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

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

Mental Health Survey

Branch members should by now have received an email about our Mental Health Survey please do take the time to fill it in, it’ll only take a few minutes and it will help us a huge amount to plan the

Funding for our Future: a new learning grant scheme for UNISON South East low paid women members and activists 1 February, 2019
UNISON is a union of women, over 1 million of them working across the public and private sectors delivering quality public services. Our women members are in all professions, catering assistants, nurses, midday supervisors, librarians, cleaners, social workers and cooks amongst a wide variety of jobs. A large proportion of our women members are low […]
Surrey UNISON protest closure of children’s centres 23 January, 2019
On 22nd January Surrey UNISON, alongside parents, supporters, workers and campaigners will be lobbying Surrey County Council on their proposals to close 37 children’s centres across Surrey. There are currently 58 centres helping families with children aged 0-5 years. The council’s recent proposals state that children’s centres should give more help to the children that […]
ULR Emma Nand talks about making positive changes for her colleagues in the workplace 11 January, 2019
How long have you been a member of UNISON? I joined as soon as I started work, aged 17, so about 15 years ago. I first started my working career in the NHS as a nursery nurse at the Southampton General Hospital, and then four years ago I transferred my membership over when I […]