Preparations proceed apace for our two upcoming events: the regional Human Rights and Equality event in Derby a week today and Choice Unlimited at Leicester Tigers two weeks later.
First task this morning, writing a press release for the Derby date. This is for print media in Derby and Derbyshire as well as BBC Radio Derby. From the insider's point of view, the big draw in Derby is our securing Shami Chakrarbarti as keynote speaker. We need to be able to highlight that, while acknowledging that she's not so well know to the general reader. As a compromise, we're putting at the foot of the press release that this is a bit of a coup for us, that it's a bit of a coup for Derby and that media outlets would do well to turn up and cover the event and try to get an interview with her.
Kelly and I spend an hour or so working on the seminar that we'll be presenting at Derby next week, looking at the current debate initiated by the Coalition government about withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rgihts and the creation of a UK Bill of Rights.
I've a meeting with Jo Tallack, General manager at Highcross Leicester this lunchtime, to discuss how their Multi-Faith Prayer Room has fared since it was opened for public use at the end of November last year. While there, I show her the posters and fliers for Choice Unlimited. WE also review the exhibition in Highcross during Inter Faith Week 2011 and discuss the possibility of introducing some new elements for the same event later this year. Jo takes a poster for the community and charities notice board and a clutch of fliers to put on the information desk. Canon Barry Naylor and Julie-Ann Heath are in that meeting and I tell them that I'll be bringing down posters and fliers to St martin's House in the next couple of days. Just before that meeting,we bump into Sarah Harrison, Director of the LE1 city centre team, give her a flier and say I'll email her an electronic version of the flier ASAP.
I've given Jo the fliers that I was intending to take to the SACRE meeting at Soar Valley Community College later this afternoon so I make my way back to LCIL for more. while I'm there, we get a call from Harish Mandalia at Leicester City Council's Social Inclusion Team, which leads to me visiting their base at the Mett Centre at Lee Circle half an hour later with fliers and posters for Choice Unlimited. I've met Harish at a number of events over the years, but haven;t put the name with the face. Similarly, I've often heard of the Mett Centre but didn't know where it is until today.
After this, I'm off to SACRE, where I'm given a few minutes at the end of the meeting to speak about choice Unlimited and distribute fliers to attendees.
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Thursday, 15 March 2012
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
Human Rights seminar in Mansfield
At Mansfield Community & Voluntary Service this morning, delivering the third in a series of seminars for the Regional Equality and Diversity Partnership (REDP) on the Human Rights Act 1998.
Strictly speaking, the part on the Human Rights Act is delivered by Chino Cabon from The Race Equality Centre (TREC), while I present a Beginners Guide to REDP.
The purpose of these seminars is to help Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) organisations appreciate the relevance of the Human Rights Act 1998 to their mission, to understand its relationship to equality and diversity issues, as well enabling them to take part in the current debate about the UK withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights and replacing it with a new UK Bill of Rights. These topics will feature prominently in REDP's next regional event, in Derby, 22 March.
Gathered in Community House this morning are eight people, representing four VCS organisations and one public authority service provider (spot the out one out):
- Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service
- Disability Derbyshire Coalition for Inclusive Living
- Enable Housing, Care & Support Group
- Peak District Volunteering Advancement
- Rethink
This was a good meeting, a positive experience for (we hope) all who took part. It certainly was for Chino and me, although the fact that we got involved in a crash at the roundabout outside Glenfield Hospital on the outskirts of Leicester rather took the shine off things at the end. Ouch!
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Human Rights seminar in Oakham
Strictly speaking, the part on the Human Rights Act is delivered by Chino Cabon from The Race Equality Centre (TREC), while I present a Beginners Guide to REDP.
The purpose of these seminars is to help Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) organisations appreciate the relevance of the Human Rights Act 1998 to their mission, to understand its relationship to equality and diversity issues, as well enabling them to take part in the current debate about the UK withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rgihts and replacing it with a new UK Bill of Rights. These topics will feature prominently in REDP's next regional event, in Derby, 22 March.
Gathered in The Gower Centre (photo above) this morning are representatives of ten VCS organisations:
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