Category Archives: Community Learning and Development

Community Learning and Development, Science, Scotland Colleges, Social Studies, Young Scot

2050 Climate Group Opportunity

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Young Scot, Scotland’s award-winning national youth information and citizenship agency, and the 2020 Climate Group, the national group working to deliver a low carbon future for Scotland. We are writing to ask you to help us to raise awareness and circulate an exciting new opportunity for young people; the 2050 Climate Group.

The 2050 Climate Group is a pioneering initiative within Scotland with the ultimate aim of empowering young people to shape Scotland’s low carbon future. The group will present a national platform to represent the voice of young people to engage, influence and shape the transformational change required for Scotland to progress to a low carbon economy. Group members will have the opportunity to engage in decision making at a national level and share their views, experiences and findings.

The 2050 Climate Group will make a unique contribution towards ensuring that young Scots have the opportunity to raise awareness of issues surrounding climate change and sustainable solutions and show young people that they need to be actively involved in creating a low carbon future for all. No formal qualifications are necessary but we do expect that all members have some degree of influence and leadership experience and will be able to commit to the group for a minimum of one year. It will provide young representatives with the opportunity to be part of leading the drive to a low carbon future for Scotland, undertake high quality training, improve skills and partake in great networking opportunities.

We are inviting young people aged 18-30 from across Scotland, who are passionate about the environment and want to make a difference, to apply to volunteer with this exciting new climate group and help to lead the drive to a low carbon future. This is an excellent opportunity for young individuals from business, NGO, Third Sector and community backgrounds, who are already having an influence in their communities, to make an even bigger impact.

Here is the link to the information: https://www.youngscot.org/mag/2996-18-30-we-need-you-to-help-stop-climate-change.

Community Learning and Development, Early Years, Literacy and English

Bookbug Week, 19-25 May

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Celebrate Bookbug Week between 19 and 25 May, with a whole week of free, special events taking place all over Scotland for families with babies and young children.

This year’s theme is Bookbug’s Big Sports Day, and there will be a whole host of fun story, song and rhyme activities taking place in local libraries and community venues.

Bookbug is Scottish Book Trust’s Early Years programme, which encourages and supports parents to share books, talk, sing and cuddle their children from birth, and helps every child in Scotland to develop a love of reading.

For details of Bookbug Week events in your area, visit www.scottishbooktrust.com/bookbug or ask at your local library.

Art, Community Learning and Development, Creative Partners, Events, Science

An Audience with Graham Smith

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The journey of ‘technology’ as it meets weather … as it meets art!

Join Fife Contemporary Art & Craft for the screening of ‘Six Years of Mondays’, a documentary artwork about a man called Graham
Smith living in Lochgelly, Fife, who has been making timelapse recordings of the view from his bedroom window everyday from 6am to 6pm since 2006. Graham will share his journey; from his interest in the local Scottish Weather, his technological background and how this led to the creation of www.fifeweather.co.uk, the UK’s only mobile weather lab (www.weatherevents.net), the timelapse recordings and Youtube channel.
Learn how Graham’s recordings were the basis of a commissioned piece of work by artists Thomson and Craighead (www.thomson-craighead.net) as part of Fife Contemporary Art & Craft’s ‘Weather Project’, which took place in Levenmouth and resulted in the creation of ‘Six Years of Mondays’ short video.
Fife Contemporary Art & Craft will share how the short video work takes us through a visualisation of six years of Mondays where each ‘year’ is soundtracked differently offering a range of contexts from which this contemplative landscape can be viewed. There will be a chance to ask questions at the end of the event with both Graham Smith and Fife Contemporary Art & Craft.
Date: Tuesday 29 April 2014
Time: 7pm – 8.30pm
Venue: The Studio, Lochgelly Centre, Bank Street, Lochgelly,
KY5 9RD
Cost: FREE
Bookings: 01592 583303 or boxoffice.lochgellyc@onfife.com
Community Learning and Development, Competition, Health and Wellbeing, Science, Secondary schools, Social Studies, Technologies

Lantra Secondary School Awards now open for nominations!

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Lantra Scotland, the sector skills council for the land-based and aquaculture industries, is seeking early nominations for their Secondary School Awards which take place at the Land-based and Aquaculture Learner of the Year Awards in early 2015. The award is open to both urban and rural secondary schools with the winning school in each category receiving £250.00.

The Secondary School Awards recognise school projects and activities which support and encourage increased knowledge and understanding in rural learning. To highlight and celebrate the success of school initiatives, Lantra has brought forward the closing date for nominations this year to 16th May 2014. This will allow the judging panel to visit the nominated schools during the Spring season, enabling them to get a more comprehensive look at the entrants and their respective projects in full bloom.

The award finalists will be announced at Lantra Scotland’s stand at the Royal Highland Agricultural Show on Thursday 19th June, and the winning schools will be announced at the award ceremony and gala dinner early in 2015.

For more information about the Secondary School Awards and to access a downloadable nomination form please visit:

http://www.lantra.co.uk/Downloads/Scotland/LBLOYA-2015-Schools-nomination.aspx.

For all other enquiries please contact Lantra Scotland on tel: 01738 646 762 or e-mail lantra.scotland@lantra.co.uk

Community Learning and Development, Creative Partners, Health and Wellbeing

No Knives Better Lives

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Peer Education Training – Invitation to Tender

YouthLink Scotland wishes to contract an organisation to design and deliver a peer education training programme to support the Police Scotland Youth Volunteers initiative.

The progamme will offer young people involved in the initiative the opportunity to train as NKBL peer educators and support adult volunteers to develop the programme locally.

Find out more here.

Contact: Jane Dailly, phone: 0131 313 2488 [ e-mail ]

We-CTV Building Positive Relationships Building Safer Communities (National Violence Reduction Competition) – Invitation to Tender

YouthLink Scotland wishes to commission an organisation to further develop and deliver the We-CTV programme across Scotland. We-CTV is a project of the No Knives, Better Lives (NKBL) initiative which is delivered by YouthLink Scotland on behalf of Scottish Government.

For more information click here.

Download a copy of the WE-CTV report here.

Contact: Jane Dailly, phone: 0131 313 2488 [ e-mail ]

Community Learning and Development, Creative Partners, Science, Social Studies

Sustainable Arts: Support and Training

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Measuring and reporting your environmental performance is an increasingly critical part of running an arts organisation and/or venue.

Aside from the obvious environmental and cost-saving benefits, improving your environmental performance helps to build stronger relationships with funders, artists, participants, suppliers, touring promoters, staff and audiences.

Creative Carbon Scotland currently works with over 100 arts organisations in Scotland, supporting them to engage with and work towards a more sustainable Scotland. This includes running year-round training workshops and support programmes across Scotland which provide organisations with the tools and knowledge they need to measure and reduce carbon emission from energy, water, waste and travel.

We are keen to ensure that our work is available to as wide a range of arts and cultural organisations as possible and want to hear from any arts organisation, individual artists and venues who would like to make use of this service.

Click here to register with us now to get started or contact Fay Butler at fay@creativecarbonscotland.com to find out more.

We look forward to hearing from you!
Community Learning and Development, CPD

Upcoming Training – Youth 1st

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What’s on at Youth 1st

April 2014

Introduction to Fundraising (for youth workers and volunteers)

Date:                     17/04/14

Time:                    6pm to 9pm

Venue:                 Auchmuty Learning Centre

Cost:                     FREE for Youth 1st member groups and voluntary youth organisations.  £15 per person for all others.

This practical course will provide participants with an introduction to fundraising. It will help you to understand the different types of funding available,

make sense of the jargon and build your confidence in applying for funding.

There are STILL PLACES AVAILABLE on this workshop.  BOOK NOW to avoid disappointment.  Deadline for registrations is 3rd April 2014.

Children’s Rights (for youth workers and volunteers)

Date:                     24/04/14

Time:                    6pm to 9pm

Venue:                 Youth 1st

Cost:                      FREE for Youth 1st member groups and voluntary youth organisations. £15 per person for all others.

This training session will give an overview of children’s rights and provide a greater understanding of working with children using a rights based approach.

There are STILL PLACES AVAILABLE on this workshop. BOOK NOW to avoid disappointment. Deadline for registration is 7th April 2014.

Click here for contact details.

Art, Art and Design, Community Learning and Development, Creative practitioners, Dance, Drama, Funding, Health and Wellbeing, Literacy and English, Music, Primary schools, Scotland Colleges, Secondary schools, Social Studies, Technologies

Refugee Week Scotland 2014

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Community Celebrations Grant Application
Deadline: 3rd March – 5pm

At the Scottish Refugee Council we have been busy organising a very exciting programme for Refugee Week Scotland 2014! It will run from 16th – 22nd June in venues across the country, and we’d love for as many organisations as possible to get involved this year. The 2014 theme is ‘Welcome’, so we want you to have a think about how ‘welcome’ is shown in your community.

The SRC are awarding grants of £100 – £450 to help small community organisations to organise your own events as part of Refugee Week Scotland 2014. We strongly encourage you to apply and to spread the word to any other organisations or community groups that you think may be interested!

There are two files attached below – an Application Form and Grant Application Guidance Notes. Please read them both before applying! Receiving the grant from the SRC is unfortunately not guaranteed, so to make sure you are in the best position for acceptance, we urge you to read through these Guidance Notes thoroughly.  We are looking for ideas that explore the theme – ‘Welcome’ – and discuss all the different things that this word can mean. For example, your activity could:

–          Explore how welcome is shown in your community

–          Encourage people to share their experiences of how welcome they have been made to feel here

–          Encourage people to share experiences of how they have welcomed life in Scotland

Most importantly, you must demonstrate how your event will appeal to other communities and general public, and how you plan to involve them! The Community Celebration Events are the first step towards wide-scale understanding and integration among asylum seeker, refugee and local communities across the whole of Scotland. We want to know how your event will help this become a reality!

The deadline for submission is Monday 3rd March, 5pm. Please send all completed applications to arts@scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk

If you need help – we are happy to discuss any ideas and give advice where necessary – just email arts@scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk.You can also browse last year’s programme for inspiration.
Good luck!

Community Celebration Grant Application Form 2014

Community Celebration Grant Application Guidance Notes 2014 Final

Community Learning and Development, Creative Partners, Creative practitioners, Events, Social Studies

The Rise and Fall of Dunfermline Linen

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a Talk by Hugh Walker
at the NQ Community Centre
7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

This illustrated talk about the history of Dunfermline’s Linen Industry by Hugh Walker is divided into two parts.  In the first half, he describes the process of damask linen weaving and how the beautiful damask tablecloths of 100 years ago were created and manufactured.  In the second half of the talk, Hugh takes the audience on a historical trip round well-known buildings in Dunfermline, tracing the history of the industry from its early beginnings through hand looms to the growth of factories in the second half of the nineteenth century.  The talk concludes with how the industry faired in the 20th century and came to an end in the 1980s.

Click here for more details.