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September

 

OnBoard Seminar: Building and Sustaining an Effective Board
Date: 17 September 2008
Time: 5.30pm registration, 6.00pm-8.00pm (includes networking)
Venue: OnBoard, 2-6 Cannon Street, London EC4M 6YH
Price: £25


Having recruited board members, a healthy strategy is to induct them, engage them and motivate them, leading to a high performance team best placed to deliver the organisation's mission with a strategic approach. Teaming up with Prospect-us OnBoard brings practical tips and hints in how you can achieve this with your board.

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Participation: The Essential Tools and Resources Conference
Participation Works
London, Thursday 18 September 2008
9.30am - 4.15pm

Hosted by Participation Works, Participation: The Essential Tools and Resources is a one-day conference that will explore the available tools and resources to support children and young people's participation in a range of settings. Delegates at the conference will learn how to use tools and resources to improve children and young people's participation. Participants will also be able to discuss specific participation issues through a number of workshops. The conference will be a great networking opportunity for everyone involved in participation.

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For further information and to book on-line, please visit http://www.participationworks.org.uk/

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact the Participation Works Enquiry Service at enquiries@participationworks.org.uk or on 0845 603 6725  

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:

  • 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

Governing for Children
NCVCCO
Birmingham, Wednesday 10th September 2008

Taking place in Birmingham on 10th September 2008 this event offers essential advice for Senior Management and Trustees on important governance issues like: vetting & barring, volunteers & governance and involving children and young people in decision making.
Speakers include; Sir Roger Singleton from the Independent Safeguarding Authority, Dame Gillian Pugh, and Richard Cordon from The Compact
 
Click here to view the programme for the day and a flyer to give you more detail.
 
Please contact Natalie on natalie@ncvcco.org or 020 7833 3319 to register your attendance.

 

October

 

NCVO and OnBoard Trustee Conference 2008
Date: Monday 6 October 2008
Time: 09.30 to 17.00
Venue: The Brewery Chiswell Street London EC1 4SD


This year the conference looks at a variety of approaches to improving board effectiveness. It will provide delegates with a broad overview of the key issues affecting boards, and look at fresh strategies and insights on governance, as well as updating delegates on recent developments and trends.


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November

 

TBA

 

December

 

OnBoard Seminar: Focus on Leadership
Date: 3 December 2008
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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January

 

TBA

 

February

 

OnBoard Seminar: Codes of Conduct for Trustees
Date: 26 Feb 2009
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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