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Core Training

Have you and your trustee board / committee undertaken core training recently? Here at BBW CVS we class core training as:

Equality and Diversity

GDPR

Health and Safety

Safeguarding (Adults or vulnerable children depending on organisation)

If your group or charity would like to undertake this core training package please get in touch with a member of our team to discuss.

 

 

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Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training  (2 day course £35pp) is an interactive and practical training course to help you spot the early signs of a mental health problem. It will equip you with tools and techniques to help you, your friends, family and colleagues.

The aim is to give you the knowledge, skills and understanding to identify symptoms, so you can support yourself and others experiencing mental health problems.

Resilience training (4 half day courses £15pp)  helps to withstand and recover from stressful life challenges, strengthened and more resourceful. This personal resilience training or parents/carers resilience training for those raising children/young people with SEND / emotional difficulties.

 

 

 

 

Many of us will witness a cardiac arrest in our lifetime. Be ready for that day with RevivR, The British Heart Foundation fast, free and easy-to-use online training course.

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Webinar series with NCVO  legal partners Withers LLP are available to watch on the NCVO YouTube channel

Setting up a Charity
Choosing your Legal Structure
Writing and Amending your Governing Document

NCVO – strategic planning

NCVO has created a series of three webinars to help people understand more about strategic planning. The webinars introduce tools and approaches which can help with understanding the environment, setting direction and identifying strategic options.

Introducing the voluntary sector – Open University

If you feel that you want to learn more about the voluntary sector then this short 8-week course is for you. The course will guide you through some of the distinctive features and values of the voluntary sector, how organisations are funded and involve volunteers and other ‘stakeholders’ in their work. It will also provide you with knowledge and skills you can apply to your own work or volunteering as well as your everyday life. You can progress at your own pace over the 8 weeks; each week will take a minimum of 3 hours of your time.

Low-Budget Video Production: Visual Communication for Small Charities

Understand how video can expand and enhance your organisation’s communications and develop practical skills for your productions.

Get a practical guide to fundraising and learn tips on everything from preparing your fundraising story to processing donations.

Mental health organisations: jump start your communications!
Media Trust’s Headlining Mental Health programme is offering a free online Autumn course, from September to October, to support you in developing your organisation’s communications strategy. Designed with, and for, mental health charities, the short weekly workshops over two months will help you design, implement, and measure your communications.
There are 30 places available, open to all UK mental health and wellbeing organisations. Register via link above.
Lets talk about suicide training
As the world continues to recover from COVID and the cost of living is at an all-time high its important to ensure people know how to spot someone in crisis and how to talk to them about their mental health.
In 2019, 111 people lost their lives to suicide across greater Essex; 83% were male.

Get Psychological First Aid training to support children and young people’s mental health during emergencies and crisis situations

Free oral health training with Community Dental ServicesThe Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service website now provides access to our free ‘Oral health online training toolkits’ aimed at professionals working in Essex with children and children with additional needs.

To complete training and to access other oral health resources please visit the website. An oral health training certificate with CPD hours will be issued on completion.

Helping your charity understand cost recovery

Fundraising: Writing Grant Applications

Online Dementia Friends’ SessionsThese are 30-45 minute Information Session webinars delivered online by a volunteer champion, using presentation slides. You’ll be able to talk with the champion and other attendees via the chat box.Contact Billericay Dementia Action Alliance to find out when there next training courses are running.

Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisationsFreeThis course, Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations, will help you to reflect on and develop collaborative leadership practices that will make a difference.The course is aimed at people who work within voluntary organisations as paid staff or as volunteers or for people who work regularly with voluntary organisations, such as public sector staff or politicians.The course will take approximately 24 hours to complete. It is divided into 8 weeks, each of which follows a standard pattern to make it easier for you to plan your time. There is a quiz at the end of each week to check what you have learned.

Leadership challenges in turbulent times
FreeIn this short course you will have the opportunity to understand and explain how leadership changes in accordance to the needs of the turbulent environments that we experience. You will also explore the leadership challenges that can affect leadership effectiveness and will seek ways to successfully face these challenges.

Free Essential Training for TrusteesThe Foundation for Social Improvement (FSI) has created a series of FREE online videos for Charity Trustees to help promote good governance and ensure Trustees of all charities understand their responsibilities.

Steps to Effective Recruitment

Supporting Charities to Influence

Inducting a New Joiner

Personal Development Planning

Performance Management

Risk Management

Trustee Recruitment, Selection and Induction

Communications Support

Cyber Security Essentials

Working in the Voluntary Sector- Open University This course focuses on the practicalities of working or volunteering in voluntary and community organisations including: working with volunteers; marketing and communication; budgets; fundraising; taking part in meetings; working in teams and partnerships; and building resilience.

Taking Part in the Voluntary Sector- Open UniversityThis course  was developed by the OU’s Centre for Inclusion and Collaborative Partnerships (CICP) in partnership with the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO).

Developing Leadership Practice in Voluntary Organisations- Open University -This course provides an opportunity for people who work within voluntary organisations, as paid employees or staff, to develop energetic, practical and thoughtful leadership practice.

Collaborative Leadership in Voluntary Organisations – Open University,This training will help you to reflect on and develop collaborative leadership practices that will make a difference.

How to Involve VolunteersDeveloped by Volunteer Scotland and the Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership (CVSL),  this course is about the essential things you need to consider to ensure a positive experience for individuals engaging in volunteering

Free Course – Facebook & Instagram Fundamentals eLearningMedia Trust have partnered with Facebook Blueprint to bring you an eLearning Pathway with 8 modules covering the fundamentals of advertising with Facebook and Instagram.

Facebook Help – Creating a Fundraiser

COVID-19 Digital Checklist for Charity Trustees and LeadersThe tool by Charity Digital Code, comprises a digital checklist, developed by experts from across the sector, and is designed to help support leaders in making effective decisions about digital during the coronavirus crisis – and beyond

Youth Mental Health: Helping Young People with Anxiety
Mental health professionals at the University of East Anglia have created an introduction to managing anxiety disorders in teenagers, with a course ideal for teachers and healthcare professionals.

Helping With Anxiety in Children and Young People During COVID-19
Mental health professionals at the University of East Anglia have partnered with mental health organisations to share helpful strategies to support young people struggling with anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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