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Skills for the future-Funding
The Heritage Lottery Fund has announced that the new Skills for the Future programme is now open to applications. This is a new £5million grant programme that will deliver up to 1,000 paid training opportunities for people across the UK seeking a career in heritage.
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How much are you worth to society?
Surprise, surprise as Cilla once said, hospital cleaners are worth more to society than
elite City bankers, according to new analysis from nef . It's report, A bit rich , uses new ways to calculate the value
created for society by a range of different professions. For each, the authors
measured the conventional economic returns, such as the number of jobs created,
as well as key environmental impacts, including climate change effects, and
social impacts, for example contribution to individual or community well-being.
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Volunteering a mismatched opportunity for young people?
A study carried out by the University of Exeter, suggests that young people's volunteering activities in environmental and conservation projects do little to improve their skills or employability.
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10 Tips for a greener homeworker
Working from home can be a great alternative to being chained to a desk in a office, but, as many people who try it will tell you, it isn't as easy as just slapping your laptop down on the kitchen table.
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Volunteer Development Scotland Recruiting
Scotland's Centre for Excellence in Volunteering is recruiting for a couple of posts in Research & Development and some practical stuff about Training and Learning.
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Volunteering: how it affects your benefits
If you are unfortuante enough to be out of work and are looking for some volunteer experience to aid your job search but are worried about how it affects your benefits look no further.
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Green employment in Europe
A new report from WWF International identifies 3.4 million European jobs that are directly related to renewable energy, sustainable transport and energy efficient goods and services.
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Budget news for jobs
The UK government announced funding for its Future Jobs Fund in the budget, allocating a £1billion as part of a £3.1billion package for employment measures.
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More efficient existing housing please!
Kevin McLoud of C4's Grand Designs has teamed up with WWF to promote a campaign to retro-fit our existing housing stock with energy efficiency measures...lets hope someone listens.
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Cash for affordable housing
On 20th April the Scottish Government announced an additional £25 million to support the construction of local authority homes.
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Learning at work day-14 May 2009
There is a week for nearly everything and since 1995 there has been one for learning in the workplace ...maybe there is something in it for you.
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Making a difference: Community furniture projects
Furniture reuse projects seem to have held their own in the current financial crisis although there is cause for concern as the potential donation levels may lower as people save cash and keep furniture rather than renewing it.
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Tune in for green jobs
If you are interested in jobs in the environmental sector or a career in greener business then tune in to 3tfm , a pioneering community radio station with jobs programme.
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More flexible working required
There seem to be concerns that flexible working may be one of the caualties of the economic downturn. This seems strange, as flexible working offers benefits for both employers and employees.
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Jobs in a greening economy
The concept of green jobs so abruptly dumped by the Scottish Government still finds a focus elsewhere in the world with a meeting of 20 nations in Italy. From leading thinking to also ran..yet again.
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Green jobs plan
An announcement today (2 February 2009) from John Swinney, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth, that at least speaks about sustainable growth in a way you'd recognise as sustainable and has a chance of reducing our carbon output and tackling climate change.
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100,000 new jobs?
Gordon Brown has ambitious plans for a 1930s American-style programme of public works to ease the pain of recession by creating up to 100,000 jobs.
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Spruce Carpets, Glasgow
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Castlemilk Environment Trust
Castlemilk Environment Trust aims to restore the natural environment of Castlemilk and encourage the provision of paid employment/training for residents.
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