Friday 22 June 2012

Excellence on the Rock

The deadline for our Excellence Scholarships and our Professional Development scheme have now closed.  The Excellence Scholarships are designed to encourage our young people to seek excellence and strive to go to the top of their field in a top institution. Our Excellence scheme focused on promoting the sciences's, medicine, technology and certain business related subjects, we now also include one performing/fine arts award , one sports award and one humanities award.
The response this year is incredible, Kusuma receiving the highest amount of applications than ever before. The quality of students are high and it is inspiring to see how the youth in Gibraltar are flourishing.
Equally impressive are those who have applied for a Professional Development grant, which tries to provide support for those who wish to further their learning and wish to contribute their skills to our community.
Interviews are due to be held next week and Kusuma wish them all the best !

Jordan Picardo is last years Performing /Fine Arts Scholar
studying dance at the English National Ballet



















Friday 1 June 2012

Charity Training

Directory of Social Change back on the Rock


Over the weekend the Kusuma Trust in conjunction with the Directory of Social Change provided a series of training and support for local charities. Our last such event was held in November 2011 and it was inspiring to see how far many of our local charities had come in this time and that the sessions had gone some way in supporting and giving the charities tools to develop themselves.

The weekend centred on facilitated open sessions where groups could discuss what they as a charitable organisation have been experiencing, struggling with and how they can over come these obstacles, workshops and our popular one to one sessions. Whilst past sessions had purposely been quite generic these were more focused and structured so that the charities came away feeling they had an action plan.

Trainer Noam in an open session. 

The weekend was also a great way to launch our resources area at our offices at 3 Bell Lane, Gibraltar, where we house a small resources centre specifically for charitable organisations. Titles include volunteer retention, fundraising strategies, budgeting and developing your organisation. We also have rooms where charities can come and meet if they do not have a premises and can use our technical facilities should they not have access to a printer or computer. If you are a local charity that would like to use our resource centre please feel free to contact me.

A great way to network, talk to people in the charity sector in Gibraltar and gain useful relevant information from three experienced trainers. if you are interested in taking part in the next charity training day please contact me or look on the website for the next date.

www.kusumatrust.gi

Europa Point -The Kusuma Promenade

Europa PointKusuma Promenade

Europa Point , a set on Flickr.

Directory of Social Change

Thursday 31st May 2012 - NEWSPAPER - PDF_Page_1Thursday 31st May 2012 - NEWSPAPER - PDF_Page_2Charity Training DayOne to One session with DSC

Directory of Social Change , a set on Flickr.