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20 June 2008
BHT/SCIP IT TRAINING COURSES BOOKING NOW
Brighton Housing Trust is running a series of courses in partnership with SCIP, to be delivered by Mary Berridge, our most popular trainer ever, and they're designed specifically for staff and volunteers of community and voluntary organisations.•Are you the sort of person who describes their computer skills as 'self-taught'?
•Do you ever get the feeling that you could get a lot more from the programs you use every day?
•Then these low cost one-day courses are designed for you...
Intermediate Excel – 3rd July
Advanced Excel – 17th September
Outlook Expert – 29th September
Basic PowerPoint– 9th October
Advanced Word – 29th October
Basic Publisher – 19th November
Fees – including all course materials, coffee, tea, and lunch too!
Standard rate: £85 per session
Discount rate: £55 for organisations with fewer than ten staff or a turnover below £100,000
Book Now
To book a place on any course go to www.bht.org.uk and download a booking form. Please contact Amy Hines at BHT on 01273 645401 or email training@bht.org.uk with any queries.
Further Information
Check out the course content at the BHT website at www.bht.org.uk All the above courses are held at Community Base in Brighton
Please pass this information on to anyone you think may be interested.
For details on all the other courses we offer, and for more information about BHT Training please visit our website www.bht.org.uk and 2009 courses booking soon!!!
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13 May 2008
International Day Against Homophobia Biphobia & Transphobia
There will be an event this Saturday on Brighton seafront to celebrate International Day Against Homophobia Biphobia & Transphobia. Join us for performances by the Rainbow Chorus and the City of Brighton Gay Men's Chorus, inspirational speakers including Caroline Lucas MEP, a minutes noise, and candle lighting. 77 sky lanterns will be released to mark the 77 countries where LGBT people still face prison or execution. You can see photo's of last year's event at www.realbrighton.com/story/2829Date - Sat 17th May
Time - 7:00
Location - Brighton Seafront opposite volks nightclub, beside volks railway
IDAHOBIT Brighton has been made possible by the generous support of Brighton & Hove City Council LGBT Workers Forum, UNISON South East, and Broken Rainbow
All are welcome - We hope to see you there
Nick Antjoule & Phelim Mac Cafferty
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29 April 2008
Computer Training: Outlook, Excel and Word
- Are you the sort of person who describes their computer skills as 'self-taught'?
- Do you ever get the feeling that you could get a lot more from Outlook, Word and Excel?
- Then these low cost one-day courses are designed for you
SCIP is running a series of courses in partnership with BHT, delivered by the wonderful Mary Berridge, our most popular trainer ever. They're designed specifically for staff and volunteers of community and voluntary organisations, they¹re very hands on and will save you time and effort every day.
- Basic Microsoft Word, 8th May
- Basic Outlook, 15th May
- Basic Excel, 16th June
All the courses are in Brighton.
The best news is that BHT is doing a special deal on the rates - book two and get the second one half price with further discounts for small organisations.
Fees
- Standard rate: £85 per session
- Discounted to £55 for organisations with fewer than ten staff or a turnover below £100,000
Special deal: BOOK ONE GET ONE HALF PRICE
- That means: £127.50 for two sessions
- Discounted to £82.50 for organisations with fewer than ten staff or a turnover below £100,000
Book a place by contacting Amy Hines at BHT on 01273 645401or emailing training@bht.org.uk
Other courses
They are also running intermediate and advanced courses in Outlook, Word and Excel, plus courses in Powerpoint and Publisher. Full details below and on the BHT website at http://tinyurl.com/4wuq7d
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11 April 2008
Children Can Do fund: new deadlines announced
Novas Scarman Group have announced new deadlines for their popular funding source for groups involving children aged 5-13. The next deadline is Friday 16th May 2008, with later rounds happening in October and February. Groups wishing to apply need to contact Sue Barnes at Novas Scarman, at least two weeks prior to the deadline, to arrange a meeting with her.For more details about the fund, see our Favourite Funders page on the Children Can Do fund.
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02 April 2008
People's Millions 2008: Awards of up to £50,000
The Big Lottery have now opened 'People's Millions' for 2008
Five awards of up to £50,000 will be up for grabs in each of ITV’s 18 regions – a total of 90 awards across the UK and a potential quarter of a million pounds for each region for projects that improve and enrich communities.
Organisations across the regions have until 15 May to enter, and the final project shortlist will be announced on 29 October. The People’s Millions contest will be televised on ITV from 24-28 November and the public in each region will vote for the winners.
For information on this programme and to find out how to get hold of an application pack, please call the Big Advice Line on 08454 10 20 30 or visit their website at www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/peoples_millions
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25 February 2008
Grants up to £50,000 for Community Sustainable Energy
The Community Sustainable Energy Programme (CSEP) has been set up by the Big Lottery Fund to help community based organisations in England to reduce their energy bills and environmental impact. The scheme is also designed to raise public awareness of the social and environmental advantages to reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions in order to combat climate change.Grants will be awarded to eligible not-for-profit community based organisations in England.
Two types of grant are available: capital and project development.
- Capital Grants are available for the purchase and installation of energy saving technologies along with various energy efficiency measures.
- Project Development Grants are available for studies investigating the feasibility of installing the above mentioned technologies.
It is anticipated that the Community Sustainable Energy Programme will open for applications in April 2008. For more information go to www.community sustainable.org.uk
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21 February 2008
Nationwide Community and Heritage Awards
The Nationwide Building Society and the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) are pleased to announce the launch of the Nationwide Community and Heritage Awards, to recognise those undertaking valuable voluntary community or heritage work. Nominations in the ‘Heritage Hero’ category can be made from Wednesday 20 February 2008.
We would be delighted if there are people you would like to nominate for an award, including those within your own organisation. Winners will be chosen from across 12 regions in the UK, for young people, adults and groups.
An awards ceremony will be held in July for the South East England region. Eighteen of these regional winners will be announced as national finalists, with a national event scheduled to take place in November for the winners. Below you will find a web link to the nomination form, together with a copy of the press release that has been sent out to all local media outlets.
The closing date for entries is Monday 28 April 2008. All nominations should be returned to Vicky Quelch at the Nationwide.
Please contact Vicky at Nationwide Building Society on telephone number 01793 655 139, or by email on vicky.quelch@nationwide.co.uk if you would like to request hard copies of the form. http://www.nationwide.co.uk/about_nationwide/community_and_environmental_affairs/nationwide_community_and_heritage_awards/If you would like to put something on this noticeboard, please send it to us at info@resourcecentre.org.uk
15 February 2008
Free music concert to raise money for your group?
The music club at Bellerbys College, near Brighton Station are looking for community or voluntary groups that they might be able to give a free performance for, perhaps as a fundraiser.The club is small and informal and consists of a couple of classical pianists, violinists etc; a couple of singers; and a kind of folk rock band. The students are all aged about 17-20. The club would welcome the opportunity to give performances and would find the social interaction useful. A typical scenario might be a small hall, a community group, a one-hour performance, followed by tea, chat and biscuits - that sort of thing. In some circumstances, it might even be possible to use the school hall at Bellerbys.
The person to contact is Andrew Stephenson. You can email him at astephenson@studygroup.com or phone him on 0044 1273 339200. He is the Bellerbys Foundation Coordination Manager at Bellerbys College, 1 Billinton Way, Brighton BN1 4LF www.bellerbys.com.
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14 February 2008
One Planet Living Awards
One Planet Living Awards from B&Q will see products to the value of £1,000 to £10,000 going to environmental or community organisations, sports clubs etc. to help regenerate local areas, support environment/energy saving, natural habitats/wildlife or local culture/heritage projects.Applications by 28th March –
http://www.diy.com/awards. (Source: Fundraising UK)
12 February 2008
Grants Up To £10,000 Available If You Work With Young People
South Central Connexions is offering a final grant fund of £70,000 to voluntary and community organisations working with young people aged 13 to 19 (or up to 25 for young people with learning difficulties and disabilities). This will be distributed in grants of up to £10,000.Closing date: 7 March.
To find out more call Becky Davis on 01489 566792 or email: beckydavis@connexions-southcentral.org or visit their website at: http://www.connexions-southcentral.org/connexions_news/small_grants_news_08.htm
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