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» SGAP Office Address
» Learning Champion
» Annual Show 'Rangila' and AGM April 2008
» Dinner & Dance Nov 2007
» Newsletter Aug 2007
» Asian Womens Group
» Age Concern - Welfare & Benefits Advice Service
» Yate Volunteer Centre
» Senior Citizens Forum
SGAP Office Address
SGAP now have a permanent base thanks to funding received from South Gloucestershire Council.
The office will be shared with the South Gloucestershire Chinese Association and will be based at The Chantry, Castle Street, Thornbury, Bristol, South Gloucestershire, BS35 1HB.
The SGAP Development Worker, once appointed will be based at The Chantry and help SGAP improve and increase the services we provide.
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Could you be a Learning Champion?
Do you appreciate how learning can improve people’s lives?
Could you promote free, fun tasters in your area and encourage neighbours, work mates, friends and other local people to join in?
Then you could be a Learning Champion.
Learning Champions receive training and can work towards a qualification. They can develop new skills to increase their own job prospects. Learning Champions are paid for up to 3-5 hours a week and receive out-of-pocket expenses.
If you are interested, please contact Anju at : sgap.office@googlemail.co.uk
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Annual Show 'Rangila' and AGM, April 2008
The SGAP Annual Show (named 'Rangila') will be held on 5th April to be followed by Annual General Meeting including election of the new committe. This newsletter gives you all the details of this event and also the class timings for the next term.
Newsletter 42
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Dinner and Dance, Nov 2007
This year the SGAP Committee have decided to arrange a dinner and dance event, which is on 23rd November 2007 (Changed from 28th October 2007 due to "Karva Chauth"). The venue for the event is renowned Indian restaurant Myristica with live Indian band music and much more. This flyer gives you all the details.
Dinner & Dance Nov 2007
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Newsletter-41, Aug 2007
This year the SGAP Committee have decided to arrange a dinner and dance event on 23rd November 2007 (revised date). It also plans to host a separate SGAP talent show in early spring 2008. This newsletter give you more details on both the events as well as a review of the SGAP trip to Wembley and the summer picnic at Blaise castle.
Newsletter 41
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Asian Womens Group
The idea to set up an Asian Womens Group came
about when local health visitors were contacted by
several Asian women who recently moved to Filton
and Stoke Gifford.
They felt isolated in their neighbourhood, and wanted
to find out if there were any Asian communities in
South Gloucestershire.
The health visitors consulted the local Community
Development Worker from South Gloucestershire
Council, Marion Jones, who arranged some meetings
with these women and gathered some information
from them.
As a result, Marian contacted SGAP to see if we could
help these women, by asking us to formally create an
Asian Womens Group, which we have recently
agreed to do, with assistance from the Council.
Sangeeta Dewan, SGAP Co-opted member and
Bollywood Singing teacher, is coordinating this group.
Having been in a similar position when she
moved to Bradley Stoke, she can identify with the
experiences of these women. She has already
arranged a series of meetings and is trying to make
it as relaxing and enjoyable an experience as
possible in order to help them integrate into the
community.
The meetings are at St. Michaels old school rooms (Stoke Gifford) and Jubilee Center (Bradley Stoke) from 1.00pm-3.00pm (crèche worker is available to help look after young children).
For further information, please contact Anju Patel in SGAP office on 01454 865126 or email sgap.office@googlemail.com.
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Age Concern - Welfare & Benefits Advice Service
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Yate Volunteer Centre (Yate Voluntary Link)
Volunteer Centres provide a service in the community for people who are volunteers or want to volunteer and groups that need to recruit volunteers. In our office base at Yate Library we hold information about over 150 opportunities in all different types of voluntary work across South Gloucestershire and Bristol. Most of these opportunities are also uploaded to the Do-it! Website, a national database for volunteering and our own website.
We offer one-to-one interviews with volunteers to help them find the right voluntary work to suit their skills and interests and during the year we also offer training sessions for volunteers and volunteer organisers. We can also advise on best practice and how to recruit volunteers more effectively.
Yate Voluntary Link also has a volunteer-led Outreach Project, which takes the Volunteer Centre’s services into the wider communities surrounding Yate, as well as the community centres in Yate and the Sodburys and it is intended, in the future, to include local businesses.
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Our office is also home to the Young Bristol Action, South Gloucestershire Millennium Volunteers Project which works with young people aged 16 –24, helping them find voluntary work, set up projects of their own and gain skills and confidence through training workshops, taster sessions and residential workshops away from home.
As a Volunteer Centre we are pleased to work in partnership with our associate Volunteer Centres in Thornbury and Patchway, aiming to raise the profile of volunteering across South Gloucestershire.
For more information about volunteering or volunteer recruitment, please call Carole Zorzo on 01454 324102, email yatevb@care4free.net. Our website address is www.yatevoluntarylink.org.uk.
For information about the Millennium Volunteers project call Tom Blower on 01454 317289 or email mv_southglos@yahoo.co.uk. |
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Senior Citizens Forum
The Senior Citizens Forum is looking for Asians over the age of 50 to join them. Their membership is open to all individuals over the age of 50 irrespective of race, religion or politics.
The Forum acts as a platform for the views, concerns and opinions of members and works to ensure Senior Citizens are not ignored and that their knowledge and abilities are recognised.
The Forum holds regular open meetings, with speakers on a wide range of subjects of interest to older people, but even if you cannot attend they would like you to join as a larger membership adds to the strength of the Forum. Membership is FREE.
If you would like to join then please contact:
Senior Citizens Forum
South Gloucestershire Council
Civic Centre
High Street
Kingswood
Bristol BS15 4ZZ
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