Bulletin 30 April 2010

Salto Youth Training

Title: International Inspiration- contact making seminar for professionals working with youth in care
From 2010-06-14 to 2010-06-17 in Norway
Activity type: Contact making seminar
Target groups: Youth workers
For participants from: ALL YOUTH IN ACTION PROGRAMME COUNTRIES
For detailed information, please have a look at http://www.salto-youth.net/find-a-training/1803.html

Newcastle Youth Council Elections

Newcastle Youth Council Elections will take place over ten days from 7th June to 17th June and wondering if you might be able to help publicise through your networks and your bulletin both the call for candidates and the elections.

We are currently seeking candidates to stand in the election. Candidates must be aged 13 to 18 inclusive and either live, work or study in the Newcastle local authority area. Most candidates will stand for election in the area in which they live (central – postcodes NE1, NE2, NE4; north – postcodes NE3, NE13; west – postcodes NE5, NE15; east – postcodes NE6, NE7). Candidates who don’t live in Newcastle will be eligible to stand in the area in which they work or study. We are particularly encouraging people to stand whose voice is not normally heard.

For more information or application forms please do not hesitate to get in touch by calling 0191 2733 997.  Access 2010 elections.

The Galloping Stone

The Galloping Stone: reflections on creative work with victims of torture’ St Chad’s College, Durham University, 18 North Bailey, Durham, DH1 3RH

May 10th, 7.30 pm.

This event is jointly organized by St Chad’s College and the Centre for Social Justice and Community Action.

The poet, Gillian Allnutt, who has been writer in Residence at the North East Centre for the Medical Foundation for the Care of the Victims of Torture, along with Margaret Bird, a counsellor with the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture (North East) based in Newcastle, will give accounts of their work with asylum seekers and refugees. Their clients at the Medical Foundation are all torture survivors and asylum seekers. Gillian and Margaret will talk from their respective viewpoints as counsellor and writer, sometimes working with the same clients, and about the effect this often difficult work has had on their own lives.

A particular focus of the evening will be the beautiful, moving slim volume of writing from clients, staff and volunteers – The Galloping Stone – for details see:

http://www.newwritingnorth.com/shop/shop.php?section=1

The evening will start in St Chad’s College Chapel (7.30pm – 8.30pm) with a discussion entitled ‘The Galloping Stone: reflections on creative work with victims of torture’. Questions about the work and the issues it raises will be welcome.

Drinks and light refreshments will then served in the Senior Common Room from 8.30pm

How to find St Chad’s College

http://www.dur.ac.uk/stchads.conference/durmap.htm

ALL WELCOME

Any queries, please contact socialjustice@durham.ac.uk