
Call to tune into student radio BBC fast tracks senior managers Interview: Take cover, it’s “the comedy assassin” Not a laughing matter Government’s £3m ethnic agency account re-think ALICIA – musician on a mission Bhoothnath gets launched across social networking sites Zee Cine awards make a splash in London Rainbow Film Festival Summer of fun at the Drum, Birmingham Bollywood dance championships heat up Feb 2008 Archive Feb 2008 Archive Futures: What skills and attributes do employers want? Futures: A lucky break West Midlands Fire Service: Everyday hero Essex County Fire & Rescue Profiles	Help for “vulnerable working students” Ray Lewis – New kid on the block Dianne Abbott Bend it like Birmingham Dismissed staff could soon be blacklisted Student designs computer game for the blind Building a diverse workforce Faith in church networks Banking on success Making it in Law Feb 2008 News Feb 2008 Archive May 1st 2008: Use your Mayor’s Vote and defeat the far right New research into the bullying of lecturers Fresh blood needed Energy price rise hits students hard Scotland moves forward on hate crime Livingstone surveys issues affecting Muslim students Awards aim to be the Asian MOBOs Bollywood heartthrob joins hall of fame

Learning to change the world

Oxfam Training Opportunity - Community Change

IN 2007 Oxfam trialed its “Community Change” programme, an intensive training course for budding campaigners. The programmes aims are to give participants the confidence, skills and knowledge to campaign with Oxfam in their communities. “Community Change” helped to develop new networks of campaigners, in addition to existing activists and Groups.

Oxfam would like to replicate and expand its programme in 2008.

“Community Change” is an all expenses paid, 3-day training course which will equip participants with everything they need to know to make an impact in the fight against poverty and suffering, including how to work with the media, campaign planning and political lobbying skills.

“We must be
the change we
wish to see in
the world”
Mahatma Ghandi ”

This year the course will take place in London, 14 - 16 March. The course is open to people of all ages (minimum 18) and from all backgrounds.

What do Oxfam ask in return? Only for you to put these new skills and knowledge to good use in your own community. At the end of the course, everyone will draw up an individual 6-month action plan, setting out how they will link up with others and promote Oxfam’s campaigns in their community.

If you relish a challenge and you have the time and energy to commit to the course and the 6-month programme, or if you know someone else who would, Oxfam would like to hear from you.

To find out more and to receive your application pack, contact Michelle Vilk at MVilk@oxfam.org.uk in the Activist Team or call on 01865 473139.

Alternatively visit www.oxfam.org.uk/changeminds.
Hurry, spaces are limited and the deadline for applications is approaching fast!

Money making online

Social networking sites are increasingly being used to make money for users, a report by The Future Laboratory says. Young people are turning to websites such as MySpace to discover new bands or artists and even start up businesses. Nearly half (45 per cent) of 18 to 24-year-olds questioned for the report preferred to spend a spare 15 minutes on social networking sites rather than watching TV, reading, talking on the phone or playing video games. The survey showed that 14 per cent of users had already made money from social networking sites. Selling limited edition T-shirts, artwork, jewellery and organising club nights were all ways of earning cash. Looking for romance and finding friendship were named as other uses for the sites. “This networked generation are using these sites to explore new levels of creativity and develop new ways of doing business online,” the report says.