Event Archives

• 08 May - Children & Young People’s Forum: The Road to Real Jobs for Young People How can we create real jobs and employment for young people in Hackney?
• 26 Apr - Children’s Health & Wellbeing Day A chance for providers from across the sectors to examine the key issues around children’s health.
• 17 Apr - Making sense of Welfare Reform > Incapacity Benefit A workshop providing clear information about Incapacity Benefit (IB) Reform
• 29 Mar - “Hackney Carers Speak Out!” Film & Music Premiere
• 21 Mar - Perspectives on playing: Putting the brain back into the body and the world This seminar will provide an exploration of the relationship between playing and mind/body development.
• 28 Feb - Shaping the Future: Race and racism in the 21st century If we live in a post-racial society, why do certain ethnic groups continue to experience disadvantage?
• 22 Feb - Equalities Consultation Hackney Council invites you to have your say on the development of their Equality objectives
• 25 Jan - Does Playwork Work? This presentation explores the role of playwork in providing opportunities for children’s play in artificial settings like Adventure Playgrounds and asks “Does playwork work?”
• 24 Jan - Fuel Poverty Meeting A meeting aiming to identify the work that is happening locally to address fuel poverty, the gaps in local provision and good practice from other boroughs
• 18 Jan - Health and Social Care Forum Meeting Dr Clare Highton will be coming to talk about the City & Hackney pathfinder Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), their plans and how the Voluntary & Community Sector can develop a relationship with them.
• 14 Dec - Hackney Women’s Forum are looking at the impact of the public sector cuts on women in Hackney Hackney Women’s Forum is offering members an opportunity to learn about this research method and use it to gather evidence of impact on public sector cuts on women’s lives in Hackney.
• 14 Dec - Health and Social Care Forum Networking Design Workshop Service users are being asked to help design a network to influence future provision in the City & Hackney area by discussing ideas at an informal meeting.
• 13 Dec - Talking Matters – Wellbeing Centre: Presenting 20 years of Cultural Awareness Training Seminars Focus: Mental Health. Speaker: Mrs Malka Taub (Systemic Therapist)
• 12 Dec - Together for Transport Initiative's Hackney Public Meeting: Staff Our Stations An opportunity to hear about the government’s ‘McNulty Report’ and its recommendations
• 11 Dec - Black Ethnic & Minority Arts Fundraiser an afternoon of experienced and emerging artists from all walks of the creative industry
• 03 Dec - BEMWG Open Meeting: "TB Symptoms and Treatment" An open meeting on turbeculosis especially for the Turkish and Kurdish Community
• 01 Dec - Safeguarding Children from Abuse linked to a Belief in Spirit Possession A lunchtime seminar by Newham LSCB
• 28 Nov - NCVO/LVSTC Conference - ESF Support for Families to Tackle Poverty This Conference will consider the wider issues around this family intervention scheme.
• 24 Nov - Hackney Green Drinks gathering for anyone interested in environmental and sustainability issues
• 30 Sep - Hackney Migrant Strategy- Forum Meeting discussion on Hackney Migrant Strategy and the Council's response
• 29 Sep - Hackney Green Drinks gathering for anyone interested in environmental and sustainability issues
• 16 Sep - Safer Young Hackney network meeting Regular network meeting, details to follow.
• 09 Aug - The Final Child Poverty Consultation Meeting Thank you for the case studies which contributed to the review. Come along and feed directly to the review.
• 09 Aug - BEMWG Tour of Olympic Park There are only months left to 2012 Olympic Games, and the construction of Olympic Park is almost completed. This is your chance to see the Park before actual games begin.
• 03 Aug - Diversity in Apprenticeships Open Day Apprenticeships are an excellent way of gaining qualifications and workplace experiences for young people.
• 28 Jul - Hackney Green Drinks gathering for anyone interested in environmental and sustainability issues- chatting, debating, networking and generally connecting.
• 28 Jul - City & Hackney Older People’s Reference Group: Looking at Human Rights and Older People
• 25 Jul - Disability Backup Forum Looking at an update on review and retendering for Health & Wellbeing services with Eve Oldham, Joint Commissioner and transport access issues
• 21 Jul - Project Oracle training workshop How do you know when you're being effective?
• 15 Jul - Hackney African Forum AGM Find out what the Forum has been working on recently!
• 14 Jul - The Place to Meet … the BBC Networking event
• 13 Jul - Hackney Unites : No to the Sainsbury in Wilmer Place There is a planning proposal to develop a large Sainsbury’s behind YumYum and the Wholefoods store in Wilmer place – the size of the Morrisons just up the road.
• 08 Jul - Hackney Unites: Unemployed Workers Project Join us for this first meeting to launch our new project
• 07 Jul - Hackney Advice Forum For independent and community advice providers
• 06 Jul - REACH 2011: Celebrating community networks A unique opportunity to connect community networks with colleagues in the voluntary, community and public sectors through a mix of workshops, guest speakers and debate.
• 27 Jun - Hackney Disability BackUp Forum Disabled people of Hackney - Forum meeting
• 24 Jun - User-Led Organisation / Centre for Independent Living visioning event for user-led organisations and those delivering services supporting independent living in Hackney
• 13 Jun - Children & Young People’s Providers Forum Continuing our work to improving outcomes for disabled children
• 10 Jun - EDN Single Work Programme Conference Meet the Single Work Programme primes with Q and A session
• 08 Jun - Safer Young Hackney Network For voluntary and community providers tackling youth crime in Hackney. This meeting will look at partnerships, opportunities through the Single Work Programme and future funding.
• 08 Jun - City & Hackney Health & Social Care Forum (HSCF) We will be discussing Carers' Strategy & Future of HSCF
• 02 Jun - Meeting to discuss Mental Health Consortia Voluntary and community groups working in mental health
• 01 Jun - Children & Young People’s Providers Forum Find out how you can use Project Oracle to better measure the success of your project, to prove to funders and commissioners that you make a difference
• 01 Jun - Children & Young People’s Providers Forum Find out how you can use Project Oracle to better measure the success of your project, to prove to funders and commissioners that you make a difference
• 26 May - Hackney Green Drinks gathering for anyone interested in environmental and sustainability issues- chatting, debating, networking and generally connecting
• 26 May - Hackney Advice Forum Next meeting to discuss pressing issues and get advice on concerns: DERMAN, Well-Being for Kurdish & Turkish Community
• 13 May - Hackney Refugee Forums Open meeting The topic of discussion is mental health
• 12 May - HSCF Mental Health Special Interest Group For people who provide servcies to people with learning disabilities
• 09 May - HSCF Learning Disabilities Special Interest Group Meeting for people who provide services to people with learning disabilities
• 03 May - Health & Social Care Forum (HSCF) Consortia - models and Q& A with procurement Looking at working in consortia to win adult social care contracts