Dynamic Website, Started construction of the SPAT-C Dynamic Website, initially to decentralise spatc project management. Due to go live in Mid June 2003- Site Version 6

New Courses, Enrolements underway for new courses starting in early May 2003.

Iranian Women's Group, Formed to indertake a range of cultural activities including, outdoor pursuits, cultural visits to sites around the UK, information exchange between other like groups and act as an mentoring and support grouping

Top Sheffield Websites, websites concernign local issues can join spat.org and have their sites listed here , Also coming soon, free community webspace hosting .

SPAT-C Co-ordinator, Satish Sachdeva has recently re-established contacts with the Jamaican development community, with a view to giving support and assistance to the 3M Dairy Project near Mandeville, in the beautiful parish of Manchester, Jamaica.....

Positive Negatives - A black and ethnic minority media project , 'Positive Negatives', has been established with the planning, capacity-building and the resource support of SPAT-C.....

Single Pot - Expansion - SPAT-C Application as part of BCF ltd for a £7.5 million Training and Development programme.

JOBS - Four jobs advertised - Not before time !.....

EVENTS - Mehfil Shadi and Somali Cultural Arts - Two events to be organised by SPAT-C in Sept / Early October 2002........

Current Training Courses - Update on the current and new courses starting in September / October 2002.......

Partnership Launched To Improve Training For Ethnic Minorities - A Sheffield City-wide partnership was launched, namely the Black & Ethnic Minority 3.17 Training Cluster and comprised of 5 partner agencies.......

ICT Drop in Centre - Facility is made available for students and members of the community to access the internet and intranet resources for free......

Social Exclusion 1999 Project - Report on the acitivities undertaken under this European Union funded project have been updated onto the website under the European Projects & Partnerships section.

2002 : - Is likely to start with a boom, with many existing projects gathering steam and coming online early in the year, all indications are that SPAT-C is likely to experience explosive growth during the coming year.

Staff - The number of full-time staff is likely to double during the year from the present 6 to around 12, in addition many more tutors will joining SPAT-C to varying degrees

Training Projects - The main training project which has suffered delayed funding is likely to fully come on-stream in late Jan 2001

ICT Project - The majority of the 10 center's are likely to be fully online during Jan 2002, with all by March 2002, this will lead to a marked increase in the range and number of training activities that the agency will offer to a greatly increased number of beneficiaries, including on-line training.

European Projects - New European projects are in the pipeline, to take over from those that are coming to an end such as Cultural Tools for Combating Discrimination

Refugee Projects - Are likely to continue to increase in the number and range of services offered in addition to the ESOL support, organised group outings (i.e. London), and musical events throughout the year.

2001 : - Proved to be a tough year for the agency due to the development and implementation of two very significant and time consuming projects, namely Computers Within Reach and The Black Life Long Learning ICT Project. The former which has now ended, thus freeing up valuable agency time, and the latter now in full steam ahead after the lengthy negotiation stage between 10 partners as to the enabling agreement and delivery contract.

Staff - Events of key interest were the leaving of Trenton Wiggan, the Assistant Co-ordinator in March 2001, and the arrival of Pedro Fuentes, the new Training Manager in April 2001.

Training Projects - The main training project, previously under the ESF umbrella and now under the LSC, has been curtailed to some degree due to the continuing delay in release of funding.

European Projects - A number of transnational events have been held across Europe during the year, culminating with the Sheffield 3 day Conference in July 2001.

Refugee Projects - Apart from the training aspect of refugee ESOL support, the refugee projects have also organised various group outings (i.e. London) and a number of musical events throughout the year.

ICT Centre Project - The SPAT-C BLLN ICT project gathers steam as networking infrastructure is in the process of being installed in all of the centres, ready for the installation of the hardware including workstations and servers in early to mid January. Already 5 centres are delivering ICT training to varying degrees using existing hardware.

SPAT-C Open Forum - The SPAT-C Discussion board is up and running, and invites ALL to discuss any topics related to training and economic development.

SPAT-C & Computers Within Reach Program- Over the last 8 months SPAT-C has undertaken the heavy task of processing and dealing with on a day to day basis with in excess of 1000 clients wanting to apply for a computer at the subsidised rate of £60.

This extremely heavy and mostly unplanned for workload has taken a heavy toll on the charities limited resources, many of the planned activities for this year have been postponed, i.e. Internet on-training, ILA sponsored training, many of the existing programs such as European and ICT have also been effected, thus experiencing delays in implementation and programme schedules. The program was initated by the Asistant Co-ordinator who moved onto a new organisation called BCDP(SY) in March 2001.

The resources to cover the most basic costs of running this Programme have so far failed to materialise, thus SPAT-C is not in any position to deliver on-line training in any form, and apologises to the 250+ registered individuals who have been eagerly awaiting its commencement.

Sheffield Transnational Conference - 'Combating and Preventing Social Exclusion through the use of Cultural Tools' Thursday 5th July to Sunday 8th July 2001 Venue - Centre for Popular Culture, Paternoster Row, Sheffield Live Music, Films, Presentations, Lectures, Discussions, Slide Shows, Lunch and Evening Meal, and more

New Host- New host and a new website. The site is being completely re-designed to make use of the increased facilities available from our new host, this should take a month or so to complete as each area of the site is redone. Site Version 5

Website down - SPAT-C Website is now permanently down.

Up Time - Website up time has continued to deteriorate with the website only accessible an estimate 75% of the time, the New website and hosting service is due to go online in Late April / Early May 2001.

ISP Gone Bust - RedhotAnt, our ISP has informed us that it has suspended most of the services it offers, due to lack of funding, and is on the verge of collapse, thus this website's access reliability is suffering as we search for a new host.

Computers In Reach - SPAT-C / BCF - South Yorkshire Network initiative - To deliver a computer, monitor, modem, and printer to those on reciept of benefits such as Job Seekers Allowance, State Pension, Income Support for a nominal sum of £60 which in itself can be paid in installments. Dead line is the 27th of April 2001.

On-line Training - Over 250 people have now registered for online training, for FREE spatc courses, also starting work on an Europe wide accredited IT course, equivalent to NVQ 3, details to follow, actual on-line training is on hold - Until this new accredited course is further developed.

On-line Training - Over 200 accepted registered students can now log into their accounts as a precursor to the start of on-line training.

Photos from the October 2000 Conferences - rates, See photo gallery. Both conferences were declared successful with the over 130 delegates attending, beating attendance's at the previous major Conference in November 1998 - See photo Gallery.

BCF reveal plans of the completion of their website by end October 2000, in anticipation, SPAT-C addition of direct link to their main page on SPAT-C website..

On-line Training - Over 160 people have registered an interest since July this year, SPAT-C is now looking at bringing forward plans to start on-line training due to the high demand. Also all new registrants will be placed on a waiting list, until on-line capacity has been expanded to cope with the first phase of on-line training.

Conference / Meeting room for hire, flexible timing and competitive rates, details to follow, info to follow.

Two Sheffield Conferences in Sheffield - October 2000.

Tuesday 6th October 2000 - Ethnic Minority Initiative - 'Sheffield Conference on the Educational Needs of Young Learners from a Refugee Background' - Info.

11th - 12th October 2000. - 'Combating and Preventing Social Exclusion' - Info.

Bid for Europeans Social Exclusion Project - Call for partners, deadline 15-8-00

European Special Projects - Page, Search for co-partners for New European projects.

Transnational European Conference - Turin, Italy - See photos in the Photo Gallery

LSC Survey completed, attempting to upload, site still down at redhotant.com

Site down, due to problems with redhotant.com

Redesigned menu and site layout ready for upload (version 4)

Finished designing new menu layout (version 3), uploaded all changed pages

SPAT-C Local photos page completed and uploaded.

Programming of On-line Registrations completed.