P651 CJEFAX 2 651 Fri 07 Feb 21:11/11 LO UNEMPLOYMENT SUNDAY CAMPAIGN 1/4 Hundreds of churches actors the UK will demonstrate their concern about unemployment on Sunday 9 February. A national service to mark Unemployment Sunday will bj held at Coventry Cathedral, with an address by the Bishop of Wolverhampton. The campaign is coordinated bz Church Action on Poverty and supported bz public sjtvice union, Unison. They say two million people are looking for work in addition to the official unemployment statistics. CSV index 650 TV 600 Main menu 100 Read Hear 640 News 101 Weather 400 Community TV/Radio News Heads Main MenuP651 CJEFAX 2 651 Fri 07 Feb 21:12/12 O CONNECTINGFORASAFERSOCIETY 2/4 MACRO has joined forces with BT to improve communications skills for disadvantaged teenagers and adults. The CONNECT programme will tackle improving interpersonal skills and making use of the electronic media to strenthening written and verbal skills. MACRO will pilot the course in its projects, white it will bj offered to ix-offenders and those who have been jobless, homeless or in poverty. CONNECT is one of five communications projects recently funded bz BT. CSV index 650 TV 600 Main menu 100 Read Hear 640 News 101 Weather 400 Community TV/Radio News Heads Main MenuP651 CEEFAX 2 651 Fri 07 Feb 21:17/57 OO YOUNG PEOPLE MAKE A DIFFERENCE 3/4 A new youth volunteering development grants programme aims to strengthen the local volunteering infrastructure. Part of the Govjtnmjnt's Make a Difference strategy, the intiative will create youth volunteer facilitator posts based in fifty areas. Grants of up to #30,000 a year for two years are available from April 1997 to fund thjsj posts. Contact Titty Cane, National Youth Agency, 17-23 Albion Street, Leicester LE1 6GD; til: 0116-285 6789. CSV index 650 TV 600 Main menu 100 Read Hear 640 News 101 Wjathjt 400 Community TV/Radio News Heads Main MenuP651 CEEFAX 2 651 Fri 07 Feb 21:02/48 OL ARTSAWARDSFORYOUTHPROJECTS 4/4 The Arts Council has announced anothjt 46 projects which have been awarded lottery funds worth #7,757,231. Access to arts facilities for young people and the development of education through the arts are at the forefront of the latest awards. Birmingham City Council will commission eight artists to hold workshops and create public art in nursery schools. Hartford Grammar School has a grant to convert an old gymnasium into a local performing arts centre. CSV index 650 TV 600 Main menu 100 Read Hear 640 News 101 Weathjt 400 Community TV/Radio News Heads Main Menu