We will soon know who has scooped the top prizes at this year’s Social Enterprise Awards Wales.You can be at the awards ceremony for FREE, simply by booking a place online. This year’s event is being held at the SWALEC Stadium in Cardiff, the night before the Social Enterprise Wales Conference 2013 is held in...
Information, Advice and Advocacy During a time of Welfare Reform including significant changes to disability benefits, the provision of Information, Advice and Advocacy is crucial.Join Disability Wales and expert speakers for a lively debate and to have your say on how current provision should be improved for disabled people.Guest speakers include: Minister for Communities...
You are invited to Creating Homes 2013, Tai Pawb’s annual ideas and knowledge event on Wednesday 16th October 2013. The event will be followed by Tai Pawb’s AGM. You can book online at http://www.taipawb.org/booking.aspx?id=45 or email mair@taipawb.org for a booking form. The event will include: - 7 different workshops focused on good practice including Community Insight, Assessing Impact,...
Taking personal responsibility for health In association with the Bevan Foundation1 in 4 people smoke, and the same number are classed as clinically obese. Together these represent the largest causes of avoidable ill health and early death in Wales.From this autumn smokers and the morbidly obese will not be able to join a waiting list...
This course looks at practical ways of developing and putting together your newsletter to ensure it communicates your message clearly.Ideal for: organisations using newsletters as a key way to communicate.Registration: 9.45am
Social Enterprise Wales 2013 - the leading conference for social entrepreneurs in WalesThis Autumn, the event comes to Cardiff for the first time, and takes on a more interactive and fast-paced format. Keynote Speakers: High quality speakers from across the UK will inspire you, challenge you and create a buzz. There will also be a platform...
A celebration of those grandparents, siblings and other relatives who take on the care of children because the parents can no longer care for them.This Buttle UK event will also be a chance to hear about the findings of a groundbreaking piece of research on the issue: 'The Poor Relations? Children and Informal Kinship Carers...
Professor Noel Castree, The University of Manchester, Professor of GeographyPublic lecture hosted by the Innovation and Engagement Unit.‘The Anthropocene’ has morphed from a neologism to a buzzword in the academic world, but has yet to become a keyword in the wider world. An unusually big and future facing idea with far-reaching implications for the present,...
The aim of this WCVA Participation Cymru course is to explore the opportunities of using storytelling to share experience and engage service users.Many organisations are seeing the benefit of gathering "real-life" stories from service users, staff and volunteers to help improve their service delivery. This session explores the range of methodology being used to collect...
Disability Rights and Resilience: the role of information, advice and advocacy #dwconf2013Access to Information, Advice and Advocacy is crucial if disabled people are to achieve their right to live independently in the community. However at a time of cuts in benefits, services and jobs it has never been a more challenging environment to develop such...
IntroductionOn 1 October 2010 all existing anti-discrimination legislation was replaced by the Equality Act 2010. The Act has removed inconsistencies, making legislation simpler to understand and comply with. It also strengthens the law, making it easier to tackle disadvantage and inequality.Who should attend?This Diverse Cymru course is particularly relevant for employers and service providers from the public,...
An introduction on how to make written and printed information more accessible for people with a learning disability.Find out more in the Learning Disability Wales online flyer.
