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Welcome to Fife Centre for Equalitiese-bulletinAugust 2016

September is upon us, and it's fair to say that it is perhaps the most exciting month in FCE's annual calendar as it is the month of Diversity Week Fife! The preparations are now truly in the final stages, and Diversity Week Fife 2016 is literally about to start. If you haven't seen the exciting programme yet, please click here. For a plain text (and reader compatible) version, click here. We are also still taking last minute registrations for the Nurturing Modern Families Conference on 5 September in Fife Renewables Innovation Centre in Methil. If you'd like to attend this unique, one of a kind conference, register here.
Read on to find out more about Diversity Week Fife 2016 here.
Please note that any last minute updates and changes to the programme will be done online so for the most up-to-date programme, keep an eye on our Facebook page or on our Eventbrite events calanendarhere.
We hope that you can make it to some of the events next week - see you around!
Month at a Glance
Our Activities & News
You Said, We Did
What's On
Events
Funding & Other
/ Consultations
Vacancies & Opportunities
Other
Partners' Activities & News
Word of the Month
Month at a Glance

Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
This year, during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, CLIC Sargent is focusing on the financial impact of cancer. It’s vital that affected families can access the financial support this charity offers. Find out more here.

Oddfellows Friendship Month
In September, Oddfellows volunteersare hosting hundreds of fun events across the country as part of Oddfellows Friendship Month - theirannual campaign to bring communities closer together and highlight the importance of friendship to the nation. Click here for more.

World Suicide Prevention Day
10September
World Suicide Prevention Day gives organisations, government agencies and individuals a chance to promote awareness about suicide, mental illnesses associated with suicide, as well as suicide prevention. To find out more, click here.

World Car Free Day
22 September
World Car Free Dayencourages motorists to give up their cars for a day to promote other forms or transport. Did you know thatstudies show that for short trips in cities, one can reach their destination faster more by bike than in a car?

European Day of Languages
26 September
A range of eventstake place across Europe to celebrate European Day of Languages, such asactivities for and with children, television and radio programmes, language classes, and conferences. To find out more, click here.

International Day of Older Persons
1 October
The theme of the International Day of Older Persons for 2016 is"Take A Stand Against Ageism". To read more about this year's aims, click here. To see what is going on as part of UK Older People's Day, click here.
Our Activities & News

Know Your Network 2016
At the end of August, FCE went along to the Know Your Network event in the Bay Hotel in Kinghorn. The event was well attended with over 140 participants.FCE facilitated a group discussion and hosted an information stall in the morning session.

Presentations were heard by Cllr Anthony Martin, Chair of Opportunities Fife Partnership, Robin Presswood, Fife Council and Mike McElhinney, Scottish Government, Adam Dunkerley, Opportunities Fife Partnership Manager, Martin Nowakowski, Department of Work and Pensions.
It was a great opportunity for employability organisations to link up and work out ways to address issues that are shared across their services.

Diversity Week Fife 2016
MonkeyGaming is coming to Diversity Gala this year!
MonkeyGamingis an accessible gaming project run by the charity Fife Society for the Blind. The project is designed to bring visually impaired gamers together to discuss their gaming experiences. The project also aims to encourage more visually impaired people to take part in accessible gaming, and to entice games developers to make their games more playable for disabled people.In this workshop, the MonkeyGaming project leader, Stuart Beveridge, discusses how accessible games can be played using smart technology such as iPhones and iPads. The discussion will focus mainly on Kid Friendly Software, who developaudiogames, which can be played by both visually impaired and sighted people alike.
Auction time!
We are thrilled to announce our first ever Diversity Week Fife auction! The silent auction started on Monday 29 August and will run all the way until the midnight of Saturday 10 September. The lucky winner will then be announced at the Diversity Gala on Sunday 11 September. Our starting bid is £100, and you can submit your bids via email, simply just stating how much you wish to bid. And what are we bidding for? An exclusive four ball at Fairmont St Andrews! Thank you to Fairmont St Andrews for donating such a wonderful prize for our auction!
You Said, We Did
Inclusive Communication
Following the Inclusive Communication Conference that we organised for last year's Diversity Week, we had a lot of positive feedback from people across Fife who found the conference helpful, informative, and inspiring. We have, therefore, decided to develop what we started at the conference into a more in-depth Inclusive Communication Workshop. This training is still something we are working on, but we hope to be able to introduce it in the near future. Nina, our Manager, is actually doing a pilot session of the training in Singapore later this month!
What's On
NHS Fife - Working with Young Women on Self Esteem
Monday 5 September, 09.30 - 16.30
The Bay Hotel, Pettycur Bay, Burntisland Road, Kinghorn KY3 9YE
NHS Fife - Scotland’s Mental Health First Aid: Young People
Monday 12 September, 09.30 - 16.30
Lynebank Hospital, Halbeath, Dunfermline KY11 4UW
Youth 1st - Child Protection Workshop
Tuesday 13 September, 18.00 - 21.00
YMCA North Street, Glenrothes KY7 5PP
Employing Staff in the Voluntary Sector: A free workshop
Wednesday 14 September, 10.00 - 12.30
Craig Mitchell House, Flemington Road, Glenrothes, KY7 5QF
Dyslexia Awareness Training
Monday 19 September, 10.00 - 13.00
Craig Mitchell House, Flemington Road, Glenrothes, KY7 5QF
FDASAP - Exploring & Understanding Gender-Based Violence
Wednesday 28 September, 09.15 - 16.30
Queen Anne High School, Broomhead Park, Dunfermline, KY12 0PQ
FDASAP - What's gender got to do with it?
Wednesday 5 October, 14.00 - 16.00
Bankhead Central, Glenrothes, KY7 6GH
Events
The Ecology Centre - Summer Festival, Kinghorn
Saturday 3 September, 12.00 - 16.00
The Ecology Centre, Kinghorn Loch, Kinghorn, KY3 9YG
Families First - St Andrews - Annual General Meeting
Tuesday 6 September, 19.00 - 20.30
Seminar Room 1, Medical and Biological Sciences Building, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews, KY16 9TF
Enable-U and One Stop Shop - Autism Monthly Support Group
Wednesday 7 September, 10.00 - 12.00
Enable Fife Services, Alexander House, Alexander Street, Dysart, KY1 2XX
One Digital Meet Up
Tuesday 13 September, 09.30 - 12.30
Kirkcaldy Old Kirk Trust, Kirk Wynd, Kirkcaldy, KY1 1EH
Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) - Conference 2016: Family friendly working
Tuesday 13 September, 10.00 - 15.00
Scottish Trades Union Congress, 333 Woodlands Rd, Glasgow, G3 6NG
Citizen Advocacy: Connecting People - Changing Lives
Wednesday 21 September, 09.30 - 16.00
Rothes Halls, Glenrothes,KY7 5NX
Charity Golf Event for PAMIS
Friday 30 September, 10.00 - 18.00
Fairmont St. Andrews,St Andrews, KY16 8PN
Funding & Other
Nominations for the SURF regeneration funding awards, whichoffer an opportunity for regeneration projects of all sizes todemonstrate valueto funders and partners, support team-building, anddevelop a national profile, are now open.For more information, click here.
Fife Council's Community Emergency Planning funding scheme offers financial support to Community Groups / Organisations that have, in partnership with Fife Council's Emeergency Resilience Team, developed a Community Emergency Plan to enhance their local community's resilience. To find out more, click here.
Consultations
Your View Counts - Local Policing
Fife Divisionof Police Scotland is focused on gathering and understanding views which accurately reflect the needs of communities. Local policing is at the heart of what they do, and that’s why they're committed to listening to the public. Police Scotland are currentlyin the early stages of a process that will be developed and enhanced in the forthcoming months, and are looking for views on local policing. For details and too accessthe survey, please click here.
Child Poverty Bill for Scotland - Consultation
Open until Friday 30 September
This consultation sets out proposal for a Child Poverty Bill for Scotland that will enshrine in legislation the Government's ambition to eradicate child poverty, place a duty on Scottish Ministers to publish a Child Poverty Delivery Plan every 5 years (and report on this Plan annually), and set statutory income targets.For details, click here. To take part in the consultation, click here.
Why me? - Hate Crime Survey
This survey is being conducted by theScottish Alliance of Regional Equality Councils(SAREC) along with its constituent groups,Central Scotland Regional Equality Council(CSREC),Edinburgh and Lothians Regional Equality Council(ELREC),Grampian Regional Equality Council(GREC) andWest of Scotland Regional Equality Council (WSREC).Through this survey, they seek to gather the experiences of individuals from diverse equality backgrounds who have experienced hate crime, how they feel they were supported, and also what additional support they could have benefited from. To access the survey, click here.
Vacancies & Opportunities
Kingdom Housing Assocation - Co-ordinator vacancy - Falkirk
For details and to apply, clickhere. Apply by 5 September.
St Andrews Environmental Network - Clean and Green Supervisor
For details and to apply, clickhere. Apply by 7 September.
Age Scotland - Community Researchers
For details about this opportunity, click here.
Other

Employment opportunities for Muslims in the UK - inquiry

The report highlights the economic disadvantages faced by Muslims, who experience the highest levels of unemployment out of all religious and ethnic groups -12.8% compared to 5.4% for the general population.The report concludes that the Government's commitment to tackling disadvantage for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) people must be coupled with a coherent cross-Government strategy focused on specific groups, including Muslims, and recommends that a plan should be developed by the end of this year. For details and to read the report, click here.
Partners' Activities & News
Craigencalt Trust Walking Festival
3– 11September 2016
Craigencalt Rural Community Trust is pleased to invite you along to their third local walking festival. The last two years has seen this event grow in popularity due to the range of walks that it offers and the friendly atmosphere that is generated throughout the week. To see the programme and find out more, click here.
Word of the Month
Diversity (noun)
Meaning:The state of being diverse (ie.showing a great deal of variety; very different).
Cultural diversity isthe existence of a variety of cultural or ethnic groups within a society.
Verb: to diversify.
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