Regeneration East Midlands GOEM LAA Skills Programme
These courses are of particular interest to those who work with LAA’s and cover two important areas.
1)Strategic Commissioning: How commissioning works in practice using practical examples and tools. Why move to a commissioning approach and what this means for leadership and decision-making. Consider benefits of effective pooling of funding in an LAA. What needs to be included in commissioning processes, who does it and how? Date: 1st March 2007, Times: 10am – 4pm, Venue: Strathdon Hotel Nottingham.
Guest speaker is a Partnership Director from Wolverhampton.
2) Working across blocks and cross-cutting issues: Ensuring partnerships work effectively across blocks (without creating 4 times as many meetings. Techniques to plan delivery around complex cross-cutting issues. Reviewing best practice – how partnerships have tackled some of the common cross-cutting themes. Cohesion, Equalities, Sustainability, Culture, Sport. Voluntary and community sector delivery across blocks
Dates: 16th March 2007, Time: 10am – 4pm, Venue: GOEM Suite 3
For further information including a map or to book for either of these events contact Kris@regenerationem.co.uk or Telephone 08702404459.

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Very important - please read and pass on to others in your network who could benifit from this.

Discover Hidden Funding Needs and Opportunities
Free evening training for:
Funding Advisors, Community Development Workers, Voluntary organisations engaged on funding advice, Umbrella agency workers with funding advice responsibilities.
Content:
This training is an exciting opportunity to receive planning effective funding advice (a planning tool for funding advisers). Business development, trading, sustainability; all these are every day words in the business world, but how do they translate to the Voluntary Sector? More and more voluntary groups are realising that applying these ideas to their daily routines could provide financial independence and security for their organisation’s objectives.
Topics Include: What do you need to do first? How to maximise funding opportunities through planning. How to secure funder’s support maximising funding opportunities.
How the course can add value to you by:
Improving funding opportunities for your clients, maximising your clients potential for sustainable funding, linking strategy to direct action, reducing the number of funding searches.
Details: 22nd March 2007 at Voluntary Action Leicester (VAL) and 29th March at Nottingham CVS.
To confirm attendance or for further information contact Juan Pardo on juanmpardo@fsmail.net or Telephone on 01858 439 266.

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Very valuable! Please try and benefit from this.

Making Movies – Courses in Editing, Performance and Film Making
• Introduction to Editing: Monday from 19th February t0 19th March at 12.30pm to 4.30pm (City Arts)
• Introduction to Film making: Wednesday 21st February -21st March 12.30-4.30pm (City Arts)
• Introduction to Performance: Friday 23rd February – 23rd March 1.00 – 4.00pm (Venue to be confirmed)
To book a place on any of the courses above please contact Kate Duncan: 0115 9782463 or email Kate@city-arts.org.uk
Eligibility: Courses for people aged 16+ Fees:£30.00 per 20hr course/free for people on a means tested benefit.

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Improve your skill base. Good starter courses!

Counselling Skills For Non – Counsellors
Improve your listening skills
Discuss difficult matters
Effectively give support
Access the right resources
Set clear boundaries
Then this is the course for YOU: A 3 day Life Skills Course provided by Relate Leicestershire. An Open College Network accredited course
When? Wednesdays: 2nd, 9th, 16th May 2007 at 09.30am – 4.00pm
Where? Relate, 83 Aylestone Road, Leicester LE2 7LL
Cost: £250 for all three days.
Booking form available from 0116 2543011 or email training@relateleics.org

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A useful course.

Professional Trainers Award
This certificate is ideal for creative people looking to gain a recognised training qualification or who have relatively little training experience. Held over two days, the free course includes the opportunity to practice your newly developed training skills in a comfortable environment with supportive and constructive feedback. It is ideal for anyone who needs to understand the basics of training practice or wants to refine their training techniques. It encourages a flexible approach to training delivery which takes into account recent advances in accelerated learning and neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). Successful candidates will be able to structure, design and deliver interesting and stimulating training.
The course is accredited by CIEH and is a Level 2 equivalent qualification. There are limited places which need to be secured by a £10 deposit by 1st March 2007

Location
Derby: 22nd and 23rd March 2007 at 09.30am – 3.30pm at the Voicebox, Kensington Mews, Forman Street, Derby. DE1 1JQ

Nottingham: 28th and 29th March 2007 at 09.30am – 3.30pm at Broadway, 14 – 18 Broad Street, Nottingham. NG1 3AL.

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Contact Creative Launchpad on 0115 950 3730 for information regarding eligibility criteria, as this is stringent!!

Nottingham Women’s Centre
FREE Courses for women in receipt of means tested benefits ranging from Yoga, Hypnotherapy, Arts and crafts, ESOL, Skills for life, Building Self Confidence, Teacher Training for Adult Education, Assertiveness training, Goals and Motivation, Launching your own business, IAG –Information, Advice and Guidance Employment & Training sessions. A variety Computer courses at beginner and intermediate levels.
In House Creche available.

Please call 0115 9240041 or 9475212 or Email: tedproject@nottinghamwomenscentre.com

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Great opportunity for targetted learning.

Nottingham City Safeguarding Children Board - Introduction to Safeguarding Children
A course aimed at all those who work with children and their families, or those who work with adults where there are children in the immediate family.
If you are a paid or unpaid worker from a statutory, voluntary or private organisation and particularly unable to access in-house introductory child protection training, this is for you.

Content: An Awareness raising course about safeguarding children, explaining workers’ roles and responsibilies in the protection and safeguarding of children and provision of services of children in need. The course explains the signs and symptoms of the four categories of abuse and what steps to take if you are worried about the welfare of a child or family.
Dates: Thursday 15th March 2007
Thursday 19th April 2007
Thursday 8th May 2007
All run from 09.15 – 16.30 hrs

Please contact Anthony Lancaster, NCSCB Administrator at The Lindens, 379 Woodborough Road,Tel: 915 9389 or email anthony.lancaster@nottinghamcity.gov.uk

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Extremely Important, please make this a priority.

The Real World: Using Local Diversity to Promote Intercultural Education
A free seminar for education staff, arts and community workers who recognise the importance of a global approach to education. The increasing diversity of young people arriving in our classrooms and joining our communities brings new opportunities for inter-cultural learning.

Through a mixture of case studies, workshops and discussions, the seminar will examine ways to help schools and colleges make the best use of the opportunities of working with artists from newly arrived communities, provide participants with the opportunity to explore ways to enrich global and inter-cultural learning and establish opportunities for creating a support network of teachers and artists from newly arrived communities.

Key Note Speaker: Adam Newman Turner, Consultant Global Education and Citizenship. The seminar will be held at Devonshire Place, 80 London Road Leicester on Friday 23rd March 2007, from 12:00pm to 4:30pm. For further information and a booking form you can contact me (Alice) on 0116 270 2706 or at alice@soft-touch.org. You can also call Adam Newman Turner on 0772 911 3175.

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This looks as if it could be a very useful event for practitioners and interested parties to attend – maybe ask for the outcomes or report of you can’t make it?