Janet Fleming Email & Phone Number

Why me? is a national charity campaigning and advocating for greater access to Restorative Justice for victims in England and Wales. In 2015 we launched our own Restorative Justice Service, giving the right to everyone who has suffered as a result of crime the chance to talk about what happened.

Islington Arts Factory

Founded in 1977, Islington Arts Factory is the only multi-arts community centre in the London Borough of Islington and provides over fifty educational courses in art, dance and music for children and adult learners. We believe that creativity should be undertaken for its own sake and that active involvement in the arts encourages positive personal growth.

England

The Third Sector National Learning Alliance (TSNLA) is the national alliance of voluntary and community organisations and social enterprises involved in learning and skills. Our role is to stimulate, inform and listen to the views of civil society learning providers and to be a powerful, credible and authoritative national advocate for their role in.

London, United Kingdom

I was invited to take this part time role at the end of my secondment from NCVO to establish Skills Effect, an independent organisation to promote and support learning and skills in Third Sector organisations. I managed the relationships with our research partners, the Third Sector Research Centre, the Research team at NCVO and the UK Intelligence Network.

The UK Workforce Hub was the successor organisation to the Voluntary Sector National Training Organisation (see below) and continued the UK partnership and work on standards and research. I managed four work streams in the Hub: bringing new people to work in the sector; supporting good management and employment practice; developing the skills and knowledge.

The VSNTO was established in 1997 to promote and support the development of a skilled workforce of paid staff and volunteers across the UK. It was the first national body funded to do this for voluntary organisations. I worked closely with voluntary sector partners in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.I led the work with partners to develop the first.

Project 2001 gave small grants to urban and rural community organisations to invest in skills and learning for their trustees, volunteers or paid staff. This was my first introduction to working in the voluntary sector after sixteen years of working in inner city Further Education. The project evaluation demonstrated the positive impact of learning on.