We are looking for a Leisure Link Project Assistant
The Project Assistant role is for an adult with a learning disability to join the Club Soda team. You will help the Project Manager run the Leisure Link project in Croydon.
Leisure Link is a group for people with learning disabilities and supporters who meet once a month to talk about arts and leisure: things they have done and things they are looking forward to.
Members of Leisure Link help to produce a monthly newsletter, which:
● Shares reviews, top tips and recommendations for events, services and venues in Croydon
● Displays a list of useful arts and leisure services in Croydon for people with learning disabilities
● Celebrates and promotes inclusive events and activities across Croydon
● Features a fun map of Croydon showing popular local venues that are highly recommended
● Provides useful access information for all venues and events that we list
The Project Assistant will be employed by Club Soda on a three year contract.
The job is for 8 hours a week.
The salary is £4,600 a year, paid monthly.
You will be allowed 5.5 days annual leave year (includes Bank Holidays)
If you have any questions about the role, please get in touch either via email at rachael@clubsoda.org.uk or by telephone on 07309 750 285.
We are looking for a Gig Buddies Project Assistant
The Project Assistant role is for an adult with a learning disability to join the Club Soda team. You will help the Gig Buddies Project Manager and Coordinator run the Gig Buddies project in Croydon.
Gig Buddies Croydon matches adults with learning disabilities to volunteers who have similar interests. They go to events together that they both love. Gig Buddies was started by a Brighton based charity called Stay Up Late. In 2017 Club Soda was chosen by Stay Up Late to start a local Gig Buddies project. We are the only Gig Buddies project in London. Gig Buddies makes sure that people with learning disabilities don’t miss out on a social life by helping people to make friends.
The Project Assistant will be employed by Club Soda on a three year contract.
The job is for 8 hours a week.
The salary is £4,600 a year, paid monthly.
You will be allowed 5.5 days annual leave (days of holiday) per year (includes Bank Holidays)
If you have any questions about the role, please get in touch either via email at cherilyn@gigbuddiescroydon.co.uk or by telephone on 07426 805 478.
Make Your Own Party Wear with MOSS
Make Your Own Partywear with the Makers of Stuff Squad (MOSS)
With the Online SoDaDa Party coming up soon, we’re starting to get very excited!
We’re encouraging everyone to join in their best and most unusual partywear and MOSS have been making their own. If you’re not sure what to wear, click the links below for some inspiration and instructions from MOSS.
Get out your craft materials and get creative! We would love to see sneak peeks of what you’re making so send us some photos and videos!
Find out more about SoDaDa
The Makers of Stuff Squad (MOSS) and Turf Projects have been working together since June 2014. MOSS are a collective of learning disabled adult artists from in and around Croydon. Turf provide regular workshops for the artists on Wednesday afternoons to support their own artistic practices and work on collaborative projects. Find out more about MOSS here.
The Carbonators’ new album, Conversation, out now!
The Carbonators new album out now!
The Carbonators new album ‘Conversation’ has been released.
Their latest mini album titled CONVERSATION contains 5 tracks plus an extended edit of one the tracks. It captures the essence the bands exciting live shows
CONVERSATION is released by St. Clements Records and is the band’s long awaited fifth release, and follows their acclaimed album: Number One
Watch the music video for The Carbonators’ single, Oh Ship:
Buy and stream the album here:
About The Carbonators:
The Carbonators are based in Croydon and began as an echo-rock band that formed in 2011, initially to perform alongside the legendary Damo Suzuki (ex-CAN). Since then they have honed their own unique blend of Digital Blues, Punk/New Wave and Soul music. The band play rock n roll, punk, blues, soul and free jazz / improvised music all mixed up into good phonics.
Have been compared to Can, The Fall, Roxy Music and Galaxy 500
The Carbonators are –
Adrian Clarke: Vocals & Digital Guitar
James Heath: Drums & Vocals,
Narendra Rajendran: Keyboards
Simon-Drew Alexander Bennett: Bass & Drums
Giles Frampton: Bass & Guitar
Alex Holmes: Drums, Bass, Guitar and Vocals
Club Soda is moving online
COVID-19 Update
Club Soda is moving online!
From Monday 20 April, our music and DJing workshops will be online.
We are also busy making plans for showcasing and celebrating our artists with you online. Follow us on social media or sign up our newsletter to keep up to date!
Due to health concerns around COVID-19 (Coronavirus), Club Soda made the decision to move all activity online at least until July 2020. Our first priority is to keep our staff, members and audiences safe and we are taking time to make sure our community are supported and safe.
Thank you for understanding and stay safe.
Punk Band Seeks Guitarist
We are looking for a guitarist to join one of our new bands as part of the Emerging Artists Programme.
If you are a guitarist, who loves punk and would like to help out some fellow musicians, please get in touch!
Contact Ella at info@clubsoda.org.uk or 07309 750283 for more information
We are looking for a new Project Assistant for Gig Buddies Croydon
Gig Buddies
Club Soda is looking for someone to support the Project Manager in delivering and developing the Gig Buddies project across Croydon. There will also be an element of supporting the wider work of the charity. You will be responsible for supporting people with a learning disability and / or autism who use the Gig Buddies Croydon project.
The Project Assistant will be employed by Club Soda on a one year contract initially, with the option to extend for a further year.
The post is for 14 hours per week, the work pattern is negotiable although Mondays are essential.
The salary is £23,000 pro rata paid monthly in arrears.
You will be entitled to 11.5 days annual leave per year (includes Bank Holidays).
The successful candidate will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check.
If you would like anymore information about the role contact Cherilyn Yeates at cherilyn@gigbuddiescroydon.co.uk or on 07426 805 478.
Closing date for applications is 5pm on 21 February 2020, and interviews will be held on 2 March 2020.
Download the full Job Description and Application pack below:
We are looking for a new Project Manager
Thanks to funding from Arts Council England and Youth Music, we are now looking to recruit a Project Manager to oversee all our major projects and events, including an Emerging Artists Programme, which will provide professional support and mentoring for young people with learning disabilities aged 15 to 25, helping them access opportunities to develop as musicians. Also in 2020 we will be launching a new event called SoDaDa, an inclusive clubnight and showcase for learning disability arts in Croydon, bringing together four local arts organisations that support artists with learning disabilities.
Our dream Project Manager will have good leadership skills, plenty of experience running arts projects and share our passion for social inclusion.
You will be part of a small team working alongside a Project Assistant and a Committee of adults with learning disabilities. An important part of the role is to foster and develop professional links and good quality relations with statutory, and other agencies and the community at large. This will include raising awareness and understanding of Club Soda within the community, and the difficulties that those with learning disabilities face.
The Project Manager will be employed by Club Soda on a one year contract initially, with the potential to extend subject to successful funding bids.
The post is for 21 hours per week, the work pattern is negotiable.
The salary is £30,500 pro rata paid monthly in arrears.
You will be entitled to 17 days annual leave per year (includes Bank Holidays).
The successful candidate will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check.
Closing date for applications is 5pm on 29 November. Interviews will be held on Monday 9 December 2019.
Below you will find links to download a full Job Description and an Application Form. Fill them in and send back to us at the general Club Soda email: info@clubsoda.org.uk.
Closing date for applications is 5pm on 29 November. Interviews will be held on Monday 9 December 2019.
DOWNLOADS:
Job Description and Information Pack – PM-Information-Pack-including-JD-person-spec-final
Application Form – Application-Form_Final
Watch ‘Youth’ a new short film about Soda Jam in Croydon
Club Soda wins Culture Seeds Award
On May 16th, The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, announced the winners of his first ever Culture Seeds Awards, recognising the significant positive impact local community culture projects have on the capital.
Club Soda was amongst the ten winners from across the city who were presented with the Culture Seeds Awards, which highlighted how culture can bring Londoners together and empower communities.
Members of Club Soda’s new band, System Experience, were at the City Hall event to receive the ‘Made by Young Creators Award‘, which was awarded in recognition of the Soda Beat Bands project that supports young musicians with learning disabilities to take their music to the next level.
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said: “I want to congratulate all the winners for their excellent work – you are proof that culture can benefit us all. Culture has the power to bring communities together and gives young people positive opportunities to discover their creative talent and to achieve their ambitions. Culture can be a powerful tool to steer young Londoners away from crime and criminal gangs and towards education and employment. I’m determined that all Londoners have the opportunity to gain from the benefits culture can bring to their lives, which is why I have invested in Culture Seeds, so that our small grants that can help make a big difference.”
Members of System Experience with The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.