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CDF Seminar: Funding faith and BME groups Reminder: There's still time to book your place on this free seminar The event will be an opportunity to hear our research findings and to share in the learning from the Faith Capacity Building Fund and the Connecting Communities Plus schemes. 11 December 2008 11am - 3:30pm A buffet lunch will be provided. NCVO Conference Suite National Council for Voluntary Organisations Regent's Wharf 8 All Saints Street London N1 9RL The event is free, but please do book early to confirm your place. We hope to see you there on the 11th December. RSVP: Please book your place and provide details of any dietary requirements to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it by 28 November 2008. Community Development Foundation, Unit 5, Angel Gate, 320-326 City Road, London EC1V 2PT Tel: 020 7833 1772 Fax: 020 7837 6584 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Registered charity no. 306130. Capacity Builders - Developing Third Sector Resources Centres By 2011 Capacity Builders wants to increase the access that third sector organisations have to high quality, relevant and affordable shared facilities and services offered by local resource centres across England. Interfaith Calendar for 2009 Hampshire Interfaith Network has produced an Interfaith Calendar for 2009 which is now available to purchase. The calendar features 25 designs from school children and young people from across Hampshire, with each design relating to one of the 100+ religious festivals and events featured in the calendar from the nine faith groups represented. The calendar is now available to purchase at £3.99. www.hants-interfaith.org/cal.html Invitation to attend a roundtable discussion on Migrant Workers Dear Colleague, Progress through Partnership (PtP) invites you to attend a roundtable discussion on the
theme of Migrant Workers on 20 January 2009 (3-6pm). If you would pass this invitation
to colleagues you feel would benefit from attending this event it would be much appreciated.
This session will bring together a small group of strategic leaders from across the South East
to take part in an interactive debate around migrant workers and to scope innovative ways to
address the issues – with a focus on how working in partnership across agencies can help to
achieve this.
It will be aimed primarily at Chief Executives and strategic leaders from local authorities and
other key agencies, including local businesses, Learning & Skills Councils (LSCs), Jobcentre
Plus, Citizens Advice Bureau, Housing Associations, Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), schools and
local Police.
The discussion will be introduced by Anne Green, Principal Research Fellow at the Institute
for Employment Research, University of Warwick.
There is no charge for attending this event and drinks and refreshments will be provided.
Outcomes
Delegates will leave this session with:
How to book a place Places at this session are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment.
For more information please visit the PtP web page here. Or contact Emily Parrett at PtP: email:
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, tel: 01962 840 664.
GLOBAL PEACE FESTIVAL A half day Westminster Briefing entitled 'Building Partnership and Cohesion in Our Multi Faith Society: Face to Face and Side by Side’ which will be hosted by The House Magazine on 18th November 2008 in Westminster. This summer the Government published a new framework for building inter-faith cohesion and harmony in a multi-cultural Britain. ‘Face to Face and Side by Side’ sets out how government will work with faith based groups to improve community cohesion and interaction, as well as initiatives to support faith organisations in delivering public services. This commitment will be backed up by £7.5million worth of investment at national, regional and local level to build the capacity of faith based organisations and help them work and have dialogue with local authorities and regional development agencies.
the speakers will include:
For further information on this event please contact Jon Fuller, Research and Development Manager, Westminster Briefing
T: 020 7096 2920 F: 020 7096 2946
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W: www.westminster-briefing.com
Jonathan Shaw, Regional Minister for the South East who will be speaking at our November Conference, has recently launched the consultation period for the draft Regional Compact for the South East. The consultation period runs until 9th January 2009.
Details can be found on the GOSE website www.gose.gov.uk
The Business Case for a South East Regional Equality Network (SEEN) - September 2008 Refugee Council courses - Key issues in asylum & Introduction to asylum support Civic Leadership Training for Faith and Community Leaders Islam and British Muslims Awareness Courses Allen Lane Foundation Grants Programme (UK) The Allen Lane Foundation makes grants to not for profit organisations that work towards improving the lives of and integrating groups of people who are unpopular in UK society today. This includes;
The Foundation will make grants towards start-up, core or project costs. The grants range from one off grants of between £500 and £15,000 or grants of between £500 and £5,000 per year for up to three years. Applications can be made at any time.
http://www.allenlane.org.uk/priorities.htm July 2008
The national launch of the Government’s Inter-Faith Strategy was held on 21 July at Methodist Central Hall, Westminster. Some SEEFF members arranged for a display relating to Inter-Faith work in localities across the Region and a SEEFF banner setting out what SEEFF is about. This national launch was limited to just 15 invitations to each region. So, we have begun thinking about arranging a separate SE Regional launch where we could also feed back to SEEFF members on what developments have happened since the 7 April SEEFF Conference. We considered two venue options but decided the University of Surrey Business School, Guildford was the most practical option. It is intended that this will be an early evening event between 6.00 p.m. and 8.30 p.m. with refreshments. For more information click here.
The next meeting of our SEEFF interim steering group is on 15 September at Guildford. We have now heard that RAISE have been unsuccessful in their bid for a three year inter-faith post through Capacity Builders. In conversations with Anna Cummins (Department for Communities and Local Government, Cohesion and Faiths) we have continued to press for resources for SEEFF to take forward its development following the Conference. We spoke at the Conference about a ‘scoping exercise’ that would also address issues about ongoing governance. We continue to press for this and we are hopeful of a positive response after the launch of the Government’s Inter-Faith Strategy.
Part of the budget put together for the 7 April SEEFF Conference was for ‘bridging work’ to link with the RAISE post and the scoping work. Following conversations with Anna Cummins and her team this work is going ahead in anticipation of resources we hope will follow for the scoping work despite the RAISE bid being unsuccessful. This interim work over the next couple of months is in four parts:
Consultation
It is very likely that much of the above information already exists but in order for SEEFF to move forward this needs bringing together. Any information, suggestions and feedback that you have in relation to this work will be most welcome. David Tonkinson from the Department for Social Responsibility (DSR), Diocese of Guildford is to co-ordinate this task with the assistance of Elizabeth Clark and Richard Hay. Please communicate directly with Canon David Tonkinson (Partnership Development Officer, DSR) at
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in relation to this.
We will put this information on the SEEFF website and circulate the SEEFF membership in order that this consultation, albeit over a very limited period, can be as full as possible. Once the information has been brought together it will be put on the SEEFF website.
Yours, Chris.
Canon Chris Rich
Director
Department for Social Responsibility
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