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5 February 2007
Free Sports Coaching Course
Meadowside Leisure Centre, Burton. 10 Week Course
A free sports coaching course is to be launched at a Burton Leisure Centre. The Sports Leader Award is aimed at those aged 14 or over who are interested in sports coaching.
Run by East Staffordshire Borough Council, the course is designed to give participants the skills needed to be a confident organiser of sport and physical activity. Each session of the 10-week course will be on a Tuesday evening from 6pm to 8pm at Meadowside Leisure Centre, from March 13.
Call 01283 505910 for more details.
24 November 2006
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FORUM
FRIDAY 24 NOVEMBER FROM 10AM
The Domestic Violence team from Derby Community Safety Partnership are running a Domestic Violence Forum during Inside Justice Week. The exhibition type event will focus on victims and survivors of domestic violence.
During the forum, the team will also launch their One Stop Shop, a venue in Normanton, Derby, where victims of domestic violence can ‘drop in’ for free and confidential advice from a number of voluntary and public sector organisations. Services will be delivered to people living in the BME communities in Derby and aims to direct them to the right support/help groups.
10 November 2006
Derby CVS AGM
The Silk Mill, Full Street, Derby. Starts at 7pm
Get your glad rags on and join Derby CVS. Our Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held on Friday 10 November 2006, starting at 7:00pm. We will be meeting in the exhibition hall of the historic Silk Mill, Full Street in Derby for a fun and inspiring evening!
We will discuss the achievements of 2005/2006 and the plans for 2006/2007 and beyond.
We are delighted to announce that our guest speaker will be the blind adventurer, Miles Hilton Barber. Miles has set numerous world records during the past four years whilst undertaking extreme endurance events all over the globe. His speeches are both motivating and thought-provoking, as well as extremely funny, which makes him the perfect speaker for our AGM.
To reserve your place at the AGM, or to find out more, please contact Susannah Towne, Marketing and Information Officer on 01332 227746 or via email at stowne@cvsderby.co.uk.
May 2006
Free Language Training for Local Companies
Companies in the East Midlands can take advantage of a FREE business language training programme in French, Spanish, German, Chinese or Italian. The new project is funded by the European Social Fund and the Learning and Skills Council, with the aim of improving the skills of local employees. The courses are being delivered at centres across the East Midlands (Ashbourne, Nottingham and Loughborough) in conjunction with the University of Luton, which is coordinating the courses throughout the East Midlands. The programme aims to give employees from small and medium enterprises a basic business grounding in the language to help them communicate in Europe and beyond.
Courses take place in French, German, Italian, Chinese or Spanish (subject to demand) one afternoon a week from 4pm to 8pm starting in May for 12 weeks and lead to recognised business language qualifications.
To find out more about the programme, contact Liz Littler on 0771 4450844 or email liz.littler@luton.ac.uk
7 MAY 2006
Match to honour stabbing victim
The friends of a Derby man who was stabbed outside a nightclub have organised a charity football match in his memory.
Simeon Grignon, 26, from Shelton Lock, was found fatally wounded after a night out on Beckett Street in January.
His friends, James Wall and Danny Davidson, have organised a special match between his former clubs Derby Boys XI and Loughborough Football Club.
The match will be held at the Asterdale Bowl in Spondon on 7 May.
14 MAY 2006
Derby 10k and Family Run
The date for the Derby 10k and Family Fun Run 2006 has been announced - so mark your diaries for Sunday, 14th May.
As usual, the event will start and finish at Pride Park Stadium. The 10k starts at 09:30 - the Family Fun Run begins at 11:00.
The event attracted over 2,800 entrants last year from the pro to the first-time fun runner. Organised by Sporting Futures, this local charity uses sport and recreation to encourage social inclusion throughout Derbyshire.
The 10k route follows a single lap through the heart of Derby. Part of the course has been altered due to the ongoing redevelopment of Derby City and traffic systems.
The two-mile family fun run route is flat – suitable for shorter distance runners, families, children and wheelchair entrants.
email: 10k@sporting-futures.org.uk
Sporting Futures
25 JUN 2006
Five Parks Ride - Go WildThe Derby Cycling Group invite all cyclists to ride on a 6 mile circuit passing through five of Derby's parks.
Riders may be sponsored to support MacMillan Cancer Care, and may ride multiple laps of the route, part of which is on public roads.
There are two start points, one at Markeaton Park for those bringing their bikes by car, and at The Arboretum for those cycling to the start. Concurrently the Derby Go Wild Event is in progress at the Arboretum.
The route will be well signed and marshals will be stationed at various road junctions. Riders may elect to cycle on their own or to join small groups that will be escorted by cycling marshals.
The groups will leave at hourly intervals from Markeaton Park and The Arboretum.
Entry is free, but participants should obtain a card at the start that will be stamped at control points around the route. Start anytime from 11am.
For further details ring 01332 514903 or E-mail les.sims@btinternet.com
Funding Roadshow
Derbyshire Community Foundation tours the county.
Trent Barton have kindly donated a promotional bus to Derbyshire Community Foundation that will take them to ten towns across Derbyshire.The bus will be full of information on the grants that they offer to voluntary and community groups and staff will be available to answer any questions that you may have.
There will also be the opportunity to chat to trustees and fund development staff about how to support the Foundation by becoming a donor.
For more details and a full schedule of the tour, please click here.
Derby's Breastfeeding Campaign
Many mothers are too embarrassed to feed their babies in public because of the adverse reaction they receive, according to women's groups in Derby.
To combat the problem, Derby City Council's women's advisory committee held a campaign to raise awareness about the benefits of breastfeeding.
The campaign was launched on International Women's Day – Thursday, March 8 – which each year encourages groups all around the world to organise events aimed at promoting improved lives for women.
As well as calling for more breastfeeding facilities for mums in Derby, the campaign will also highlight the benefits of breastfeeding.
A breastfeeding support group meets every Thursday between 10am and 11.30am at St Peter's Church, in St Peter's Churchyard, Derby. All mothers are welcome and a health visitor and a breastfeeding adviser is available for advice and information.
The Evening Telegraph has launched the biggest campaign in its history - to raise £1m for equipment to treat cancer patients at Derby's hospitals.
A road safety awareness campaign for Derbyshire from the Derby Telegraph and this is derbyshire.