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Expert training courses will help you make your business and services more accessible and enable your deaf colleagues to reach their potential.

You will learn about

• the types of deafness and Deaf culture
• practical ways to support deaf customers and colleagues
• ways to communicate with deaf people

24 March 2017 9.30am-12.30pm, £55 per place.

For information, bookings or to arrange a course in your workplace phone 0115 970 0516 or email training@nottsdeaf.org.uk

You will gain skills in:

• meeting and greeting
• fingerspelling
• asking questions
• using numbers and time

Thurs 23 March 2017 9.30am-12.30pm, £45 per place

For information, bookings, or to arrange a course in your workplace phone 0115 970 0516, or email training@nottsdeaf.org.uk

Admission: £12 per person – includes hot food, cakes and a quiz entry as well as local comedian Graham Elliott’s sensational stand up.  

Teams of three to six people.  If you haven’t got a team, they will find you one.  

All proceeds to Crossroads Derbyshire and Home Start High Peak 

To reserve your place email admin@crossroadsderbyshire.org  

Book your place at www.dsc.org.uk/event/dscandiofnw/

Everyone you work with has an impact on your organisation and beneficiaries. Directory of Social Change is working together with Institute of Fundraising North West and bringing you 15 practical and inspiring sessions, to help you work together with others.

15 workshop sessions covering marketing and promotion, fundraising and managing yourself and others.

• A conversation with Debra Allcock Tyler about women and leadership

• Fundraising regulations

• 10 fundraising gaffs and how to avoid them

• Writing for impact - get it read not binned

• Learn to love change

• Love your donors to death

• Make colleagues friends of fundraising

• Big marketing ideas for small organisations

• Tackling Trustees

• The pleasure and pain of working with people

• Attracting Major Donors: from pipeline to principal gifts

• Digital email campaigns - what does success look like?

• Making social media work for you

• Diversifying your income stream

• Presentations with punch

Speakers include Debra Allcock Tyler, Chief Executive of Directory of Social Change and Peter Lewis, Chief Executive of Institute of Fundraising.

IoF North West members can attend for only £95 for the whole day. Plus, the first 50 non-IoF members to book can also attend for this day rate of £95.

Training sessions are taking place in:

• Ripley on Wednesday 8 March
• Bolsover on Tuesday 14 March
• Long Eaton on Wednesday 22 March
• Ashbourne on Tuesday 28 March and
• Glossop on Wednesday 29 March. 

Further sessions will run throughout 2017.

There are three sessions throughout the day:

•  Dementia Friends Information Session (9.30 to 10.15am) – learn more about dementia and how you can help to create dementia friendly communities

•   Befriending Champions training session (10.30am to 1pm)– find out what it is to be a Befriending Champion, the skills needed and how to carry out the role

•   Microgrant funding information/workshop session (1.30 to 3.15pm) – support to develop project ideas that reduce isolation and loneliness in Derbyshire, how to apply for the microgrant, and help to access other sources of local funding.

The day runs from 9.30am to 3.15pm. People can attend one, two or all three sessions. Lunch is provided.

To attend the training or for more information please contact Richard Murrell, Derbyshire Befriending Champion Co-ordinator, on 01283 219761 or email champions@sdcvs.org.uk.

Maybe your charity or local community group has just the right opportunity for their employees?  Historically they have undertaken a good deal of conservation work but the teams are keen to explore any ideas you might have.

Rolls-Royce teams usually range from ten to forty people and can sometimes offer a budget to pay for materials and resources to help deliver the project.

For Rolls-Royce to work with an organisation they must have their own expertise in being able to lead the project and facilitate the Rolls-Royce team which includes providing them with a risk assessment.  They must also be able to provide any tools that the teams are required to use. 

Any interested organisations should contact Debbie Duro, Community Investment Manager via email Debbie.Duro@rolls-royce.com by 24 March giving details of their project. 

A glorious and evocative melting pot of 600 years of Western music from the Middle Ages to the 20th century: an evening of huge entertainment peppered with wit, period finery and earthy olde worlde instrumentation.

Two skilled historical music performers bring to life half a millennium of music with warmth and wit: 30 instruments, plentiful costume changes and 600 years of music in 90 minutes.

Featuring long forgotten songs and tunes (not to mention jokes) GreenMatthews paint a vibrant and vivid picture of our musical DNA, mixing the familiar and the obscure, the raucous and the reflective and the courtly and the commonplace.

Combining the vigour of the medieval period, the musical intricacy of the Renaissance, the grandeur of the Baroque, the pomp and bombast of Victoriana and the barbed wit of 'Blackadder' and '1066 And All That', the stage is set for a veritable musical feast.

Founded in 2011 by Chris Green and Sophie Matthews, GreenMatthews have swiftly earned themselves an enviable reputation for presenting the sights and sounds of the past in a way that is witty, engaging and accessible.

Running time 90 mins + interval. Audience Type: Adults/Family. Age Range: 8+.  Licenced bar open from 7pm.

Tickets £10.00 Standard / £8.00 Over 60 / £8.00 Under 18 from Spring Bank Arts, High Street Books New Mills, and online at www.wegottickets.com

The Fund has recently supported projects ranging from a mental health help-line for young people in Chesterfield and Matlock to a scheme in Buxton which will give adults a second chance at learning to read.

The Derbyshire Federation for Mental Health, Buxton Rotary Club’s Youth Leader Award scheme, Buxton-based Bright Opportunities’ adult literacy scheme and puppet company Funny Wonders all received grants from the Fund in the last round.

The Community Fund is one way in which the University hopes to give back to local people through grants to inspiring projects that seek to benefit the community. 

Community groups throughout Derby and Derbyshire will be able to bid for their share of £15,000 over the next 12 months. There will be three rounds of funding in 2016/17, with £5,000 available in each round.

The Fund is now accepting applications for the next round of awards. To apply, go to www.derby.ac.uk/about/community/fund/

Carla Nitti, Access and Inclusion Librarian, will be sharing short readings and poems which are aimed at encouraging people to reminisce about their memories and join in with the discussion. There will be free refreshments.

The event is open to all, including people with dementia and their carers.  The organiser is used to doing sessions with people with dementia who might go off topic, or need to get up, or who might be very quiet and find it difficult to join in, so if people are interested in bringing a loved one but are worried about anything like that you can reassure them.

If you have any enquiries contact Carla 01629 533454.

Drop in and join us to have a go at making some simple crafts using recycled books. Suitable for complete beginners! Free refreshments will be provided.

For more information ask staff or call Chapel Library on 01629 533962.