Community Education Celebration Evening
Leapark Hotel 22nd June 2011
We
went to the Falkirk Council Community Services awards last night. Both
Alan & Stanislava picked up Significant Achievement awards as well
as the group as a whole. Joanna (our
treasurer) has also picked up awards for her work with Bo'ness Youth
Club and certificates of adult learning.
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CVS Volunteer Awards Ceremony 2011
The
ceremony was held on Wednesday 8th June at the Macdonald Inchyra Grange
Hotel, Polmont. More than 450 people attended the event.
The Volunteer Awards Ceremony celebrates and rewards the great work that volunteers do in
the Falkirk Council area as well as the organisations who involve and
support them.
We are delighted to announce that our secretary Stanislava Shenkova - Gray won the European Volunteer of the Year.
Our volunteers Diane Davis- Bailey, Joanna Kwapis and Georgi Romanov received recognition certificates.
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May 16 - 20, 2011
Training Course
The training Facilities at CPAG Duke Street Glasgow
There is always a time that any group requires training. After much researching the conclusion was that the group at the forefront of welfare rights training is CPAG.
As a volunteer returning to education was always going to be daunting for me in particular a week long course. After the first 30 minutes I was at complete ease and knew that I could cope. The class of May 2011 are a wonderful mix of experience`s and as we all know it is the life experience that people bring to any education process that makes it exciting. Tutor Jane Smith (centre) gave us a solid 2 days of information brought to life by her own experiences as a welfare rights officer. Using humour and painting a picture of situations we could all identify with and aid us absorbing the information. Nancy (left) has 20 years experience in welfare rights and values the training as she takes a refresher course. As funding becomes available we will access more training from CPAG , I fully endorse the training ,tutors and facilities they have to offer and would recommend any welfare rights group to look at their training schedule for 2011.
We are pleased to announce that we secured the important funding
to operate another year and carry out the work that we do.
Our funders for year 2011/2012:
- Falkirk Council Community Grant Scheme – the
running cost of our office and website
- Co-operative Membership Community Fund – the
rent and mobile telephone
- Growing Communities Fund – to organize and
deliver 4 roadshows in Falkirk area and produce 4 newsletter.
April 2011
THE 1st ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF
Forth Valley Migrant Support Network
took place on Tuesday 5th APRIL
2011 at the Westfield Park Community Centre, Falkirk
You always hope your 1st AGM will be a
success
Provost Pat Reid gives a welcome and puts
everyone at ease.
The dynamic Diane Davies-Bailey delivers our
development plan.
Charlie Hastie gives the nominations for our
commitee.
Commitee formed pictured with Provost Reid
and Michael Connarty MP
Michael Connarty MP gives an insight to
migrant support in the Forth Valley Area and pledges his support to the
group.
Some of the commitee`s children who
helped on the night - payment one can of coke one cake and one biscuit (slave
labour)
Provost Reid poses with volunteers the
Provost has a positive approach to migrants in the area .
Pastor Alistair Fowler from the traveling
peoples church pictured with his wife , Stanislava and Charlie Hastie.
Alans Angels get ready for another day at the
office wondering what all the fuss was about .
Also represented at our AGM were The Muslim
Women Rainbow Group and United Polish Falkirk.
In time honoured tradition we did not manage
to get pics taken with all who attended.
The commitee and volunteers would like to
thank all who attended and gave us the support we need for the new sesssion.
Anyone
wishing to submit photographs to our website should e-mail them and we will
publish.
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