circulation edition oats newsletter august sept 2015 1st
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Jims Donated Mini bus gets a ‘REAL’ makeover
August/Sept 2015 O.A.T.S. Charity 1159722 Oakdale Arts & Training Spaces
Good and long term Collaborations are the way forward Charity Reg No
1159722
Supporting, Associated
or Collaborating with
We are always
looking for good
partners this could
be your logo space
“ I would maintain
that thanks are the
highest form of
thought, and that
gratitude is happi-
ness doubled by
wonder.”
G.K. Chesterton
Students from the REAL projects step in to help the Disabled Soldiers Projects
What’s really great is. Staff and Students gave a lot
of their own holiday time to help us. (Bless em…)
The minibus affectionately called ‘Big-bertha’ is used
mostly for fund raising and assisting other community
projects seen here at Calais and with newly fitted Ladder
and coat off paint. Following a quick recce of several Ski-
facilities & other sporting activities. Amongst other duties
she completed a 5,000 kilometre 7 country trip safely and
faultlessly...we say thanks mainly to the students efforts.
Bertha has seating reduced from 15 to 8
passengers, in order to also transport the
Dog Cages as part of the next phase of the
disabled Soldier project. To train dogs for
disabled and for comfort and companion
dogs for terminally ill children amongst
others. She also transports volunteers
especially the markets teams for fundrais-
ing. The bus donated by our projects
manager but we are next looking to raise
funds for a wheelchair adapted Mini bus.
THANK
YOU
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O.A.T.S. Charity
“No one is
useless in
this world
who lightens
the burdens
of another.”
― Charles
Dickens
OATS We are first and foremost a
COMMUNITY TRAINING PROVIDER (Not for profit)
‘Workless not useless’
Help us to help them
We are still actively seeking collaborations, Funding, volun-
teers and new team members, with skill sets in Mentoring,
Assessing, Quality assuring and motivating those furthest
from employability...
We need more fam-
ily volunteers and
trainers
National Growth programme updates Please find below the links to the National Growth programme up-dates. If you haven’t already done so we recommend that you subscribe to these essential ESIF ERDF programme bulletins. Follow this link to register for updates from the National Growth pro-gramme: http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?
Remember this above? OATS paid for the setting up and running of
several Coffee Barista training courses as part of its employability projects and lat-
er helped youngsters from CATCH 22 Charity amongst others...some now employed
by well known coffee houses. Others we arranged local work experience slots.
It’s a moderate skill level training but with ample employment opportunities and
self employment possibilities locally and regionally. So don't worry about exam
grades or previous experience. Just enthusiasm and a steady hand and some basic
ability to follow a few hygiene and H&S rules and so was a great course for helping
particularly certain disadvantaged youngsters to get a start in their working lives.
JOB
CLUB
JOE
New Collaboration. Having met with and benefitted from the excellent work being done by the team at REAL’s new project
premises in Nottingham, OATS are pooling their employability skill sets with REAL’s education expertise and services, to offer
a complete long term and wrap around service for, in particular, those with multiple and complex needs and a variety of
socially disadvantaged backgrounds. This of course will be tempered with an excellent training capacity for all levels to move
closer or into sustainable employment…Languages/Social skills/Work Experience/Counselling etc a type of one stop shop.
Excuse the “speak” but the third sector can do that to ones brain! In its simplest form, we are here to help improve anyone’s
employment or education that need help, or maybe just boost their confidence in their job search or educational require-
ments due to being excluded. That starts with REAL mostly 14 -25 year olds and OATS up to 50+ ….SIMPLE !
The plan is to make OATS community Job club model dovetail perfectly with REAL’s own drop-in and community informal
approach. Once engaged, members will actively participate in planning their own learning and employment goals. This with a
mix of skilled tutors being parachuted in, where required and support from trained volunteers/Mentors/life coaches and
signposted to other organisations that can really help them as “individuals”. Not just ’bang them on a funded course’ that
ticks some boxes, mostly for the bums on seats syndrome ONLY to earn money. YES we need access to your and our funding
streams to provide such an individual level of help and training. We need partnerships and co-operation.... WE CARE...why
not join us or help us, to help them? Interested in co-operating or helping or us helping your own projects ... Contact us on
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O.A.T.S. Charity
Remember Brave Joe’s story
(earlier Newsletter)
We have some spare training capacity regionally...Maybe we could help you with your own projects?
We also have experience of writing BTECS up to level 5 and designing bespoke courses...recruiting stu-
dents and mobile road shows delivering ‘day in the life off’ and ‘suck it and see’ special employment
focused events and training.
Does anybody know ? Who rents or leases the building
on King Edward Park Carlton Rd ??? I’ve rung and emailed
the numbers displayed (unobtainable) ‘NECTA’
I’ve asked NCC...still waiting an answer? It’s starting to
deteriorate, yet just this week some one strimmed the
grass? If its you, or you know who it is, please email me.
We are simply looking for a suitable venue for one of
our projects and this one is empty and unused.
2nd time of asking...somebody must know??
Nottingham City Council’s charter??
Not even the decency to reply??
So following on from the successful Barista basic employability training . We are looking for funding, or collaborations to set up
another great Employability course. Aimed at the disadvantaged and again the main skill set requirements are just loads of
enthusiasm and a good eye for shapes. The progression and initial job prospects are equally good. From a basic level of key
cutting you could progress to programing the latest digital Car keys and
using Laser cut machines, to maybe even, full locksmith or self em-
ployed… We have one of the countries largest Key manufacturers help-
ing and supporting us and we will combine this with our wounded Sol-
diers project to boost their funds.
So an excellent double whammy on the social benefits for this course.
It’s a great course for the Ladies too and can generate an income for
part time work for women returners, or single mums.
Contact Jim on : [email protected]
KEY CUTTING
employability training
http://jobs.thirdsector.co.uk/jobs/east-
midlands-region/
http://jobs.theguardian.com/jobs/
charities/east-midlands-region/
Looking for a Student or competent volunteer to help
launch a National fundraising (huge) annual charity event.
Several commercial concerns on board already to offer their
support with over 2000 commercial outlets a software com-
pany and a great cause (disabled soldiers and terminally ill
children). Future salaried position once fund established.
Entrepreneurial, enthusiastic and reliable? Want to progress
in the third sector and campaign organising?
If you are a College, a project, an employer, a private training provider, a LEAD on ESIF
or other funding disbursement panels….DO YOU NEED BUMS ON SEATS??? We have
a whole community of needy and disadvantaged, here just waiting to meet you and
enrol or join in…. ( subject to obvious safeguarding and due diligence issues )
We have a mobile recruiting capacity to boost your numbers and help you engage with
our community at street level. We also have facilities and spare training capacity….we
are looking for partnerships with Organisations or even small SE’s right across the City
and county wide.
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Outrage as charity bosses pocket six-figure
salaries from generous public donations
DOZENS of charity bosses are pocketing six-figure salaries funded by public donations, it has
been revealed.
Nine executives at Cancer Research UK earn more than the Prime Minister, including chief executive Harpal Kumar, who
pockets up to £240,000 a year.
Kumar, 50, lives in a luxury £1.6m home in north-west London and does not have a mortgage.
Peter Wanless, CEO of the NSPCC, earns a staggering £162,000 per year – £40,000 more than his predecessor Andrew
Flanagan.
Last year he pictured sipping champagne, and boasted on Facebook: "This was taken while I was 'working' on a visit to
Jersey."
The NSPCC was among the charities that asked Olive Cooke, 92, for money before she killed herself last month.
Cooke, a poppy seller, was inundated with requests from charities she felt were "taking advantage" of her generosity.
The mother-of-three was struggling with her finances after being diagnosed with cancer.
A spokesman for the NSPCC said: "We have thousands of long-term supporters, who are committed to helping end child
abuse, of which Olive Cooke was one."
Other high earners include Amnesty International's Salil Shetty, who pockets a salary of up to £210,000, and Tom Wright
of Age UK, who earns up to £190,000 a year.
Sexual health charity Marie Stopes did not disclose boss Simon Cooke's wage, but his predecessor earned £263,000.
Cancer Research UK's chairman, Michael Pragnell, defended its salaries, saying: "For every £1 donated, 80p is available to
beat cancer."
SHOULD CHARITY BOSSES BE PAID LESS? YES / NO
Well as a relative new comer to the world of Charities I’m a bit of a working class lad at heart and I had a foot in two camps of
thought on this issue. On the one hand, if I was approached by an individual who said he could take us up to a National and
multi million pound organisation and then ‘WHEN’ successful he would want a Salary of £xxxxxx I would say provided done
ethically … “Sure why not”. (Half of nowt is nowt. As they say in Yorkshire)
Equally, when donating to good causes it does offend me to think there’s an organisation with many, many, volunteers with
various skill sets from say Lawyers to single parents on benefits, giving their cash and or time. Whilst upstream there are others
taking, not a decent salary for some very hard work and extremely dedicated work … but a Repugnant amount for mostly being
a chairperson or trophy named leader? I like to know my donation is mostly going to the needy end users and benefactors.
My third position is a sad but revised one...Charities need to be successful profitable businesses with a sustainable model. They
should or could ‘use’ (but never abuse) volunteers and goodwill. They should pay for talent, but not at levels the corrupt
banking and financial sectors became infamous for. What’s your view? Jim Vernon (Snr) projects manager (Unpaid Volunteer)
Ex-soldier and daughter, 12, found living in grave-yard A FORMER soldier and his 12-year-old daughter had to resort to sleeping rough in a tomb
in Scotland’s most famous cemetery, exposing the often desperate plight of those leaving the
forces. (The former officer in the Kings Own Scottish Borderers (KOSB), who fought in Operation Desert Storm
in 1991 and served several tours of duty in Northern Ireland, now has a flat and has his life back on track.)