Time: Registration is at 9.45am, 10.00am – 4.30pm, Refreshments/Lunch provided

Venue: Hounslow Council, Civic Centre, Lampton Road, Hounslow, TW3 4DN  (Booked attendees will be notified of specific training room)

Trainer: Ted Daszkiewicz, CfBT Education Trust

Training Aim: An understanding of the Common Core will raise awareness for voluntary and third sector bodies of what the CWDC (Children’s Workforce Development Council) consider to be the essential skills and knowledge needed by practitioners (including volunteers), whose work brings them into regular contact with children, young people and families.

 Target Audience
Staff and volunteers working with children and young people within the third sector (voluntary, community) in the London Borough of Hounslow

Please make a booking in order to reserve your place
First come -first served basis. There are limited spaces available so please book in advance to avoid disappointment.

BOOKING FORM PDF 58KB

For more information please email sagal@cvshounslow.org.uk or contact Sagal Jama at CVS Hounslow on 0208 572 5929 Ext 3

Date/Time: March 12^th 2010. Registration at 1.30pm ends 4.30pm

Venue: Room 1, St John’s Centre, 80 St John’s Road, Isleworth TW7 6RU. Nearest station Isleworth (10 mins max) Buses down St John’s Road: H37, 117. Buses on London Road to the top of St John’s Road: 237, 235, 116. Limited venue parking and some free parking in local roads.

Your trainer: The seminar will be led by London Discrimination Unit (LDU) solicitor and trainer Richard Leong.  Admitted as a solicitor in 1997, Richard joined the LDU from private practice in June 2000.  In addition to handling employment law discrimination cases, he has delivered Law Society accredited training for legal practitioners and non legal advisors in discrimination and employment law concerns.  Richard also provides expert advice on discrimination matters for the Advice Now website.

 Light refreshments provided.

 Course Outline:

•  Providing community and voluntary groups with the knowledge   to  understand their rights & duties under equality law legislation
•  Identifying and sharing good practice when deciding on the essentials of equality, discrimination, or employment rights claim
•  Key elements of discrimination and equalities law
•  Raising awareness of time limits and remedies in relation to a claim
•  Spotting discrimination at work claims
•  Information about developments in the Equality Bill
•  Sign posting to advice agencies
•  No assumption of legal knowledge required

LDU Booking Form (PDF 25KB)

About the LDU, set up in 2000 the unit is made up of case workers (solicitors) who have a great deal of practical experience at running discrimination claims, including representation at tribunals.  The LDU also provides high quality legal training to Not for Profit organisations and groups based in London, across England and Wales.

LDU Advice Line: 020 7840 2000

In response to the needs of the sector in training for commissioned serices, CVS Hounslow has arranged a workshop on the PQQ stage of the commissioning cycle.

This session will explore the PQQ process from London Borough of Hounslow Corporate Procurement Unit and examine how best to fulfil its requirements.

Aims of the session are:

1. To understand the PQQ requirements and what they are for
2. Looking at capacity of organisations to meet the requirements
3. Discuss what actions will be required to make your organisation PQQ ready

This session is aimed at organisations that have introductory knowledge on the commissioning process.  If you are new to commissioning and procurement, it is strongly recommended that you read the document from ACEVO

“An Introduction to Commissioning and Tendering”

Lunch will not be provided although tea and coffee will be available on arrival and during the session break.

Date: Thursday 25^th February 2010

Time: 1:00pm – 05:00pm (registration at 12:30pm)

Venue: West Thames College, Spring Grove House, London Road, Isleworth, Middlesex, TW7 4HS.

Room: Bank’s Room (this is located in Spring Grove House, directions can be given from the main college building reception)

To confirm your place, please complete and sign the booking form, which can be found in the link below, together with the agenda and directions.

We look forward to seeing you on the day.

Click here for the AGENDA & DIRECTIONS

Click here for the BOOKING FORM

Spaces are limited and bookings will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

A final round of Rainbow funding is now available to tenants and leaseholders of Hounslow Homes. Groups can apply for funding of between £5000 and £15,000.  Applicants will be required to fill in only one application form and the closing date for applications is Wednesday 17^th February.  Applications will be assessed by the Rainbow Panel at the end of February. 

 Do you have an idea for improving your estate?  Are there services or activities that would benefit your community?

Resident associations and community groups can apply for funding of between £5,000 and £15,000 for projects that

•  Promote a united community e.g. removing barriers within your communities, helping people to get to know each other and encouraging people to get involved
•  Transform estates by providing better facilities for play, leisure, etc
•  Improve community buildings on your estate
•  Support social enterprise e.g. encouraging self sustaining, local business
•  Improve your local environment such as reducing your carbon footprint or schemes with a ‘green’ focus

 The deadline for application is Wednesday 17^th February 2010.

The Rainbow Project Officer, Aine Hayes, is available to support you in applying for funding.  Call Aine on 020 8583 4813 or email aine.hayes@hounslow.gov.uk to

• Talk about your idea
• Check if you are eligible to apply
• Get an application form
• Arrange a meeting

Background

 The Rainbow Project is a programme to support Hounslow Homes’ residents to become more involved in their community and to work together to improve things that directly affect them. 

Many residents associations and community groups across the borough have received funding since the launch of the Rainbow Project in 2008, including 

• Play groups and advice sessions for residents on the Haverfield Estate in Brentford 
• A communal lounge for residents of Lavender Court Sheltered Scheme, Feltham 
• Arts, dance and drama for young people and families on the Oriel Estate in Hanworth 
• A community building on the Brabazon Estate in Heston 
• Refurbishment to play areas on the Ivybridge estate in Isleworth and the Waterloo estate in Feltham 
• Improvements to communal areas in the Lambert Lodge, Owen House and Hyde House sheltered schemes 

Compact Voice has collated information for the voluntary sector regarding the refreshed Compact, as well as some reactions from prominent organisations to the news.

The Compact is the longstanding agreement that sets out shared commitments and guidelines for effective partnership working between government and the third sector in England. The original Compact was agreed in November 1998 and this new version has developed following extensive debate and consultation.

The document highlights the shared principles which Compact partners should follow when engaging in partnership working, and records all the Compact commitments.  These commitments cover three key areas:

• Involvement in policy development
• Allocating resources
• Advancing equality

The Compact has been agreed by representatives of government and the voluntary sector, with Compact Voice and the Office of the Third Sector confirming the policy and the ‘commitments’ content. It was signed by Simon Blake, Chair of Compact Voice, on behalf of the third sector and the Rt. Hon Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, on behalf of government.

The agreement is accompanied by a smaller publication entitled ‘An introduction to the Compact’. This contains general information about the Compact, explaining who it applies to, how to implement the Compact and resolve differences.

Find out more

Read the full press release from the Compact partnership (Compact Voice, the Commission for the Compact, and the Office of the Third Sector): Refreshed Compact available – press release

Find out more about the voluntary sector’s reaction to the new Compact, and download the Compact and Introduction documents.

We are inviting local VCS groups and organisations to submit their thoughts on what they would like to see in a refreshed compact. The forum has been set up so that it does not require your registration, i.e. guest posting has been switched on. The forum is divided into six topic areas. We would like to have your input on each of the areas as listed below. You can post these as replies. Please note, to maintain focus of the forum, we will not be allowing for new topics to be discussed that digress from Compact related issues. Codes of Practice are subject to change, following harmonisation with the National Compact – Refresh.  Once sufficient information has been sourced, this will be used to shape the HLC – Refresh.

Hounslow’s Local Compact  – Refresh – the web forum page for your comments and suggestions.

Click here for updates on the HLC – Refresh.

The page is still in its infancy, but we will be developing this with your suggestions in order to increase the capacity of Hounslow’s VCS.

Resources Page - the link can also be found on the contents page.

Bereavement Services for Hounslow will use their award for training, travel, volunteer supervision and publicity; Hounslow Extra Club for their Friday Youth Club and Open House Cafe for employing a volunteer training manager.

The other two award winners were: Diabetes UK  Hounslow and Visually Impaired Children.

The Cash 4 Clubs sports grant was awarded to the club to help them to continue with their drugs lectures and also to assist in sending a team of 75 young athletes to Birmingham for the National Young Athletics Finals.

For more about the club: http://www.wseh.info/

For more about Cash 4 Clubs: http://cash-4-clubs.com/promoting-the-scheme/