Group showcase

This course aims to equip participants with an understanding of Self Advocacy and related issues. Throughout the training, participants will be presented with and given the opportunity to explore and discuss the issues around advocacy. They will also be encouraged throughout the programme, to identify and talk about their own feelings around advocacy issues. Participants will acquire skills required how to contact statutory services and present their issues in writing, over the telephone and by appointment. Certificate of Attendance will be issued.

Members are invited to join us for a day specifically designed to ensure everyone is up to date and “Building for the Future”
Please come along to the Countess Mountbatten Hospice on Wednesday 8th September at 10.00 am. David Wood, Chief Executive, and Steve Moreton, Attend Academy, will be leading discussions and workshops. There will be the opportunity to review the latest requirements for volunteers within the NHS, governance and other key areas for member groups as well as practical ideas for new services and projects.

To mark World Alzheimer's Day, Bradford District Council in collaboration with Bradford Dementia Group (University of Bradford) and Attend - a membership - based organisation supporting volunteering in health and social care, are hosting a showcase event.
The day promises to be engaging and informative and will showcase the work and views of those personally affected by the condition and those who support them, working in health and social care sectors. The day is for anybody who works or volunteers in the Bradford and Leeds District areas.

An Interagency Forum and AGM, celebrating Community First's Fifth Anniversay and showcasing the voluntary and community sector

The Attend AGM will take place on the 20th October 2010.
Stay tuned for more details which will be announced as we decide them!

Once again, the AGM will take place during Friends Week, which this year will be from the 18th-24th October.

All welcome to come along and share your knowledge and experience over lunch and a cuppa.

A conference to share the findings of recent research into the rural BME communities and to discuss and debate issues raised by the new Equalities Bill