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London Churchill College

london churchill college

London

Excellent teaching staff Many of our staff at LCC are practitioners and have direct work experience in the subjects they teach and research in their areas of specialism. This application of real world issues and challenges combined with strong theoretical underpinning is an ideal mix for our students. We offer a programme of staff development and encourage membership of AdvancedHE alongside the opportunity for research and publications in the College Journal. LCC is committed to the employability of their students. London Churchill College (LCC) is committed to student employability with a curriculum that gives them the opportunity to find the job they want and, as they progress, to succeed through the impact they make in the organisations they join. We bring companies and other organisations into and around the curriculum to work with our students. We also work with our alumni and students around their professional development as practitioners. Students are fully engaged in the College processes and procedures There are student representatives across the courses who receive feedback from their colleagues with formal and informal processes available for informing staff. We ensure that students are represented on all committees in the College to listen to the student voice at all levels. This essential part of LCC practice across the curriculum gives students the opportunity to engage as part of their personal and professional development. Strong management and support teams The College has made key management appointments to strengthen the team, particularly in the areas of Quality, Employability and Governance. We have a customer focused support staff from reception to recruitment and administration to help students with enquiries and support their time at the College. The excellent service LCC provides is a feature of the student experience at the College. Open door policy and support Our staff are accessible to students at all times and there is constant dialogue with teaching and support staff. This is a friendly College where the focus of the staff is on the student experience at LCC and graduate success in the future workforce. As an access College, we aim to grow the capacity of our communities in support of the local economy through the personal and professional development of our students. An exciting and rewarding experience The multicultural environment and cosmopolitan character of the College make student life a challenging, exciting and rewarding experience.

Social Life

social life

London

What makes a boundary? How we circumnavigate London is often imagined through its hard materiality of bricks and roads, staggered by open, green spaces and meandering waterways. Yet the sensory experience of moving through the city plays a significant role in how we percieve place, define neighbourhoods, and establish routes and routines. In mid June, Social Life hosted a workshop as part of the London Festival of Architecture, which aimed to explore how sight, smell and sound impact our perceptions of boundaries. Our approach drew closely from a toolkit developed by Saffron Woodcraft and Connie Smith at UCL's Insitute for Global Prosperity - the 'Sensory Notation Toolkit' - which was created with the intention for 'researchers to become alert to their different sense and how these are stimulated by particular environments.' Workshop participants walked with us on a short route around Elephand & Castle. At each stop we asked participants to record their sensory stimulation on a scale of 1-5 for each of the six sense: visual, aural, kinetic, thermal and chemical. We used a visual sensory chart to capture the data to understand what the concurrent themes were for each space and overall which space had the highest and lowest level of sensory stimulation. Building on Social Life's earlier work on sensory stimulation and psychgeography in our local area, our 2017 'Feeling of the Place' project, the workshop aimed to look more closely at the relationship between our sense and how this guides our perception of boundaries. The sensory walk was an exercise on connecting sights, smells and sounds as elements of boundary making and unmaking. Two boundaries were chosen for the exercise, Strata Tower by Elephant and Castle roundabout and a pedestrial barrier in the Newington Estate close to Peacock Yard where Social Life is based. Participants were asked to stop on either side of the 'boundary' and record their sensory stimulation. The stops differed dramatically. Whilst one was located in the middle of a blooming community garden others were located right at the foot of Strata Tower, surrounded by the hustle and bustle of urban life. They were however only a short walk apart. The responses were fairly predictable. Participants noted feeling unwelcome and feelings of unpleasantness in areas that were less human scale and contained less greenery. Aural stimualtion - negative or positive - scored highly for many participants with many connecting unpleasant feelings with wind, loud noises and also temperature.

World Class Speakers Academy

world class speakers academy

London

Advice services Our Advice Worker is currently on sick leave so RMNS is unable to provide immigration advice. We expect her to return to work in mid-March. In the meantime, if you are an asylum-seeker or refugee, you may be able to get help from: Refugee Action Kingston 020 8547 0115 www.refugeeactionkingston.org.uk These other centres can also give advice and they are able to help migrants: Southwest London Law Centres 020 8767 2777 https://swllc.org or https://swllc.org/get-advice/immigration-and-asylum/ Migrant Legal Action – 53 Addington Square, London SE5 7LB Advice line 0203 150 1470 Mondays to Fridays 2-4pm. Cardinal Hume Centre, 3-7 Arneway Street, Horseferry Road London SW11P 2BG. They normally hold new clients' assessments over the phone every two weeks on a Monday between 10am and 12pm. The first date in 2023 will be Monday 16th January. Call the welcome hub on 020 7227 1673 for information on the next available assessment date. Once you have confirmed the next available date, you can reach the immigration team for an assessment on 020 7227 1670. Hackney Migrant Centre - https://hackneymigrantcentre.org.uk/drop-in/ Law Society - to find a solicitor based on your postcode - https://solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk Citizens Advice Sutton is available at their Sutton Office (under the Central Library), St Nicholas Way, Sutton SM1 1EA. The office is open to visitors Monday to Friday 10.00 am to 3.00 pm or phone 020 8405 3552 (office hours). www.citizensadvicesutton.org.uk For further information about RMNS services, telephone 07725 549411 and leave a message, including your name, phone number and email address, and we will get back to you. Picture We stand with Ukraine What’s happening to Ukrainians arriving in Sutton? The local Council, in particular Ruth Dombey, has been working hard to provide information for sponsors. Community Action Sutton has created a WhatsApp group for sponsors. Refugee and Migrant Network Sutton has been involved from the start. Our Wednesday drop-in has welcomed over 70 new students into English classes. On Monday mornings the Salvation Army holds Drop-ins just for Ukrainians. An invitation to these Drop-ins in Ukrainian is below. Армія порятунку та Мережа біженців і мігрантів Саттон (RMNS) запрошують українців, які проживають у Саттоні, прийти на захід, який проходитиме по понеділках з 9.30 до 11.00 год. починаючи з понеділка, 9 травня. Зустріч відбудеться в церкві Sutton Salvation Army Church на розі Benhill Avenue та Throwley Way. Будуть частування. Волонтери з RMNS і команд спонсорства громади з церкви Sutton SA Church та Католицького деканату Саттона будуть там, щоб підтримувати, відповідати на запитання, вказувати і навіть супроводжувати відповідні установи.

emotionaldetox.eu

emotionaldetox.eu

London,

Imagine you are driving into work, knowingly 5 minutes late and scheduled to meet with an important client. You feel pressed for time, but are optimistic that you can still make the appointment on time. Then you hit road works and you can see the time slipping away, now your are 12 minutes late, 15 minutes late, 18 minutes late. You start to feel hot as the second click by. Just as you get past the roadwork’s you end up stuck behind a car going 20 miles under the speed limit and it’s making you even later than you already are. You are now 25 minutes late and you can’t get past the car that’s holding you up. How do you see yourself reacting to this? Would you be angrily beeping your horn? Yelling or gesticulating? Would you be distraught, shaking the steering wheel and crying “Why me? Why now?” Would you be crying and pleading for the car in front to just get out of the way? I ask this because our day to day life will always have stressful and unpredicted issues pop up and it’s how we respond to them that reflects what kind of stagnant and trapped emotions we are storing. Was your response angry? Frustrated? Hopeless? Disgusted? Disproportionate? If so, then you may be ripe for an emotional detox. So many of us repress our emotions or get stuck in a repetitive cycle. When we are hurt by someone or something it often appears easiest to ignore it and suppress it deep within or to get angry. Anger is a strong emotion that makes us feel in control and powerful so it’s hard to move away from anger to the other more vulnerable emotions like grief. It also takes little to no work at all to draw out your anger but to forgive, to experience and release, that can often be a painful or uncomfortable experience that takes lots of work to achieve. An emotional detox allows you to rid yourself of toxic, stuck, stagnant emotional patterns, barriers and stored traumas. By removing the negative baggage based in fear, anger, sadness, disgust, envy, and indignation you create room to add more joy, love, trust, anticipation, inner calm and kindness. Releasing negative emotions allows you to experience bliss and to become a more open, free and joyful person that exudes and attracts positivity. I encourage you to let go of negativities and to stop your past defining or weighing you down through the power of emotional detox.

Sheltons Accountants

sheltons accountants

London

Ned Shelton has worked with internationally operating clients for some 25 years, whilst based in Australia and in Europe. Ned’s career has been focused on advising internationally operating clients. Historically his specialisation has been international tax, tax treaties and related areas, however in recent years Ned has invested most of his time in connection with the Australian (Sydney) office. Ned and his team in Australia work solely with non-Australian based clients – whether they be exporting to Australia, setting up operations in the form of a fully-fledged operating company or perhaps with just one part-time employee in Australia. Ned’s work these days covers a wide range of business, tax, legal, accounting and administrative advice and assistance to this specific target group. Under the banner of Sheltons-SITTI, Ned has organised and chaired many conferences and conducted numerous courses on international tax in various cities throughout the world. Ned has conducted courses on an in-house and open basis in 25 cities in Europe, as well as in Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Delhi, Sydney, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Mauritius and Curacao, often several times in each location. Among current in-house clients are the South Korean tax office (NTS), the Mexican tax office (SAT) and Shell (Royal Dutch Shell). Apart from the Sheltons-SITTI courses and conferences, Ned has spoken at more than 80 international tax conferences organised by other parties including universities, professional bodies, government bodies, accounting networks and private firms, in some 35 countries. Ned is continuously consulted by clients from all over the world on international tax matters, such clients ranging from individuals and funds to publicly-listed multinationals. Ned has written a 650-page book on The Application and Interpretation of Tax Treaties at the request of Butterworths Tolleys / Lexis Nexis UK, one of the world’s most highly regarded legal publishers. Ned qualified as a Chartered Accountant in Australia in 1983 and holds degrees in Commerce and in Law from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He was a Tax Manager at Arthur Andersens in Sydney before moving to Europe. Before Arthur Andersens he was with Mann Judd (now HLB Mann Judd) in Sydney. The Sheltons office in Australia avails of Ned’s knowledge of the tax, legal and business circumstances of many countries. Sheltons is now in its 25th year of business – Ned having commenced Sheltons in the Netherlands in the 1990’s. Apart from his native English, Ned speaks Danish and reads Dutch, Norwegian and Swedish.

Stanley Picker Gallery

stanley picker gallery

Kingston upon Thames

Fabien Cappello Streetscape (2015) installation view. Photography Ellie Laycock About 7 March 2022: Stanley Picker Gallery and our partner venue Dorich House Museum are shocked and saddened by the invasion of Ukraine and subsequent events over the past weeks. We share the concerns raised by Arts Council England and the International Council of Museums (ICOM) about the risks faced by cultural professionals as well as the threats to cultural heritage because of this conflict and we send our support to all creative practitioners and cultural organisations and institutions affected. 5 June 2020: Stanley Picker Gallery and our partner venue Dorich House Museum recognise we must do more as cultural organisations to be actively anti-racist. We commit to taking immediate steps to implement a clear plan of action to address systemic racism at every level of our organisations, whilst actively seeking and welcoming critical engagement from diverse perspectives in this process. Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University is one of the leading university galleries and commissioning venues in the UK, working with artists, designers, students, academics and members of the local community to encourage creativity, learning, research and innovation. Established in 1997 with the ongoing support of the Stanley Picker Trust, the Gallery forms part of Arts Council England’s National Portfolio and is a principal cultural interface between Kingston University and its civic communities in South-West London and beyond. From its island location on the Hogsmill River, our venue is a creative hub, a production site and a presentation space that functions as an “expanded studio” dedicated to commissioning and curating contemporary art and design practice, generating a dynamic programme of exhibitions, events and participation activities staged onsite, offsite and online. Appointed each year through public open call, our Stanley Picker Fellowships in Design and Fine Art support a diversity of contemporary practitioners to research, create and premiere ambitious new work, by providing generous grants, free studio space, professional expertise and valuable access to the world-class workshop facilities at Kingston School of Art. The call for applications opens annually in May. Our Participation Programme involves us working collaboratively with schools, colleges, community groups and local residents of all ages, to deliver a range of creative activities and shared learning and professional development opportunities for students, that engage everyone in the life of the Gallery, our partner venue Dorich House Museum and the wider University. Follow us Twitter @PickerGallery, Instagram @stanleypicker and sign up to our mailing list for the latest updates on the programme, and to receive invitations and newsletter on our activities and how to get involved.

My Community Coach

my community coach

London

CoCo has a team of staff and volunteers dedicated to building confidence, self-esteem and support positive lifestyle changes in young people via the conduits of education, sport and culture. Our staff have a background in mentoring and life coaching, project management, social inclusion, vocational training, and sports coaching. Our community based values are manifested in our training activities in the classroom, and our team activities which take place in positive open spaces and parks around Brighton and Hove. CoCo works with a variety of local organisations and stakeholders to achieve its goals and deliver its activities. For example, we work directly with youth clubs, Job Centre Plus, and youth/employment networks (Brighton’s Women’s Centre, the Chamber of Commerce, Brighton and Hove Youth Collective, and The Platform) to engage directly with young people that are interested in career planning, job search, our vocational courses, or sport team building activities. We also have close ties with sports clubs such as Hassocks Tennis Club, Preston Park Tennis Club, Pavilion and Avenue Tennis Club, Preston Panthers FC, Withdean FC and Patcham FC. With these clubs we organise team building events, joint sports days and in house training to develop soft and employability skills via sport. Our team has worked with hundreds of young people across Sussex to provide vocational training, mentoring and employability training. Our reach is growing and in 2017 hope to reach even more young people. Specifically, our qualified staff provide VET courses such as City and Guilds Level 1 Principles of Coaching Sport, Level 1-2 Employability Skills and Level 2 Travel and Tourism Destinations. We also provide Coaching and Mentoring Sessions with a qualified life coach, cultural activities and overseas team sports tours in Europe. Our aim is to support young people not in employment, education or training, aged 18-24, early school leavers now long term unemployed, general unemployed young people, and we place special emphasis on the participation of young women and the more socially excluded members of society. We use our links with local colleges, the local authority, community groups and youth networks to support young people into vocational training, improve their confidence and support them into further vocational training, work experience or employment. Activities locally in the UK Vocational Training Centre Registered with City and Guilds Employment, advice and careers service: Information advice and guidance for young people looking for work; Mentoring and coaching; connections with youth organisations, community groups, employment networks Confidence Building, Team working and development of soft and employability skills: Sports coaching; Cultural and rural/active tourism around Sussex and going on hikes in the countryside, team games, confidence building exercises in parks around Sussex Culture, sports and language trips abroad: working with local sports/youth/college groups to travel abroad and compete in tournaments. Receiving organisation in the Erasmus programme

Excel Women's Association

excel women's association

Barking

Excel Women’s Centre was formed in 2013 with origins starting all the way back to 1995. Excel Women’s Centre CIC is an organisation based in Barking & Dagenham and surrounding boroughs which supports women, families, young people, carers and individuals with all issues affecting their quality of life and wellbeing. We work mainly in Barking & Dagenham, and now across a lot of East London, offering a range of dedicated services aimed to support our service users, engage and enable the community. Thus, we strive to empower individuals of all ages and ethnicities to become valued members of society. About Us Excel Women’s Centre, CIC, is community hub that has an open door policy and provides services to all women, children and families residing in the London borough of Barking & Dagenham and surrounding boroughs. The centre offer help to vulnerable women and their families to fight discrimination demand their right and increase their self-esteem and confidence within our multicultural society. Empowerment is the key focus of the organization throughout. With empowerment, more services will be provided and service users will gain the skills and encouragement they need to change their lives. By developing as an organization, service users will be able to see a range of activities materialise in the area of mentoring programs, youth projects, IT clubs, Job clubs, Parenting classes for new mothers, healthy eating sessions and many more specifically suggested by the service users. Excel Women’s centre would like all our services users of the organisation to be able to integrate into Barking and Dagenham borough as well as all around London and have the same accessibility to services that everyone else has in London. By working in partnership with service providers, voluntary and community groups, Excel Women’s Group will lead the way, by illustrating that marginalized communities can integrate into society and become part of the community at large. The group will strive to break down barriers in the area of language by holding English Language Classes and breakdown social exclusion by involving community members in various training schemes and volunteering projects which can help their future ambitions. Our Vision Our vision is to become a resource centre and hub for women in the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham and living in surrounding boroughs. We want to be part of a community that enables individuals to make informed choices maintain good health and achieve their potential regardless of their health, education and social circumstance. Our Mission Statement Our vision is to become a resource centre and hub for women in the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham and living in surrounding boroughs. We want to be part of a community that enables individuals to make informed choices maintain good health and achieve their potential regardless of their health, education and social circumstance.