Christmas at BUCFP;

Christmas Dates for your diary:

Christmas Lunch – Wednesday 12th December Centre opens at 12.30pm

Family Christmas Party – Sunday 9th December 2pm – 4.30pm - download a poster here

Playroom Winter Celebration - Tuesday 11th December 10.30am – 12.30pm

The opening & closing times for the Centre over Christmas are:
As usual until Friday 21st Dec.
(last playroom session – Friday 21st Dec)
Then 10.00am – 2.00pm 27th – 28th Dec.
Closed Tuesday 1st January 2019.

FREE CV & Interview Skills Workshops - Starting Friday 12th Oct 2-3.45pm

Returning to Employment or Education?

CV & Interview skills

Are you interested in going back to work and need to start, redo or update your CV? Maybe you haven't had an interview in years or simply lack the confidence to showcase your skills?

Well some exciting new workshops are starting on Friday the 12th of October, 2 - 3.45 pm and lasts for 9 weeks. The first 4 weeks will cover CV writing, formatting and how to create a digital copy.  The last 5 weeks will cover interview skills, presentation skills, organisational skills, time management, stress management, relaxation techniques. This course is run in a relaxed friendly and supportive atmosphere, and will include group discussions, individual work, and case studies and digital workshops. Your teacher has a lot of experience and knowledge about the challenges of going back to work or education, and is a qualified teacher with a PGCE.

Starting:  Friday 12th October 2:00 – 3:45pm

Upstairs classroom At Brighton Unemployed Centre families Project – 6 Tilbury Place Brighton.

Join our Creative Writing Group to be inspired!

CREATIVE WRITING

Join our free creative writing group at BUCFP to be inspired, chat, swap ideas, and working on creative writing techniques.

We experiment with prose, poetry, fiction, non fiction, journalism, script writing and creative exercises in a safe and informal environment. This drop in group is open to all levels of abilities. For more information about other free courses and workshops click here.

WEDNESDAYS 1:45- 3:45PM

AT BRIGHTON UNEMPLOYED CENTRE FAMILIES PROJECT – 6 TILBURY PLACE BRIGHTON.

ESA to UC

We are meeting lots of people at our welfare rights drop in who have been told wrong information about their universal credit claims when they are moving directly from ESA. Here's how it *should* work;

If you are on ESA, you will only have to change to Universal Credit if your circumstances change so that you need to make a new claim. Eg if you move to a new council area where UC is already in full service, if you move in with a partner, or your relationship ends.
If something like that happens, your limited capability for work status should move over to UC with you. If you are in the support group on ESA, you should get the LCWRA element from the start of your UC claim. If you are in the WRAG on ESA, and you have been claiming ESA since before April 2017, you should get the LCW element from the start of your UC claim. Whichever group you are in, you do *not* need to fill in another questionnaire and have another assessment.

These rules are set out in Regulation 19 of the Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations, 2014. Tell your work coach or case manager to look it up if they are telling you something different.

If you have to claim universal credit because you didn't get enough points at a Work Capability Assessment to stay on ESA, Regulation 19 doesn't apply to you. But if that decision is later overturned on appeal, then it does. We can help with appeals - many are successful.