|
BECON (Black Minority Ethnic Community Organisations Network) is a region wide organisation for the Black Minority Ethnic (BME) voluntary and community sector in the North East of England.
BECON provides services to BME communities addressing disadvantage, discrimination, exclusion, inequalities and racism. Services are geared to support individuals to participate more fully and inclusively in the economic, social and cultural developments of their localities. BECON strives to bring about a more inclusive society promoting equality, diversity, human rights and social justice.
Newcastle Office, 34 Grainger Park Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 8RY
Telephone number: 0191 27 22 339
email
This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
|
|
|
BECON COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EVENT |
|
|
|
|
BECON and Humanah CIC are holding a community engagement event for the diverse BME communities of Middlesbrough on Thursday the 21st March at Tees Valley Chinese Community Centre from 10am to 3pm.
The event will:
· provide a platform for Health and Social Care service providers to engage with Middlesbrough’s diverse BME communities
· be an opportunity to provide information to Middleborough’s diverse BME communities regarding the services available and how to access them
· collate information about the health and social care needs of Middleborough’s diverse BME communities
bme_health_matter_event_becon-humanah
information_stall_booking_form
There are a limited number of spaces for information stalls for service providers of health and social care services. If you would like to provisionally book a stall please complete the attached booking form and e-mail it to
This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
|
|
|
Wingrove Ward Community Event |
|
|
|
|
Wingrove Ward Committee event to which you are warmly invited next Tuesday evening. It’ll be a chance to see the winning logo and entries for the Greening Wingrove logo competition, and if the artists are available, there’ll be a short prize giving ‘thank you’ to them.
In addition, the Ward Committee is inviting anyone who is interested to take part in discussion about how we set and achieve Decent Neighbourhood Standards – ie cleaning the place up and keeping it that way – across the Greening Wingrove area.
wingrove_ward_invites_you_to_our_feb_2013
|
|
|
Charities must define how they are special |
|
|
|
|
There is little empirical evidence to demonstrate why the third sector is unique or distinctive, says a new discussion paper from the Third Sector Research Centre.
The Centre calls for debate about how we value the sector, but raises caution about attempting to value the sector as a whole, or using a purely financial language to do so.
The paper, part of a series of Third Sector Futures Dialogues, argues that we must move on from broad attempts to value ‘the sector’. We need to think about the functions and characteristics of different organisations, from service providers to community groups, and how they are special in different ways.
Their discussion paper welcomes moves to measure impact at one level, but notes that monetary systems of measurement, such as Social Return on Investment (SROI), may be limited in what they can measure.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Community action is not about formal training, says research |
|
|
|
|
New research by the Third Sector Research Centre finds that learning and skills-development within small community groups has little to do with formal training, but more to do with learning from similar groups and social networks.
Research with ‘below the radar’ community groups, that have very low or no income and are volunteer-led, shows that people learn by ‘seeing and doing’. Groups were good at using social networks to identify and attract the skills they needed. They often learned by visiting other organisations that could teach them what they needed to know. Skills, such as fundraising, were often gained through trial and error, or by identifying someone in their social network with the appropriate skills.
Many community building or engagement initiatives have focused on formal training and systems. But community groups in TSRC’s research did not identify formal training as necessary to develop their skills, and often saw it as ‘patronising’ or ‘not useful’.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
|
<< Start < Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next > End >>
|
| Results 1 - 6 of 237 |
