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Filter by themeFilter by month Events listing for all events:  03 September 2010 - Amber Valley Training Courses |
Amber Valley CVS run a variety of training courses including Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults, Befriending and home from hospital, Committee Skills and Time Management. These are just some of the courses which are open to any organisations in the East Midlands Region.
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| 07 September 2010 - Listening to You - Part of the All in One Project |
Community and voluntary groups in Nottingham who involve people living on low incomes and suffering social exclusion are invited to take part in the All in One project and help involve their community, starting with Listening Events. This event is in Nottingham however, please look out for information on forthcoming Listening Events in September in Leicester, rural and coastal Lincolnshire, Lincoln, Kettering and/or Corby, and Bolsover.
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| 07 September 2010 - NCVO HR Masterclass: The essential employer |
Meet your legal requirements as an employer with this comprehensive training on the paperwork and processes you should have in place. This Masterclass will take participants through the key aspects of recruiting and checking staff. You’ll understand your contractual obligations as an employer and what policies and procedures you’ll need in place to help you if things go wrong.
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| 13 September 2010 - Delivering Learning Developing Skills |
The East Midlands Learning and Skills Partnership and the East Midlands Learning Support Network are hosting an event to promote the benefits of working with the Voluntary and Community Sector to deliver learning, skills and development opportunities. The event will include speakers and interactive workshops as well as opportunities for networking and partnership development.
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| 20 September 2010 - DTA and CLINKS income generation event |
Do you work with offenders, ex-offenders or those at risk of offending?
Are you interested in enterprise and income generation?
CLINKS and the DTA are running a day long event that will help you think about how to generate some of your income and diversify your income streams.
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| 23 September 2010 - Strategic Funding and Finance Management |
This training session has been commissioned by the Funds and Figures project. This session will look at;
The World of Funding - How it is changing and how to respond to these changes.
Where is the Money Going to Come From - Effective fundraising and income generation.
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| 24 September 2010 - The next SMART Social Enterprise visit is to Hockerton Housing Project |
SMART SE visits are open to anyone in the East Midlands with an interest in social enterprise. Hockerton Housing Project (HHP) is the UK's first earth sheltered, self-sufficient ecological housing development. The residents of the five houses generate their own clean energy, harvest their own water and treat their own waste water causing minimal pollution & carbon dioxide emissions.
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| 28 September 2010 - How to Excel in Funding Advice |
If you have a job or voluntary role which involves you in providing funding advice or information to voluntary or community groups then this training could be for you. Only 7 places remaining on the September Training
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| 30 September 2010 - Third Sector Summit. |
CLAHRC-NDL (Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care - Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Lincolnshire) is an applied health research partnership, funded by the National Institute for Health Research and one of only nine across England. Third sector organisations are crucial providers of health and social care. The CLAHRC would like to develop a formal role for third sector representation. This will be someone who has knowledge of the sector and can act as a link between researchers, statutory providers and third sector organisations.
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| 05 October 2010 - Financial Awareness and Investment Readiness (FAIR) Learning Programme |
The Financial Awareness and Investment Readiness (FAIR) Learning Programme will be available to advisers in Third Sector Infrastructure Support organisations who find themselves more and more frequently asked about how to set up or fund a social enterprise. Requests may be coming from community groups with an asset, voluntary organisations looking to contract with the public sector or charities that want to set up a trading arm. Wherever the request springs from we want to ensure that third sector advisers are prepared to deal with it.
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| 06 October 2010 - Making it Work: Learning for work and people with learning difficulties |
Supported employment is central to achieving the goal of the 2009 cross-government strategy Valuing Employment Now which is to radically increase the number of people with moderate and severe learning disabilities in paid work by 2025. The role of learning providers in embedding the supported employment model in vocational courses, is a crucial part of achieving this goal.
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| 13 October 2010 - Communication and Social Media Workshop |
- Would you like new ways to communicate with groups and communities you support?
- Do you want to find and try out different ways to reach your volunteers?
- Have you heard of social media or read about Facebook and Twitter, but not known how to apply them in development of local organisations and volunteer groups?
If you're a development worker in a local support and development organisation helping small groups, or you provide support and advice in a volunteer centre then this workshop could be for you!
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| 18 October 2010 - Free Course on Trading to Create New Income Streams |
The Development Trusts Association is now accepting expressions of interest to participate on thier Community Sector Trading course starting in October. Community Sector Trading is a free course that offers practical learning based on real experience of the ‘nuts and bolts’ of running a business in the community. It is delivered through a mix of face-to-face and live online sessions that aim to help participants understand how voluntary and community organisations can develop their trading activities.
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| 18 October 2010 - East Midlands Poverty Convention |
The first East Midlands Poverty Convention is taking place at the historic Southwell Workhouse on October 18th. These are difficult and rapidly changing times and we need to try and ensure that policies, services and resources do not make poor people’s lives poorer.
This convention will bring together the main issues and ideas from the All in One local events and festivals held between April and November. The All in One project is to mark 2010 as a special year about people sharing ideas and experience, and enable our region to speak out about poverty and social exclusion, and attract the interest of decision makers and the media.
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| 30 October 2010 - CSV Make a Difference Day |
CSV Make a Difference Day is the UK’s largest single day of volunteering. Every year tens of thousands of people get together across the UK to make a difference in their communities
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| 24 November 2010 - Using the Arts with Young People at Risk |
This course gives an overview of the benefits of using the arts with young people at risk and covers essential areas when doing so. Participants are given an understanding of youth arts and youth culture and the skill set needed to successfully design, fund, manage and market an appropriate arts project.
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| 31 March 2011 - The Smart Way to Learn About Social Enterprise |
Forget textbooks – this is where learning comes to life!
If you’re a budding social entrepreneur or social enterprise in the East Midlands what better way to grow than by learning from the region’s leading social entrepreneurs?
Funded by Capacity Builders
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