Oxfordshire County UNISON Branch – Page 2 – Local Government, Private, Community & Voluntary Sectors

Branch Officer Elections 2018/19

UNISON Oxfordshire County Branch Officer Elections 2018/19 Nominations must be returned to the Branch Office to arrive by 12.00 hours on MONDAY 19th November 2018 Dear Member, Every year you have the right to be more involved with your union

World Mental Health Day 2018

UNISON are supporting World Mental Health Day. In Oxfordshire, Mind, the mental health charity, are running a Big Mental Health Survey and want to hear from anyone aged 16 years or older with personal experience of mental health problems. Now

Union Learning Fund

UNISON works with the Union Learning Fund (ULF) to offer a wide range of member learning opportunities. Backed by the Department of Education, the ULF was set up to encourage more adults back into learning, through bite-size workshops, or longer

School Uniform Grant applications 2018

Get help with school uniform costs this summer Struggling to make ends meet? Worried about back to school costs? Help is on hand We have set up a limited fund to help UNISON members on low income with school uniform

World Mental Health Day 2017 Tea & Talk

UNISON are hosting Tea and Talk events between 11am -1pm on World Mental Health Day, 10th October 2017. Oxfordshire County UNISON Branch is launching a campaign to promote positive mental health in the workplace and to improve support and provision

ULR Carol Wilkinson talks helping members overcome barriers to learning 17 April, 2019
How long have you been a member of UNISON? I became a UNISON member 14 years ago when I started working in my daughters’ school as both teaching assistant and midday supervisor, when I moved to EDF Energy I transferred my membership and I was able to be more involved with helping our members within […]
Mindfull to Mindful Colouring Lunch & Learn 17 April, 2019
One of our brilliant SE Union Learning Reps recently ran a “Mindfull to Mindful Colouring Lunch & Learn” – read their account here: “My first lunch and learn session as a URL was for a colouring session linked to Mindfulness and mental wellbeing. I arranged for 2 sessions on consecutive weeks to give those attending […]
Hampshire branch delivers on Challenging Behaviour in Schools 17 April, 2019
For some time, Hampshire UNISON has been raising the subject of challenging and often violent behaviour towards school support staff across the county. A branch-wide survey was undertaken in 2017 which discovered that violent behaviour and challenging behaviour in schools was on the rise. School support staff work in incredibly challenging conditions, many of them […]