SERVICE COORDINATOR
Salary: £21,000 pa (pro rata)
Location: Thames Valley area, with a particular focus on Oxfordshire and Milton Keynes
Hours: 22.5 per week.
Closing date for applications: 9am Monday 27th January 2020. Interviews will take place Tuesday 4th February 2020.
Equality Council UK are SEEKING NEW BOARD MEMBERS.
In light to some retirements, ECUK is seeking members to serve on its Board, in particular the Milton Keynes area, but regional representation may be sought in the near future.
ECUK is a charity run by voluntary members.
We are looking for interested individuals who have the enthusiasm and drive to forward the equality agenda . If you feel your interest and skills can support our charity, then we would like to hear from you. We are seeking skills in the following areas:
You would need to be committed and determined to make a difference.
There will be approximately 7 meetings during 2020 including the AGM. Facilities will be made available for members to attend meetings remotely via video/teleconferencing.
Please forward your recent CV together with a covering letter outlining your interest in Equality and Diversity as well as what you can bring to the Board. Please send your particulars to:
Navritaa@equalitycounciluk.org
Visit our website: https://www.equalitycounciluk.org/
Could you spare a few hours each week at a local primary school to share your love of reading with children in Milton Keynes?
Coram Beanstalk is a national reading charity that transforms children’s life chances by recruiting, training and supporting volunteers to work directly with children aged 5-11 who need support in their reading ability and confidence.
The charity currently needs new volunteers who can help engage children in books and stories, bringing the fun and magic back into reading with children whose reading confidence and enjoyment may have been lost or may need a boost.
As a reading helper you will support three primary school children twice a week for 30 minutes sessions for at least one academic year. The children you will be working with will need help for a variety of reasons but your focus will be on making reading fun and helping them feel more positive around books.
Very importantly, sessions are meant to be fun and enjoyable. By having this one-on-one time with each child the reading helper can help to develop the child’s reading skills and wider language acquisition in a fun and engaging way.
All volunteers receive professional training by Coram Beanstalk and ongoing support to ensure that they are best able to have the biggest impact possible through their sessions.
If you would like to become a reading helper in Milton Keynes, please visit the website at www.corambeanstalk.org.uk or call Coram Beanstalk on 020 7729 4087.
“A key component of a company’s wealth, is in its employees having good mental health.” ECAF
Course: Supervising First Aid for Mental Health (Ofqual accredited qualification)
Date: 19th-20th December 2019 (last one for the year)
Where: Milton Keynes
Who should attend: Managers and above, HR officials , union reps and health and safety reps from workplaces, schools, groups, faith groups and the armed forces. Anyone with an interest can also attend
Cost: £300 pp included (Ofqual accredited level 3 qualification). There is 10% discount for charities, small businesses, any group working with children and families and social enterprises.
Bookings for any of our First Aid for Mental Health courses made between 1st November 2019 – 31st January 2020 get a 40% discount.
To book email:training@ecafnp.com
ECAF supports the Heads Together programme, which is to bring well-being to workplaces, schools and the armed forces.
About First Aid for Mental Health
First Aid for Mental Health courses help raise awareness of various mental health conditions and how to spot the signs and give initial help and support, until clinical help can be given. They also help reduce sickness/absence among staff and promote well-being in the workplace.
First Aid for Mental Health is evidenced based and is Ofqual regulated and accredited with certificates at level 1, level 2 and level 3. It complies with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 and the Mental Health Policy of your organization.
While there are no specific duties placed on employers to reduce the risk of exposure to work related stress, the general duties under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 apply equally to mental well-being, as they do to physical injury and health, making First Aid for Mental Health courses as equally important as First Aid at Work.
What is First Aid for Mental Health?This allows a person to give immediate help, support and signposting information to someone at the onset, in or at the end of a mental health crisis, until clinical help and intervention can be given to the person. It acts in the same way as First Aid at Work and CPR. The courses help to improve the understanding, knowledge and attitude of individuals towards mental health conditions. This in turn helps to improve performance, reduce sick days and create a healthy work environment. Participants learn the signs of some mental health conditions and how to start a conversation and apply the four step C.A.R.E plan around it. It supports early intervention, prevention and treatment, with the correct signposting for clinical help. When early help is given, recovery is often quicker, making sickness absence shorter or not at all in some instances.
The Benefits
Staff get a good understanding of various mental health conditions and how to spot the signs of each. They learn how to support themselves and each other, leading to an open and transparent work culture that destigmatizes mental health conditions, making it easier for those with these conditions to attend work and thrive.
Managers, well-being champions, union reps and health and safety reps learn how to take care of their own mental health, as they support colleagues in a range of issues, which can at times can be stressful.
Mangers and HR officials get a good understanding of various mental health conditions and how to spot the signs of each. They learn how to support staff who have mental health conditions or who have family members with mental health conditions, when having to manage sickness/absence, work capability, performance and reasonable adjustments of employers.
We offer qualification and non qualification training courses:
Level 1 half day First Aid for Mental Health Awareness
Level 2 one day First Aid for Mental Health First Aid
Level 3 two day Supervising First Aid for Mental Health
Did you know?
Mental Health Foundation
About Us: We are a community interest company. We deliver training and programs that fund activities around children and families (after school homework help, holiday play and learn schemes, soft skills personal and social development and parenting courses for parents.) We support activities in local communities that empower and inspire children and families.
See the website for more information about ECAF (please note prices on the website may differ to those offered above due to an outdated website)
Free tickets for charity performance on Thursday 19th December at 10am!
Are you still looking for that perfect Christmas outing?
Well we might just have the answer – keep reading!
RARE Pantomimes are delighted to be appearing at Stantonbury Theatre this Christmas. They will bring talented cast of professional actors and dancers together to delight you with their production of…
Beauty and the Beast!
Join Belle and the Beast in the enchanted castle. With Dame Dotty taking full control of everyone’s lives hindered by the hapless Muddles and arrogant Count George, what could possibly go wrong?
A traditional pantomime for all the family built around audience participation. A real Christmas treat!
For this special charity showing, we will be offering up to 30 tickets free of charge as a gesture of good will to the local Milton Keynes community…all we need now is you!
This unique performance will take place on Thursday 19th December at 10am.
These tickets are booked on a first come, first served basis so book now to avoid disappointment!
All we ask for in return is the promise of an image of your party having a lot of fun and a short message that we can share on our website and social media pages.
Stantonbury Theatre offers free parking for cars and coaches and disabled access for those with mobility issues.
If you have any other requirements or enquiries, please contact Emma at emmad@rareproductions.co.uk or contact the theatre directly to book at 01908 324466.
For more about RARE Pantomimes please check out our social media accounts for past production images and backstage gossip…
Facebook – @RAREPantomimes
Twitter – @RARE_Panto
Instagram – @rare_panto
Please be aware that there are only 30 tickets FREE and it will be a first come first serve basis.
Volunteers are needed at Shenley Wood in the following areas:
The purpose of a befriender is to share time with residents listening and chatting, encouraging them to participate in a friendly and professional manner.
Main tasks:
Attributes/Competencies:
This role is to assist the fitness instructor in the smooth running of the gym and to ensure proper procedures are observed, and to enhance the services provided within the village.
Main tasks:
Attributes/Competencies:
A people person with a pleasant and friendly personality
Trustworthy, honest and reliable
Ability to carry out their role within a team and under own initiative
The purpose of the role is to support the EOP Locksmith in delivering a reminiscence session through a person-centered and holistic approach.
Main tasks:
Attributes/Competencies:
The role of the Volunteer Escorter Coordinator is to escort, support and assist residents to and from wellbeing and the Enriched Opportunities Programme (EOP) activities and sessions within the village.
Main tasks:
Attributes/Competencies:
The role of the shop assistant is to ensure that you are providing good customer service to the residents in a friendly and professional manner, as well as undertaking generic shop housekeeping duties.
Main tasks:
Attributes/Competencies
Training and development for all roles will be provided.
If you are interested in any of these roles, please contact the Shenley Wood ExtraCare Volunteer manager at natalie.sabin@extracare.org.uk or call on 01908 413035
The weather was kind to us on Tuesday, for our networking/netwalking event that took place at the Meeting Place outside The Point amidst the Festival of Creative Urban Living.
With the venue so open plan, we used some of our refreshments as paperweights to hold down our information at our stall before it was lost to the wind – otherwise people wouldn’t know who we are, what we do, what we are working on or how we can help and support the voluntary and community sector.
The Festival of Creative Urban Living were kind enough to host us and even entertain us and our guests on a tour of the Festival, exhibiting some of their unique architecture and concepts, with one of our own team getting her idea of a beach in Milton Keynes on one of their models!
We were also joined by AccessAble. AccessAble have been working with Milton Keynes Council for a number of years to create over 350 Access Guides for the area. These Guides contain over 1,000 pieces of access information with a pan-disability approach so that residents and visitors with a disability can make independent and informed decisions about where they would like to go out. For more information, visit their website or contact them to find out how you can utilise their services and Guides!
Then some of our networkers ventured on our netWALK into Conniburrow to see how Big Local Conniburrow have helped to shape and enhance the local community assets. There was a walk around Friendship Park, a visit to the Big Local Conniburrow Hub, as well as a visit to the Pond, the Little Library and the Community Orchard. Our guests were impressed with all of Conniburrow’s hidden gems and how utilised these are by residents and the local community. Our team and guests even had a little laugh and a dance under the Sonar Arch in Friendship Park to show another way the space could be used!
We thank all our attendees and visitors to our Networking Event for coming along and for your ongoing support at our events.
If you would like to see what events we are hosting and that are coming up, sign up to our mailing list here.
Our next event is our ‘Let’s Talk Good Finance’ Event, organised in collaboration with the teams at NAVCA and Good Finance. There will be speakers, the hot topic of the REACH Fund and the promise of refreshments. Please see here for more details.
If you would like to know more about what we do, how we can help or if you have simply got news to share with us, then contact us at info@communityactionmk.org or call on 01908 661623.
We already have our ‘SAVE THE DATE’ for our next networking event! See below for more details.
We look forward to seeing you there! #lovemk #welovemk #networking #voluntaryandcommunitysector
