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• Become an Equality Champion
• 02 September 2008
• Regional Action and Involvement South East (RAISE) are working with an appointed trainer to deliver four one-day training workshops in the South East.
• Operational Area: Equality and Diversity

• Abolition of the slave trade
• 18 August 2008
• 23 August is the UNESCO International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. Events are being held to commemorate this event across the country and the department for culture, media and sport (DCMS) have produced an events guide.
• Operational Area: Cultural Entitlement, Equality and Diversity

• Older People's Day
• 14 August 2008
• Older People’s Day is on 1 October. There are plenty of opportunities to get involved and put on an event to celebrate. The Department for Work and Pensions has put together a "Full of Ideas" Toolkit and it is now available to download.
• Operational Area: Access and Inclusion

• Get involved with Sync
• 31 July 2008
• Sync is interested in the interplay between leadership and disability; it aims to energise, inform and ultimately change disabled and Deaf people’s relationship with leadership, by offering information and support, encouraging dialogue and designing leadership interventions.
• Operational Area: Access and Inclusion, Learning & Skills

• New guidance on CRB checks for volunteers
• 23 July 2008
• The Cabinet Office have published guidance to help organisations that use volunteers to be clear about when they do and don’t need to carry out Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checks on volunteers. The guidance will help cut unnecessary red tape and responds to concerns voiced by the voluntary sector that potential volunteers can be put off if they are asked to undergo a CRB check without good reason.
• Operational Area: Access and Inclusion, Archives, Libraries, Museums, Workforce Development

• New deal for communities funding
• 02 July 2008
• Communities Minister Baroness Andrews confirmed nearly £500m for neighbourhood partnerships in deprived communities across the country, to continue helping their work to cut crime levels, improve educational achievements and boost job opportunities.
• Operational Area: Access and Inclusion, Economic Development, Local Government

• All aboard as lottery grant gets play boat afloat
• 30 June 2008
• A grant of almost £250,000 will give children in Milton Keynes, Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire the opportunity to get on board the Creative Play Boat project.
• Operational Area: Access and Inclusion, Learning & Skills

• Jodi Awards 2008 – Call for nominations
• 26 June 2008
• Nominations are now being sought for the Jodi Awards 2008. The awards are for museums, libraries, archives and heritage venues that use technology to provide access to collections and learning for disabled people, e.g. websites, interactive objects, audio-guides, PDAs and virtual reality shows.
• Operational Area: Access and Inclusion, Archives, Equality and Diversity, Inspiring Learning for All, Learning & Skills, Libraries, Museums

• You can influence the government's Draft Legislative Programme for 2008/09
• 26 June 2008
• The government wants to hear views on the Draft Legislative Programme (DLP) so that it can take full account of them in formulating the Queen's Speech.
• Operational Area: Access and Inclusion, Economic Development, Governance, Partnership & Coordination, Sustainability & Investment, Sustainable Communities

• Find Your Talent – Good News for the South East
• 29 May 2008
• Two partnerships in the South East have been picked by the government to be two of ten pilot schemes for the national DCMS/DCSF £25 million Find your Talent programme.
• Operational Area: Access and Inclusion, Learning & Skills

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