Sector wide training and events

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Training and Events in Multiple Regions

Participation Works will be holding the following courses from August through to the end of the year, all of which are free for third sector organisations and held in various regions:

Safeguarding in Youth Participation: This one-day course developed by the national Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS) supports organisations in developing and applying safe policies and procedures when working with young people.
Building a Culture of Participation: This course aims to equip individuals with basic theory and practical approaches to participation, to help them build a culture of participation. Building a Culture of Participation explores how an organisation’s culture can be established to support children and young people’s active and meaningful participation across the organisation.
Hear By Right: These workshops are designed to provide information about using the Hear by Right standards framework to draw up a map of current participation in your organisation (with children and young people), and create an agreed strategic plan for improvement.
Ready Steady Change: A selection of training methods and tools (from each section of the original course) to build skills and knowledge in increasing children and young people’s effective participation in decision-making.

More information on these courses is available on their website http://www.participationworks.org.uk/ or you can reach them on 0845 603 6725

2nd of December 2008

Happy, Healthy, Happening!
Location: National
Cost: £155 - £260 (+ VAT)
Telephone: 0207 5226970

Integrated health in children and young people’s services is crucial in driving forward positive outcomes. A healthy start in life matters. Investment in the early years can lay the foundations for health and well-being, ensuring that children are able to achieve their full potential and grow into healthy adults. This conference will extend the debate and learning around a holistic approach to healthy outcomes for children, focusing on delivering integrated health services throughout childhood.

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East Midlands

East of England

London

Wednesday 3 December 2008

OnBoard Seminar: Focus on Leadership
Time: 4.30pm registration, 5.00pm-7.30pm (includes networking)
Venue: OnBoard, 2-6 Cannon Street, London EC4M 6YH
Price: £25

OnBoard consultant Tesse Akpeki will bring the latest thinking, ideas and approaches in governance. Participants will be encouraged to share their issues, concerns, successes and thinking. At the end of this roundtable event, participants will have a menu of practices that work and frames for future long term thinking.

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Friday 5 December

Futurebuilders surgeries
London

Futurebuilders England is a government-backed fund offering support and investment to third sector organisations to develop their capacity to deliver public services. We offer a combination of loans, grants and professional support.

Organisations considering applying to Futurebuilders can benefit from valuable tips and advice at one of our popular pre-application surgeries.These free events include an information session, time to ask questions and the opportunity to discuss individual proposals with a member of the team. We have found that organisations that attend a surgery before applying perform considerably better at the application stage than organisations that don't.

There are only a limited number of places at each surgery and they are allocated on a first come, first serve basis. Please ensure that you book a place.

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Date: Thursday 11 December 2008

Alive and Kicking: creating successful strategies
Time: 10.00am - 4.10pm
Venue: Royal Horticultural Halls, London SW1

Half-price places for organisations with an annual income under £100,000.

Are you looking to revitalise your strategy? Do you want your organisation to stay ahead of the game, or avoid mission drift?

This conference offers a great opportunity to gain some fresh ideas and techniques to bring your strategy to life.

At this event, you will be able to learn from other organisations, challenge your perceptions of what’s possible, experiment and have fun. From the big picture trends to watch out for, to tips on involving more people, you will discover a host of approaches to help make your organisation’s strategy a roaring success.
Who should attend?

If you are responsible for strategic decisions within your organisation, this event is for you. Whether you’re a seasoned strategist or keen to develop some core strategic planning skills, our programme offers plenty of choice.

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Date: Thursday 11 December 2008

Delivering for Young People: Making young people a number one priority
Location: London
Cost: £155 - £260 (+ VAT)

Description: The Conference comes at a crucial stage in the implementation of significant and far reaching reforms of services for young people. Bringing together leaders from local authorities, the third sector, health and young people themselves, this conference will seek to highlight how ambitious policy is translating into leading strategy and practice.

With the focus on services within the children’s and young people’s sector moving very much towards integrated working and an integrated 0-19 approach this conference will look at the way in which young people are a part of this and how services can work together to create a really joined up service.

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Date: Monday 19 January 2009

NCVO and Media Trust joint event
Time: 10.00am-4.00pm
Venue: NCVO Conference Suite, London
paid course

Get essential tips on effective marketing and communications techniques.
Learn from experts who will share their knowledge and experience with you.
Sharpen your marketing theory and practice.
Attend interactive and practical workshops.
Network and share best practice with colleagues involved in marketing and communications.
This event is for you if you are involved or interested in marketing, communications, media or PR within the voluntary and community sector.

If you work in a frontline organisation and are involved in your organisation’s marketing, this conference will provide you with the knowledge and methods to successfully engage with your audiences and make your marketing work better for you.

For those who work in infrastructure organisations or provide support to other organisations, this conference will equip you with the tools and expertise you need to strengthen your own organisation’s marketing as well as the marketing of the organisations you work with and support. Capacitybuilders logo

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Thursday 26 February 2009

OnBoard Seminar: Codes of Conduct for Trustees
Time: 5.30pm registration, 6.00pm-8.00pm (includes networking)
Venue: OnBoard, 2-6 Cannon Street, London EC4M 6YH
Price: £25

Codes of conduct for trustees – how to develop a code that is relevant to your organisation. Also explored will be strategies to address behaviours which may hinder the board from achieving its full potential.

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3 March, Dominian Arts Centre, London

Recipes for community representation - what ingredients do you need?

Urban Forum is collaborating with NAVCA to run a series of events to help voluntary and community groups to increase the effectiveness of community representation in their area.

The objectives of the events are for participants to gain an increased understanding of:

The ingredients for effective community representation
Different ways of organising community representation
Ways forward to improve community representation in their area

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North East

North West

South East

South West

West Midlands

27 January, BVSC, Birmingham

Recipes for community representation - what ingredients do you need?

Urban Forum is collaborating with NAVCA to run a series of events to help voluntary and community groups to increase the effectiveness of community representation in their area.

The objectives of the events are for participants to gain an increased understanding of:

    * The ingredients for effective community representation
    * Different ways of organising community representation
    * Ways forward to improve community representation in their area

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Yorkshire and the Humber

North Yorkshire Forum for Voluntary Organisations
Thriving Third Sector?
13-11-2008

This years conference explores the theme of an environment for a Thriving Third Sector and provides an opportunity to learn more about and discuss key issues and challenges for voluntary and community organisations in York and North Yorkshire. Keynote speakers include Bill Freeman (NAVCA) and Dr Tony Chapman (University of Teesside), and a presentation of the new VCS Directory.

Plus workshops on a variety of topics, including:
- Commissioning and Procurement
- Working together for engaged communities
- Our Creative Talent
- VCS and Children and Young People.

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24 March, St George's Centre, Leeds

Recipes for community representation - what ingredients do you need?

Urban Forum is collaborating with NAVCA to run a series of events to help voluntary and community groups to increase the effectiveness of community representation in their area.

The objectives of the events are for participants to gain an increased understanding of:

The ingredients for effective community representation
Different ways of organising community representation
Ways forward to improve community representation in their area

Click here for more information