Friday 31 July 2009

First Saturdays Transformation Fund

A bid to the Department of Business Innovation and Skills 'Thansformation Fund' has recently been submitted to take forward the work of the Learning Shop.

If successful our bid will help to fund a range of Saturday taster programmes to encourage, engage and enthuse adults in Thurrock to take up some form of learning.

The outcome of our bid will be known in August/September of this year.

For further information and details about the first Saturday bid contact Ray Wilkinson at UEL, r.wilkinson@uel.ac.uk

Wednesday 22 July 2009

Tuesday 4th August - Cross Training/Partnership Meeting

Venue - UEL's Docklands Campus - Knowledge Dock, Room 2.22

10:00am - 1.00 pm Cross-training session concentrating on UEL, The Creative Way and Next Stops

Agenda

10.00 am - Arrival - Tea/Coffee

10.00 am - Introductions

10.10 am - Overview of UEL

10.20 am - Pre-entry IAG at UEL

10.35 am - IAG Case Studies

10.50 am - UEL's New Beginnings 2 Programme

11.05 am - Next Steps

11.15 am - Tea/Coffee

11.30 am - The Creative Way

12.00 am - Students View of UEL

12.10 pm - Campus Tour

12.40 pm - Questions and Answer

1. 00 pm - Sandwich lunch

2:00pm Partnership meeting

Please confirm your attendance by e-mailing d.brisco@uel.ac.uk.

Directions can be found here.

If you are travelling by car please can you e-mail me your car make, model and registration number so that parking permits can be arranged.

Thursday 9 July 2009

Newsletter

Progress to Date

Happy to report that Contractors have now been commissioned, and work will be commencing mid to late July. Unfortunately this has been delayed due to the finding of additional asbestos in the roof space. The estimated finishing date now looks to be some time in September. If all goes to plan, hopefully we should be able to open by October.


Learning Shop Tours

Many of us have now had the opportunity to take a look around and to see the “before” picture. Next visit is planned for 10.30 am on Friday 10th July. Please e-mail Debbie (d.brisco@uel.ac.uk) if you’d like to attend.

Once the initial strip out is completed (whereby the shop becomes an empty shell) we’re hoping to arrange some “mid-work” visits as it’s great to see how things are progressing. We’ll circulate some further dates towards the end of July. We'll also up-date with pictures along the way!


Proposed Opening Hours


Initially, we thought we would open three days per week, with a late evening on the Thursday. This would be reviewed after Christmas. Opening hours would be as follows:-

Wednesday - 9.30 to 5.00
Thursday - 9.30 to 7.00
Friday - 9.30 to 5.00


First Aid Courses

As you’re probably aware, it’s a health and safety requirement that we have a qualified first aider present in the shop at all times. UEL could run a custom made course at the date/venue of our choice if we can get a minimum group of 8 together. We hope to be able to offer this for free or less than cost to potential Learning Shop staff (by using part of our EEDA grant - but we need to check the rules) and ideally we’d like one person from each organisation to attend. There is also a course running at our Docklands Campus on the 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th September. Please e-mail me if you or any of your staff would like to attend either of these courses.

All qualification courses are for four days and include the following:-

· Priorities of first aid
· Managing an Incident
· Roles/responsibilities of Employers & Employees for FAW
· Care of the unconscious casualty
· Cardio pulmonary resuscitation
· Disorders of the airway
· Dealing with bleeding and shock
· Causes of unconsciousness
· Burns and scalds
· Injuries to bones, muscles & joints
· Poisoning
· Recognition and management of major illnesses
· Recognition of minor illnesses and appropriate action
· Eye injuries
· Miscellaneous injuries
· Record keeping and accident reporting
· Infection control
· Communication and delegation in an Emergency
· Manage the transportation of a casualty



Cross Training Days

On meeting with Partners individually it was suggested that we run some cross training sessions whereby we each give information about our respective organisations. We'd like to hold the first one at UEL's Docklands Campus on either Tuesday 4th or Thursday 6th August. We can then add other locations as preferred. Thurrock and Basildon's Training Rooms at Lakeside may be a possibility and are quite central to all of us (but this does depend on availability). Please could you let me know if you'd like to host a session.


Next Partnership Meeting

Depending on Partner’s availability we thought it would be a good idea to hold the next Partnership meeting directly after the cross training session on Tuesday 4th or Thursday 6th August. We could start the cross training session at 10.00 am, break for a sandwich lunch at 1.00 pm and then lead into the meeting at 2.00 pm. Again, could you please confirm your availability and whether the 4th or 6th August is more convenient for you.


Opening Event

We’ll be having an official opening soon after we move in – please let us know if you have any ideas, suggestions for Speakers, etc. We’ll be in touch shortly asking for details of who you’d like to invite.


Required Action

Please could you let me know the following:-

- Whether you or anyone in your Organisation would like to attend a First Aid at Work qualification course.
- Your availability for the cross-training session/Partnership meeting and whether Tuesday 4th or Thursday 6th August is more convenient for you. I will circulate the chosen date ASAP, but please try to keep both dates clear in your diaries if possible.


In the meantime if there’s anything you’d like to discuss prior to the next meeting please free to contact Debbie Brisco on 020 8591 9882 (d.brisco@uel.ac.uk) or Ray Wilkinson on 020 8223 7023 (r.wilkinson@uel.ac.uk)

"Before" pictures