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The Grapevine Newsletter - April 2011
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Confused about Personal Budgets?
Are you confused about Personal Budgets and Self Directed Support?
Not sure what brokerage is and how brokers can help?
Voluntary Action Leicestershire and Leicestershire County Council have arranged for Tony Nottingham, the East Midlands Co-ordinator of the National Brokerage Network, to run information events for carers across the county.
The following events have been arranged to date:
April 11th
10:am to 12:noon.
St Francis Centre, Tudor Rd, Hinckley LE10 0EQ.
April 11th
1:30pm to 3:30pm.
Melton Carnegie Museum, Thorpe End, Melton Mowbray LE13 1RB.
April 19th
10:30am to 12:30pm.
Bottlesford Village Hall, Belvoir Road, Bottesford NG13 0BG.
April 28th
11:30am to 1:30pm.
Wigston Library, Bull Head Street, Wigston Magna, LE18 1PA.
May 5th
1:30pm to 3:30pm.
John Storer House, Wards End, Loughborough LE11 3HA.
May 16th
10:30am to 12:30pm.
Marlene Reid Centre, 85, Belvoir Road Coalville LE67 3PH.
May 17th
2:pm to 4:pm.
Shepshed Community Centre, 47A Charnwood Rd, Shepshed LE12 9QE.
May 26th
12:30pm to 2:30pm.
The Boat House at Barrow 14 Bridge Street, Barrow upon Soar, Leicestershire,LE12 8PN.
June 1st
11:am to 1:pm.
Market Harborough Methodist Church, Northampton Road, Market Harborough, LE16 9HE.
June 2nd
10:30am to 12:30pm
Blaby Social Centre, Leicester Road, Blaby LE8 4GQ
However, if you have any queries, or need further details of these events, please contact:- 07956 314 765.
Alternatively, visit the website:- www.tonynottingham.co.uk.
Next Force4Change Meeting
The next Force4Change meeting will be held:
On: Saturday 07th May 2011
Time: 11am - 3pm
At: Mosaic: shaping disability services, 2 Oak Spinney Park, Ratby Lane, Leicester Forest East, LE3 3AW.
For more information contact:
Dorcas Mukarati on 07525 233 863. Email: force4change2008@yahoo.co.uk
Come back to The Grapevine!
Since The Grapevine was launched in 2007, we now have over 200, registered users. Of this number, some users visit and post messages regularly, which is of course fantastic!
However, we also have some registered users who do not use The Grapevine. So, we are now encouraging all our registered users to visit The Grapevine again and see how it has improved, become much more interesting and more easy to use.
We have a huge variety of topics and conversations to join in with, but if you don't see one you are interested in, then make your own! We also have a wide variety of people registered with many different interests, opinions, issues, advice and helpful tips.
If you have forgotten your Log In details please click on the ‘Forgotten Password’ link.
http://www.leicscareonline.org.uk/grapevine/grapevine_forgotten.htm
Alternatively contact the team on:
Telephone: 0116 305 7538. Email: grapevine@leics.gov.uk
Interesting topics
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Being a moderator is about helping to keep the Grapevine in tiptop shape. It involves coming up with topicsof conversation that will help keep thechat moving along at a constant pace, ideally you should be visiting The Grapevine at least once a week (but preferably much more often!).At the moment, we are only looking for regular Grapevine users to become moderators.
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