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AGE 16-25 - UNEMPLOYED - LOOKING FOR WORK

Princes Trust

GET INTO FISHING with EASTERN SEA FISH TRAINING – 02 March 2015
GET INTO HOSPITALITY with COSTA COFFEE & PREMIER INN - 09 March 2015
GET INTO HOSPITAL SERVICES with NORFOLK & NORWICH HOSPITAL - April 2015

Contact: Katrina.rand@princes-trust.org.uk / 07946 559 335 / 01603 306 912
Booking essential

http://www.princes-trust.org.uk/

EXPLORE ENTERPRISE

EXPLORE ENTERPRISE
AGE 18-30 – UNEMPLOYED/ WORKING LESS THAN 16 HOURS

The focus of our Enterprise programme is on you becoming the best business owner you can be.  Our Enterprise programme is broken down into four steps, which gives you time to learn more about setting up a business, as well as space and time for you to make big decisions that could change your future forever.

• HOW TO SET UP BUSINESS
• BUSINESS MENTORING
• BUSINESS LOANS & GRANTS

INFORMATION SESSIONS:
NORWICH – 19 February 2015
NORWICH – 24 - February 2015 

Booking essential
Visit www.princes-trust.org.uk
Contact Eric Shelley (07879 881102) for more info

UEA spring Inaugural Lecture on Nutrition

Thanks to Laura Maryam Nazmdeh for this post
Free drinks reception.... I'm there!

Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are

Tuesday 27th January 18:30 - 19:30
UEA (contact for location)

Join us for an opportunity to hear about cutting-edge research taking place at the University of East Anglia from our newly appointed professors. The 2015 spring Inaugural Lecture series covers a fascinating range of topics, from healthy eating and art history to prose fiction and protests. You don't have to be an expert to enjoy these open public lectures and there is a chance to meet the speaker at a free drinks reception after the talk.

The first of our spring Inaugural Lectures, ‘Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are’ will be given by Prof Alastair Forbes from Norwich Medical School.

The title of this lecture is borrowed from a French gastronome who recognised the importance of what we eat in what becomes of us. While his was a more philosophical approach, this talk will look at how our diets affect our health and alter the risks of various diseases. Prof Forbes will use his background in clinical nutrition to explore examples used in medical practice, and those of a more epidemiological nature.

Attendance is free and open to all. 

For more information email events@uea.ac.uk or call 01603 592130.

Telephone: 01603 592130

Email: events@uea.ac.uk

Info about the Spring Inaugural Lecture Series

SO ME Tue 27 Jan 10am - 4pm

SO ME Tue 27 Jan 10am - 4pm

On the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, SoMe encourages you to keep the memory alive through face to face interaction.

SoMe aims to bring people together. Through the nuances of social media, such as 'The Wall' and 'The Chat Room', SoMe generates dialogue between members of the public and volunteers willing to share their personal experiences.

Volunteers will post brief descriptions of themselves (like Tweets) on ‘The Wall’, with a basic profile of themselves underneath. Visitors can then read the descriptions and choose to “follow” the volunteers, such as a refugee, for example, to find out more about them and their experiences. The next stage is to enter ‘The Chat Room’ – a section of the Atrium where they can have a chat and, hopefully, emerge better informed.

Organsier Nick Little states that there will be 'a range of people with different experiences. It’s not just about the holocaust, but all genocides, recent experiences such as the Congo. The idea is to allow people to have conversations with people who may have experienced some of these things.'

For more information on Holocaust Memorial Day 2015 please visit hmd.org.uk

Follow the event on Twitter at @SoMeEvent or #SoMe

For more information on the organisers of this event, please visit the-outsiders.org.uk

Loads of freestuff at the LIBRARY

I have a bit of a love affair with the Library :)

Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library

Address: The Forum, Millennium Plain, Norwich NR2 1AW

Email: libraries@norfolk.gov.uk
Telephone: 0344 800 8006

If you're in the Forum library, there's usually some sort of exhibition on at the Forum space too.

more info

"Write It Right" two part funding application workshop

Write It Right

Part One: Tuesday 20th January, 2pm to 5pm
Part Two: Tuesday 27th January, 2pm to 5pm

Free two-part workshop on grant funding applications for voluntary and community groups.

Learn more about:
- What funders look for in grant applications
- Which funders to approach, how and when
- How to plan, prepare and research your funding application
- How to write a successful application. 

The workshops are open to voluntary and community organisations based in or active in Norwich. 
You can attend just one of the workshops, each operates as a stand-alone session.

For more details and to book, contact Neil Godfrey:
01603 883841 / 07500 258311 / neil.godfrey@voluntarynorfolk.org.uk

Free - Please book in advance

Voluntary Norfolk
2 - 16 Colegate
Norwich
NR3 1BQ

Contact: Neil Godfrey
Email: neil.godfrey@voluntarynorfolk.org.uk

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Cafe Conversation - Dignity in Health and Social Care

Let's Get Dignified!

Monday 19th January 2015 - 15:00
Next Cafe Conversation: Let's Get Dignified!
Treating the person, not the patient: Is dignity a value or a behaviour? What implications can different definitions of "dignity" have on the delivery of health and social care? Come and discuss over coffee with academics from UEA.
15:00 - 16:30

Free - Booking not needed

Cafe Bar Marzano
The Forum
Norwich
NR2 1TF


Contact: Ruth Selwyn-Crome, Tel: 01603 591561
Email: R.Selwyn-crome@uea.ac.uk

Thanks to Visions for Change for this post

Voices from Greece Event

Voices from Greece
Greeks in Southern Italy: From antiquity to modern times: History, Dialect and Culture

Sunday 22 January 2015 4pm
UEA, Lecture Theatre One

Music of the Greeks in Calabria

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Trade School February

Trade School February
Saturday Feb 7, 2015
The Common Room, St Benedict's Street

Courses on during the day:

• Making Music with a Nintendo DS 12:00p.m. to 2:00p.m.
• How To Wire a Plug 1:00p.m. to 2:00p.m. 
• Fabric Flowers 2:00p.m. to 3:00p.m.

Booking required

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UNA LunchBox talk on Cley Marshes

UNA LunchBox talk: 
Cley Marshes:a Wild Vision

Friday 16th January 2015 - 13:00
Event organised by United Nations Association (UNA) Norwich

David North, Head of People and Wildlife at the Norfolk Wildlife Trust will talk about Cley Marshes - a Wild Vision, on Friday 16th January 2015 at 1pm in the Friends Meeting House in Norwich. This will be an illustrated talk which will be followed by questions. 

Event/organisation website: www.unanorwich.org.uk

Friends Meeting House
Upper Goat Lane
Norwich
Norfolk
NR2 1EW

Contact: M.Finn
Email: bededog@btinternet.com

Thanks to Vision for Change for this blogpost

IT Support Sessions with Library Volunteers
Every Thursday 12 - 2pm

Book an hour with one of our IT Support Volunteers.

They can help you search for information, access on-line services, support you to fill in forms on-line, use email and access social media.  Held on the first floor of the library.  To book a session please call 01603 774730

Healthy Cookery Sessions

Master the basics of healthy, tasty home cooking with The Joy of Food.

If you want to boost your confidence in the kitchen and produce day to day, cheap and healthy home cooked meals from scratch The Joy of Food is here to help. Free classes are available for anyone from teenagers through to pensioners, regardless of ability levels.

During the course, you’ll learn basic cookery skills including food preparation, different cooking methods and simple nutritional advice. Groups are kept small to ensure you have a positive and supportive environment in which to learn. All food and equipment is provided and you’ll even get a free recipe book to take home at the end.

Classes are led by a team of friendly community based volunteers in locations throughout Norfolk and generally run over four or five weekly sessions.

To find out a class is taking place near you soon, get in touch by:

calling The Joy of Food on 01603 638485 
visiting www.joyoffoodnorfolk.co.uk

EU Lecture at UEA

Date of event: Tuesday 3 March 2015
Where: Lecture Theatre 2, University of East Anglia
Time: 6.30pm
Speaker: Andrew Duff

Title of talk: Europe: federal or bust?

About speaker: Andrew Duff was the Liberal Democrat MEP for the East of England and spokesman for the Liberal group on constitutional affairs from 1999-2014. He was a member of the Convention on the Charter of Fundamental Rights and of the Convention on the Future of Europe. He was one of Parliament's representatives at the IGC which drafted the Treaty of Lisbon. During his time in the Parliament, Duff was Rapporteur on the electoral reform of the European Parliament, the Commission auditions, and the Charter of Fundamental Rights.
Andrew Duff was President of the Union of European Federalists 2008-13, and co-chaired the federalist intergroup in the Parliament. Before becoming an MEP, Duff was Director of the Federal Trust in London. In 2013 he led the Spinelli Group's publication of A Fundamental Law (Bertelsmann Stiftung). His most recent publication is Pandora, Penelope, Polity: How to Change the European Union (John Harper, 2015).

Philosopher-Kings?
Guest Lecture Series Spring 2015
School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies

Economic Lecture at UEA

Short-Termism in Society

Date of event: Tuesday 17 February 2015
Speaker: Andy Haldane

Andrew G Haldane is the Chief Economist at the Bank of England and Executive Director, Monetary Analysis and Statistics.  He is a member of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee.  He also has responsibility for research and statistics across the Bank.  In 2014, TIME magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.   Andrew has written extensively on domestic and international monetary and financial policy issues.  He is co-founder of ‘Pro Bono Economics', a charity which brokers economists into charitable projects.

Guest Lecture Series Spring 2015
School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies

Where: Lecture Theatre 2, University of East Anglia
Time: 6.30pm
For more information: philosophyevents@uea.ac.uk

Gandhi Lecture

Gandhi and Non-violent Direct Action

Tuesday 10th February 2015 - 18:30
Philosopher Kings lecture series
Gandhi and non-violent direct action
Dr Shahrar Ali, Green Party.

Lecture Theatre 2
University of East Anglia
Category:Justice and injustice
Type:Talk or discussion
Email: philosophyevents@uea.ac.uk

Free Adult Education courses in Norwich for 2015

Happy 2015!

The Spring Norfolk Adult Education brochure is out now available to pick up for free from any library or to view online.

Loads of really cheap and free courses again in 2015, particularly for people not currently in work - Like English skills, ESOL, Maths and Level 3 Diploma in AAT 

Also Wensum Lodge do a FREE one hour language taster course in :
Arabic
Chinese
French
German
Italian
Polish
Spanish
Turkish

More info

Accountancy course with Norfolk Adult Education

Q037NC14B Access Accountancy  

The spring course is now full, but you can still sign up to a COMPLETELY FREE accountance course with Norwich Adult Education

The L1 AAT Access course is a short qualification that introduces you to the fundamental business and finance skills. It’s a practical way to increase your employability, confidence and career prospects. Gaining the AAT Access Qualification can help you find work in a range of organisations, from small local firms to large, multinational companies. It is also a good grounding to decide if you wish to continue to the L2 Certificate in AAT and later the L3 and L4.
 
Start Date:06 June 2015 

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