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The GYVSP Annual conference
The Great Yarmouth Voluntary Sector Partnership is pleased to announce the date for our Annual Conference 2011.
"The Future for Great Yarmouth's Voluntary and Community Sector"
To be held at the Assembly Rooms, Great Yarmouth Town Hall, 30th March 2011, 10am till 1pm.
The morning event will focus on the outcomes of the county spending review and the challenges for the sector moving into 2011.
Please put this date in your diary, full details to be announced shortly. For further information please contact Toni Tingle at admin@gyvsp.org.uk or on 01493 845925
Click here for the conference flyer.
Disability Living Allowance Reform Consultation
The Great Yarmouth Borough Disability Forum is holding a public consultation on the Government's Disability Living Allowance reform, which could have implications on everyone receiving DLA and future applicants.
The meeting will be held at Christchurch, Deneside, Gt. Yarmouth, on 8th February 1.30 for a 2pm start, until 4pm.
The consultation will be hosted by DIAL Gt. Yarmouth and Disability Rights Norfolk. There will also be a representative from the Department of Works and Pensions Disability Living Allowance team.
This consultation ends on 14 February 2011, and the Great Yarmouth Disability Forum will feedback responses to the DWP.
Please click here for The Disability Living Allowance reform document.
The document can also be downloaded from www.official-documents.gov.uk
Scamnesty February 2011
Scamnesty is a national campaign where Norfolk County Council Trading Standards and Norfolk Police encourage local communities to put their scam mailings in special Scamnesty bins. Scams include prize draws, sweepstakes, lotteries, miracle health cures, clairvoyants and psychic predictions.
During February, please pop your scam mailings in one of the Scamnesty bins located around Norfolk in Co-op stores, Police stations and council offices. At the end of the campaign Trading Standards and Norfolk Police will go through the mailings and investigate the most serious scams.
Localism plus cuts conference
The Eastern Region Conference to be held at The Assembly House Norwich on 4th March 2011 offers an opportunity to meet and work together with your local Older People's Forums/Groups and Age UKs/Concerns to address the difficult environment that we now find ourselves working in.
The aim of the conference is to hear and debate how the proposed cuts in funding to Local Authorities and Health can be addressed by our communities working together to better understand the changes we are facing, and look at ways that we can direct and influence local commissioning.
If you are unable to attend in person please consider passing the booking forms to other members that have the capacity and would wish to develop stronger working relationships.
Please see the attached Flyer, invitation and booking form.
Training
Voluntary Norfolk in Great Yarmouth
Voluntary Norfolk has a number of fully-funded training events happening in Great Yarmouth over the next few months. These include Business Plans, Trustee Training, and Charity Finance & Budgeting
For more information and to make a booking email admin@gyvsp.org.uk or call 01493 845925. Limited spaces available
Social Impact Measurement workshops - and the opportunity for individual diagnostics
In response to demand for information on measuring social impact, The Guild will be running six more Social Impact Measurement workshops in February and March 2011 in the East of England.
An information sheet and booking form is attached.
In addition, they are also able to offer delegates from voluntary and community organisations, and social enterprises, an individual half day diagnostic. The number of diagnostics on offer is limited, however, so you are advised to return the attached booking form as soon as possible.
For more info contact Ann Nicholls on 01603 615200 or via email ann@the-guild.co.uk
Norfolk Multi Agency Protocol - Tackling Hate Crime Together
There will be a Hate Crime reporting training on Wednesday 2nd March 2011 in Supper Room, Town Hall, 10am to 12 noon
The training session will be on what Hate Crime is and how to report it. The aim is to reach as many organisations to help us understand and report Hate Crime.
Your organisation is or might become a reporting centre and you as a worker dealing with the public, needs to know how to deal with these reports. You also need to know what to offer the victim.
If you require any further information please contact Valerie Cadmore before 23rd February on 01493 846211 or via email vac@great-yarmouth.gov.uk
Making it Happen personalisation training programme
Voluntary Norfolk's Personalisation Development Project is pleased to be repeating the ‘Making it happen' personalisation training programme designed to help voluntary and community organisations adapt to personalisation.
Please see the attached flyer and booking form for more information.
A number of fully funded places are available.
Session 1: Responding to the challenges and opportunities of personalisation - 7th Feb 2011
Session 2: Developing personalised services - 16th Feb 2011
Session 3: Marketing and business skills for personalisation - 23rd Feb 2011
Session 4: Governance for personalisation - 11th March 2011
In order to supplement the formal training sessions the project will be facilitating a number of informal, practical peer learning workshops which will focus on how to put the learning into practice, and sharing and learning from colleagues in other voluntary organisations. Details of these workshops will be distributed soon.
Events
Asperger's Syndrome Awareness Session
There will be an Asperger's Syndrome Awareness Session at the Shrublands Centre, Gorleston on Thursday 17 February 13.00 to 15.00hrs.
To apply please contact EACH at Shrublands Centre on 01493 663437
Rural North and South Bus Tour March 2011
Rural North Tenants and Residents Association has teamed up with Great Yarmouth Borough Council (GYBC) and Norfolk RCC to deliver an outreach tour.
Provisionally the tour will take place on Thursday 10th, 17th and 24th March, (tbc) between 10am - 3pm approximately. Two days will be spent in the northern villages and one day in the southern villages.
For more information or if you would like to be part of the tour, contact Sue Penlington Access4Life Officer Great Yarmouth on 01493 722783 or Peter Kirkpatrick - Rural North TARA 01493 733578 / 07957 714719 rural.north@virgin.net
New Activity Groups in Gorleston
If you live on Shrublands or Elmhurst in Gorleston, new activity groups are starting at the end of the month. Shrublands is for all ages; contact Julie Woods for more details on 01493 604739. Elmhurst is mainly for over 40's but if you are younger and would like to come along please do; more info from Kate
Platt on 01493 743055.
Each group has scrabble, puzzles, dominoes, board games, chat, coffee, tea, biscuits. Elmhurst also has arts and crafts.
Tree and Crib festival in St Nicholas Church Dec 2011
St. Nicholas Church Preservation Trust and St. Nicholas Church are thinking of organising a "Tree and Crib Festival" in the church next December. The event would take place over three to four days between the Christmas Fair and Christmas and will be a fund-raising event for the fabric and the organ of the church. It also will be a good way to advertise your business/society/charity etc.
They hope to see some original thought and "tree" and "crib" would be interpreted loosely to allow exhibitors to use their imagination and produce something out of the ordinary.
Before taking the project further, they would like to gauge enthusiasm from the town. If you are interested, please email paulpearce@yarmouth8143.freeserve.co.uk
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