Resources
Funding
Older People’s Groups’ Bursary Award Scheme
The Equality and Human Rights Commission ( EHRC) is providing a small grant stream (£36,000) to build the capacity of Older Peoples Forums, Older People’s Action Groups and Voluntary and Community Sector Groups (VCSGs) in supporting the empowerment needs of older people . This work is supported by Government Office for the South East’s (GOSE’s) Later Life division and by the South East Rural Community Councils (SERCC) which is the accountable body for the Regional Empowerment Partnership ( REP) and for this project.More details and the application form.
Toolkits, Documents and Publications
Uni Network Training e-Bulletin on training resources available in February 2010 for voluntary and community organisations in the region can be found here
Uni ICT Feasibility Report (January 2009). Click here to download
Uni Newsletters
CURRENT! January-March 2010
October-December 2009
September - November 2008
Uni Network's response to UK Border Agency Consultation on the Oversight of the Immigration Advice Sector and proposals to change the way immigration advice and services are regulated in the UK. Details.
Down in the Dumps: Minority Ethnic Child Poverty in South East England, a major new policy briefing by Uni Network on child poverty among minority ethnic communities in South East England, states that Pakistanis and Bangladeshis are enduring higher levels of poverty, along with some refugees and asylum seekers. The report argues that housing is a significant issue in many parts of the region, with high levels of overcrowding and homelessness amongst minority ethnic individuals, compounded by decreased levels of social housing, and high rents. Policy briefing.
Impact of the recession, a report (December 2009) produced by the Equality and Human Rights Commission
Challenging Institutional Racism: A Toolkit for the Voluntary Sector (March 2002) Click here to download
Toolkit for involving older black and minority ethnic volunteers (2006) Click here to download
The Local Grants Forum has published Defending local grants: resources you can use to help in convincing councillors, commissioning officers and procurement professionals that grants should continue to be used to fund local organisations and groups. Available from http://www.navca.org.uk/publications/defendinggrants
The JRF report, Empowering Migrant And Refugee Community Organisations, explores the support offered to community leaders in a range of Migrant and Refugee Community Organisations (MRCOs) and examines the scope of capacity building in various areas, including developing the skills of MRCO leaders to engage in, and shape the research agenda.
Underground Lives, a report by Pafras (Positive Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers) warns that hundreds of thousands of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) failed asylum seekers are living in extreme poverty in the UK, with no housing or financial support, and no right to work. Pafras argues that the Government is using destitution as a policy to force asylum seekers out of the country and that UK's destitute asylum seeker population is largely invisible.
West Sussex Representation Event Report
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Oxfordshire Fundraising Workshop for BME organisations
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Buckinghamshire Raising Awareness of Gender Equality Workshop
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Uni Network Gender Equality Workshop
Terms of reference
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Workshop report
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Uni regional post conference report
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Moving on Up
Report on Equal Opportunities and and BME Women
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Research into Community Development Work, Networks and Activity in Surrey, Sussex and Kent
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Black and Minority Ethnic groups in Surrey and Sussex - West Sussex Public Health Observatory
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Government Documents on Race Equality
Improving Opportunity, Strengthening Society (2005), the Government’s strategy to increase race equality and community cohesion, which sets out the its commitment to address inequality of outcome for people of different racial groups across education, employment, health, housing and the criminal justice system.
Tackling race inequalities (2009), a DCLG discussion document which seeks views on priorities for the Government's future work and strategy to tackle race inequalities
For a quick guide to the Equality Bill, read the Government Equalities Office Factsheet.
Government Equalities Office Factsheet on Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Women in Political and Public Life in the United Kingdom.
For a full list of the Members of Parliament in South East England, look here.
A guide to the use of National Indicators in South East England, containing tables which rank the frequency of indicator use by the service delivery area and by the most commonly
used indicators in LAAs in the South East.
Jobs
United Kingdom's draft report under the United Nations International Convention for the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination
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