Voluntary Action Rotherham

Social enterprises are set to be back in demand to support the long term unemployed following George Osbourne’s announcement to scrap the Future Jobs Fund (FJF) scheme.

The Social Enterprise and Employment Development (SEED) Project is an Action for Blind People initiative set up to match blind and partially sighted people to social enterprises for paid placements throughout the North East, Yorkshire and the Humber and the West Midlands.

Now more than ever young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) need to become more financially responsible.  Young People And Money is a very popular free one-day training course designed for practitioners to help embed financial learning into programmes targeted at NEET young people.

Working in partnership with the Financial Services Authority (FSA) Fairbridge Training has developed Young People And Money a FREE one-day training session.  This informative course delivers financial capability awareness so that you can help encourage young people to think about their own financial needs. Download the course outline here.

The next session is being held, all day, at Voluntary Action Rotheram on Wednesday 15th September.

There are only a few places left so book now.

Following on from Electroville's launch of their Social Networking Guide, a hasitly convened surgery by Paul Webster of NAVCA, after the launch was a big success. Attended by representatives from RMBC, ILS and others, the group had to be persuaded to leave or they would probably still be there. There is a blog entry here all about it. 

Over 20 women came along to the inaugural Macmillan health and wellbeing evening at VAR on the 15th July, which was opened by Mayor Rose McNeely

The overwhelming response was that it was a great success and very useful to those who attended. Now more events are planned so that other women recovering from female cancers can benefit from this innovative approach to treatment aftercare.

We have started the work for the VAR tent at this year’s show.  We will be having 2 themes, one for each day. The theme for the Saturday is Older People, the theme for the Sunday is Sport.  

Invitations are currently being sent out inviting voluntary and community groups to contact us for space in the tent.  If you want more information/have not received an invitation and would like to register your interested then feel free to contact:

Sue Faxon - Older People's theme T: 01709 834447 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it     
or Alison Thorp - Sport theme T: 01709 834462 E:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it