very young age.

During the lockdown they are offering a weekly newsletter and online reading service for families. By subscribing to their newsletter, you will receive a weekly email with ideas for education, advice and fun that are all home-based! You will also be sent their digital story time videos from Doorstep Library volunteers and staff, for ages 0-11.

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If you would like to subscribe to Doorstep Library’s newsletter, just click on the following link and fill in your details – https://bit.ly/HFDoorstepLibraryNewsletter

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Develop your team with a fully funded* NCFE Level 2 in Information, Advice or Guidance

This qualification is designed for people who work in, or are looking to work in an information, advice or guidance role such as:

 

  • Careers Adviser
  • Counsellor
  • Customer Service Adviser
  • Debt Adviser
  • Employment Adviser
  • Housing Support Worker
  • Learning Support Worker
  • Legal Services Support Worker
  • Peer Mentor

This course is supported by the Mayor of London; Education & Skills Funding Agency and European Social Fund

You can find a full overview of the course aims and objectives; eligibility and benefits in the attached flyer

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The Loss Project

The Loss Project’s mission is to generate a community response to loss which challenges the stigma and taboo, cuts through the barriers of having difficult conversations and subjects that can often remain unspoken, whilst providing opportunities for people to connect through their experiences and build capacity to be able to support each other. We have been busy creating our covid-19 response and have a range of creative and support activities that we’ll be releasing in the coming weeks.

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Your Virtual Library continued…

Last time we told you about a whole library of books, newspapers, magazines, audiobooks and much more available with your library membership or registration number. We are hard at work to provide as much as we can online during the lockdown, and have started to engage with our communities using different online platforms.

Learn about all the ways you can engage with us online – sign up to online courses, workshops, blogs and social media channels used by the library. Click here

We’ll also suggest some good websites to visit – we’ll point you in the direction of reliable sources of information, entertainment and learning online – places on the web that are informative and fun, but also trustworthy and fact-checked.

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Upcoming Podcasts & Webinar

BatesCast – A new podcast from BWB

BWB have launched a new weekly podcast delving into all legal matters relating to the current pandemic. Force majeure clauses in contracts are suddenly front of mind for organisations grappling with their contractual obligations. Find out more.

Pro bono advisory webinar – Human Resources and employment

Rothschild and Co are running a webinar on Wednesday 6 May and you can submit any HR questions for them when you register. Find out more.

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Charity Tax Group Proposal for Small Charities

The Charity Tax Group has prepared a briefing for officials at BEIS, MHCLG and HM Treasury proposing that the eligibility criteria for the Small Business Grants Fund be amended to allow charities to make a claim where they would be have been eligible to claim for Small Business Rates Relief, had they not claimed mandatory charity business rates relief. Find out more.

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Community Care – Fulham Volunteer Network

Please see the following message from Ross at Community Care:

“Community Care is borne out of St Eth’s and is a local-to-Fulham volunteer run network, with a mission to provide a safe door-door delivery service for those in self-isolation during COVID-19. Since mid-March, our team of over 300 volunteers have successfully delivered hundreds of shopping runs to those in isolation, but we want to do more.

Now we have officially extended our service to support all key workers, including NHS staff, teachers and more, with the support of our MP Greg Hands.

Please help share our message. If you are a key worker or self-isolated, or know someone who is, let’s make sure no one goes without during COVID-19.

For more information on how to get involved, donate, or to get help, please visit our website
www.communitycarelondon.com

It’s ok to ask for help. Our own members have utilised our service, and by doing so, have supported the governments ‘stay at home’ campaign.

For those who would prefer to shop for themselves, we have developed a list of all other local delivery services.”

 

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Connecting Choices Virtual Hub

Connecting Choices Virtual Hub was set up in response to COVID-19 in early April 2020. The Virtual Hub is an ESF-funded project that is part of the Building Better Opportunities (BBO) project that started at the end of 2016 described as offering Holistic support for disadvantaged people across Stoke-on-Trent, Newcastle-under-Lyme and the Staffordshire Moorlands.

The website contains useful links to posts that include articles such as “What is Ramadan?” and a link to online training, “Free Online Digital Skills Training for Everyone” and more. Current virtual offerings are weekly activities include Art & Craft and Creative Writing. More activities are in development.

The programme is managed by Ixion a not-for-profit group of companies, delivering government funded provision that is a subsidiary of The Shaw Trust ( http://www.ixionholdings.com/).

For more information visit https://connectingchoices.co.uk/

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