Update on learning from the Marketing and Communications workstream led by the Media Trust

Various courses available

The following courses are being run by the Media Trust, follow the links for more information on each course:

Media interview training -8 June 2010 London
Media strategy to go - 15 June 2010 London
Social media essentials - 17 June 2010 London

For more information on these courses see the Improving Support website.

Update on learning from the National Performance Programme led by Charities Evaluation Services (CES)

Monitoring and evaluation: supporting groups - 15 July 2010, London

Explain and help set up monitoring and evaluation systems enabling your groups to discover, develop and demonstrate their value.

Quality: supporting groups - 21 September 2010, Sheffield

Help your groups choose the right quality system and support them as they implement it.

Strategic planning: supporting groups - 22-23 June 2010, Sheffield, 28-29 September 2010, Birmingham

Help your groups to become more effective and efficient by clarifying their purpose and developing a plan to achieve it.

For more information visit the performance website.

Update on learning from the Campaigning and Advocacy workstream led by NCVO

Certificate in Campaigning

Do you want to improve your skills in planning, delivery, evaluation and strategic thinking? NCVO's accredited course covers good practice campaigning and influencing over 10 modules. Series 7 runs from September 2010 to April 2011 and is now open for bookings.

There are a limited number of bursary spaces available, you can find out more at NCVO's website. Read how the course has changed the work done by Andrew Campbell, a development manager at Voluntary Norfolk.

Skilling Up for Stronger Voices - 29 & 30 June 2010 London

This is an orientation course to equip course participants with the information and materials they need to deliver the Skilling Up for Stonger Voices resources in their area of benefit. See NAVCA's website for more information.

Advocating Intelligent Commissioning Events, London - 22 June 2010 London

Do you:

work for a local support and development organisation or organisation that provides support to other organisations in the London area?
support local organisations involved in service delivery?
work with your local authority or primary care trust on commissioning?
want to advocate intelligent commissioning in order to achieve better services?

At the end of the seminar you will be better equipped to champion good practice in the commissioning of public services. For more information and to book see the event flyer and booking form.

Update on learning from the Modernising Volunteering workstream led by Volunteering England

See ICT workstream for course information.

Update on learning from the Information Communications Technology (ICT) workstream, led by NAVCA

New communication using social media for local support and volunteering organsiations - run in partnership with the Modernising Volunteering workstream

Do you want to find new ways to communicate with the groups and organisations you work with? Have you heard the term social media or read about Facebook and Twitter but not known how they could apply to your work supporting and developing local organisations and volunteer groups?

The first dates that are available for you to book onto are:

23 June 2010, Sheffield
7 July 2010, North East (venue to be confirmed)
8 July 2010, Bolton
15 July 2010, Birmingham

Places are £35 per person.

Update on learning from the Human Resouces and Employment Practice workstream led by the UK Workforce Development Hub, NCVO

Managing capability with the fit note - 16 June 2010 Derby

This seminar will take you through the nuts and bolts of managing capability using the new fit note, which was introduced in April 2010 to replace the traditional doctor's sick note.

For more information see the Improving Support website.

Update on learning from the Collaboration Benefits workstream led by bassac

Collaboration skills training - 16 June 2010 Newark, 17 June Taunton, 5 July Leicester

Are you a development worker looking to offer support to access to volunteering

community based organisations that want to collaborate? bassac is offering a free course to equip you with the knowledge and skills you need to improve collaboratibe working among the organisations you work with and support.

For more information please contact Keith Kibirango at keith@bassac.org.uk or call 020 7250 8063.

Update on learning from the Responding to Social Change workstream led by Third Sector Foresight at NCVO

The future of membership in the voluntary and community sector - 10 June, 2:30pm-5pm, London

With membership levels declining across many organisations, how can you make sure you membership scheme remains active and relevant in the next five years?

As a follow-up to the highly successful NCVO/RSA Future of Membership research project this free seminar is dedicated to thinking about the future of voluntary and community sector membership schemes.

To book see NCVO's website or contact Jess Farr on 020 7520 2578.

Update on learning from the Income Generation workstream led by ACEVO (Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations)

Supporting infrastructure organisations to build third sector consortium - 18 June 2010, Sheffield & 25 June, London

In partnership with Neil Coulson of the Social Investment Business and Voluntary Action Sheffield we will be offering two training seminars on how to go about setting up third sector consortium. These events are based on Voluntary Action Sheffield's Third Sector Consortium Toolkit. See ACEVO's website for more information.

Procurement Champions: doing more with less - 15 June 2010, London

This event will look at the likely impacts of the new administration's manifesto commitments on public service delivery and how the sector might best respond to this. For more information on this event see ACEVO's website.