Sporting Equals has recently launched its ‘Volunteering for Communities Project’ in the London, North West, West Midlands and Yorkshire areas.

The project aims to get 168 young people (16-25) from ethnic minority, refugee and migrant communities volunteering within the sports sectors. It is a pioneering project that will bridge the gap between the ethnic minority community sector, the mainstream volunteering sector and the sports sector. By working closely with our target communities during the development of the project it will provide essential learning to the mainstream sport and volunteering sectors on how to effectively engage a more diverse range of volunteers. The project will involve the development of young Volunteer Champions who will help plan and deliver the project and will assist in the recruitment, monitoring and evaluation. It will build on the existing Sporting Equals existing Sport for Communities project, thereby maximizing resources and impact.

The project is an initial pilot which will run until June 2008. The project in our area is:

Dear Colleagues

Please find attached the poster for our Calderdale's Community Future Leaders of Tomorrow Programme. This programme is targeted at 14 - 19 year olds and I would be most appreciative if you could inform young people about this super opportunity and also feature the attached poster on your information boards.

The programme will focus on giving young people leadership, presentation, media, organisational and a range of other skills. We have partnered up with the University of Bradford who will support some of the delivery and who will certificate the programme.

We have been funded to deliver this programme by Calderdale Council through a DCLG fund.

Thank you

Dipika Kaushal

N.B. The Programme will start on the 6th Feb and take place after school and during the school holidays of February and March 2008.

a seminar organised by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) West Yorkshire, West Yorkshire Police and Calderdale Council.

The seminar is the first in a series of community engagement events to be undertaken with the Muslim and wider community over the coming year which will enable partners to explain their decision making processes and exchange information around issues which we recognise are of concern to people in Calderdale. These include:
• The prosecution of racially and religiously aggravated cases; and
• The prosecution of terrorist cases.

Speakers at the Seminar will include representatives from the Criminal Justice agencies with responsibility for and experience in handling and managing serious crime cases, including: Neil Franklin, Chief Crown Prosecutor for West Yorkshire; Sue Hemming; Head of Counter Terrorism Division, CPS Headquarters; Ebrahim Dockrat; Independent Chair, Hate Crime Scrutiny Panel; and a West Yorkshire Police Representative. Local speakers will include Kersten England, Group Director for Community Services at Calderdale Council and Councillor Mohammed Najib.

Leeds Black and Minority Ethnic Strategy Group

Invite you to an event 'influencing the big agendas'
'BME communities: strategic influence, the Leeds Initiative and the Leeds Strategic Plan’
Tuesday, 11th September 2007 (9.15am – 1.00pm)
Bangladeshi Centre, Roundhay Road, Leeds, LS8 5AN

Followed by a lunch with South Asian, Caribbean and African Food

for further infornmation contact: Sufia Khan on 0113 247 4575
E-mail: sufia.khan@leeds.gov.uk

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