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REC Secures Over £400,000 from Capacity Builders 
                                                         

Phil Hope, Minister for the third sector announces over £17 million of Improving Reach Grant awards at Capacitybuilders annual conference.

We have just heard that we have secured £410,555 of funding from Capacity Builders to develop a new community development service to reach out to frontline BME and faith community organisations across Cheshire . We will be recruiting a new community development team (see below for details of how to apply) which we hope to be up and running by the beginning of September.

The Service will:
      Provide advice and support to set up new groups and develop existing ones
      Help and handholding with funding applications
      Skills based training
      Set up and maintain a BME Network across the area

 

Vacancies!
We are currently recruiting for four new positions, three Community Development Workers and one Administration Assistant, see the job advert for both here.  For information on both positions you will need to download the Application form, Equal Opportunities Monitoring form, Equal Opportunities Policy, Information for applicants and Guidance Notes.

For the Community Development posts you will also need the Job Description and Covering letter.

For the Administration Assistant post you will also need the Job Description and Covering letter.

Deadline for all positions is 12:00 midday 23rd July.  Late applications will not be considered.

 

Housing Project Begins!
                                                 
We have been commissioned by Cheshire Housing Alliance to undertake a project to find out more about the housing and support needs our diverse communities. The project will look at two distinct pieces of work – developing a tool for frontline staff to use about diversity and the needs of BME communities and a separate, more focused piece of research into newly emerging communities within Cheshire , primarily Eastern European. As part of the work we will be out and about talking to people about what they want from housing providers. If you are interested in getting involved or would like to be interviewed as part of the project please contact the REC office on 01244 400730.

 

THE DEADLINE FOR THE COMPETITION HAS NOW BEEN EXTENDED TO SOMETIME IN APRIL/MAY, MORE INFORMATION TO FOLLOW!

 
Smiles Competition

If you are a migrant to the UK and now living in Chester, we want to know what made you smile when you first arrived, you can be creative with a photo, painting, drawing, a story or a poem, for more information click here.

 
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Equality & Human Rights Commission
From the 1st October 2007 the equality & Human Rights Commission took on the roles and functions of the CRE, DRC and EOC , with new responsibilities for sexual orientation, age, religion and belief, and human rights.

The new website can be found at http://www.equalityhumanrights.com and the race specific section can be found here.  The CRE's website is archived here if you would like to look at that, please bear in mind this won't be updated and we are unsure how long this will be available.  Also contact details etc will not be in use.

 

 
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