Bright Ideas Nottingham presents British Heart Foundation Hearts and Minds Conference. This event is on the 30th June 2011 at the Nottingham Contemporary. Email Karen at karen@brightideasnottingham.co.uk for a booking form.
The photos and Powerpoint presentation are now available in our new ‘Events’ section.
We are entering a new world where GP Consortia will be in charge of multi-billion pound budgets and will buy in services on our communities’ behalf. The BME sector across the East Midlands needs to gear itself up for the new commissioning environment. It’s time to book your emergency appointment with the people in the know. This event will provide you with the crucial information that you will need to survive and thrive in the emerging new world.
Thursday 14th April, 2-5pm
The Indian Community Centre
For more information, download the files below, including the flier, schedule for the day and the booking form.
Emergency Appointment final public flier (pdf 53kb)
Emeregency Appointment programme (PDF, 37kb)
Emergency Appointment Booking Form (MS Word 430kb)
This event is being run by The African Caribbean & Asian Forum Nottingham, Nottingham Equal and Bright Ideas Nottingham in partnership with East Midlands Strategic Health Authority and NHS Nottingham City. The event is supported by The African and Caribbean Health Network, Awaaz, ARRIVAL, Indian Community Association, PATRA incorporating ACDA and BME Cancer Communities.
Photos from the event now on Flickr.
Emergency Appointment is an event that will look at BME health needs, GP Consortia and public sector commissioning. It will be chaired by Dr Chris Packham, GP and Director of Public Health, and hosted in Nottingham by Andrew Campbell, BME representative for the Local Strategic Partnership. There will be GP’s and guest speakers from the Strategic Health Authority including Maqsood Ahmad OBE, Director of Inclusion and Rosemary Stuckey, Assistant Director of Commissioning Development.
2pm – 5pm Thursday 14th April 2011,
The Indian Community Centre, Mansfield Road.
For more information, download the PDF invitation below.
Emergency Appointment (PDF, 643kb)
Bright Ideas are supporting an event for staff and volunteers working for libraries across the East Midlands that is being held by The University of Lincoln, WEA and East Midlands Take Part Champions. It will be at Nottingham Playhouse on Tuesday 22nd March between 10:00 and 3:00.
The event will involve interesting and engaging discussions about:
• How paid staff and volunteers view the current situation
• The value and contribution of volunteers currently working for library services
• The use people make of libraries and what they value about their services
• The challenges facing libraries
• How volunteers can develop the knowledge, confidence and skills that
they will need to overcome barriers and continue their work
• The support needs of volunteers in libraries
There will also be time to meet and talk to other volunteers and learn about the Take Part approach as well as lunch and other refreshments.
For more information, including details of how to book, download the flier below.
It is the start of the year of the Rabbit on Thursday (3rd February)!
There is an event at the International Community Centre (Mansfield Road) this Saturday (5th) to celebrate, and Bright Ideas will be there with a stall. There is going to be displays of the traditional Lion Dance and Tai Chi, music and food stalls. Admission is free, it starts at 12:30.
Click on the image to see a bigger version of the flier.