Guidance for people hosting refugees from Ukraine

Are you hosting someone from Ukraine? Scottish Refugee Council is holding free online info sessions on the Scottish Government’s Super Sponsor scheme.

If you have questions about the process, join us on Tuesday, 31 May or Thursday, 9 June to find out more.

We’ve teamed up with the Scottish Government to run online information sessions on the Ukraine Super Sponsor Scheme.

When:

Tuesday, 31 May from 12.45 pm-2.15 pm

Thursday, 9 June from 10am-11.30am

These sessions are for anyone who is interested in hosting, or has registered to host people from Ukraine, either privately, or through the Scottish Government’s Ukraine Super Sponsor scheme.

We will:

  • Introduce the Scottish Government Ukraine Super Sponsor Scheme: Guidance for Hosts
  • Cover key aspects of hosting such as eligibility criteria to become a host, the role and expectations of hosts
  • Share information about resources and further support available for hosts
  • Respond to questions around hosting.

How to join our information session:

The sessions will be held on Zoom and will run for 90 minutes.

Register here

We’ll send you a Zoom link the day before your session. 

EU Settlement Scheme webinar

‘Can I join my family in the UK?’ ‘Can I bring my family member to live in the UK’ ? We’ve heard these questions a lot in the last few weeks!

Join our next webinar on Tuesday, 25 January to learn more about #EUSS Joining Family Members.

Please register here: https://bit.ly/3GY2NTu

Forth and Inverleith Voluntary Sector Forum meets tomorrow

Forth and Inverleith Voluntary Sector Forum meets online tomorrow at 1.30pm for the first session of 2022.

AGENDA:

1)      Welcome and Introductions

2)      Update on Adult Learning Consultation – Fay Butler

3)      Support with fuel bills and heating – Niall Murphy

4)      Community Benefits Portal – Claire Darlow

5)      Craigroyston High School support needs – Morag Wilson

6)      Group Updates

7)      AOB and next meeting

The meeting will take place on Zoom.

For login details please contact Kate Barrett, EVOC Community Planning Development Worker: telephone 0131 555 9100 or email kate.barrett@evoc.org.uk

Women’s Winter Wellbeing: online session with PCHP

All women in the area are welcome to join us next Friday 17 Dec at 10am-12pm for a special online wellbeing event.

Learn how to treat yourself in facial reflexology and Indian head massage.

Contact Sally 07518756330 or sallyfindlay@pchp.org.uk to sign up and recieve the zoom link

Conversations with the Social Action Inquiry

The Social Action Inquiry was set-up to explore what helps and what hinders Social Action in Scotland.

Our first steps are a series of participatory and thought-provoking conversations to connect people taking practical, socially driven action in the service of others, our shared spaces and our natural environments.

The conversation is two hours long and divided into 3 parts. Each part will invite participation from attendees to contribute through dialogue, written words and images.

The structure of the conversation will:

  • Provide space to share the stories of social action that need heard
  • Begin to develop the network of allies involved in social action
  • Explain the intention and life cycle of the Inquiry
  • Identify who else we need to speak to
  • Shape the next steps of the Inquiry

At the end of the sessions there will be information and offers from the Inquiry Team of how people can stay connected with the Inquiry.

Dates and Times of Conversations

Thursday the 24th of November 7-9p.m

Tuesday the 30th of November 4-6p.m

Tuesday the 7th of December 2-4p.m

Wednesday the 8th of December 7-9p.m

Book your place here and select your preferred Date and Time.

These conversations will take place on the Zoom platform. Once you have registered, we will send you the Zoom link and materials that you can use during the session.

For more information about the event you can email us at hello@socialaction.scot

I wanted to drop you a message to update you on our engagement activities for this phase of the Social Action Inquiry (writes DARRYL).

We are hosting 3 weeks of Conversations with the Social Action Inquiry.

Tickets can be reserved through Eventbrite here. We have scheduled BSL interpreters for the event on the 7th of December (7-9 p.m.).

We have also scheduled additional conversations with allied initiatives and organisations such as #Iwill21 and Inspirealba.  

Each conversation is two hours in length and are designed with liberating structures in mind, enabling attendees to contribute regularly and evenly to the conversations. The conversations are divided into three parts and the aims for these sessions are to:

  • Provide space to share the stories of social action that need heard
  • Begin to develop the network of allies involved in social action
  • Explain the intention and life cycle of the Inquiry
  • Identify who else we need to speak to
  • Shape the next steps of the Inquiry

We would be grateful if you could share information about these events through your networks ,social media, and perhaps more importantly, nudge one or two people that spring to mind that need to know about these conversations.

We find that the personal touch often has the greatest influence.

You can find us on Twitter and Instagram we invite you to follow us, both platforms have embedded a short animation describing the events which can be shared.

Finally, please do get in touch if you would like to connect. Alternatively if you would like to be removed from our mailing list please let us know as well.

Best wishes

Darryl

Social Action Inquiry Scotland

Phone: 07867 181 040

Website: www.socialaction.scot

Twitter: @Soc_Act_Scot

Instagram: @Social_Action_Scotland

Voluntary Sector Forum to meet this afternoon

Forth and Inverleith Voluntary Sector Forum will meet online via Zoom this afternoon (Tuesday 28 September) at 1:30pm.

We will use the below agenda to guide our discussion:

1.        Welcome and Introductions

2.        New online community portal for north Edinburgh

3.       Community Planning update

4.       LOG update

5.       Members update

6.     VSF attendance – are we making the most of the forum?            

7.       AOB and next meeting.

For Zoom login details contact Kate Barrett, EVOC Development Worker – Community Planning, by email at kate.barrett@evoc.org.uk

Community Development Alliance Scotland: Annual Conference

Beyond Recovery to Renewal

Only one week to go to register for our Annual National Conference and what a line up we have for you! 

Community Development: Beyond Recovery to Renewal is an ambitious, bold title for our conference and we have such an amazing array of community activists, leaders, membership organisations and senior policy makers that we believe we can all share and learn with each other in order to collectively create stronger, fairer, wealthier, greener and smarter communities. 

Annual National Conference, 29th September 2021 (virtually)

Our conference programme features keynote speakers and workshops led by a number of our membership organisations, as well as raising awareness of funding and other opportunities which may interest you/your teams and networks.

With a strong coalition of 126 national organisations and over 1200 subscribers & twitter followers, CDAS continues to build and coordinate our networks, share and learn good practice, influence policy and raise awareness of our collaborative working, collective action and impact in order to create a more socially just and equal society. 

Email CDAS:  cdascotland@gmail.com  
Like us on:  www.facebook/cdascotland
Follow us on: www.twitter.com/cdascotland

#CommunityDevelopment

#Social Justice

#CommunityEmpowerment

#Community Wealth

#NPF

#SDGs