Volunteer Speed Matching Event

Wednesday 29 February 2012, 10.00am-12noon

Penrith Parish Centre, St Andrews Place, Penrith

12 local organisations attending to have speedy chats about local volunteering opportunities.

To book your place contact Margot Dent at Cumbria CVS Eden on 01768 800350 or email eden@cumbriacvs.org.uk.

Click on this link for more information

Many thanks

Judith Holmshaw, County Volunteering Co-ordinator, Cumbria CVS

Please find a booking form for the event here:

Cumbria CVS Eden Speed Volunteering Event Booking Form 29 Feb

Local voluntary and community sector groups and individuals are invited to this free social media advice session. You will get practical hands-on advice for putting social technology into action for your cause, to help you reach a wider audience and promote the good work you do.

• Ambleside Thurs. 22nd March 6.00 to 9.00 pm

For more information and booking visit:

http://www.socialmediasurgery. com/surgeries/cumbria

If you are from a community or voluntary group and want to learn how to use the social web, please come along.

For further information contact 07837 679338 or admin@awaz.info

VOLUNTEERS needed to help at the Social Media Surgeries please sign up or get in touch

If you are interested in hosting a SMS please get in touch.

A social media surgery is a pretty informal gathering of people who want to learn how to use the web to communicate campaign or collaborate. They are deliberately relaxed. You will get to sit alongside someone who understands good ways to use the internet and they'll show you useful free tools. If you like what you see they can also help you set up your blog, or Facebook page or Twitter account. Most social media surgeries have an event every few weeks, so you can keep coming back for help.

Supports people who want to complain about

NHS-funded Treatment or Care

The role of the Independent Complaints Advocacy Service is to support people who want to make a complaint about their NHS-funded treatment or care. Itis a free, confidential and independent service designed to help people understand their rights and make informed choices.

When you contact ICAS you will be supported throughout the complaints process by an experienced advocate who understands how the NHS complaints process works. In fact, since ICAS was set up in 2002 it has helped around 30,000 people nationally to make a complaint

ICAS in the North East and Cumbria are pleased to announce the launch of a text messaging service to enable more people to contact the service. This is an obvious benefit to anyone with a hearing impairment, or those who may prefer this means of initial contact. The number is 07595 654102.

Alternative ways in which people can contactthe ICAS service are;

• By calling our free phone number – 0808 802 3000
• By emailing penrithicas@carersfederation.co.uk
• By submitting a form on our website www.carersfederation.co.uk/contact-icas/

• Organisations may complete our External Agency Referral Form which you will find attached to this email

Towards the end of 2011 we also updated our informationleaflet; a copy of which is attached. We can also provide the leaflet in 19 other languages. There is a ‘downloads’ section on our website where these can be found, along with British Sign Language (BSL) information.

Improvements in our service and accessibility are only made possible through liaison work with stakeholders such as yourselves. The introduction of the text messaging number above and our online BSL video was as a direct result of such feedback received in October of 2011.

If you haveany questions or would like some promotional material please contact the office on 01768 861830; we can also arrange for our staff to come out and visit you to discuss the service.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Philippa Lisle

Senior Administrator, ICAS

Suite 5, Cumbria House,Gilwilly Road, Gilwilly Industrial Park, Penrith, CA11 9FF

Tel: 01768 861830

Fax: 01768 861839

Email:philippat@carersfederation.co.uk

Website:www.carersfederation.co.uk

with specific focus on 2^nd World War

"The following pages will help you to understand the LGBT history of persecution that is long forgotten, I have focused on Germany and the Second World War because the Homosexuals were one of the first victims of the Nazis. Their persecution began in 1934 one year after Hitler had come to power and how laws were passed against homosexuals that would lead to arrest by the Gestapo, where they could either be sent to a prison or worse to a concentration camp......."

To view more please go to: -

http://callumslgbthistorycorner.weebly.com/

"Localism – From Theory to Practice” Event

Stoneybeck Inn, Penrith

Saturday 24 March 2012

Please see attached details of the forthcoming Cumbria Rural Forum Event "Localism – From Theory to Practice” to be held at the Stoneybeck Inn, Penrith on Saturday 24^thMarch 2012. If you would like to reserve a place, please complete and return the attached booking form to me.

We do hope that you are able to join us at what we hope will be an interesting and thought provoking event.

Dani Hudson

Business Support Officer

Voluntary ActionCumbria

Operating as ACTion with Communities in Cumbria

The Old Stables, Redhills,Penrith,Cumbria, CA11 0DT

Tel: 01768 869511

Fax: 01768 242134

Email: DaniHudson@cumbriaaction.org.uk

www.cumbriaaction.org.uk

Please click on the links for the following documents:

Cumbria Rural Forum Localism Event Programme 24 March

Cumbria Rural Forum Localism Event Booking Form 24 March