• Details of the next Fife Employability Forum - 25 May including how to book;
• FEAT are offering Free NIDMAR training - an opportunity not to be missed for staff working with clients with health issues or disabilities;
• West Fife Enterprise are recruiting a new General Manager;
• Skills Development Scotland are hosting a new oil and gas transition training fund for people affected by job loss in the industry. 
• Employ with Confidence - 30 June - will be the launch of the Disability Confident Campaign in Scotland and open marketplace - remember although we work hard to get people into work and engage with employers, your organisations are employers in their own right so come along to find out more. 
• Where the work is - this new website shows gaps between skills needed by employers in Scotland and the qualifications of those looking for work. 

All the best,

Christine Davison

Project Support Officer

Rural Walk and Talk Event - Cambo Stables Restoration Project
 

Date: Wednesday, 18 May 2016

Time: 10.00am - 12.00pm

Venue: Cambo Estate, Kingsbarns, St Andrews, Fife,  KY16 8QD

Cost: Free

Rural Skills Scotland, in partnership with Cambo Heritage Trust, invites you to attend this knowledge transfer and information event aimed at landowners, property managers and built heritage professionals.

This unique event will allow interested parties to come together in an informal setting to meet, network and learn from each other in a practical way.

Date: Thursday 02 June 2016 

Time: 9.45am-1.00pm

Venue: The Melting Pot, 5 Rose Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2PR

This free half-day SURF Awards workshop event in Edinburgh provides an opportunity to explore successful current approaches towards inventive methods within employability initiatives. The winning and highly commended projects from the 'Employability' category highlighted in the 2015 SURF Awards process will provide comment on their experiences and transferable learning.

Lead Scotland host fifth national conference

Lead Scotland was set up to widen access to learning for disabled young people and adults and carers across Scotland. They are hosting their fifth national conference, 'Are We There Yet?'.

Date: Thursday 09 June 2016

Time: 9.30am - 3.30pm

Venue: Perth College UHI

The conference aims to bring together a diverse range of partners to meet new and emerging challenges, develop important networks, showcase new technologies and share examples of effective strategies, partnerships and programmes to improve life long and life wide learning journeys for disabled people.

Employ with Confidence

Date: Thursday 30 June 2016

Time: 9.30am to 1.00pm

Venue: The Vine Conference Centre, Dunfermline

Shaw Trust Scotland and Opportunities Fife Partnership invite you or a representative from your organisation to 'Employ with Confidence':

Come along to find out what support is available for your organisation. 

Free NIDMAR Training - not to be missed!

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Introduction to Care

Date: Wednesday 18 May 2016

Venue:  Crosshill Business Centre, Crosshill, KY5 8BJ

Fife Works 'Introduction to Care' course offers an overview of working in the care industry, along with a range of training and support. For more information click the title link. 

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Security Course - The Princes Trust

The Princes Trust are running a Get Into Security Course:

Start Date: Monday 23 May 2016

Duration: Five weeks

Celebration Event Date: Friday 24 June 2016

Course locations: The Edinburgh Centre and Southside Social in Buccleuch Street, Edinburgh

Age Limit: 18-25 

Once qualified young people can work as Door Supervisors, CCTV Operators, Events staff, Retail Security or Manned Guarding. No experience required. Click on the link for criteria for participation. 

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Community Learning and Development Courses

Fife Council are running two courses:

Sew Happy, Kirkcaldy East Local Office, 2 Park Road - This 12 week course will introduce participants to a range of sewing skills - running until 01 July 2016.

Building bridges, Kirkcaldy East Local Office, 2 Park Road - Improve your confidence and core skills, set new goals, take up new challenges, and have fun - running until 21 June 2016.

Both of these courses will run again after the end date. 

Our Bright Future 

• Enable young people in Fife to gain new skills relevant to finding jobs, training, volunteer opportunities or starting entrepreneurial projects that contribute to the green economy and,
• Achieve a net gain in the built and natural environment across the rural and urban settings of Fife

Focus on Financial Inclusion

Debt and poor financial skills can often be a key barrier to people making the step off benefits and into work.

In Fife we are lucky to have the specialist services of CARF who provide one-to-one advice to help people deal with any problems. In addition to this support CARF can also offer FREE financial inclusion training for frontline staff and clients which is tailored to your organisations needs. To find out more contact Audrey Cunningham . 

Money Advice Scotland are also offering free training to groups of frontline staff and have an online financial skills tool for clients. To find out more contact: [email protected]. 

Finally if you have an idea for a financial inclusion project you would like to develop then Bank of Scotland have relaunched their grants programme on this theme.