Funders Fair Thursday Chalkhill Community Centre

We are delighted to confirm that CVS Brent is organising a Funders' Fair on Thursday, 15th March 2018 12.30pm-4pm  The much-awaited event will enable local organisations to get to know the funders and get information about their priorities and application procedures. It is an excellent opportunity for the local voluntary and community sector organisations and groups to engage with a range of funders to gain guidance on how to bid successfully and have their questions answered.

Different funders will give presentations and run information stalls at the event so Brent voluntary sector organisations will have the opportunity to hold face-to-face discussions with funders and funding advisers.

The event will take place in the Vernon Hall of the Chalkhill Community Centre. The fair is free to attend for Brent organisations so please reserve your place. BOOK HERE

For a detailed programme of presentations, please see the leaflet. 

For further information email info@cvsbrent.org.uk or call 020 3011 1690.

Funders that have confirmed their participation include:

• Big Lottery Fund
  
• Brent Advice Fund (BAF)
  
• Chalkhill Community Trust Fund
  
• Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) - Brent Council
  
• Heritage Lottery Fund
  
• John Lyon’s Charity
  
• The London Community Foundation
  
• Trust for London
  
• Wembley Stadium National Trust

Chalkhill Community Centre
113 Chalkhill Road
Wembley
HA9 9FX
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Call for volunteer teachers of English successful

Just before Christmas we carried an advertisement LINK asking for people to train as volunteer teachers of English for the Unite Community project that will set up classes in Brent.

Robin Sivapalan reports on the first training session:

--> We had a great teacher training session at the weekend, organised by Brent Unite Community and delivered by English for Action. 

In two days such a lot of content was covered, complex issues explored, and a strong team of colleagues formed. Nobody entered the room with no experience, and we have much to still learn as we go along. The EFA approach towards the teacher volunteers is exactly the one they encourage us to take towards the student participants: that respects prior experience, where we are all simultaneously teachers and learners at all times. 

We have one class confirmed, an intermediate class at CVS Brent, Wednesday afternoons. About 5 more are likely to be confirmed soon. Please let me know of any community groups, housing associations etc that would likely want one of our teachers to run a course with them. It is not an accredited ESOL course; it is a space for people to build confidence communicating in English in the situations where they need it; it is to create community; it is towards welcoming migrants into the local labour movement so we can campaign for social justice more united. 

If you want to become a teacher with us, we will run further training in the year. Please go check out the work English for Action are doing in the city, get involved, donate etc, as you can do with this local project in Brent too, especially by joining Unite Community, only £2.19 a month.
http://www.unitetheunion.org/growing-o…/communitymembership/

Brent Bikers & the Ballot Box: Hustings Wednesday 14th May in Wembley

Brent Cyclists, the local group of the London Cycling Campaign, are organising a public election hustings for candidates in the Brent Council elections, to take place at:

 

7pm on Wednesday 14 May at CVS Brent, 5 Rutherford Way, Wembley HA9 0BP

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London Cycling Campaign has been running a capital-wide campaign in the run-up to these elections, under the slogan “Space for Cycling”. Local campaigners have identified one change to the streets in every ward which would make their area better for cycling, and in the hustings Brent Cyclists will be asking candidates to respond to their local ward demands for Brent, and to the wider policy area of improving conditions for cycling and walking. The hustings will be open to the public, and it is hoped to have representatives from all the main parties there, as well as independent candidates.

 

Brent Cyclists Co-ordinator David Arditti said:

Our campaign is about making our streets more pleasant places for everyone. We need better streets in order to liberate the suppressed demand for cycling; most people say they would cycle if there was protected space for cycling, but the cycle lanes in Brent are very poor and give little protection, and the minor roads are generally hostile rat-runs full of parked and moving cars. 

 

The policies that we need are a combination of providing dedicated, protected space on main roads, removing through-traffic from minor roads, and providing routes through parks and open spaces. These policies would allow children to get to school by bike, allow the elderly and disabled to use electric bikes and powered wheelchairs easily, and everyone else to do the short journeys for which the bike is the most efficient option, in comfort and safety. Or town centres and shopping areas would also be improved and be helped to thrive by creating better cycle access. There is funding from the Mayor of London available, and now is the time for our local politicians to take a lead on providing for cycling.

The public can support our campaign, by emailing their council candidates through www.space4cycling.org