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infrastructure in England. We aim to ensure
communities are well served by the local
third sector by supporting our members and their
work with over 160,000 local groups and
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SKiLDbites is a free
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workers.
Their work might be offering
general development support to groups, or
specialist help such as funding advice or
training.
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| 2
February 2010,
Issue 23 |
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Welcome to the latest edition
of SKiLDbites.
As always this edition of the bulletin is
full of training and information for development
workers.
In early January Lindsey Benton joined the
SKiLD team as the new Learning
Programme Manager. Lindsey's role is to ensure
that NAVCA develops and delivers a co-ordinated
programme of high quality personal and
professional development opportunities for staff
and trustees within local infrastructure
organisations. Lindsey can be contacted on 0114
289 3986 or email lindsey.benton@navca.org.uk
We hope that you find this information
useful and as always if you have any questions
or feedback for us please contact 0114 278
6636 or email skildbites@navca.org.uk.
Best wishes,
The SKiLD
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Learning programme
updates |
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Update
on SKiLD learning programme
 8
& 9 February 2010
Birmingham - exclusively for development
workers from the West Midlands
Run in
partnership with Community Sector Coalition
(CSC).
This course is a one and a half day
residential with a follow up four to six weeks
later.
The liberating leadership training is
designed for development workers to enable them
to help people recognise their role as leaders
in their community and to develop confidence
skills and knowledge.
Diversity - making it
real - 16 February
2010 Manchester
 You don't need
to know about diversity do you? It doesn't
affect you does it?
Yes it does, diversity affects you in all
aspects of your everyday and working life. If
acknowledges that you live in a society with
communities of people of differing race and
ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age,
religion, belief and disability.
This introductory course will help
you:
- develop the knowledge and skills you need to
understand diversity and tackle inequality in
the organisations you work with
- look at the similarities and difference
between equal opportunities and diversity
- introduce you to UK legislation on diversity
- provide you with practical strategies to
address diversity issues in the groups you
support.
From development worker to manager
- 23 February 2010 Birmingham
Are you working with groups, but wondering
what it would be like to move into
management?
The topics covered will include:
- the skills you need to be a good manager
- management in the third sector
- teams, and being part of a team
- the tricky things that managers have to
do.
Tools for development work - 4
March 2010 Reading
For people who have been supporting groups
for a while, and want some new ideas and
techniques.
This day will introduce
- practical tools about common issues, to use
with groups
- creative techniques for working with
groups
At the end of the day you will have a stock
of tools that are ready to use or to be
adapted.
 Update on learning from
the Income Generation workstream led by ACEVO
(Association of Chief Executives in Voluntary
Organisations)
Community assets matter training
- 9 February 2010 Bristol, 23 February 2010
Newcastle, 16 March 2010
London
This two day national training
programme will provide participants with the
skills and knowledge required to support
frontline groups and organisations with the
effective management of building and other
community assets.
For more information, or to book a place
please contact Annie Jenkins on 020 7837 7887 or
email Annie.
Update on
learning from the Marketing and Communications
workstream led by the Media Trust
Various
training events
 Media Trust have
designed a full schedule of tailored, subsidised
marketing and PR training events across the
country. There are still lots of events still to
take place with the schedule continuing until
March 2010.
Visit the Media Trust website for more
information.
Update on
learning from the National Performance Programme
led by Charities Evaluation Services
(CES)
Strategic planning in the South
East? Evaluation in the East Midlands? Quality
in the North West?
The National Performance Programme at CES
will be training in Southampton, Brighton,
Leicester, Nottingham, Liverpool and Warrington
throughout February and March. So if you'd like
to improve your performance management support
skills, book a place and bring a friend - it's
'two for one' on all courses at the
moment!
Update on learning from the
Leadership and Governance workstream led by NCVO
 Trustee
Recruitment Learning Forum - 30 March 2010
London
This event is funded through the Leadership
and Governance National Support, and is for
infrastructure organisations who support
organisations to recruit trustees. The day will
include a mixture of presentations, practical
information, and networking opportunities to
enable participants to share information and
experiences with peers about supporting trustee
recruitment.
Across the country and in other sectors
there is innovative work being undertaken to
increase awareness of board level volunteering.
This is an opportunity to come together to share
this learning and expertise to create, innovate
and find practical ways of recruiting
trustees.
Find out more book your place now. Places
are limited so be sure to book your place
early. Update on learning from the
Campaigning and Advocacy workstream led by
NCVO
Skilling Up for Stronger Voices -
23 & 24 February 2010 Bristol
 This course is
not for representatives themselves, but is
for course participants who will then deliver
the materials to local representatives. The
course is to equip course participants with the
information and materials they need to deliver
the Skilling Up for Stronger Voices resources in
their area of benefit.
See NAVCA's website for more
information on orientation
courses.
Advocating Intelligent
Commissioning Events, South East - 23 March
Guildford & 15 April Reading
Do you:
- work for a local infrastructure
organisation (LIO) or organisation
that provides support to other
organisations in the South East region?
- 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.
Update on learning from the
Modernising Volunteering workstream led by
Volunteering
England
 Volunteer
Management Conference, working together to
improve volunteering - 23-24 March 2010,
Warwick
This two-day event, held at the University
of Warwick conference park will provide
opportunities for sharing learning and
networking among different groups of
practitioners in the area of volunteer
management.
Update on learning from the Human
Resouces and Employment Practice workstream led
by the UK Workforce Development Hub,
NCVO
HR Masterclass - 4 & 5 March
2010 London
NCVO's HR Masterclass is being repeated in
March due to popular demand. The training offers
a host of techniques and approaches to keep your
organsiation - and the organisations you work to
support - on the right side of employment
legislation and help you make the most of good
practice. For more information see NCVO's
website.
NCVO Annual HR Conference - 23
March 2010 London
Effective managers and good employers get
more from their staff - higher performance,
increased motivation and improved attendance.
Key note speakers include Brendan Barber,
General Secretary of TUC and Helen Giles MBE, HR
Director of Broadway. Find out more and book
online. Receive a 10% discount if you book
before 5 February.
Update on learning from the
Collaboration Benefits workstream led by
bassac
Collaboration skills training -
February and March various locations
Are you a development worker looking to
offer support to  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.
The Collaboration Support Skills for
Development Workers course are being held
at:
- Leamington Spa, 15 and 26 February 2010
- Plymouth, 18 February and 1 March 2010
- Central London, 24 February and 2 March 2010
- Pershore, 24 February and 1 March
2010
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
Foresight training for development
workers - 24 February Leicester
This training from One East Midlands and
NCVO Third Sector Foresight is specifically for
people who support frontline
organisations.
The training will help you to support
frontline organisations to understand change and
plan more effectively.
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| News from
SKiLD |
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SKiLD is able to deliver courses locally to
development workers where an organisation, or
network, has identified at least ten development
workers who have a learning need. SKiLD will
organise bookings administration and pay venue
and refreshment costs. Contact the SKiLD team on
0114 278 6636 or email skild@navca.org.uk
SKiLD framework
 The team has
been working on the SKiLD framework with the
Children's Workforce Development Council Advisor
and the Every Child Matters Manager to add
resources and competencies related to
development workers who support children and
young people's frontline groups. Take a
look at the SKiLD framework to find out
more. Registration on the site is
free.
SKiLD on Twitter
 The SKiLD team
has a Twitter account where we provide
information about upcoming courses, information
relevant to development workers and views and
ideas from SKiLD and the Learning and
Development Team at NAVCA. Take a look at our account, we're
@navcalandd (as in NAVCA learning and
development!).
Network co-ordintors
event
If you are the co-ordinator of a
development worker network why not come along to
our event on 8 and 9 March 2010 in Sheffield?
This event will give you the chance to meet
other co-ordintors, share information and take
part in the programme that has been specially
developed with co-ordintors in mind. For more
information please contact Alan Turner on 0114
289 3970 or see the SKiLD
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| Latest news
from Capacitybuilders' National Support
Service (NSS) and National Priority
Programmes (NPP) |
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In addition to the
training and events mentioned earlier in this
bulletin, the NSS and NPP workstreams are also
supporting you to do your role more effectively
in the following ways...
The Campaigning
and Advocacy workstream led by NCVO
louder.org.uk
www.louder.org.uk is a
free and accessible platform from which you can
devise and run your own campaigns.
Campaigners of all levels will be able to
access a range of online advocacy tools and
practical support including a campaign wizard to
guide you through.
The Responding to Social
Change workstream led by Third Sector Foresight
at NCVO
The
Collaboration Benefits workstream led by
bassac
The Marketing
and Communications workstream led by the Media
Trust
The Equality
and Diversity workstream led by the National
Equalities Partnership
(NEP)
The Leadership
and Governance workstream led by NCVO
The Income Generation workstream
led by ACEVO
Capacity Manager - the Income
Generation workstream is launching a new
tool
Capacity Manager is a tool to evaluate
whether your internal support services are
working effectively. Fundamentally it is
designed you help you manage these back-office
services better and understand how each
service should really be contributing to your
organisation. The tool is launching today (2
February 2010). For more information please see
the Capacity Manager
website.
The Human
Resources and Employment Practice workstream led
by the UK Workforce Development,
NCVO
The Information Communications
Tecnology (ICT) workstream, led by
NAVCA
How development workers can help
groups with ICT
 It can sometimes
be difficult for development workers
to keep up with all the changes in ICT or
perhaps see how social
networking could be useful, so the NAVCA ICT
Champions have developed a workshop which offers
useful advice, practical exercises and signposts
to be used when working with groups. The video on this page shows the
workshop in
action. The National Performance
Management programme led by CES
The Modernising
Volunteering workstream led by Volunteering
England
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| Other
NAVCA news for development
workers |
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Empowering the Voluntary Sector
(EVS)
"I feel I now know enough about
public law to feel confident to incorparate it
(when necessary) in my negotiations with public
bodes".
"Wish we'd had this years
ago!"
These are just two of the many positive
comments we have received from delegates
attending the "Empowering the Voluntary Sector"
workshop. To date we have trained over 1,500 VCS
workers in the principles of Compact and Public
Law. We currently have spaces on the following
workshops:
Colchester 10.2.10 (EVS147)
Lancaster 18.2.10 (EVS156)
Dover 25.2.10 (EVS154)
Thurrock 3.3.10 (EVS157)
Sutton 4.3.10 (EVS153)
Leighton Buzzard 11.3.10 (EVS146)
Northampton 16.3.09 (EVS141)
The National Training Awards - Get
Involved!
The National Training Awards 2010 were
launched last month. NAVCA entered this last
year, featuring the Empowering the Voluntary
Sector training course delivered in partnership
with the Public Law Project (PLP). The EVS
training was pleased to be named a winner in the
Training Provider Category in the
Yorkshire & Humber region for
2009.
If you have any questions about the NAVCA
entry or are considering entering a programme
from your organisation and would like to discuss
the process and value to your organisation
please email Terry Perkins, terry.perkins@navca.org.uk
Democracy Days - getting to the
levers of power
 NAVCA and
the WEA are bringing Democracy Days to
communities around the country as partners
in the national Train the Take
Part Trainers project. Four one-day
conferences are already planned for March and
are expected to be lively events for staff
in LIOs or public bodies seeking to engage VCF
reps or activists in the structures of power and
influence. For more
information visit the NAVCA events
page.
New publications
The following publication may be of
interest to development workers.
- Specialist staff list - NAVCA has produced a
list of NAVCA staff for member
organisations. The list give contacts for staff
and the areas of work they cover. The list can be downloaded
from the NAVCA website.
- Keeping it legal, a guide for third sector
organisations on public law and equality rights
- this publication has been produced in
partnership with the Women's Resource Centre.
The publication is available in hard copy. To
order a copy please email navca@navca.org.uk
Young People and Money training -
various dates and locations
The Financial Services Authority is
delivering free financial capability training
for practitioners working with vulnerable and at
risk young people who are not in education,
employment or training. Young People and Money
is a free one-day course that provides ideas and
activities that you can use with young people to
start the conversation around money. For more information and to book
visit the website.
Launch event for children's centre
outreach training - 4 March 2010 London, 5 March
2010 Bristol, 8 March 2010 Manchester
 Every day,
practitioners engaged in outreach from
children's centres enable families to access
services. CWDC, in partnership with NAPP and
DCSF, is offering practitioners
opportunities to access funded training
from May 2010 until March 2011 to support this
valuable
work.
For more information and to
book visit the CWDC training and events
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| Other
news for development
workers |
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National Occupational Standards for
development workers
Skills - Third Sector are now
looking for development workers who
are interested in developing the NOS to be
part of a steering group. They expect that
this will involve a small
number of meetings, to be held in York, together
with some reading of draft documents prior to
meeting between February and June 2010. Expenses
will be paid for attendance at meetings.
If you are interested in joining the group
and would like more information please contact
Terry Wolf, Project Manager, Skills - Third
Sector on 07901 007302 or email terry.wolf@skills-thirdsector.org.uk
Improving
Support
Improving Support brings together practical
resources and information for all those
providing support to third sector
organisations.
Funded by Capacitybuilders, this website
provides a gateway to the widest range of tools,
information and support, creating an easily
accessible community for the exchange of
resources, ideas, advice and learning.
An Improving Support magazine and regular
ebulletins also help you to stay informed and
share learning on a range of issues relevant to
your work as a support provider.
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