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Merry
Christmas and a Happy New Year to all from Red Ochre. May you all have a
pleasant and restful Christmas and Happy New Year.
Before you go
there is just time for one more newsletter of 2012. Enjoy ...
The Business
in the Community
(BitC) arc Building Better Business programme is expanding from East
London to West London.
arc is a service
for social enterprises, connecting them with expert support and business
opportunities to help them grow.
The launch of
the West London programme was on Monday 10th December at The Hub
Westminster. To watch a video featuring a variety of talks about the
programme click here.
Red Ochre is a
delivery partner providing specialist support on growth and finance for
social enterprises.
Spanish
teacher with environmental / social background wanted!
Our Skills for
Green Jobs project is going well with the second group of interns heading
out to Seville in January for 13 weeks.
We are looking
for a fun and friendly Spanish teacher for our preparation day on January
7th. We need someone who can do 2 hours with a group of 10 young people
with varied Spanish. Ideally we want someone who can provide vocabulary
that is useful for working in the environmental sector and even better if
they know Andalucia.
If that’s you or
you know of someone who fits the bill, get in touch with some details
about you and rates to Martin
Cooper.
Red Ochre and
the co-op Enterprise Hub
Red Ochre are
now officially a co-op development agency. We have been working with
existing and aspiring co-operatives for a number of years and we have
made our commitment to the co-op cause official.
If you would
like to know more about the advantages of being a co-operative or how to
become one please feel free to contact Robert Foster or Uday Thakkar.
Congratulations
to our clients who have won awards this year.
The year 2012
has been a challenging and rewarding year for many of our clients. Here
is a quick congratulations to some of the organisations we've been
working with and their awards.
- JargonPR,
CIPR Pride Award, 2012 Silver Winner
- cyclehoop,
a Real Business Future 50 Winner, and MD, Anthony Lau, named as one
of the Evening Standard 1,000 Most Influential People in
London
- Stickyboard
a Nexters
alumnus
- UnBEElievable
- First Aid
for Life, What's On, Most Inspirational Trainer 2012
- SugarGrain,
Great taste gold 2012 and FreeFrom food awards winner 2012
- grigoriou
interiors, shortlisted for the Sustain Magazine Awards 2013
To read more
click here
Find out more
about the Hounslow Community Resource Centre Project
Hounslow Council
has commissioned CAN to explore the concept of creating a new multi-agency
Resource Centre – a building where third sector organisations can locate,
meet and share offices and resources.
For answers to
questions such as What is a Resource Centre? and How
do I get involved? call Kirstin Ross on tel: 020 7250
8039 or click here
Free premises
workshop -
helping you choose the right premises for your organisation
‘Location,
Location, Location’ - 11th January 2013, 10-1pm (incl. lunch) at
Watermans Centre, Brentford. Click to book here.
A date for
your diary
CAN will be
presenting about the Hounslow Community Resource Centre Project at the
next Hounslow Community Network meeting, Monday 28th January 2013,
10:00-12:00 at St. Paul’s Parish Centre, Brentford. The agenda includes
discussions on LBH and external funding, establishing a Hounslow
Equalities Forum, and the election of a 2nd Vice-Chair. Lunch will be
provided.
Please click here to
register your attendance.
Do you have news or events
for our newsletter? Email claire@redochre.org.uk
with the details.
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