Thursday, 31 October 2024

Book Your Advert in Our 2025 Equality & Diversity Wall Planner

Book Your Advert in Our 2025 Equality & Diversity Wall Planner

Limited spaces are available!

The artwork deadline is Monday, 18 November 2024

Positive Action in Housing is now accepting bookings for year-round advertising in our popular and vibrant Giant Diversity Wall Planner.

We're offering a full-colour H70mm x W90mm advert at a reduced rate of £195 (Zero VAT).


Benefits of Advertising:

  • Year-Round Exposure: Showcase your brand all year and demonstrate a commitment to equality and diversity.

  • Comprehensive Planning Tool: The Planner includes UN World Days, major faith dates, and public holidays.

  • Eye-Catching Design: A bright, colourful resource that's both practical and visually appealing.

  • Complimentary Copies: Let us know how many you'd like!


We will distribute 1,000 planners across Scotland to our members, supporters, volunteers, Scottish Registered Social Landlords, NGOs, organisations supporting BME, refugee, and migrant communities, voluntary organisations, faith groups, public bodies, and more.


Support a Worthy Cause:

All profits go directly to our Emergency Relief Fund, which aids refugee and asylum-seeking families at risk of poverty and hunger. The Fund provides essential items such as food, clothing, and travel vouchers, assistance with digital technology, as well as temporary shelter with volunteer hosts. Your support helps families rebuild their lives.


How to Book:

To reserve your advert, simply reply to this email and include relevant contacts for invoicing and artwork. We'll then follow up.


We aim to post the finished planners in early December so they are ready to use from January 2025.


We look forward to your participation.

With best wishes,
Positive Action in Housing | Working together to rebuild lives
Registered Scottish Charity SC027577
Company Limited by Guarantee 158867
positiveactionh.org | roomforrefugees.com


2024 Annual Winter Refugee Crisis Appeal

2024 Winter Refugee Crisis Appeal

Raising vital funds to provide direct humanitarian relief to refugee families, children, lone women and men fleeing wars and persecution. By Positive Action in Housing - a refugee homelessness charity (SCO27577) based in Glasgow - with a Scotland-wide reach. Each year we assist, advise and represent over 4,000 families in need.

Bethlehem, Palestine

Donate via CAF, Internet banking, JustGiving or PaypalGiving


Calling members, supporters, faith groups, Iona Communities, Quaker societies, trade union branches, and educational establishments, to donate to our Scotland-wide Winter Refugee Crisis Appeal.


November 2024


Dear Friend,


I hope you are doing well.


As winter approaches, we urgently seek your support for Positive Action in Housing's Winter Refugee Crisis Appeal which aims to raise £25,000 by Christmas Day. This Appeal will provide emergency support from 1st December until February 28th, 2025.


Your donation will aid resettlement and provide critical support—food, warm clothing, bus travel and sim cards — to refugee and asylum-seeking families, individuals, and children, some surviving on as little as £1.20 per day.


The levels of destitution and insecure housing amongst people from refugee communities in Scotland has greatly increased -hence this intervention.


With many services closed or reduced over the festive season, your support will ensure we can provide emergency aid to people living in poverty, struggling with rising food and energy costs, and facing challenges just to heat their homes, feed their children, and stay digitally connected to essential contacts like schools, universities, lawyers, and GPs.


We are also distributing crisis support in Aberdeen, Perth, Erskine, Greenock, Paisley, Dundee and Edinburgh where people seeking asylum have been forcibly dispersed.


We will be actively supporting over 400 households from 43 countries, including Syria, Palestine, Afghanistan, Iran and Yemen. We will be assisting families with children, older people, the sick, new mothers, and unaccompanied young people from 43 countries of origin.


Any amount you donate will contribute to our collective impact, helping us deliver life-saving support where it is most needed. We appreciate monthly donations from £10 a month to sustain our direct emergency support throughout the year. Please consider sharing this appeal with colleagues, friends and family as well.


Thank you for standing with us to bring warmth, security, and hope to those who need it most.


Finally, here is a link to our latest annual impact report.


With best wishes and kind regards,


Robina Qureshi
Positive Action in Housing



(Image shown: Bethlehem, Palestine)

How to give:


Wednesday, 30 October 2024

Annual Winter Refugee Crisis Appeal

2024 Winter Refugee Crisis Appeal

Raising vital funds to provide direct humanitarian relief to refugee families, children, lone women and men fleeing wars and persecution. By Positive Action in Housing - a refugee homelessness charity (SCO27577) based in Glasgow - with a Scotland-wide reach. Each year we assist, advise and represent over 4,000 families in need.

Bethlehem, Palestine

Donate via CAF, Internet banking, JustGiving or PaypalGiving


Calling members, supporters, faith groups, Iona Communities, Quaker societies, trade union branches, and educational establishments, to donate to our Scotland-wide Winter Refugee Crisis Appeal.


November 2024


Dear Friend,


I hope you are doing well.


As winter approaches, we urgently seek your support for Positive Action in Housing's Winter Refugee Crisis Appeal which aims to raise £25,000 by Christmas Day. This Appeal will provide emergency support from 1st December until February 28th, 2025.


Your donation will aid resettlement and provide critical support—food, warm clothing, bus travel and sim cards — to refugee and asylum-seeking families, individuals, and children, some surviving on as little as £1.20 per day.


The levels of destitution and insecure housing amongst people from refugee communities in Scotland has greatly increased -hence this intervention.


With many services closed or reduced over the festive season, your support will ensure we can provide emergency aid to people living in poverty, struggling with rising food and energy costs, and facing challenges just to heat their homes, feed their children, and stay digitally connected to essential contacts like schools, universities, lawyers, and GPs.


We are also distributing crisis support in Aberdeen, Perth, Erskine, Greenock, Paisley, Dundee and Edinburgh where people seeking asylum have been forcibly dispersed.


We will be actively supporting over 400 households from 43 countries, including Syria, Palestine, Afghanistan, Iran and Yemen. We will be assisting families with children, older people, the sick, new mothers, and unaccompanied young people from 43 countries of origin.


Any amount you donate will contribute to our collective impact, helping us deliver life-saving support where it is most needed. We appreciate monthly donations from £10 a month to sustain our direct emergency support throughout the year. Please consider sharing this appeal with colleagues, friends and family as well.


Thank you for standing with us to bring warmth, security, and hope to those who need it most.


With best wishes and kind regards,


Robina Qureshi
Positive Action in Housing



(Image shown: Bethlehem, Palestine)

How to give:


Tuesday, 29 October 2024

Book Your Advert in Our 2025 Equality & Diversity Wall Planner

Book Your Advert in Our 2025 Equality & Diversity Wall Planner

Limited spaces are available!

The artwork deadline is Monday, 18 November 2024

Positive Action in Housing is now accepting bookings for year-round advertising in our popular and vibrant Giant Diversity Wall Planner.

We're offering a full-colour H70mm x W90mm advert at a reduced rate of £195 (Zero VAT).


Benefits of Advertising:

  • Year-Round Exposure: Showcase your brand all year and demonstrate a commitment to equality and diversity.

  • Comprehensive Planning Tool: The Planner includes UN World Days, major faith dates, and public holidays.

  • Eye-Catching Design: A bright, colourful resource that's both practical and visually appealing.

  • Complimentary Copies: Let us know how many you'd like!


We will distribute 1,000 planners across Scotland to our members, supporters, volunteers, Scottish Registered Social Landlords, NGOs, organisations supporting BME, refugee, and migrant communities, voluntary organisations, faith groups, public bodies, and more.


Support a Worthy Cause:

All profits go directly to our Emergency Relief Fund, which aids refugee and asylum-seeking families at risk of poverty and hunger. The Fund provides essential items such as food, clothing, and travel vouchers, assistance with digital technology, as well as temporary shelter with volunteer hosts. Your support helps families rebuild their lives.


How to Book:

To reserve your advert, simply reply to this email and include relevant contacts for invoicing and artwork. We'll then follow up.


We aim to post the finished planners in early December so they are ready to use from January 2025.


We look forward to your participation.

With best wishes,
Positive Action in Housing | Working together to rebuild lives
Registered Scottish Charity SC027577
Company Limited by Guarantee 158867
positiveactionh.org | roomforrefugees.com


Friday, 11 October 2024

Latest jobs bulletin | October 2024

Latest non-profit jobs
Publishing vacancies in the non-profit sector and targeting people from BME, refugee and migrant backgrounds, and those already working within the non-profit sector. To place an advert, send an email.  Reasonable advertising rates to a very diverse audience OF UP TO 56K subscribers. Sign up for mailings.
Here are some exciting new vacancies for someone with a positive outlook who enjoy a challenge and want to develop their skills. 



The Mental Health Foundation is recruiting for a Project Officer to support our exciting Art of Family Life project.

Deadline: 5pm on Friday 25th October 2024

Location: Glasgow

Salary: Starting salary £31.350 rising to £35,381 pro rata to 0.8 full time equivalent

Hours: Part-time, currently at 25.6 hours per week as part of our reduced week pilot. May revert to 28 hours per week from 1 April 2025

Contract type: This is a fixed term contract ending 31 December 2026. 

This exciting Project Officer role will coordinate the delivery of the 'Art of Family Life' project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. This role will take an innovative approach to bringing together heritage learning to positively impact on the wellbeing of people from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds living in Scotland. Key tasks of the role will include recruiting volunteers and sessional workers to support an oral history collection programme. This will be followed by a creative process to explore how the heritage of family life among families from refugee backgrounds can be curated and shared publicly.

What does the role involve?

  • Promoting the programme to a wide range of audiences including with refugee led community organisations
  • Coordinating with project partners and supporters including Oral History Centre at the University of Strathclyde, Common Ground at the Centre for Contemporary Arts and Glasgow Life and organising project events
  • Recruiting and supporting sessional workers volunteers to promote and engage project activities
  • Collect project impact data and support reporting to funder(s) on progress and finances 

Requirements
What skills, knowledge and experience are we looking for?

  • Good knowledge and understanding of volunteering
  • Experience of working within the heritage/cultural/community sector
  • Experience of developing and delivering events and activities
  • Experience of developing partnerships and maintaining relationships with external organisations

Safeguarding is Everyone's business – Mental Health Foundation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of all its beneficiaries, those who surround them, its staff, volunteers, and anyone else who comes into contact with its services and expects all trustees, staff, and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to appropriate vetting procedures (proof of eligibility to work in the UK, proof of residency and satisfactory employment screening, including a Disclosure check and two most recent references) along with 3-year renewals of Disclosure checks. We are unable to provide sponsorship for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK.

Other information: How to apply

If you think your skills match and you'd like to be part of a dynamic and growing organisation, please complete and submit your application here. Please ensure you attach an up-to-date CV and statement of suitability answering all points of the persons specification. Applications will close at 5 p.m. on 25 October 2024, and we are unable to accept late applications. Interviews are planned for 19 November 2024.

We believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with. Diversity and inclusion is a strategic priority for us as an employer and mental health charity, and we are proud to be signatories of the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter and the Disability Confident Committed Scheme. Applications from under-represented sections of the community are actively encouraged.

If you have a disability, require any additional support or have any questions regarding the role, please contact us at vacancies@mentalhealth.org.uk. We make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and during employment.Disabled candidates who meet all the essential person specification criteria will be offered an interview.Therefore, please do ensure you tick the relevant box on the application form and clearly indicate in your application/covering letter if you consider yourself to meet the requirements of the Equality Act 2010 / Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

We are currently operating mostly digital recruitment (including interviews via video conferencing). We have moved to a hybrid working model of a minimum of 2 days per week in the office and the rest working from home.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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Positive Action in Housing is an independent, anti-racist homelessness and human rights charity (SC027577) dedicated to supporting women, children and men from refugee and migrant backgrounds to rebuild their lives. We believe in a society where everyone has the right to live safe and dignified lives, free from poverty, homelessness, or inequality.
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