Support the Centre Manager in coordinating the improvement of quality of teaching, learning, and assessment, and learner programmes to meet or exceed required standards at the Nacro Centre; deliver own teaching responsibilities, as required.To work with the Centre Manager to support the co-ordination of improving the quality of education, and teaching-learning and assessment, ensuring Nacro maintains progress towards ‘Outstanding’ at subsequent Ofsted InspectionsDeliver… Show more Support the Centre Manager in coordinating the improvement of quality of teaching, learning, and assessment, and learner programmes to meet or exceed required standards at the Nacro Centre; deliver own teaching responsibilities, as required.To work with the Centre Manager to support the co-ordination of improving the quality of education, and teaching-learning and assessment, ensuring Nacro maintains progress towards ‘Outstanding’ at subsequent Ofsted InspectionsDeliver outstanding teaching and learning in my curriculum areas to a wide range of learners including predominantly learners on the Study Programme, 14-16-year-olds and adult learners as per role descriptor for that specific roleSupport the coordination of planning, delivery and performance of all education programmes at the Centre in line with the Education Inspection Framework (EIF), awarding body standards, Nacro curriculum guidance and quality standards, whilst ensuring learner feedback is part of the evaluation Help to develop the centres Quality Improvement Plan (QIP) and Self-Assessment Report (SAR) ensuring all actions are followed through.Supporting the development of appropriate learning resources, facilities, and environment to support high-quality teaching and learning, prepare learners for the world of work/further study, promote to others in the team, and contribute to wider good practice in team/directorate Deputise for Centre Manager Grade 1 teacher. Show less

The Pit Stop (Youth Hub) our newest projectOverview of The Pit Stop Youth HubOur plans are to development the Pit Stop Youth Hub, an iconic, 21st Century youth facility, located in Burslem or Tunstall. The aim of this facility is to engage and inspire young people, aged 8-19 (up to 25 for young people with disabilities) from across Stoke on Trent by offering access to high quality gaming, video editing equipment, a music studio, arts, leisure and recreational activities and targeted… Show more The Pit Stop (Youth Hub) our newest projectOverview of The Pit Stop Youth HubOur plans are to development the Pit Stop Youth Hub, an iconic, 21st Century youth facility, located in Burslem or Tunstall. The aim of this facility is to engage and inspire young people, aged 8-19 (up to 25 for young people with disabilities) from across Stoke on Trent by offering access to high quality gaming, video editing equipment, a music studio, arts, leisure and recreational activities and targeted support programmes aimed at changing the lives of its members including the most vulnerable and disadvantaged. This will be done through training in employability and career development. Through this project we aim to address the issue of anti-social behaviour in our area.For more information visit our website at www.chameleonwmcic.com To donate to the project visit: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/pitstop launches on 15/07/16PLEASE DONATE ON LAUNCHWe have setup this company to address issues that affect young people in our area. We ran a two year consultation, with over three hundred young people from across the West Midlands. S.T.R.I.V.E has been funded by the Robbie William's Give it Sum Fund, European Social Fund and 1000 Lives is called S.T.R.I.V.EFor this project we are working with local job centres and their 19+ groups of unemployed.The aim of the project is to provide unemployed people with help identifing their chosen career path, and find the right job for them.The creative job hunting program consists of:• Goal Setting• Help to find their passions• Importance of apprenticeships and voluntary work as a way to develop their CVs • Interview techniques• Choices they make and their future• Self-motivation and highlight their current daily routine• Making job hunting a job in itself• Building confidence and self-esteem, which will allow them to climb out of the rut they find themselves in.• Explaining how they can make their passion their career Show less

Freelance arts pratitioner, providing a wide range of arts workshops for all ages. Visit my web site on www.infinite-arts.co.uk to learn more.DASALYNThe beginning of our journey to carnivalQuote from the DASALYN Board;The journey for us started with a pilot project in our children’s school, which is Christ Church CE Primary in Fenton Stoke on Trent. This was a project funded by the Creative Partnership where the children and staff interviewed a number of arts practitioners,… Show more Freelance arts pratitioner, providing a wide range of arts workshops for all ages. Visit my web site on www.infinite-arts.co.uk to learn more.DASALYNThe beginning of our journey to carnivalQuote from the DASALYN Board;The journey for us started with a pilot project in our children’s school, which is Christ Church CE Primary in Fenton Stoke on Trent. This was a project funded by the Creative Partnership where the children and staff interviewed a number of arts practitioners, who they wanted to come in and bring the school community together. The winning practitioner was Jay Gardiner an experienced artist and event manager. He worked alongside a member of staff and the Creative Agent to build a two-term project that was aimed at getting more parents involved with the school and their children’s education. He used the arts as a vehicle to do this, by setting up a range of workshops with 9 other artists who he brought into our school to provide workshops. From this we received arts training just for the adults and then a number of us would attend all the workshops across the school from foundation to year 6. It was from these basic workshops that our passion for the arts and carnival grew. Jay had shown us some of his work on costumes from Notting Hill carnival. A small number of us decided that we wanted to design and build a real carnival costume for our school and parade. With further training from Jay we went on to build a major costume, 3 backpack floor members for our parade.From the day of the carnival until now we are constantly being stopped in the streets by other parents who are still singing the praises of the carnival. We are all passionate about what the carnival has done, and can still do for our school and community. While providing us with a better understand of another culture it also enables us to learn new skills and develop ourselves. Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be. Show less

Support provided to 50+ community groups, CICs and charities. • Constitutions writing• Employment issues incl. Recruitment, personnel policies and procedures• Registering as a charity• Support for trustees and other governance issues• Developing a quality standard e.g PQASSO• Book keeping and financial systems• Setting up and preparation of accounts• Independent examination of accounts• Funding advice• Business planning and financial… Show more Support provided to 50+ community groups, CICs and charities. • Constitutions writing• Employment issues incl. Recruitment, personnel policies and procedures• Registering as a charity• Support for trustees and other governance issues• Developing a quality standard e.g PQASSO• Book keeping and financial systems• Setting up and preparation of accounts• Independent examination of accounts• Funding advice• Business planning and financial forecasting• Support for completing funding applications• Help to identify the groups and community’s training needs• Help for organisations to develop their own training courses• Briefing papers on government and other policies• Project development• Identifying new opportunities • Developing stronger links with City Council• Fundraising - One-to-one support on fundraising and fundraising technique, identifying suitable funders, publicising funding opportunities, support with completing funding applications, project development. Job Role• Provide development support to local BME VCS groups with including capacity building, funding, governance representation, and other required support. • Keep abreast of funding and tendering opportunities from various bodies ensuring all staff are aware of potential opportunities. Key Responsibilities • Assist VCS groups in developing projects and business opportunities• Provide support to VCS groups in addressing weakness and developing policies and procedures• Ensure sharing of good practice among VCS groups.• Provide support to groups in tendering & contracting for delivery of public services • Work and liaise with the public agencies, and VCS to identify opportunities for bidding for grants. • Where appropriate facilitate the creation of consortia of organisations to bid for grants.• Support key stakeholders to engage with the Voluntary and Community sector. Show less

You Can Do It Youth Project
By young people for young peopleI provided motivational training to a group of 25 young people aged 15 – 25. These young people made up a steering group and became ambassadors. They then design, manage and run a youth showcase event to 500 of their peers to share their message about under aged drinking and highlight the talented youth in their area. This event was a concert style event that was uses to open discussions on issues that affect them and their… Show more You Can Do It Youth Project
By young people for young peopleI provided motivational training to a group of 25 young people aged 15 – 25. These young people made up a steering group and became ambassadors. They then design, manage and run a youth showcase event to 500 of their peers to share their message about under aged drinking and highlight the talented youth in their area. This event was a concert style event that was uses to open discussions on issues that affect them and their peers.The project gave them real life experiences, as they build themselves as individuals and worked towards their own unique event. The motivational train aspect of the project developed the ambassadors into confident, out spoken individuals and positive role models. The project worked with the head of outside play and education at the city council Pat Shelley, he provided a link with the local youth strategies. Our main focus was under aged drinking and related issues such as anti social behaviour and employment. Much of these issues were down to the lack of after hour’s activities available to young people across the city. The project provided the young people with training to enable them to have the confidence to say NO, and promote a more active and healthier life style through activities they could all relate to.Members of the steering group then built an alcohol awareness workshop that they would take into 4 schools across Staffordshire, they presented their workshop to just over 450 students in years 8 & 9.You Can Do It youth project is a youth organisation that offers high schools across the country, two day workshops for a whole year group from year 8 to 9. The workshops are aimed at these groups of young people to raise awareness of issues that affect them, issues such as excessive drink and drug abuse. We have also run a number of music events where we were able to educate the young people that attended, and were supported by ITV fixers for our last event. Show less

Event CoordinatorI started this post as an event coordinator, where I was asked to organise an event that would highlight the achievement of those in the city who had raised awareness of the diversity of the city. I achieved this by training 30 young people and had them run an event for four years. This event was called the BME Awards, and was used as a standard of good practice for future events in the city, with the city council duplicating our event structure for their Citizenship Awards… Show more Event CoordinatorI started this post as an event coordinator, where I was asked to organise an event that would highlight the achievement of those in the city who had raised awareness of the diversity of the city. I achieved this by training 30 young people and had them run an event for four years. This event was called the BME Awards, and was used as a standard of good practice for future events in the city, with the city council duplicating our event structure for their Citizenship Awards events.Promoted to Community Engagement OfficerIn this post I was given a free rain to continue what I had started, while building new contacts within the city and region, now I would work with the following:• BME Awards Young People Steering Group• Schools • Colleges• Youth Clubs• LEA• City Learning Centres• Artists• Local Businesses• City Council• The Elected Mayors Office• Local Authorities• The Arts Council of West MidlandsI worked with the above groups becoming a link between them all, and showing them how they could raise awareness of the diversity that we have within the city through the activities that they would present. Now they would start to see how important it is that we work together, supporting each other for a greater good. Local businesses working with artists and schools and all of this brought together through a number of events across the city and region.Through the Stoke on Trent carnival and its committee we working to build an event in July 2003 to bring together the community on a family filled fun day. The success of the event in its first year, and through the coming together of a large number of organisations they we able to have over 5000 visitors in its second year and over 7500 visitors in the third year.I have also been the arts consultant for the Stafford carnival and provide artist training for this event for the three years. Show less

Perpetual Beauty Carnival Association (PBCA) is a charitable organisation set-up in 1979 by three families, who wanted to make Mas for Notting Hill and other Carnivals around the UK and Europe. From 1989 - 1992, I was a member of the management committee that set-up the new goal for the organisation. Our goal was to build the first Carnival College in the world. This was set-up in 1991 offering GNVQs in Art and Design. At the same time I set-up the Mobile Carnival Arts Education… Show more Perpetual Beauty Carnival Association (PBCA) is a charitable organisation set-up in 1979 by three families, who wanted to make Mas for Notting Hill and other Carnivals around the UK and Europe. From 1989 - 1992, I was a member of the management committee that set-up the new goal for the organisation. Our goal was to build the first Carnival College in the world. This was set-up in 1991 offering GNVQs in Art and Design. At the same time I set-up the Mobile Carnival Arts Education Resource (MCAER), I set this up to cover the gap left by the college, the MCAER worked mainly in schools, colleges, youth clubs and housing estates, with children of all ages and adults. To do this I had to find the funding and clients, market and publicise the project. I then constructed a workshop programme that worked within the National Curriculum and in 1998 NVQ’s and GNVQ’s. Trained staff to enable them to provide the service that would best promote our company. Within 5 years I was able to build the project to the point where it would bring in over £280,000 per year.Over the ten years of the Mobile, I employed around thirty members of staff, mainly carnival practitioners, degree art and design students and advanced level GNVQ and NVQ students from our college. I also dealt with office and staff administration, writing funding applications, service level agreements, event management, budgeting and updating the programme. I would meet with funding bodies, schools, colleges and fundraising through the private sector. After receiving a marketing grant from the London Arts Board I made a number of changes in the mobile the most noticeable being the name changing to The Mobile Arts Service (this is MAS). 

I was recruited to the post of Executive Director of PBCA in 1997, the task ahead of me was to build an even more structured managerial, financial base, raise the profile and attend more events, which I would manage. It would take me three years to achieve these goals. Show less