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"Stress Management"
for Voluntary Sector Workers and Volunteers

Date: 23rd March 2010
Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Venue: Ground Floor, Berkeley Business Centre, City Gate House, 246 - 250 Romford Road, London E7 9HZ

This useful training session is aimed at people volunteering on Management Committees and designing and managing projects involving volunteers. It will explore the topic of stress and practical ways of minimising negative stress in community/ voluntary group project designs.

Practical exercises to reduce stress including the "tapping technique" will be introduced.

The session will also provide an opportunity to network and learn from people involved in a range of voluntary sector groups. Certificates of attendance will be given to all participants.

Refreshments will be provided and a Certificate of Attendance will be given to each participant.

Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis To book your place on the above training workshop, please contact Eyasu Buba on: 020 8536 1937 or via e-mail: eyasu.buba@vncnewham.co.uk.

The Volunteer Network Centre, Newham, is pleased to be working in partnership with Vitality Living and MODA, to run this training session free of charge. If your organisation has other training needs VNC may be able to respond to please contact us on the above e-mail or phone number.

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The Volunteer Network Centre is organising a conference entitled "Let's Connect" - Building Partnerships with Faith Based Organisations which takes place on 24th February 2010 from 12.30 to 5:30 pm at West Ham United Football Club, Boleyn Ground, Green Street, E13 9AZ.

Newham has one of the most diverse communities in the Country. Unfortunately, we continue to live 'parallel lives' apart from but alongside each other. This is a significant opportunity to support a very important project for our community. The project has been established to challenge traditional perspectives of faith based volunteering, promote community cohesion and make a positive impact. This is part of a pilot project within The Modernising Volunteering workstream, led by Volunteering England and funded by Capacity Builders’ National Support Services programme’. The project and conference will help raise issues nationally.

Faith Volunteers is a national pilot project funded by Capacity Builders, V Volunteering, Red Foundation and Volunteering England.

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Experts in Volunteering
Increasing excellent volunteering experiences across London

Development Worker (West London)
NJC Scale: SO1 £28,142 (pro-rata). 24.5 hours/week
Based in Hounslow; travel within Greater London.

Experts in Volunteering is an exciting programme funded to June 2012 by the Big Lottery Fund. We work with the Volunteer Centre network to enhance volunteer management practice across Greater London and improve volunteering experiences for Londoners.

As part of a team of 5 subregional workers, your varied role will include collaborative working with 6 West London Volunteer Centres and outreach work with organisations that involve volunteers.

Email info@glv.org.uk or visit www.glv.org.uk for an application pack or more information

Deadline for applications: 20 January 2010
Interviews will be held: 29 January 2010

Please note, only shortlisted applicants will be contacted after the closing date and previous applicants should not reapply.

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CALLING ALL YOUTH FOCUSED WORKERS / PRACTITIONERS IN NEWHAM

We are inviting employees or community practitioners in Newham with a direct or indirect youth focus and with full support from their employer / organization / community to take part in Global Xchanges newest free programme - Community Xchange Newham UK / Beijing China January - May 2010. For more information or to obtain an application form email keisha.briggs@vso.org.uk 07866 754 121.

Community Xchange is an international professional development programme for formal and informal community practitioners. Through a range of activities Community Xchange aims to build the skills of participants to facilitate the positive participation of young people as active global citizens, and develop inter cultural dialogue that makes a positive difference to their communities.

Details Of The Programme

The programme will recruit up to 15 participants from Newham, UK who will each be matched with a counterpart from Beijing, China based on their professional skills and interests. The programme will promote reciprocity to ensure that aspects of the programme are mirrored in the UK and China.

The participant will act on behalf of their organization or community to undertake a three week work attachment programme in Newham and develop and implement a reciprocal three week programme of activity for their counterpart whilst they are in Beijing.

Participant profile; The participant must:

• Be a UK national / able to travel overseas legally
• Be 18 years or above
• Have an active role in communities in Newham (be involved with your current organisation for at least 6 months)
• Be willing to fund raise up to £350 for the work of Global Xchange
• Be willing to give a minimum of 45 working days of commitment over the 4 months of activity
• Have experience working with young people and capacity to influence groups of young people
• Be informal or formal leader / practitioner / worker
• Have organizational support and agreement for the duration of the programme to ensure that they are able to continue to use the skills and expertise for the benefit of their communities once the exchange is completed.
• Have full support of their managers to participate in the programme

"Community Xchange gave me a great opportunity to observe how the UK government and volunteer organizations work for young people, and how to involve whole communities in healthy activities. These days I am putting the experience to good use and implementing the ideas and methods in my own district. Not only that, but I will soon be setting up a volunteer programme with a well-known charity hospital in Multan based on the knowledge I gained from the exchange visit. I have already started missing being in the programme, and if I get another chance to participate in Community Xchange in the future, I wouldn't hesitate for a second. It has been great. Bravo". Tanzeel Ur Rehman Alvi - Pakistan Participant of Community Xchange

For information on Community Xchange, & for an application form please see below:

The British Council Website

Global Xchange Programme Supervisor Newham / China -
Keisha Briggs: Keisha.briggs@vso.org.uk 07866 754 121

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VOLUNTEER RECRUITMENT & RETENTION WORKSHOP

Date: 29th October 2009
Time: Time: 1:30 am - 4:30 pm
Venue: Ground Floor, Berkeley Business Centre, Citygate House, 246 - 250 Romford Road, London E7 9HZ

The workshop will cover:

• Recruitment Procedure
• Induction
• Problem Solving
• Recognition & Retention

Refreshments will be provided and a Certificate of Attendance will be given to each participant.

If you would like to book your place on either one or both of the above training workshops, please contact Eyasu Buba on 020 8536 1937 or via e-mail: eyasu.buba@vncnewham.co.uk.

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1. "WHEN IS A VOLUNTEER NOT A VOLUNTEER?"

Date: Thursday, 16th July 2009
Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Venue: Ground Floor, Berkeley Business Centre, City Gate House, 246 - 250 Romford Road, London E7 9HZ

If you pay your workers you need to be able to understand what their employment status is. People who work a few hours a week, once a month or less regularly often just invoice the organisation and act as free-lance, but does this mean that they are genuinely self-employed? In reality they are more likely to be part-time employees and this means that they have certain rights under employment law.

This useful training session aimed at people volunteering on Management Committees will look at what a volunteer, an employee, and a self-employed worker is and is not. It will explore what organisations can practically do if their "free-lancers" turn out to be part-time employees.

The VNC, Newham is quite pleased to work in partnership with MODA and LVSC PEACe Project in organizing the above training workshop.

2. VOLUNTEER RECRUITMENT & RETENTION WORKSHOP

Date: 30th July 2009
Time: Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Venue: Ground Floor, Berkeley Business Centre, Citygate House, 246 - 250 Romford Road, London E7 9HZ

The workshop will cover:

• Recruitment
• Induction
• Problem Solving
• Motivation, Recognition & Retention

Refreshments will be provided and a Certificate of Attendance will be given to each participant.

If you would like to book your place on either one or both of the above training workshops, please contact Eyasu Buba on 020 8536 1937 or via e-mail: eyasu.buba@vncnewham.co.uk.

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FOR VOLUNTEER INVOLVING ORGANISATIONS IN NEWHAM & THE SURROUNDING AREAS

Date: 30th April 2009
Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Venue: Berkeley Business Centre, Citygate House, 246-250 Romford Road, London E7 9HZ

The workshop will cover:

• Induction and training
• Expenses
• Insurance
• Equal Opportunities and diversity
• Health and Safety
• Grievance and Disciplinary procedures
• Confidentiality

A Certificate of Attendance will be given to each participant.

Refreshments will be provided.

If you would like to book your place, please contact Eyasu Buba on 020 8536 1937 or via e-mail: eyasu.buba@vncnewham.co.uk.