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From the Chief Executive Are you interested in helping your community to become more involved in planned services with our public agencies? Would you like to be a consultant engaging with communities on behalf of agencies such as Harrow Council or Harrow Primary Care Trust? If so you may want to consider taking part in the next round of Community Engagement training run by TIDE and funded by Harrow Council. Please click here to email us for more information and to go on the waiting list. Julia Smith

HAVS AGM

HAVS Annual General Meetings 2008 took place at the Civic Centre on 3rd July 2008. For the Annual Report please click here.

HAVS Annual General Meeting 2008

Hot Issues

HSP and GAP Elections 2008

Elections' results

Consortia Development

Infrastructure Business Plan 2008-2011

IVA Accreditation

IVA Accreditation is awarded!

IIP Accreditation

HAVS is delighted to announce that we have gained the Investors in People accreditation in recognition of our commitment to training our staff and volunteers. If you want to know more about our experience of IIP, please contact us in the usual way.

Cuts to the Grants Budget by 10%

I expect you have heard about the proposed cuts to the grants budget by the Harrow Council. There will be a deputation by four people on behalf of the Sector to the Grants Panel on 7th March. We need as many groups as possible to add their support to this. Please email us or give us a call to the office to add your name to the Deputation.

HSP Board Appeal

LBH'es ReplyVCSF Minutes 6th February 2007

Deputation Update March 2007

Deputation Update late March 2007

Deputation Udate April 2007

Invitation for a discussion

Notes of the meeting on Thursday 17th May 2007

The Minutes of the Meeting are prepared by the Meeting Secretary, Desiree Mahoney, Policy Officer, LBH.

HAVS New Initiatives

Voluntary Sector Consortium News, Minutes, 4th May Meeting

Volunteer Mapping Project:

Questionnaire 1

Questionnaire 2

Compact

Please find the latest information on the Compact. If you are interested please download as it follows

Harrow Compact

Compact Monitoring Form

BMER Code

Disability Code

Funding Code

Volunteers' Code

Consultation Code

Newcomers

We would like to welcome the North West London Lesbian and Gay Group, Somali Info-Line and Cancer Black Care as HAVS' newly affiliated groups. Click here or phone Olga on 020 8863 6707 for further ifmormation on the benefits of joining HAVS.

On-Line Access to Training

Harrow, together with partners in Brent and Ealing, support TIDE, a training organisation set up specifically to offer training to those working in the voluntary and community sector. TIDE offers a wide range of excellent training courses at very competitive prices. Details of these courses are now available on the HAVS website Click here for TIDE brochure . You can also download a copy of the booking form. If you have any queries or require any further information regarding any of the TIDE courses, please contact Clare or Joyce on 020 8579 6273

HAVS are working closely with TIDE on a number of other training-related issues and we hope to considerably extend training provision in the Harrow area over the next year. We are also considering ways of bringing together in one place, information on the training courses offered locally by other training organisations. If you wish to discuss any general training issues or have any particular training needs that you feel are not being met at present, please contact

Harrow’s Change Up Plan

Have you heard about Change Up?  Download a copy of Harrow’s Change Up plan here and if you would like to be added to the steering group to look at future projects, please contact us

Fund Raising

Organisations affiliated to HAVS can now receive advice on potential funding sources from our 'Grant Finder' database. Please complete and return the attached form and we will send you the results of your search as soon as possible Grant Finder Form

The Harrow Refugee Forum produce a regular Funding Bulletin for local groups. Clickhere to download a copy.

Funding Opportunities

Job opportunities

The Victoria Hall has a new job opportunity. Please, see attached.

Newsletters

This part of the web site includes our monthly mailout letter, dates and times of the important meetings of the Sector:

• Training opportunities
• New Trustees,staff and volunteers at HAVS
• HAVS vacancies including Trustees, staff and volunteers
• Voluntary and Community Sector Forum
• New projects and developments at HAVS
• Key initiatives and consultations that affect our sector
• Anything else you suggest that would be helpful!

January 2008 Newsletter

February 2008 Newsletter

March 2008 Newsletter

May 2008 Newsletter

June 2008 Newsletter