Events Archive : 04/2018

Introduction to Safeguarding Children: 9th April 2018 What does it cost to keep a child safe from abuse? ● If your primary area of work or volunteering is with babies, children or young people then this is the safeguarding course for you. ● This course builds on our course an Awareness of Safeguarding Adults and Children and explores in more detail; communicating with children in difficult situations, thinking about the needs of children with additional needs, consolidating your skills in recognising abuse and responding to concerns and current hot topics in Northumberland. 09 Apr 2018 9:30 Pegswood

Active Voices short course Active Voices is a new short course which aims to develop the skills and knowledge of people who wish to play a part in their communities. If you attend this free six session course you will have the chance to, develop new skills, explore a range of interesting and topical issues, carry out practical projects, try new experiences, have some fun and hopefully make new friends. Lunch included. For more information or to book a place: shylands@wea.org.uk or 07900051720. 17 Apr 2018 10:00 Riverside Community Health Project Atkinson Road Benwell NE4 8XS

Action Hosting Open Evening Action Hosting, a project delivered by award-winning charity Action Foundation, matches volunteers offering a spare bedroom in their home with a destitute asylum seeker to provide short-term accommodation placements. Our Action Hosting project recently provided its 2,000th night of accommodation to vulnerable asylum seekers in the homes' of our volunteer hosts. But we want to do more! 17 Apr 2018 17:30 The CastleGate Melbourne Street Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 2JQ

Introduction to GDPR Workshop Durham Community Action (DCA) are running this introduction to GDPR workshop for community groups on the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which comes into force on 25th May 2018. Places are limited and in order to secure your place, payment of £5 per attendee is required on booking. Book your place on the DCA website. 25 Apr 2018 9:30 Framwellgate Moor Community Centre Durham

Bid development for CLAHRC in the North East CLAHRCs (Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care) are collaborative partnerships between a university and the surrounding NHS organisations, focused on improving patient outcomes through the conduct and application of applied health research. They create and embed approaches to research and its dissemination that are specifically designed to take account of the way that health care is increasingly delivered across sectors and a wide geographical area. 26 Apr 2018 0:00

Hidden Sentence Training: Newcastle Hidden Sentence training, from NEPACS, is for employees or volunteers whose work brings them into contact with families of prisoners, including health professionals, probation/CRC staff, school staff, child care providers, social workers, youth workers, play workers, local authority staff or community/voluntary workers. 26 Apr 2018 9:30 Newcastle

Webinar: setting and measuring outcomes By definition, setting the right outcomes and measuring them effectively is one of the most important aspects of an outcomes-based contract. Getting this right is even more important when it is a payment by results (PbR) contract or a social impact bond (SIB), because the achievement of at least some of the outcomes will determine how much is paid by commissioners to providers and/or investors, and the definition of outcomes directly affects whether commissioners achieve value for money from the contract. 26 Apr 2018 10:00 Webinar

Justice, Inequality and Gender-based Violence (Middlesbrough) This is an opportunity to hear findings from the University of Bristol’s Justice, Inequality and Gender-Based Violence Project 2015-18. This ESRC-funded research explores how justice (in its wider sense) is understood, sought and experienced by victims/survivors of gender-based violence. 26 Apr 2018 13:00 Cleveland Police Headquarters Ladgate Lane Middlesbrough TS8 9EH

Justice, Inequality and Gender-based Violence (Newcastle) This is an opportunity to hear findings from the University of Bristol’s Justice, Inequality and Gender-Based Violence Project 2015-18. This ESRC-funded research explores how justice (in its wider sense) is understood, sought and experienced by victims/survivors of gender-based violence. 27 Apr 2018 9:30 The County Hotel, Newcastle Neville Street Newcastle NE1 5DF

Upcoming VONNE Member Events

Cyber Security Training for Small Charities and Community Groups

25/02/2019 - 12:30 to 16:00

St Mary's Centre 82-90 Corporation Road Middlesbrough TS1 2RW

Roundtable: Brexit & Civil Society: York

25/02/2019 - 13:00 to 16:00

Main Hall, Priory Street Centre, 15 Priory Street, YO1 6ET

Tees Valley Combined Authority Local Industrial Strategy – Policy Choice Challenge Sessions

27/02/2019 - 11:00 to 28/02/2019 - 17:30

Middlesbrough Football Club

NCSC Cyber Security Training

28/02/2019 - 10:00 to 13:00

Higham House Higham Place NE1 8AF