Working for voluntary and community organisations in Leeds
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How to form a Community Interest Company (CIC)
This will give you the basic requirements of what a Community Interest Company is and why this structure might suit your organisation.
Basic Quickbooks
This will give an overview of how the Quickbooks accouting package works. Aimed at those who are new to the package and thinking of computerising their finance systems.
Learn Basic Computer Skills (over 11 weeks)
This is a non accredited FREE course that will run over 11 weeks starting on 13 Septemner, from 1-3pm. Participants will cover the basics of computers, including word processing and surfing the internet.
Think Family - Valuing Parents and Improving Safeguarding for Children and Young People
These free sessions are to help managers and frontline workers in adult substance misusing services and adult mental health services working with parents, to improve outcomes for children and young people living in these families.
Safeguarding Adults - The Process for Social Workers
This session will be held at the East Room within the Civic Hall, the course using presentations, case studies, etc will explore the aimes and principles of safeguarding vulnerable adults
Food Hygiene award
This will give you a qualification, a three year certificate in safe food hygiene practice. It is aimed at organisations that are regularly preparing food for the public.
Finding Funding
Finding the right funder can seem impossible, this course will help you find free resources to help you locate the right pot for you. Free for Leeds groups with income less than £20k.
Think Family - Valuing Parents and Improving Safeguarding for Children and Young People
These free sessions are to help managers and frontline workers in adult substance misusing services and adult mental health services working with parents, to improve outcomes for children and young people living in these families.
Drugs & Alcohol Training
This is an awareness raising course about working with people who use alcohol and drugs.
How to Incorporate as a Company Ltd by Guarantee
This course is intended for groups who intend to register as a charity and will give you the steps you need to take to incorporate.
Dealing with difficult behaviour
This course is aimed at people managing volunteers and how to deal with difficult situations
Foundation Degree in Learning and Teaching
This course is specially designed for anyone supporting learning within their organisationeither in paid or voluntary work. There are bursaries available for free places.
Fresh n Fruity Activator Course
This is a free morning course to look at how to improve your lifestyle and make changes to your diet to improve your wellbeing.
Conflict Management
The course explores violence and aggression in the workplace, the reasons behind the behaviour and how to avoid or deal with it when it occurs.
Building Better Teams
What makes a good team? Why do some teams perform better than others? How do you construct a team that works and what should you look out for to make sure you get the best from your team?
Emergency First Aid
This is an accredited course which gives organisations a certificatied first aid, the certificate is valid for three years and is recommended if you have a team of more than fice people including volunteers
Mental Health First Aid
This two day nationall recognised course on promoting good mental health is running over two days 27th & 28th September (you will need to attend both.
Packaging Projects for Bids - 6 steps to fundraising success (Session 1)
Step 1 of 6: Packaging Projects For Bids - presentation skills to sell your project to the funders
How to Register as a Charity
For anyone wanting to consider registering as a charity and what voluntary and/or community groups need to do.
Safeguarding Adults for Referral bodies
This course is suitable for any staff/volunteers who are responsible for handling alerts and making referrals on behalf of clients
Food Safety Awareness
This introductory course will look at basic elements of good food hygiene but will not give you an accredited certificate, it is however a good starting point.
Successful Email Marketing
This course introduces the principles of how to prepare effective email newsletters.
Budgets for Bids - 6 steps to fundraising success (Session 2)
Step 2 of 6: Budgets for Bids - what do you need in them and why do we have one anyway?
Young People and Money
Times are tough at the moment for young people not in education, employment or training, if you work with NEET clientele then this free course is for you - to help you support them.
Communication skills for volunteers
This free session is part of our programme of training for Leeds Year of the Volunteer and will look at ways of improving communication. This session is aimed at volunteers.
Introduction to Mental Health
This is a basic introductory course to support people working with mental health service users
Excel for book - keeping
An overview of what excel can offer in terms of keeping track of your organisations finances. You will practice using the package and produce a simple spreadsheet set of accounts
Introduction to Health and Safety
An introduction to health and safety and the things that you will need to consider as an organisation to meet your statutory requirements.
Confidentiality & building safe relationships for volunteers
As part of the free training provided for Leeds Year of the Volunteer, this course is aimed specifically at volunteers, and will support them to understand and adhere to confidentiality policies.
Finding Funding - 6 steps to fundraising success (Session 3)
Step 3 of 6: Finding Funding - where it is and how you apply
PQASSO: An overview
Are you planning to use PQASSO? Or looking for extra information about the quality assurance scheme.
Chairing Skills
This will give you an introduction to the role and responsibilties of the chair.
Introduction to a Care Programme Approach
This workshop will define the four aspects of the Care Programme Approach process.
Emergency Aid
This course will give you a three year accredited certificate in first aid that will be suitable for a voluntary organisation, it covers the basics of what to do and is recommended if have a team of more than 5 people including volunte
Scopes - Making Volunteering Inclusive
An overview of disability and removing barriers to volunteering and engaging disabled workers. This is a free session.
Successful Funding Applications - 6 steps to fundraising success (Session 4)
Step 4 of 6: Successful Funding Applications - how to get it right
Fresh n Fruity Activator Course
This is a free one day course to help you learn about healthy eating and be able to share information with us about how you have changed your lifestyle
Managing Difficult Behaviour
This course will help you be able to identify challenging behaviour from clients and look at strategies to manage this.
Developing Supervision Skills
To introduce a range of models of supervision to enable participants to selct and apply those which are most appropriate to their working environment.
Mental Health First Aid
This two day course is running on 25th & 26th October 2010 (you will need to attend both days) aimed at those wishing to support people with mental health issues.
Food Hygiene award
This will cover the principles of food hygiene and you will get a three year certificate in safe good hygiene practice.
Introduction to the Compact Tool Kit for volunteer managers
This tool kit gives a step by step guide to how to create a volunteering programme, showing you how a free resource can support your work with volunteers for your organisation.
Youth Mental Health First Aid
This is a two day course on 28th & 29th October 2010 (you will need to attend both days) it is a new national initiative aimed at people working or living with young people (aged 11-18) who may be experiencing mental ill health.
Health and safety awareness
A basic course to highlighting what you need to consider when looking at your health and safety reqiurements for an organisation or community group
Moving and handling
A quick guide to the correct moving and handling procedures for anyone working in the community
Minute Taking
This course will equip you with the knowledge needed to produce accurate, clear and concise minutes and reduce time spent on transcribing and producing typed minutes.
Measuring Success - 6 steps to fundraising success (Session 5)
Step 5 of 6: Measuring Success - looking at monitoring and evaluation techniques to prove the need for your service.
Supporting Volunteers
A quick guide to show you how to support volunteers, part of a series of volunteering courses covering all aspects of keeping your volunteers happy which are all free.
Thinking about Management (2 day course)
This course will run on 4th & 5th of November 2010 from 10.00 - 4.00 you will need to attend both days of the course. It is aimed at people considering a move to a management position
1st Steps in Monitoring
This half day workshop is designed to help you identify suitable ways of monitoring your projects, so that you can prove what you have achieved.
Supervision of Volunteers
Supervision techniques and the importance of supervision for volunteers.
Intermediate Quickbooks
This course will cover how to raise invoices and the reporting system behind them.
Think Family - Valuing Parents and Improving Safeguarding for Children and Young People
These free sessions are to help managers and frontline workers in adult substance misusing services and adult mental health services working with parents, to improve outcomes for children and young people living in these families.
Developing a Funding Strategy - 6 steps to fundraising success (Session 6)
Step 6 of 6: Developing a Funding Strategy - How to plan your fundraising effectively
How to make a successful funding application
Aimed at any voluntary and community group new to fundraising, click for more information and booking details
Introduction to Neuro Linguistic Programming
This workshop is for anyone who wishes to develop knowledge and understanding of the basics of NLP and how it came to be.
Train the Trainer / 3 day course
An introduction to training skills which will run on 17 & 18 November and 1 December 2010 inclusive. You will need to attend all 3 days to maximise the benefit of this course.
Think Family - Valuing Parents and Improving Safeguarding for Children and Young People
These free sessions are to help managers and frontline workers in adult substance misusing services and adult mental health services working with parents, to improve outcomes for children and young people living in these families.
1st Steps in Evaluation
This is a half day workshop which complements the monitoring session on the 4th November, although it can be done as a stand alone session. It is designed to help you understand how to evaluate your project and share that information with others.
Training Volunteers
This free course will be suitable for managers who want to improve the value of their in house training for their own volunteers
Dealing with difficult behaviour
This course is aimed at people managing volunteers and how to deal with difficult situations
Professional Boundaries
This course will give customer facing staff an understanding of the line they need to maintain when dealing with customers and colleagues. Starting with an understanding of what boundaries are.
Think Family - Valuing Parents and Improving Safeguarding for Children and Young People
These free sessions are to help managers and frontline workers in adult substance misusing services and adult mental health services working with parents, to improve outcomes for children and young people living in these families.
Roles and responsibilities of management committee members
This two hour session will give you an insight just what is involved in being a member of a management committee.
Introduction to the Compact Tool Kit for volunteer managers
This tool kit gives a step by step guide to how to create a volunteering programme, this is a free course that can support your work with volunteers in your organisation.
Full Cost Recovery
A guide to how full cost recovery works and the system you need to operate to apportion all the core costs incurred by your organisation
Recruitment & Selection
This workshop is a journey through the advertising, shortlisting, interviewing and seeking reference process we all have to undertake to ensure a fair and effective process.
Fresh n Fruity Activator Course
This is a free one day course to help you learn about healthy eating and be able to share information with us about how you have changed your lifestyle
Planning a fundable project
A guide to how to plan your project and what steps to take to ensure you don't miss anything out.
Food Hygiene award
This will cover the principles of food hygiene and you will get a three year certificate in safe good hygiene practice - click title for more details
Supporting Volunteers
This short course will show you how to incorporate support techniques into your programme.
Finding Funding
Finding the right funder can seem impossible, this course will help you find free resources to help you locate the right pot for you. Bursaries available for Leeds groups with income less than £20k.
Supervision of Volunteers
Supervision techniques and the importance of supervision for volunteers.
Time Management
Time management is about taking control of what you have to do and organising it to fit into the time you have.
Emergency First Aid
This is an accredited course giving your organisation a certificate proving you have a registered first aider, which is valid for three years.
Training Volunteers
This free course will be suitable for managers who want to improve the value of their in house training for their own volunteers
Dealing with difficult behaviour
This course is aimed at people managing volunteers and how to deal with difficult situations
Applying for small grants
This course is for any community and voluntary organisation who are preparing funding bids for grants under £10k.
Introduction to finance
To introduce participants to the four foundations of good practice when keeping the finances in order
Minute Taking
This course will equip you with the knowledge needed to produce accurate, clear and concise minutes and reduce time spent on transcribing and producing typed minutes.
Food Safety Awareness
This introductory course covers the basic requirements of good food hygiene, it will not give you a certificate for three years, however it is a good starting point.
How to manage joint working - one size does not fit all
An introduction to the intricacies of joint working, which includes a no nonsense look at joint working. This course is aimed at medium sized charities
Emergency Aid
This course will give you a three year accredited certificate in first aid that will be suitable for a voluntary organisation
Food Hygiene Level 2 Award
This will cover all the principles of food hygiene and you will get a three year certificate in safe food hygiene practice.
Data Protection and how to get it right
This course is looking at how to manage the information you collect and do it well.
Understanding Annual Accounts
An introductory course to getting things in order for your annual accounts and how to prepare for your year end
Equality and Diversity - have we all got the same rights?
Rights and responsibilities are someof the most hotly debated topics ever! So, what do we mean by equality and diversity, click the title to find out more
Fire Safety Awareness
This course is an introduction to the latest legislation you need to adhere to in relation to fire safety in voluntary or community projects.
Managing change in groups and organisations
We all experience change in our lives but for many people its one of the most difficult things to adjust to, this course will look at how to be pro-active instead of reactive when change happens and turn it into a positive challenge.
Attracting & keping new committee members
An active, supportive and responsible committee is essential for any voluntary and community group. This course will look at effective methods of recruitment and how to keep your committee motivated to stay.
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