The Annual BME Social Housing Awards is a major event in the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) social housing calendar that brings together representatives from diverse housing and housing related organisations across the country and provides an unrivalled opportunity for individuals and organisations to showcase good practice, share learning, and promote business and networking.

The Annual Awards is the only event to honour the efforts of the many organisations and individuals who have contributed to the development of BME social housing in this sector.

Winning an FBHO Award rewards excellence, acknowledges achievements, convinces your board/team your decision was right, motivates your team, creates great PR opportunities.

Call for Entries for 2008, the closing date for submission of all entries is 29th September 2008. Award Categories:
Outstanding Commitment to Vulnerable Communities Award
Outstanding Commitment to Health Care in the Community
Outstanding Community Project for Young People

As part of its 'Planning for BME Communities' project, Yorkshire Planning Aid has developed this free one-day event to help groups and individuals to understand what is involved in making a Planning Application.

For anyone thinking of extending their home, changing business premises, or developing new community buildings it is likely that Planning Permission will be needed. This FREE event will help you to understand when you need to apply for Planning Permission and what is involved:
~ Information about the planning application process and how to get it right
~ Planning Application workshops and activities
~ An opportunity to speak to planners about your own application

The session is being piloted in Kirklees and will run from 10am to 4pm on Wednesday 8th October at the Hudawi Centre in Huddersfield and on Saturday 18th October at the Al-Hikmah Centre in Batley. If successful it will be repeated in other Local Authority areas.

Places need to be booked in advance via Lynsey Brownnutt on 0113 237 8425.

As part of its 'Planning for BME Communities' project, Yorkshire Planning Aid has developed this free one-day event to help groups and individuals to understand what is involved in making a Planning Application.

For anyone thinking of extending their home, changing business premises, or developing new community buildings it is likely that Planning Permission will be needed. The event will explain about the process and offer an opportunity to discuss individual applications with planners. It will also cover how to comment on a neighbour's or a developer's plans.

The session is being piloted in Kirklees and will run from 10am to 4pm on Wednesday 8th October in Huddersfield and on Saturday 18th October in Batley. If successful it will be repeated in other Local Authority areas.

Places need to be booked in advance via Lynsey Brownnutt on 0113 237 8425.

As part of its 'Planning for BME Communities' project, Yorkshire Planning Aid has developed this free one-day event to help groups and individuals to understand what is involved in making a Planning Application.

For anyone thinking of extending their home, changing business premises, or developing new community buildings it is likely that Planning Permission will be needed. This FREE event will help you to understand when you need to apply for Planning Permission and what is involved:
~ Information about the planning application process and how to get it right
~ Planning Application workshops and activities
~ An opportunity to speak to planners about your own application

The session is being piloted in Kirklees and will run from 10am to 4pm on Wednesday 8th October at the Hudawi Centre in Huddersfield and on Saturday 18th October at the Al-Hikmah Centre in Batley. If successful it will be repeated in other Local Authority areas.

Places need to be booked in advance via Lynsey Brownnutt on 0113 237 8425.

Alice Tligui Training

New Migrants: Rights & Entitlements

This information packed one day course will help those who work with new migrants to better understand the diversity of this group

The course help participants to gain an understanding of the complexity of the current systems of welfare, health and education entitlements for new migrant groups including :
· Eastern European migrants,
· Refugees,
· Workers and work seekers from Europe and beyond,
· International students,
· Those who have come to the UK to join family members.