Up Coming Events
The Flower and Food Festival is happening between Friday 3rd and Sunday 5th September at Camperdown Park. The Wooden Spoon are back there by popular demand with their famous homemade curries and homemade naan breads. There will be a choice of 5 different curries available to buy each day. Get there early before they sell out!
An Eid party is being held on Saturday 18th September from 3 - 6 pm. Tickets cost £4 for adults and £5 for children (this includes £2 créche payment). The créche needs to be booked in advance to ensure a place.
Hope you all had a great summer holiday and are feeling refreshed and looking forward to continue your studies and classes.
The Centre will be fully operational again from Monday 23rd August.
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- All DIWC classes will start up again week beginning Monday 23rd August 2010.
Dundee College English - all levels - will recommence week beginning Monday 30th August 2010.
The Rise and Shine Childcare will be available to use from Monday 23rd August 2010 as well.
Recent Events Held at DIWC
Graduation Day
Our graduation was held on Thursday 24th July at the DIWC. Congratulations to all our service users who graduated. Hope to see you all again after the holidays.
International Women’s Day Celebrations
Part of the Dundee Women’s Festival 2010, a yearly festival with organisations all around Dundee hosting events, workshops, performances and issue based sessions were held in DIWC. This year events included: ‘Stories from Home’ Exhibition, 'Cooking from around the World – India/Pakistan', ‘Women’s Rights in Britain and around the World’, ‘Insight to self harm’ Workshop, 'A Taste of Chinese Culture' Workshop and ‘Cooking from around the World – Kurdish'.
DIWC News
September 2010
The Dundee Flower and Food Festival held at the beginning of September had the Wooden Spoon selling its famous homemade curries and homemade Naan breads.
August 2010
Hope everyone enjoyed the Dundee fortnight off. Classes started again week beginning 23rd and 30th August and we have a few new classes - sewing class, more English classses from Dundee College - and services - money advice surgery, employment advice service, welfare rights - starting this term.
July 2010
The Wooden Spoon had a stall selling their famous homemade curries and homemade Naan breads at the Perthshire on a Plate event held in Perth on Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd July.
The trip to Muddy Boots was successful despite the wet weather. There was enough activities to keep everyone happy indoors - pottery painting, play area and the coffee shop.
June 2010
DIWC attended the BME awards ceremony on Friday 27th June in Glasgow as we had been nominated in the category Community Champions - Education, Training and Employment. Only the top 3 organisations in each category attended this event, unfortunately we were not successful in winning the award.
Congratulations to Susan A'Brook who has been appointed as Development Worker and started this post on 1st June 2010. More congratulations this time to Amina Nafees who was successful and is now our Registered Childcare Manager. Both have settled well into their promoted posts.
Well done also to Salma Gani who is the new Childcare Support Worker in the Rise and Shine Crèche.
Ardler Village Fun Day was on Saturday 19th June 2010. The event went well despite the windy weather and The Wooden Spoon had a stall selling different flavours of homemade burgers, chicken kebabs and chips.
May 2010
The Outreach Translation Service has moved to premises in the Wellgate Centre inside the library complex. Their new contact number is 01382 307491.
Sharlene Taylor has joined the team as Senior Catering Manager on Monday 24th May. She is settling in well.
April 2010
This month saw the position of Childcare Co-ordinator being filled. Nausheen Karim, a childcare practitioner from our Rise and Shine childcare service started the job at the beginning of the month and has settled into the role well.
March 2010
Sadly one of the projects held at DIWC with us, we are saying goodbye to Nasreen Choudhry and Goulnaz Ali from the Outreach Translation Service. Their secondment has come to an end and we wish them all the best in their new premises which have not yet been confirmed. Our Polish Project Coordinator, Joanna Davidson, will continue to provide the service for Polish speakers.
January 2010
DIWC is delighted to have their website up and running after 12 months of upgrading and development! Please email us if you have any problems with the website or have any comments about its layout and function.
We have been awarded an Accolade by Dundee City Council for winning a Highly Recommended Award from SURF (Scottish Urban Regeneration Fund) for our work in the people category. This is the second year we have been recognised by SURF for our work in Scotland and we hope to be nominated in the future as well!
Our Project Coordinator Dana Dalziel has recently gone on maternity leave and has had a beautiful baby girl. Congratulations to the whole family! Sue Millar will be covering her maternity leave and started the post in early January. Welcome Sue!
DIWC Awards!
Social Enterprise Network Scotland Innovation awards 1st and 2nd Prize 2009
Highly Commended Award ‘For our Work with People’ 2009 Scottish Urban Regeneration Fund (SURF)
Dundee Partnership Community Award 2008 in the Work and Enterprise Category
The Scottish Black and Ethnic Minority Achievement Award 2008 in the Grass Roots Category
Highly Commended Award in the People Category of the 2007 Scottish Urban Regeneration Fund Awards (SURF)
Dundee Partnership Community award 2007 in the Equality and Diversity Category