Listen to our Director, Vandna Gohil, speak to the BBC about the UK riots. Whilst it's too early to draw simple links between rioting and spending cuts, we need to understand the unrest as happening within a context of inequality, Vandna argues.
Become a contributor to the V4CE member's blog. Promote your organisation and make your voice heard on a particular topic that matters to you and your organisation. It's also a great way to develop your social media profile and gain new skills.
Following the success of last year get ready to mingle with fellow community organisations and members at the Community Matters annual event.
MEDIA RELEASE
15 August, 2011
Thousands of people with a varying degree of hearing loss from Black, Minority and Ethnic (BME) backgrounds across Leicester and Leicestershire are missing out on support services, according to a leading D/deaf charity.
What sort of experiences have you had when seeking help from public service providers, such as when you’ve applied
A consistent theme in the work of the Third Sector Research Centre is the uneven capacity of communities. Their quantitative research has begun to show how these patterns relate to underlying social and economic conditions.
On April 1st at the Zion Centre in Hulme, One North West and the Centre for Local Economic Strategies held a joint policy roundtable. This brought together expertise around race equality, economic development and place. The roundtable involved participation from leading academics, representatives of the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) voluntary and community sector (VCS), local politicians and also local council officers to ask: ‘where next for race equality at the local level?’
On 15th July the Office for Civil Society Transforming Local Infrastructure programme was launched for infrastructure or support organisations. The fund, worth £30 million, is intended as short term funding to transform local infrastructure to better meet user needs and respond to the economic reality.
As advisors to the Office for Civil Society on Big Society policies and programmes, Voice4Change England would like to work with you to explore how Big Society policies impact your organisation and how we can influence Big Society policies together.
Details of our next Big Society policy roadshow to be announced very soon.