Bright Ideas is currently recruiting volunteers for a volunteering course that starts next month.  The course is being run as part of the WEA’s DAIN (Digital Activist Inclusion Network) project.

Volunteers should be comfortable with using IT but do not need to be experts. On the course they will learn about how they can work with other local people to support them to use IT (e.g. setting up an email account, using facebook, searching for something on the internet etc)

 Benefits to volunteers:

 Volunteers will:

• Learn in a supportive environment 
• Gain great skills and experience for their CV.
• Work in pairs when volunteering
• Get support from a Coordinator.

Past volunteers have really enjoyed the course and the volunteering activities and many of them have wanted to continue volunteering beyond the agreed time. The course is free and all expenses are paid.

Start time 10.00am finishing 2.30pm including lunch break.

Please bring a packed lunch if you wish.

Sessions run:

Session 1: Tuesday 15^th November

Session 2: Tuesday 22nd November

Session 3: Tuesday 29^th November

Session 4: Tuesday 6^th December

Session 5: Tuesday 13^th December

Volunteers must be available for most or all of the sessions.

 Where

The course will be run at the Media Centre in the Broadway Cinema, Nottingham City Centre

 Expenses

All travel expenses for the course will be reimbursed.

 Eligibility

This course is for people who are

• Comfortable with using a computer
• Aged 19 or over and eligible to work in the UK
• Working for less than 8 hours a week

 More information:

For more information or to reserve a place:

Please contact Karen: karen@brightideasnottingham.co.uk  or 0115 837 9474

Funders and partners

DAIN is being delivered by the WEA in partnership with:

NIACE, CEFET, Skills Funding Agency and the European Social Fund

Bright Ideas Nottingham is launching an exciting new leadership programme for women of all backgrounds called Women Leading For a Change. A variety of presentations and workshops will be available through until March 2011. No qualifications or experience are required. This is all about discovering leadership potential.

The launch will take place at the Central Library, Angel Row, Nottingham, from 5pm to 7pm on Thursday 27^th October. There is no need to book your place for the launch but if you decide to attend the course then you need to book your place through Shazia at Bright Ideas on 0115 837 9474 or on 07971 404313 or email shazia@brightideasnottingham.co.uk

The programme for the launch will include:

An introduction to Women Leading for a Change.

Presentation by Finn McKay, feminist activist and researcher.

Panel made up of some of the speakers who will be providing inspirational presentations on the course.

It will also be a chance to meet the tutors and find out more about the course.

Click here to download the flyer  for the launch

Click here to download the flyer for the course

This course is being brought to you by Bright Ideas Nottingham, in association with CEFET, WEA, Adult and Community Learning Fund, Broadway, this project had been funded by the skills Funding Agency.

Tomorrow is the Event We Are the Champions. This is a screening and celebration event for the pilot service Champions of Change from 2009 – 2011. The event is being held at the Broadway.

Special guests will include Marcus Bicknell, GP Lead For Mental Health Commissioning in Nottingham; Dr Chris Udenze GP; Eric Adjaidoo, Independent Mental Health Nurse Specialist Consultant; Rob Gardiner, Deputy Chief Executive of the Carers Federation; Maqsood Ahmed OBE, Director of NHS Equality Delivery System, Department of Health; Dr Joanna Copping, Consultant in Public Health Medicine, NHS Nottingham City; Andrew Hall, Acting Director of Health and Well being Transition, NHS Nottingham City; and Charlotte Wilcockson, Commissioning Manager, NHS Nottingham City.

 The event will be hosted by Champion Andrew Downs; Nigel Cooke, Chief Executive of One Nottingham and Trish Adudu, TV and BBC radio presenter.

Click here to download the press release

On Friday 28^th October 2011 there is a WEA Conference at the East Midlands Conference Centre, University of Nottingham.

At this conference learners on a recent learning programme at Bright Ideas about community action research are speaking at one of the workshops. They are Miriam Ghaffar and Parveen Begum.

It is a one day conference on the role of adult education in building a bigger and better society.

Speakers Include:

David Hughes, NIACE Chief Exective

Dame Pauline Green, President of the international Co-operative Alliance

Richard Wilkinson, co-author of ‘The Spirit Level’

A choice of sixteen workshop sessions, including:

 Tom Wilson, Director of unionlearn

 Henry Tam, writer and policy expert in democratic engagement

 Peter Bradley former MP, and Chief Executive of Speakers’ Corner Trust

 WEA workshops on running educational projects for equality, inclusion and community involvement.

Plus a conference address from John Hayes MP, Minister of State for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning.

 For more information please contact:

Maria Chica, Conference Secretary

WEA, 4 Luke Street,

London EC2A 4XW

020 7426 3486

mchica@wea.org.uk

If you would like to book a place please download the flyer below to read more information about the conference and fill in the booking form at the end of the flyer.

WEA Conference Booking Form and Flyer

On Tuesday the 18^th October 2011 Bright Ideas presents ‘We are the Champions’. It is a film screening and celebration, sharing best practice from the Champions of Change pilot service 2008-11. This event will be happening at the Broadway Cinema on Broad Street, Nottingham. If you will like to attend this event or get more information please contact Karen on 0115 8378474 or email karen@brightideasnottingham.co.uk.