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Two Exciting Opportunities at MAC-UK
Project Lead in Training (SMHP) Southwark
We are looking for outstanding candidates to apply for this role at our Partnership Project in Southwark.
Please click here for further details.
Mini MAC Research Intern
Thanks to generous funding from Santander, we are able to offer a unique paid graduate research internship on our Mini MAC project. The internship is to assist with the on-going evaluation and research of the Mini MAC model and service. This internship is offered for a 4 month contract and provides “hard to find” experience for graduates seeking to develop knowledge of the voluntary or health sectors. Please click here for further details
The Forward Foundation
Take a look at this amazing film produced by our funders at The Forward Foundation on our Mini MAC Project.
The New Economics Foundation
Great write up on MAC-UK on the nef blog this month - well worth a read! http://www.neweconomics.org/blog
We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded a significant grant from Esmee Fairbairn over the next 3 years to fund our Mini MAC project - taking music and mental health workshops into schools, Pupil Referal Units and Young Offender Institutions.
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Nick Grimshaw visit
It was great to meet Grimmers with Comic Relief - thank you for stopping by!!
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Home Office Ending Gang and Youth Violence Conference
1 in 3 young people who offend have an unmet mental health need at the time of their offence. CEO Dr Charlie Alcock and Mark Chentite, Junior Mental Health Worker and Mini MAC Tutor, will be joining Prof. Mark Bellis and Prof. Sue Bailey to discuss the importance of recognising that youth violence is as much a national health issue as a criminal justice one.
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CEO Dr Charlie Alcock presented at the Roundtable Discussion at the Labour Party Conference in Manchester. The event was hosted by Catch22 Dawes Unit, the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit and the Centre for Social Justice Labour Party. The theme of the event was enterprise as a solution to unemployment. Namely that enterprise holds the promise of realising an individual’s entrepreneurial and creative talent, of job creation and of empowerment for people and communities.
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CEO of MAC-UK, Dr. Charlie Alcock presented an inspirational presentation to The Funding Network.
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MAC-UKs founder and CEO, Dr Charlie Alcock, was on the somewhat combative Moral Maze last night with Lord Layard and Ken McLaughlin discussing MACs work with young offenders in the context of the Layard report published this week. It certainly was a lively debate! If you'd would like to listen to the full programme, please click here
. Forward to 24 minutes to hear Charlie's segment.
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We have managed to get hold of a copy of Mark's, one of our Mini MAC tutors, appearance on ITV's morning show, Daybreak. If you missed it when it was first broadcast, you can catch up right now by clicking here.
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More reaction from the AMBIT Collaboration's win at the Innovation Nation Awards as we speak to co-developer, Dr. Dickon Bevington. Click here for the interview.
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A fantastic night for 'The AMBIT Collaboration', which wins at the Innovation Nation Awards!! Read more here.
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Listen to BBC Radio 4's 'All in the Mind' feature on MAC-UK here.
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Congratulations to the Mini MAC team for winning the Santander Social Enterprise Development Award 2012, presented by Ana Botin, CEO of Santander!
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MAC-UK founder and CEO Dr. Charlie Alcock spoke about her experiences on BBC Radio 4 Woman's hour. Listen here.
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London’s Reality is a short film about gangs that MAC-UK young people made and starred in, alongside actor Jason Flemyng.
