Committee members of Derby Pride have won a prestigious award for Outstanding Contribution to the LGBT - Lesbian.Gay, Bisexual, and Trangendered - Community for Derby Pride 2010.
 
The committee were nominated for the award by readers of Midlands Zone Magazine and the Birmingham Gay and Lesbian Ball, The UK's largest gay ball held on the 26 March 2010 at the ICC Complex, Birmingham.
 
The award was presented to Vice Chair Shaun Peaty by Stavros Flatley, Britain's Got Talent Finalist, in front of an audience over 1200 guests.
 
The award recognises the hard work and dedication of the Derby Pride Committee who would like to thank Derbyshire friend and many local businesses for their continued support and sponsorship.
 
Derby Pride is Derbyshire's Annual LGBT Festival held on Saturday 10 July at Bass Recreation Ground, Derby with a street parade through the city culminating in main stage performances, Family Zone, bars and market and community stalls.
 
For further information visit the Derby Pride website.

 

  

First Steps Derby are starting a new round of training sessions aimed at people who are currently out of work or education and would like to do something positive with their time.  The sessions will run every Thursday for 8 weeks starting on the 13 May from 1:00 to 4:00 pm at 126 Osmaston Road. 
 
The sessions cover the signs and symptoms of eating disorders; 

health implications; self esteem and self confidence; communication skills; mental health issues; and volunteering and work skills.
 
All out of pocket expenses will be reimbursed and there are also 2 childcare places if needed. Refreshments will be provided. To book a place email First Steps Derby or call 01332 367571.

This year Volunteers Week will take place from 1 to 7 June. To celebrate the Volunteer Centre are holding a Speed Volunteering event on Thursday 3 June at The Spot Conference Centre in Derby.  There will also be a Volunteering Fair in the main hall to allow members of the public to browse

stalls while waiting to take part in the speed event.  Although times have not yet been finalised the event will probably take place from 4:00 to 7:00 pm. 

 

If your organisation would like to take part please email Justina Nurse or call 01332 342272.  It is anticipated that this will be a very popular event and space is limited so don't delay and book your place today!

 

This event is being sponsored this year by LINk.

 

 

Never written a funding bid before and don't know where to start?
This course is designed to help you with some basic information that you'll need to attract funding to your business or project. 

Learn top tips to get your idea past the first stage; 
Discover the key skills you need to develop a project idea fit for a funder; 
Discuss the pros and cons of getting some extra help; and 
Look at how to cost your idea and consider funding eligibility criteria.

This course is ideally suited to social enterprises or community organisations.

The course takes place on 26 April from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm at Leicester Business Box. For more information and to book a place call Kash Khunkhuna on 07980 601857. There are only 12 places available and the cost is £25 per person.

 

 

Derbyshire Drug and Alcohol Action Team are holding their 3rd Annual Alcohol Conference on Friday 14 May at The Derbyshire Suite, Swanwick Hayes Conference Centre in Alfreton. The conference will run from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm.
 
The aims of the day are:
 
To enhance participants knowledge and skills related to reducing alcohol harm;
To introduce local initiatives and services and to provide an opportunity to share good practice;
To build understanding of the alcohol issues facing young people, adults and families in Derbyshire and what is being done to address those issues;
To encourage discussion, debate and the sharing of experience; and
To build on the shared commitment throughout the wider Derbyshire partnership to reduce the harm caused by alcohol misuse.
 
The event will be of interest to those with both a strategic and operational interest in alcohol harm, including health and community safety professionals; service users; and carers.

 

There will be a choice of workshops to take part in including family interventions; adult safeguarding; alcohol and drug use; and young people and binge drinking.
 
For more information and to book a place email Alison Boyce 

Do you leave meetings less informed than when you went in?  Would you like to enhance your own skills at managing meetings better?  If so, this course is for you!
 
By the end of this session learners will have:
 

A better understanding of the need for structure and process to achieve better results from meetings;

Developed practical steps to ensure meeting attendees know their roles and responsibilities before, during and after meetings; and 

Explored techniques for re-energising meetings

 
The course will be held on Thursday 22 April from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm at Community Action, 4 Charnwood Street, Derby. The event is FREE for voluntary and community groups and £50 for statutory organisations.

 

For further information or to book a place email Liz Gumbley or call 01332 342272 

 

The Human and Physical Environments Research Group of the University of Derby are holding a seminar on Wednesday 28 April from 1:00 to 2:00 pm in Room N613 at the Kedleston Road site. 

 

Prof Paul Mosley will present a seminar entitled:   
Microfinance - from Dhaka (Bangladesh) to Derby (UK)
 
Microfinance is one of the great development innovations of the last twenty years and seeks to overcome financial exclusion by providing peer monitoring, along with credit, to low-income people - clients are typically organised into solidarity groups each of whose members keeps a watch on the other and makes sure that loans are repaid. In this way, poverty, especially female poverty, has been reduced and default rates have been kept low, typically less than 3% across the developing world.
 
Now microfinance has spread to industrialised countries, as governments and NGOs begin to see the possibilities for bringing down poverty in a way which, potentially, 'pays for itself' and may be useful in protecting vulnerable households from becoming prey to loan sharks and doorstep lenders.

 

Everyone is welcome to attend. Refreshments will be provided. For further information call Dina Abbott on 01332 591757.