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SAVS Training Prospectus

2015-2016

SAVS Training Brochure I Page 1

Southend Association of Voluntary Services seeks to provide regular

and relevant training to our members. To find out more or to book any

of these training sessions, please call 01702 356000 or email

[email protected], or simply complete and return the

booking form enclosed (if provided).

All training will be held at Southend Association of Voluntary Services,

29-31 Alexandra Street, Southend-on-Sea, SS1 1BW unless otherwise

stated.

Training terms and conditions:

All training courses, unless otherwise stated, will be held at SAVS, 29-31 Alexandra

Street, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS1 1BW. SAVS does not have a car park, but there

are pay and display car parks close to the building. SAVS is also a 5 minute walk from

Southend Central rail station, a 20 minute walk from Southend Victoria rail station

and a 5 minute walk from Southend bus station.

Booking forms must be received by SAVS at least 7 working days before the start of

the course.

Please notify us of any dietary requirements as soon as possible.

We ask that you arrive in time for the start of the course. Late arrivals may not be

permitted to attend the training and will not be entitled to a refund.

If you wish to cancel your place on the training, cancellations have to be received by

SAVS 5 working days before the training date in order to receive a refund.

In cases of extreme weather conditions, please assume the training is still going

ahead unless you receive notification from a member of SAVS staff. In exceptional

circumstances, SAVS management may grant refunds for those who cannot attend

training due to adverse weather conditions.


2016 Training Calendar

Course Date

Crowdfunding 29 February

Recruiting Volunteers

10 March

Retaining Volunteers

24 March

Getting the most out of Facebook & Twitter

14 April

Event Fundraising in the Local Community

18 May

Fire Safety

25 May

Dealing with Aggressive Behaviour

9 June

Child Safeguarding

23 June

Working with Partners

7 July

Evidencing the Need

13 July

Mental Health Awareness

14 July

Writing a Successful Grant Application

7 Sept

First Aid

22 Sept

Adult Safeguarding

6 Oct

Equality and Diversity

20 Oct

Health and Safety

10 Nov

To book: Complete booking form and return to SAVS


Crowdfunding 29 February 2016 – 2pm – 4.30pm

Gemma Cartwright, Funding Development Officer

Crowdfunding is an innovative alternative funding tool that enables you to reach out

and engage a wide range of people - and if they back your project they become your

supporters. This course will give an overview of what crowdfunding is, the different

platforms available, what inspires donors, lenders or investors, how to craft a pitch,

marketing your campaign and to think through how it might work for you.

Price Plan A

Recruiting Volunteers 10 March 2016 - 9.30am to 1pm

Emily Middlemast, Volunteer Centre Co-ordinator

Recruiting Volunteers provides a comprehensive overview of where to start when

thinking about involving volunteers; what policies and procedures should be in place

before involving volunteers; volunteers and the law; how to promote your volunteer role

on Volunteeressex.org to achieve the best results and much more. It is recommended

that attendees also join the retaining volunteers course on the 24th March.

Price Plan A

Retaining Volunteers 24 March 2016 - 9.30am to 1pm

Emily Middlemast, Volunteer Centre Co-ordinator

Retaining volunteers gives you a wealth of information about how to ensure your

volunteers find their role fulfilling and stay loyal; the course covers,

understanding their motivations for volunteering; induction and training; support and

supervision; how to deal with unsuitable volunteers and much more. This course follows

on from recruiting volunteers and it is recommended attendees complete both.

Price Plan A


Getting the most out of Facebook and Twitter 14 April 2016 – 10am to 1pm

James Gray, Caraway Communications

This half-day course introduces practical strategies for maximising your social media presence. You'll be

introduced to current social media best practice and develop a better understanding of what your

followers expect from you.

Through practical exercises, group discussion and tutor presentation, the course will cover:

Building relationships through social media

Creating effective profiles, including bios and images

Finding and creating quality content to share online

Integrating social media with offline communications

When booking please let us know if you currently use Facebook and Twitter and how regularly.

Price Plan A

Event Fundraising in the Local Community 18 May 2016 – 10am to 1pm

Gemma Cartwright – Funding Development Officer & Dan Turpin – Information and Membership Services Officers This session will help you to address the best ways of using local community support to

help you to raise money through events, as well as considerations for how to put the

event on. If you’re looking to put on a successful fundraising event, or want to know

how to publicise your work, this is the session for you.

Price Plan A

Dealing with Aggressive Behaviour 9 June 2016 – 9.30am – 12.30pm

Voluntary Sector Training

When confronted with aggressive or challenging behaviour it is easy for us to respond in a like

way. Learn how to overcome this natural reaction and develop the skills and techniques to bring

the interaction round to ‘adult’ and constructive dialog is possible with the knowledge and use of

assertiveness and communication skills.

Overview This course enables participants to develop different techniques to resolve conflict. By exploring different types of behaviour and the types of responses this behaviour elicits we will be able to identify the most effective ways of dealing with disruptive or aggressive behaviours.


We’ll cover: · assessing your own response to aggressive or challenging behaviour · identifying different types of aggressive or challenging behaviour · the importance of body language and personal space in conflict situations · cultural considerations · conflict resolution models and communication skills · warning signs, prevention and risk assessments · de-escalation skills Benefits to you By the end of the session you will feel much more confident in your ability to reduce tension enabling constructive dialogue taking into consideration the needs, wellbeing and rights of all concerned. The course will be highly interactive with a range of individual, small and large group exercises. This will include role play, ensuring participants are able to practise the necessary skills in a safe and supportive environment. Price Plan VST. To book go to; http://www.voluntarysectortraining.org.uk/en/courses/event/185/Dealing-with-Aggressive-Behaviour

An Introduction to Safeguarding Children 23 June 2016 – 2pm to 4.30pm

Helen Wilson – Southend LSCB and SAB

This introductory course will cover how to recognise the signs and

symptoms of child abuse or neglect, and how to communicate your

concerns to ensure children are safeguarded effectively.

Price Plan A

Partnership Working 7 July 2016 – 10am – 4pm

Voluntary Sector Training

For those organisations whose only option to secure funding is to work in partnership with others,

there are a number of pitfalls to be aware of. Organisations must take steps to protect themselves and this course explains, in detail, what must be done. The second part of the course

covers how to use the partnership to win contracts and/or secure funding. The course is

interactive with exercises for delegates to undertake and a set of handouts to support their

learning. Aimed at CEOs, Trustees or anyone involved in commissioning, procurement or fundraising. We'll cover:

different types of partnerships


typical problems

how to begin negotiating with prospective partners

partnership agreements

why partnerships fail

tools for resolving problems

evaluating partnerships

using partnerships to secure funding

using partnerships to secure contracts

Those attending this course will have a clearer understanding of how partnerships should operate

and of the documents that should be in place to protect an organisation’s interests. By learning

the facts about partnership working, delegates will be able to make the right choice about HOW

to work with other organisations and what they should consider before coming to a decision.

Delegates will also understand the added value partnerships can bring to funders and

commissioners increasing the chances of success when it comes to winning contracts and grants

and improving the chances of long term sustainable futures for the organisations involved.

Price Plan VST. To book go to; http://www.voluntarysectortraining.org.uk/en/courses/event/184/Working-in-Partnership

Evidencing the need for your work 13 July 2016 – 10am to 1pm

Gemma Cartwright – Funding Development Officer Do you struggle when having to answer the question “how do you know there is a need

for your project?” posed by many funders? Would you like to know where to find many

hidden statistical gems? This session will help you to develop both the qualitative and

quantitative evidence you need to make your funding bids more successful.

Price Plan A

Mental Health Awareness 14 July 2016

Southend Adult Community College

Writing Successful Grant Applications 7 September 2016 – 10am to 4pm

Gemma Cartwright – Funding Development Officer


Are you looking to improve on your success with raising money through bids and

applications? Whether you are new to fundraising or just need a ‘refresher’, this session

will help you to: search and choose appropriate funders; avoid application pitfalls; ‘sell’

your organisation in terminology funders will understand and provide you with plenty of

hints and tips to make your applications successful.

Price Plan B

First Aid 22 September 2016 – 10am - 4pm


This course covers basics of first aid. It is aimed at everyday working situations. At the

end of the course you will have 3 skill test assessments. The certificate is awarded by an

approved organisation and whether to support applications for work; induction,

refresher or to keep safe, this is a course you will find invaluable. Lunch included.

Price Plan C

An Introduction to Safeguarding Adults 6 October 2016 – 2pm to 4.30pm

Helen Wilson – Southend LSCB and SAB

This introductory course will cover how to recognise the signs and

symptoms of abuse or neglect of adults with additional care and

support needs’ and how to communicate your concerns effectively to ensure adults with

additional care and support needs’ are safeguarded effectively.

Price Plan A

Equality and Diversity 20th October 2016


Health and Safety 10 November 2016 – 10am – 4pm



Chartered Institute of Environmental Health Level 2. The course will allow an insight

into the minefield of health and safety: accident statistics and reporting; health and

safety officers; workplace equipment; fire; electricity; first aid; working at height; noise

and vibration; injuries. Whether to support applications for work; induction, refresher or

to keep safe, this is a course you will find invaluable. Lunch included.

Price Plan C


Quality For Health

Quality For Health is a brand new, innovative, unique, quality assurance system for the

Voluntary sector. This is the only quality assurance system in the country designed to support

the Voluntary sector to demonstrate the outcomes of their health and wellbeing services.

Quality for health links to national strategic and operational priorities such as NHS three pillars

of quality delivery and Care Quality Commission (CQC) five key questions. Here at SAVs we can

see great benefits for organisations achieving the quality for Health award and are supporting

some organisations to meet the award through our social prescribing service.

SAVS are working with Voluntary action Calderdale to provide a series of workshops to support

organisations meet the requirements of Quality for Health. These training sessions are designed

for organisations working towards quality for health but open to all SAVs members.

More information can be found here http://qualityforhealth.org.uk/

To discuss quality for health award or the SAVS social prescribing service please call Catherine

Weir on 01702 356069.

All course come under;

Price Plan A (or registered for Quality for Health Award which covers the fee cost)

[See price plans on final page of brochure]

To book: Complete booking form and return to SAVS

Service User Experience 9th Feb 2016 – 1.30pm to 4.30pm

Catherine Weir – Social Prescribing Coordinator To explore the shaping of services in a manner that put service users at heart of the

planning and delivery of services and how the delivery of person centred services

will deliver better health outcomes.

Identify the difference between good and bad experiences

Review the delivery of person centred services in your organisation

Explore how a person centred service can improve health outcomes

Link the evidencing of person centred service and positive health outcomes

Explore how organisations can set a culture of continuous improvement

http://qualityforhealth.org.uk/


Health and Safety 9th March 2016 – 1.30pm to 4.30pm

Catherine Weir – Social Prescribing Coordinator

To explore requirements of Health and Safety in the service delivery environment

and to explore the how to structure appropriate evidence for Quality For Health

award process.

Identify the need to embed a health and safety culture at all levels

Explore the health and safety issues that need to be considered when setting policies and

procedures in your organisation

Explore the concept of risk assessment

Discuss the need for, and the benefits arising from training and development

Identify how can we evidence health and safety, linking to positive health outcomes.

Governance 22nd March 2016 – 1.30pm to 4.30pm

Gemma Cartwright - Funding Development Officer

This workshop will look at the importance of effective governance in organisations as

part of a positive leadership model. The workshop will also identify how to evidence

these areas for the Quality For Health award.

Define and explore the concept of governance

Identify how it differs from operational management

Explore how a governing body can deliver effective leadership and prevent conflict of

interest

Identify the roles, responsibilities and delegated functions of governing bodies

Discuss good practice in recruiting governing body members

Explore how we can evidence our governance and link to positive health outcomes

Equalities 5th April 2016 – 1.30pm to 4.30pm


This workshop will explore the context and need to work within the framework of

the Equality Act 2010 when planning and delivering services and to ensure that

services are delivered in a non-discriminatory manner.

Identify and define the components of discrimination.


Identify and explore what creates discriminatory behaviour.

Recognise how language and stereotyping are used to discriminate

Explore how to deal with discriminatory behaviour in your organisation

Explore what is needed to develop a positive equalities framework for service delivery

Explored how can we evidence equalities and link to positive health outcomes.

Leadership and Management 26th April 2016 – 1.30pm to 4.30pm

Gemma Cartwright - Funding Development Officer

This workshop will explore the concepts and differences between leadership and

management and explore effective models of leadership suitable for a service

delivery environment. The workshop will also identify how to evidence these areas

for the Quality For Health award.

Define and explore the meaning of leadership

Define and explore the meaning of management

Explore models of effective leadership

Explore how can leadership be a shared responsibility

Explore how to evidence leadership and link to positive health outcomes

Safeguarding 17th May 2016 – 1.30pm to 4.30pm


TBC


COST PER SESSION

PRICE PLAN A

PRICE PLAN B

PRICE PLAN C

Voluntary organisation (income under £10,000) £10 £25 £30

Voluntary organisation (income over £10,000) £20 £45 £50

Statutory organisation £40 £60 £65

Private organisation £50 £70 £75

VST Price Plan

COST PER SESSION

Full Day

Half Day

Voluntary organisation (income under £100,000pa) £60 £30

Voluntary organisation (income over £100,000pa) £105 £55

Town and Parish Councils £140 £75

Statutory and Commercial organisations and CICs (unless members of local VCS, then voluntary organisation rates apply)

£180 £90

Southend Association of Voluntary Services

SAVS Centre

29-31 Alexandra Street

Southend-on-Sea

Essex SS1 1BW

01702 356000 www.savs-southend.org

Registered Charity No: 1063655 Company No: 03351855

http://www.savs-southend.org/

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