Short Break Fostering

Shirley Barnes, of Leicester City Council’s Fostering and Adoption Team, has been promoting the Short Break Scheme at the Central Lending Library in Belvoir Street. Short Break hopes to encourage people to get involved in fostering a disabled child for short periods.
This gives parents or carers the chance to have [...]

Opportunities and Upcoming Events

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Who wants to act professionally?

Free Double Weekend Acting Workshop. act up (an acting organisation based in London & The Oxford School of Drama) are running a free double weekend acting workshop for anyone aged 18 and over who is considering seeking a career as a professional actor.

The workshop will take place on Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st  March and [...]

Are you struggling with I.T.?

Semi/retired people all over Leicester Shire and Rutland have been attending I.T. classes at Age Concern Leicester Shire and Rutland.
Commenting the Executive Director of Age Concern, Mr Anthony Donovan said “the charity is delighted to be able to continue to offer people over the age of 55 learning for leisure computer classes this year.
The [...]

Dzine Gets New Editorial Team

The Dzine editorial team has been expanded with new members interested in reporting on issues around disability.
Some of you may have already read the post by Ian Drinkwater about Ability.Net in the last few weeks – link below.
Ian’s article
Several others are taking part and receiving training including Manny Gill. Please keep looking out for further [...]

Dzine’s Ian Drinkwater discusses Abilitynet

Ian Drinkwater of the Dzine editorial team writes:
Painfully aware of the inevitable closures and disappearance of services throughout Leicester City centre as a result of the ongoing cutbacks within the council, and other funding routes wider afield, I have been asking myself ‘What’s Left?’.
Keeping my ‘ears to the ground’ and also being an active volunteer [...]

2009 Volunteer of the Year Awards at the House of Commons

Special Olympics Great Britain
Celebrates the Spirit of Volunteering
East Midlands Winner: Martina Smith
Tuesday, 9 February, 2010 — Special Olympics Great Britain (SOGB) is pleased to announce the winners of their annual 2009 Volunteer of the Year Awards.  The awards, hosted by Baroness Taylor at the House of Commons and supported  by SOGB’s Official Partner National Grid, [...]

Unique Enterprising Training Weekend for Young People

Youthink would like to introduce a unique enterprising training workshops for 20 young people under age of 30 from BME background that live in Leicester.

Youthink dragon den is a two-day insight into Enterprise and leadership course followed by a competition where participants will present to a panel of four experts their ideas to win £150 [...]

Volunteering for Clockwise Credit Union

You could be just who we’re looking for!
You could help your local community by volunteering for Clockwise Credit Union
Want to be involved with your local credit union?
If so, we are always looking for Board Directors, especially those who can bring Skills such as Marketing, Business Development, IT and any general business skills.
On an operational side, [...]

Leicester Business Women Training Workshops

Leicester Business Women – inspiring women throughout Leicester Discover your true potential by becoming a member of Leicester Business Women. We have free workshops and coaching sessions focusing on areas like self confidence and motivation to help you start up your business.
Leicester Business Women is available to women [...]

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