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INVOLVE South East invite you to an interactive apprenticeship workshop

The INVOLVE South East project in partnership with Fair Train would like to invite you to an interactive apprenticeship workshop on Wednesday 17 March at the Guildford YMCA. The workshop is entitled ‘Apprenticeships for the Third Sector – Busting the Myths!’

Migration Impacts Team

The Migration Impacts Team help people who have come to live or work in Oxfordshire from other countries.

Our services aim to:

  • improve migrants access to training, employment and appropriate health and support services
  • establish skills in local communities and amongst service providers for dealing with migrants in a positive way
  • improve community safety and cohesion
  • develop mechanisms to provide an effective voice for migrants within and beyond the project.

We can offer migrants in Oxfordshire:

Oxford Hindu Temple invite the Oxfordshire Hindu Parivaar to their monthly prayer meeting

Oxford Hindu Temple and Community Centre Project invite the Oxfordshire Parivaar to their monthly Prayer Meeting hosted by Yajyamaan: Probir and Renuka Ghoshal for their daughter Rudrani's birthday.

Programme includes Havan and Devotional Bhajans at Kennington Community Centre, Kennington Village, OX1 fPG (opposite the Tandem pub).

This event takes place on Sunday 14 March from 2.30 (prompt) - 5.30pm.

The Community Volunteering Qualification is back!

Does your organisation use volunteers? Would you like to offer them an accredited course for their volunteering?

M.A.D.D. for Haiti host music fundraising night

M.A.D.D. for Haiti are also hosting a concert to raise money for UNICEF's Haiti Earthquake Children's Appeal featuring BARAKA, the Bristol-based world music bank. Baraka is fronted by Ben Baddoo from Ghana, well known in the world of drum and dance.

Tickets are £5 (and £3 concession rate) by calling 01367 242191 or 01367 240375. Tickets can also be found through www.maddfaringdon.co.uk or £6 on the door.

Join in Oxfordshire Association for Young People 3 Peaks Challenge!

Oxfordshire Association for Young People (OAYP) are taking a team of eight people on the Three Peaks Challenge. Participants will climb Ben Nevis, Scaffel Pike and Snowdon in under 24 hours. If this challenge sounds like something you or a friend may want to be a part of, and at the same time raising some money for OAYP then get in touch with Paul Lawrence on 01865 368027 / Mobile 07977040278 or email paul.lawrence@oayp.org.uk.

Two thirds of volunteering organisations don't fully understand who must register with the Vetting and Barring Scheme

Volunteering England's has conducted research on 94 organisations and found that only 33% of respondents said that they 'fully understood' which of their volunteers would need to be registered with the authority.

27% of organisations surveyed also said they weren't sure whether the schemem would mean that some of their activities would have to be stopped or cancelled.

56% of respondents thought the overall impact of the scheme would be 'increased bureaucracy, and 52% believed that the scheme would make it 'harder to recruit volunteers'.

An opportunity for you to tell us what you really think!

Every two months OCVA create and distribute our Community Concern newsletter to all our members. We really need your input on the content of the newsletter so we can find out how we can make this more useful for your group. Please fill out the very short questionnaire by clicking here.

1st Annual HEARSAY! - service user event

Oxfordshire LINk and Social and Community Services are holding an event for people who use Adult Social Services and their carers, friends and family members. You can come along and have your say about how the County Council are running the services that you use.

Charity leaders propose 'Robin Hood' Tobin Tax to save the economy

The Chief Executives from a group of charities have teamed up with the Guardian to propose a Robin Hood (Tobin) tax. The group, which includes Stuart Etherington NCVO, Barbara Stocking Oxfam, David Bull Unicef and many more wrote an open letter to the government, part of which reads:

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