Artsplan, the training and publications arm of Artswork, the national youth arts development agency, is pleased to be delivering the one day course ‘Using the Arts with Juvenile and Young Offenders’ at the North East Artsplan Training Centre- BALTIC, a contemporary gallery, housed in one of Gateshead’s landmark industrial buildings. The ‘Using the Arts with juvenile and young offenders’ training course provides an overview of delivering the arts to young people known to the criminal justice system, including those within the community and those within the secure estate. Participants will examine the issues that need to be considered when planning a project with juvenile and young offenders, highlighting the practical and safety issues associated with working in a secure unit, including appropriate behavior, security and CRB legislation guidelines. The course will identify the skills needed to successfully implement an arts based project with these young people and understand the importance of good partnerships with prison education staff and youth offending teams. A professional trainer with specialist experience in using the arts with juvenile and young offenders will be delivering the course. Artswork provides continual support towards the professional development of each trainer, guaranteeing courses remain relevant and informative, enabling us …

How to be a Social Entrepreneur, make money and change the world… Do you want to: • Start a social business? • Grow your business and make a contribution? • Position you and your company as a leader in social enterprise? Then book your place and attend this unique seminar by Michael Norton. Topics to be discussed: • Social entrepreneurship: what it is and qualities you need to succeed • Starting small as an “Everyday Activist” • Having a “big idea” and how to take it forward • How to fund your “big idea” • “World domination”, your ultimate goal – how your good idea can spread all around the world • Tools for “World domination” marketing • What’s your big issue… and what to do next • Stories of successful social entrepreneurs and how they made it to the top This is your chance to learn how you can set up an ethical business, change the world you live in, and make great profit all at once with a social enterprise. Michael Norton has created several highly successful socially progressive programmes. He is also a Trustee of The Global Ideas Bank. Michael has written The Complete Fundraising Handbook and …

What is JCI London? JCI London is a personal development and networking organisation for young professionals in their twenties and thirties. We are part of a global organisation called Junior Chamber International (JCI) which has over 250,000 members in 100 different countries and territories all over the world. What is the JCI mission? “To contribute to the advancement of the global community by providing the opportunity for young people to develop the leadership skills, social responsibility, entrepreneurship and fellowship necessary to create positive change”. How do we achieve this? Via high class events in the five “areas of opportunity”: business, training, community, international and social. Who are our members? Our diverse membership mix includes representatives from finance/banking, law, medicine/health, marketing, education, business, consultants, engineering, architects, surveyors and entrepreneurs. JCI London is a voluntary out-of-hours organisation, therefore you will find that the people you meet share a common passion and ambition to challenge and develop themselves in order to realise their maximum potential. What are the benefits for me? If you ask our members what they have got out of their membership of JCI London you will probably get several different answers. Just some of the opportunities JCI London provides include: …