Training

Sustainable Income : Getting Ready for Enterprise : £25

14 October : Birmingham
If your organisation has ideas for generating income through trading but needs some help, this one-day course delivered by NCVO's Sustainable Funding Project will be useful.  You'll explore what skills, capacity and resources you need to trade, find out how to research and market your product and discuss legal issues and financial implications. 

The course is not about bidwriting or fundraising and is aimed at Managers, Trustees and Development Workers.

Download the Booking Form and flyer for more information.

Faith in Public Life

17 July : Birmingham
Get ahead of the Government's new Equalities Bill.  Gain an understanding of the significant contribution of faith communities to  public life and learn the implications for service providers of faith diversity in both the workplace and the wider community.  Download the Flyer and Booking form for more information. 

Mentor volunteer training for programme co-ordinators

18^th September 2008, BVSC, Birmingham

Learn how to develop a comprehensive training programme for your volunteer mentors.  Modules include the purpose and key process of mentoring, skills and attributes needed by volunteers, ground rules and communication skills

Befriender volunteer training for programme co-ordinators

30^th September 2008, BVSC, Birmingham
Want to develop a training programme for your volunteers?  Need to refresh your schedule?

Learn how to develop a comprehensive training programme for your volunteer befrienders.  Modules include the purpose and key process of mentoring, skills and attributes needed by volunteers, ground rules and communication skills.

Setting up a Successful Mentoring or Befriending Programme - Part One

 
Interested in setting up a programme?  Wondered if you have set your programme up correctly?  Then attend this workshop to find out more about the different models of mentoring and befriending and how to apply these when developing your programme.

Personal Safety for volunteers and clients in association with Suzy Lamplugh Trust

18^th December 2008, BVSC, Birmingham

This course helps you to implement practical steps to improve your policies and procedures around personal safety for your volunteers and clients.  It includes managing aggressive behaviour, working out and about, home visits and safer travelling.

Pre-16 Peer Mentor Co-Ordinator Training

21^st January 2009, BVSC, Birmingham
This one day training course is aimed at practitioners within the education sector working within Key Stage 3/4 who wish to set up a peer mentoring programme to support students who may be facing barriers to their learning. The course is aimed at introducing practitioners to peer mentoring and the programme co-ordination.

Post 16 Peer Mentor Co-Ordinator Training

21^st January 2009, BVSC, Birmingham

This one day training course is aimed at practitioners working within Further and Higher Education, as well as those providing support services for young people within the voluntary and community sectors. The course is aimed at introducing you to peer mentor programme co-ordination and provide you with core resources for training and supporting your peer mentors.