STAFF news

Community Development

To kick start the summer holidays, Denton Youth Club for 11-16

year olds (every Friday evening 7-9pm) hosted a specialist

graffiti art workshop. Young people learned about the history of

street art and how to respect the illustrative culture.

The decision has been made to increase nursery fees at Denton

Island Nursery by 15p per hour. This is the first increase in four

years.

August 2015

HR News

Welcome to:

Dean Ridley, Development

Worker, Health & Well-being;

Andrea Bonnin, Kitchen

Assistant, Phoenix Centre, Care

& Support; Alice Matthews,

Project Development Officer,

Community Development

Hailsham; Mosunmola

Animusuan, Project Assistant,

Advice & Inclusion; Alison

Jeffery, Cook, Isabel Blackman

Centre, Care & Support

Farewell to:

Helen Pierpoint, Nursery; Lucy

Roberts, Advice Services;

Glynis Boucher, Volunteer Co-

ordinator; Nicky Woollard,

Welfare Reform; Laura Mustoe,

Centre Assistant

Promotions / New Roles:

Ian Kedge to Senior

Development Worker

Congratulations! Jack Cox,

Employability, on the birth of his

gorgeous baby Eli.

Care & Support

Carleton Astley, Centre Manager reports a busy first few weeks

with hard work paying off as interest grows in what is on offer at

Isabel Blackman Centre, Hastings and Charter Centre, Bexhill.

The ‘All Sorts Singers’ came to visit IBC on the 14th August.

The singers are aged between 64 and 91, the group sings at

centres like ours and were very well received.

Working with Hastings and St Leonards Dementia Action

Alliance, IBC is becoming a Dementia Haven or Hub. For more

information contact Carleton.astley@sussexcommunity.org.uk or

call Carleton on 01424 446428.

Lucy and Kay have been in

Lewes every Wednesday after

being asked by Malling and

Landport resident

associations to provide

activities for families in both

areas including sports, arts

and crafts, food making,

treasure hunts and loads

more!

News items, comments and feedback to Lynda Clements Lynda @sussexcommunity.org.uk

Health & Well-being

Sue Starnes and Sharon Blight delivered a ‘Working with Suicidal Clients’ workshop last

Saturday 22nd August at Denton Island Community Centre. The workshop was attended by 10

people and was very well received, one attendee described it as ‘very valuable’. There has

been a lot of interest in this training so they will be arranging another workshop soon.

Most of the Healthy Lifestyles team attended the Newhaven Summer Sizzler event at Fort

Road Recreation Ground on Saturday 1st August. This community event was organised by the

Healthy Newhaven partnership to promote all aspects of health and well-being in the

town. Approximately 1200 people attended the event which offered a selection of health and

well-being, food & drink and community group stalls, live music, dance displays, sports activities

and lots more. The event was a great success and plans are to hold a similar one next year.

Advice & Inclusion

Employability

Employability would like to offer all SCDA service users the opportunity to access the National Careers Service (NCS). Potentially all SCDA clients could be accessing advice to help them plan for the future, assess their skills, match skills to opportunities, find learning or training, support to find work including CV’s, application forms and interviews. We have a number of qualified Careers Advisors who can meet your clients one to one at various locations throughout the Lewes District. The service is free, confidential and impartial and would fully complement and add value to the service you already offer your clients. Please contact Zara on 01273 516347 for further details.

Staff Profile

‘I’m Matt Davey, an Employability Client Advisor based at our offices in

Eastbourne. I work with prime contractor G4S and deliver advice and

guidance to long term unemployed individuals. I’m one of two full time

client advisors out of a team of nine in Eastbourne and regularly work

outreach in Hailsham. Outside of work I’m a youth worker, football

player/manager, manager of my son’s U13 side and vice chairman of

Sedlescombe Rangers, I’m a skateboarder of 25 years and run an

annual skate competition for Red Bull called the Battle of Hastings!’

Huge congratulations to Ryan Thorpe-Putland (photo right), who has

an apprenticeship with INTERFACE Sheet Metal Paint & Powder Ltd.

Ryan will be studying a City & Guilds Level 3 in Engineering at

Sussex Central College and has been working on site with INTERFACE

for the past 6 weeks. He has been rewarded with a certificate and £50

voucher from the Youth Employability Team. See our Facebook page

for more details: www.facebook.com/SCDAEmployability4Youth

Sompriti recently delivered diversity training to Environmental

Health, Housing and Council Tax officers from Wealden District

Council. The training focused on working with diverse

communities and looked at terminology, challenging

perceptions and understanding barriers and how to overcome

these. Attendees said the training helped them become more

knowledgeable around strategies to support diverse

communities to access services.