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posted: 13/8/2010

U-turn Golf Day

U-turn will be hosting a golf day on Friday 15th October. For Further information please click here.

posted: 28/4/2010

Thank you!

Thank you to all those people who participated in the U-turn open day on the 24th April.

Click here to download the presentation from the day.

posted: 21/04/2010

Latest Volunteering opportunities at U-turn

We have a number of Volunteering options for 2010. Download the volunteering menu. [35k]

posted: 26/03/2009

U-turn's Projects for 2010

We are continuing the following 9 projects from 2009. This will help us become more focussed in the work we do. We are excited about some of the anticipated outcomes.

1. Volunteering programme

2. Staff to learn Xhosa

3. Constructive alternative initiative

4. Sheltered employment - Computer lab

5. Sheltered employment - House building Work team

6. Structured rehab programme

7. Secure long term use of suitable building

8. U-turn airmiles concept

9. Charity shop

Click here to see more about each project and how you can get involved

posted: 20/4/2010

Year end report for 2009 available

The U-turn 2009 year end report is available for download. Click here to go to publications page to download.

posted: 16/4/2010

Enagaging with the World Cup and the CDRA

The morning of the 23rd March turned out to be a bumper morning we met to engage with plans and Opportunities around the 2010 world Cup and as we found out more about the CDRA

Prac workshop

In a year where everything seems to be dominated by the 2010 FIFA world Cup we thought it would be good to invite Pam Naidoo of the Local Organizing Committee for Cape Town to share with us exactly what plans are in place for the event.

We explored issues such as opportunities for international media coverage for the work done by the practitioners, rules and restrictions on sale of goods and plans on how to deal with the social issues associated with the event.

In discussion topic 2 Shelley Arendse introduced us to the work of the Community Development Resource Association (CDRA). The agency is based in Observatory and for the last 22 years they have been doing consultation & development work all over the world. They have worked with over 500 organisations as these strive to become more effective.

The CDRA also has multiple publications available to the development community and their years of experience is a wonderful resource to tap in to. Shelley introduced us to their work by demonstrating to us how the "action learning cycle" works. This is the key methodology and approach that underlies the CDRA practice. The session was very engaging & something that everyone benefited from, those involved in development work for 5 weeks and 15 years!