We can now offer support to any adult who is considering looking at new directions incluidng looking at qualifications or advice about work. We can offer a one-off session looking at where you want to go next, and ideas for making progress towards your goals. And if you're currently out of the workforce and looking for work, we can offer you extra sessions to support you finding work and keeping it!

Download a leaflet here or contact Andrea - andreap@nnwn.org or 01668 219879

Women’s Winter School December 2008
                   

This year NNWN’s winter activity week has been based on trading using our NETS scheme, which has enabled us to run a range of creative and personal development workshops without costing anything to the participants! For more infomation about the NETS scheme, have alook at the NETS page on this website.

The week included a writing workshop, a personal development day, sketching, sea glass jewelry and making christmas wreaths, and a networking day for organisations working with women in Northumberland. The notes of the day wil be downloadable shortly

Join the LINk - Local Involvement Network

There is an opportunity to get involved in a new network, which exists to enable ordinary eople and groups to have a say about health and social are issues. The LIINk has legal powers to investigate services where improvements could be made so it has real teeth as long as people get involved and use them. The LINk will meet regularly in three areas of the county, and in North Northumberland, there will be workshops and information displays in each market town during December and January. More information about the LINk is on the website www.northumberlandlink.org.uk and you can download a membership form from there or here>>>

If you have any health or social care issues you would like to raise please feel free to ring Julia on 07775 827544 for an initial conversation.

Moving On Up programme - feedback survey

NNWN has been running the Moving On Up programme for the last 18 months,  encouraging women who are facng change or other challenges to set some goals for themselves and take steps towards achieving them. The programme has offered mentoring, support and learning opportunities to over 100 women. As the programme draws to an end, we are evaluating Moving On Up to help NNWN to review how best to continue the mentoring and befriending work and to continue to offer opportunities to learn and progress. 

If you have been involved in the programme, either as a participant or a partner, trainer, referral organisation or funder, we would like to hear from you! Please follow this link to our brief online survey which should take no more than five minutes to complete.

Here to take survey

Fourth Action AGM

The Annual General Meeting of Fourth Action took place on 15th July, at the Bailiffgate Museum, Alnwick.

It is three years since Fourth Action became a company limited by guarantee in order to expand its scope to work with a ramge of people in the community, and to 'promote equality with communities.'

The evening was a chance to recognise the many achievements of everyone who has taken part in new learning this year, to hear about some people's personal journeys, and to help plan new directions and projects for the coming year. Fourth Action also recruited some new directors, Annie Bromwich Alexandra, and Pummi Mattu. After their first Baord meeting next week we will share some more information about them and other Baord members, and some photos of all our amazing 'graduates.' 

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Women's Workshop in 2009!

We are continuing to run self build activities between now and December 2009. Please contact Hala if you are interested in getting involved - hala@nnwn.org  or phone 07708064656

A Woman's Place

Visit the new section on the website from the link at the top, to find out more about our international project, which is about exploring women's role in rural development, using networking and training to learn from each other.