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Engage Update - 19 August
SMiSA are the majority owners of St Mirren Football Club. St Mirren are our club and it’s place at the heart of the local community is precious to us.
SMiSA have purchased 20 season tickets for the 2024/2025 campaign and for home games will offer these out to charities and community groups in Renfrewshire and beyond. Our aim is to give as many people who for various reasons cannot get along to support St Mirren the chance.
This will be the sixth season we have ran this venture and so far we have allowed over 1200 Renfrewshire residents the opportunity to support the Buddies.
Apply here - https://www.smisa.net/community-season-tickets
Surf Awards 2024
3 weeks left to apply!
The SURF Awards are widely recognised as the most prestigious in the field of Scottish community regeneration.
This year the 5 categories are:
- Community Led Regeneration
- Removing Barriers to Employability
- Improving Scotland's Places
- Housing and Regeneration
- Creative Regeneration
The SURF Awards are delivered each year by SURF, a regeneration forum with over 300 cross-sector member organisations across Scotland, in partnership with the Scottish Government.
The purpose is to highlight, celebrate and share the achievements of initiatives that address physical, social and economic challenges in communities across Scotland.
So if you know of or work with a great project or you think the area that you live/work in is worthy of an Award then get applying! It is a straightforward application form!
Feel free to share with those you think might be interested. Alternatively, you can nominate a project by completing an application form on their behalf as a nominating party.
Read the full press release HERE
Information and application materials are available on the SURF website at: https://surf.scot/surf-awards/surf-awards-2024/ Please download and read the Information Paper which contains the criteria.
For queries please contact Emma Scott on emma@surf.scot
The Wise Group Recruitment Event
The Wise Group in partnership with DWP will be hosting a recruitment event at “Platform” (formerly the Arches), 253 Argyle Street Glasgow G2 8DL on Wednesday 21 August, 10am-1.30pm.
Subject to change we’ve had commitment from 60 organisations who are national/global brands that either have high volume recruitment needs/recruitment needs across multiple local authority areas.
The purpose of the event is to bridge the gap between employers who are recruiting and candidates who are looking for sustainable employment. The event has been put onto the radar of our colleagues within the employability sector, across eleven local authority areas as well as social media channels, with the intention that employers will have the opportunity to meet a diverse range of candidates on the day who are:
- Unemployed and looking for sustainable employment.
- Employed, but looking for a change in career
- Employed, but facing redundancy.
- Employed, but needing an additional job to complement their existing salary.
- School leavers looking for their first opportunity
NCSC free government service
Please see below, CyberByte update from Neighbourhood Watch Scotland which focusses on the National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC) free government service to help UK organisations to check for cyber vulnerabilities.
Many thanks to Gordon at Neighbourhood Watch Scotland for sharing and to Police Scotland’s Cybercrime Harm Prevention Team for compiling this important information.
Barnado's Works Open Day
Rooms for hire in Renfrewshire
Renfrew YMCA premises / rooms they have available for hire. See attached brochure for contact details.
Engage Renfrewshire also have a Premises Directory on their website, which provides details of premises available for hire within Renfrewshire. If you would like to add your property / premises to the list please contact Engage Renfrewshire.