Voluntary organisations

... process. The proposal considered was that the overall budget for Voluntary Sector grants should be cut by 5%, amounting to £32, ... involved is miniscule to the Council, but desperately needed by voluntary organisations in the Borough. It will have an impact on ... communities, but Redbridge are taking away the investment from the organisations that most need it. Make sure Councillors know your views ... Making sure there is adequate advice and support to community and voluntary organisations is the focus of a task group from Stockton Council’s Corporate and Social ... at, for example, advice, training and support from the Council and other organisations to the Voluntary and Community Sector as well as having better relationships with them. Councillor Suzanne Fletcher, Chair of the Task Group, ...

... Tunis Science City, on Saturday 6 May 2006, we are planning a Voluntary Day by a partnership with Tunisian Scouts. The aim of this activity is to raise awareness of voluntary work, give the opportunity to local and regional NGOs to promote their work and create a Regional database of active volunteers and organisations working through volunteering. ... supply is postponing the decision by the Government in New Delhi. Parivartan, a voluntary organisation based in Delhi obtained and publicised several official documents of the 'Delhi ... utility, Delhi Jal Board and the Bank. Several voluntary organisations, residents' welfare organisations, experts and citizens have come together in Delhi to form the 'Right to Water Campaign' to ...

Voluntary Sector, the magazine for the National Council for Voluntary Organisations , has been... ... end up with a hierarchical system of trustees and staff. Organisations also reflect past communication needs - but these are changing: ... how social media support the informal "shadow" side of organisations. Now Philip Holden adds a comment: I commented on ... suffice to say that social structures are just that; social structures. Simply because they ...

Hospitals and voluntary organisations, as well as the ambulance service, have been ordered by the Health Service Executive to try to reduce their staff numbers by 1,000 before the end of the year.Mike Gapes has asked  local people to nominate local volunteer groups for next year’s Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, an award which recognises the immense contribution volunteers make to their communities. “We have excellent local community and voluntary organisations in Ilford and Redbridge  but many get  insufficient recognition.   I am therefore asking local people to urgently ... is carrying out a short on-line survey on pension provision currently being offered to our community and voluntary sector members. This is part of UNISON’s ongoing campaign to try to ensure good quality pension provision for members.So ... have some idea of what is on offer. .

Title: Helping to reforest the planet – how to make forestry credits more appealing to buyersLocation: ExCel Centre LondonLink out: Click hereDescription: Please join us and our fantastic guest speakers for an interactive panel debate at our Breakfast Meeting at the Carbon Show on Wednesday 30th September 2009. All the details for this FREE event are outlined below so we\’ll look forward to seeing you all there!30th September 2009, 08:45 to 09:45 a.m.The Carbon Show 2009ExCel Centre LondonPlatinI wrote a short essay for an excellent publication called View - the policy journal for the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations. 'Scottish Dystopias and Utopias' is now available here on PDF and Word file. I'm also creating a new...

Bhopal Group for Information and Action , a voluntary group representing the victims of 1984 gas tragedy at the Union Carbide, has demanded for clean and potable water for the affected families. On the night of December 2, 1984, tonnes of a toxic gas leaked from the pesticide plant owned by Union Carbide, killing 3,800 people almost immediately. Salinath Sandgi, Convenor of the BGIA, said that people who were affected by the gas tragedy were still being forced to drink polluted water, Title: Helping to reforest the planet – how to make forestry credits more appealing to buyersLocation: ExCel Centre LondonLink out: Click hereDescription: Please join us and our fantastic guest speakers for an interactive panel debate at our Breakfast Meeting at the Carbon Show on Wednesday 30th September 2009. All the details for this FREE event are outlined below so we\’ll look forward to seeing you all there!30th September 2009, 08:45 to 09:45 a.m.The Carbon Show 2009ExCel Centre LondonPlatinIn the opening months of the recession, the public sector was relatively sheltered from job losses and this was frequently highlighted by right-wing newspapers calling for cuts: ‘sharing the pain’ was a common theme. If that is what they wanted, they must be very pleased with the turn events have been taking. The University and College Union has revealed that 6,000 jobs in further and higher education are currently at risk – 45 universities and 55 colleges are cutting jobs now, 99 universi

Dublin 23rd September 2009: EcoSecurities, a leading company in the business of sourcing, developing and trading carbon credits from greenhouse gas emission reduction projects, has partnered with Baker McKenzie LLP, a leading climaate change law firm and ClimateBiz, the resource for climate management, to launch the second edition of The Carbon Management and Offsetting Trends Survey Report 2009.The Carbon Management and Offsetting Trends Survey was originally undertaken in 2008 to establish whaWe seem to have a bit of a stand-off with the Information Commissioner at the moment about what constitutes anonymised data. No, don’t run away – this is really important and rather interesting, I promise. The Youth Justice Board has built a new system, unimaginatively called the YJMIS , to collect what purports to be anonymised statistical data every quarter from each local authority Youth Offending Team in England and Wales. This is data about offences, disposals, personal profile scores a

Over 90% of Companies Rate Environmental Benefits as Key Motivation for Interest in Carbon Offsets DUBLIN, September 23/PRNewswire/ — EcoSecurities, a leading company in the business of sourcing, developing, and trading carbon credits from greenhouse gas emission reduction projects, has partnered with Baker & McKenzie LLP, a leading climate change law firm, and ClimateBiz, the resource for climate management, to launch the second edition of The Carbon Management and Offsetting Trends SDublin 23rd September 2009: EcoSecurities, a leading company in the business of sourcing, developing and trading carbon credits from greenhouse gas emission reduction projects, has partnered with Baker McKenzie LLP, a leading climaate change law firm and ClimateBiz, the resource for climate management, to launch the second edition of The Carbon Management and Offsetting Trends Survey Report 2009.The Carbon Management and Offsetting Trends Survey was originally undertaken in 2008 to establish wha

This morning, Boris Johnson was at the Victoria & Albert Museum with representatives from the arts, business and public sector to “warn against cuts in spending on arts and culture” . We have to rise to the challenge brought about by the downturn. Arts and culture are not a luxury, they are part of this city’s DNA, its USP. It is why people want to live and work here and  seven out of ten tourists say it is a reason for their visit. At a time of recession it is more important than eveIn a previous article I looked at reasons why training is important and how organisations could look at providing training for employees. In this article I’ll consider some practical ways of going about providing internal training. It must be said that internal training is never expected to replace quality external training but what it can offer is a degree of personalisation and employee involvement that even the best training courses may not achieve. By encouraging employees to generate knowPosted by Alex Peak at LPAnarchists.com : It’s often asked, do we wish for the Libertarian Party to be a political party, or a philosophical debate club? The person asking is almost always implying that the party must be a party and thus not a philosophical debate club, although conceivably, one could ask the question with the purpose of promoting the idea of having the party be not a party at all, and only a philosophical debate club. But the question is problematic. It implies that a pa

Comment on the Labour Market Statistics Issued on 16 September 2009 LONDON, September 16/PRNewswire/ — Commenting on today’s labour market statistics, Ian Brinkley, associate director at The Work Foundation, said: “All the recent talk of recovery is clearly very distant from what’s happening in the labour market. If the experience of previous recessions repeats itself, it will be between 8 and 10 years for employment to recover to its previous level – it could be either 2016 or even 2018Living wills for banks have been in the news in the past few days, as a way of trying to avoid a repeat of the banking disaster that has unfolded. As Lord Turner put it recently : “In the past, authorities around the world have tended to be tolerant of the proliferation of complex legal structures designed to maximise regulatory and tax arbitrage,” he said. “Now we may have to demand clarity of legal structure. Living wills -- plans for winding down banks in an orderly way -- would be w

Via the IPKat's 1709 Blog friend Hugo Cox comes this link to Press Release IP/09/1313 concerning the European Commission's latest take on IP enforcement, "Intellectual Property Rights: Commission comes forward with practical, non-legislative measures to combat counterfeiting and piracy".   Right: Is the Commission's position a radical innovation or just a polite way of saying "I surrender"? If they are practical, presumably they are intended to achieve something -- and they are Top Story:  Title:  KARZAI GETS 54.6% OF THE VOTE Body:  KARZAI GETS 54.6% OF THE VOTE Okay, this is getting ridiculous. Election results released yesterday in Kabul give incumbent Hamid Karzai 54.6% of the vote. Election authorities ordered a recount because of massive ballot-box stuffing and non-existent poll security during the Aug

On Friday Madeleine and I attended the Forum on the Family and the following is our long awaited review of it. The Forum kicked off with an impassioned talk from Bev Adair. Bev gave a harrowing account of her own story of childhood physical and sexual abuse and subsequent encounter with God that transformed her life and character and enabled her to break the cycle in her own life, heal and bring her own experience into her work with the Family and Child Trust. She stressed that the Ethical Search Engine optimisation for ethical organisationsThis article is reprinted with permission from The Lancet, and was co-authored by Katie Chau, Youth Coalition, Ottawa, Canada; Catherina Hinz, German Foundation for World Population , Hannover, Germany ; and Sivananthi Thanentiran, The Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Sex happens: 125 million times each and every day. So how is it that in the 21st century this precious element of human existence is

If the politicians like social media so much, then we must be doing something wrong. That’s my half-serious conclusion after the latest Polis/Channel 4 debate on the future of the Interne t. The forum was held in a building that used to be a nail factory in Birmingham and our presenters quickly got to the point . Mike Rawley and Tony Walley from the excellent Stoke citizen journalism news website Pits’n'Pots showed how ‘former journalists’ can taMergers, acquisitions and a competitive and constantly evolving marketplace can often prompt organisations to implement reshuffling, restructuring or downsizing initiatives, which unfortunately results in staff layoffs. The one job for life principle rarely exists in today’s workplace, with workers told to expect at least 3, 4 or even more job and career changes throughout their working lives, whether voluntary or involuntary (through corporate downsizing and staff r