'Creating an offer for young people in Lewisham '

Voluntary Action Lewisham's next Children and Young People's Forum will be taking place on
Monday 28th February, 1.30-5pm at the
Executive Suite of Millwall Football Club
The Den, Zampa Road, London, SE16 3LN.

Please click on the link below for a map showing the location:

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=535416&y=178214&z=0&sv=SE16+3LN&st=...

Warwick Tomsett (Head of Commissioning) and Christine Grice (Head of Access and Support) will be giving an update on funding from Lewisham’s CYP Directorate following the Spending Review settlement, as well as Sandra Jones (Head of the Community Sector Unit) on opportunities to apply to Lewisham’s new grants programme. We will also be hearing from the Challenge on the rolling out the National Citizenship Service in Lewisham and the London Consortium for Learning on opportunities and support for the VCS to offer apprenticeships. Finally there will advice from UNISON’s Community & Voluntary Organisations Branch on the benefits of joining a Trade Union.

There will also be 3 workshops on the day that will discuss these themes in more detail as well as an opportunity to discuss how to support Lewisham's Child Poverty reduction strategy.

Please click on the links at the bottom of the page for a copy of the agenda and the notes from the previous CYP Forum

If you wish to book a place then please contact me, Jonathan Slater, VAL's Strategic Development Officer for Children and Young People by

• emailing me at jonathan@valewisham.org.uk
• or registering online

I look forward to seeing you there

Jonathan