What does the workshop cover?

• Learn how to manage risk.
• Explore the choices you might make when times get tough –
• managing pressures on staffing
• preparing for redundancy
• collaboration and commissioning
• managing finances
• Finally we will briefly cover how to manage organisational closure.

Who is the workshop for?

• Senior Managers and Board members of Third Sector organisations.
• Development Workers currently supporting Third Sector organisations.

Where are the workshops?
There will be one workshop in each of the local authority areas of Bath & North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.  Participants are welcome to attend whichever date is convenient.

For organisations in South Gloucestershire  -
Venue: Bailey’s Court Activity Centre, Bradley Stoke, Bristol, BS32 8BH
Date: Wednesday 24 February 2010
Time: 10:00 till 16:00

For further information

Please book through Social Enterprise Works by emailing sam@socialenterpriseworks.org for a
booking form (or you can download the booking form and information flyer sheet below which includes further dates and locations) or phone on 0117 9070080.  A bursary will be available to support travel and
attendance costs.

These events have been brought together by funding received from the ChangeUp programme and delivered by Social Enterprise Works on behalf of the West of England ChangeUp Consortium.

• Download the information flyer sheet (pdf)
• Download the booking form (pdf)

The Award
The course tutor will carry out an on-going assessment of the practical elements of the course. Successful students will receive a certificate valid for a period of three years.

The Appointed Person
Where an employer’s assessment for the First Aid needs identifies that a Four-day FAW qualification is not necessary, the minimum employers requirement is to appoint a person to take charge of the First Aid arrangements.
This includes looking after the equipment and facilities, and calling emergency services when required. Arrangements should be made for an Appointed Person to be available for these duties at all times when people are at work.

Outline of the Course

• What is First Aid? Aims of First Aid
• First Aid in the Workplace inc. Legal Requirements
• Responsibilities of the First Aider / Appointed Person
• Action at an Emergency
• Primary Assessment
• Secondary Assessment
• Causes of Unconsciousness (FISH SHAPED) Recovery Position
• Bleeding
• Breathing and Circulation
• Airway Obstruction
• Disorders of Circulation
• Principles of Resuscitation (Quality CPR)

Trainer: Brian Hibbert
Date: Tuesday 9th March 2010
Venue: Emersons Green Village Hall, Emerson Way, S. Glos.
BS16 7AP
Time: 9.30am to 3.30pm
Cost: Free to CVS Members, Non CVS Members £25

Lunch will be provided

This workshop is part the Spring 2010 Training Programme for local organisations from CVS South Gloucestershire. For further information and to download the training programme with a booking form, visit the CVS Training page.

Trainer: Vicky Harrison
Date: Wednesday 31st March 2010
Venue: Emersons Green Village Hall, Emerson Way, S. Glos. BS16 7AP
Time: 9.30am to 1pm
Cost: Free to CVS Members, Non CVS Members £25

This workshop is part the Spring 2010 Training Programme for local organisations from CVS South Gloucestershire. For further information and to download the training programme with a booking form, visit the CVS Training page.

• What saying ‘no’ nicely really means
• How to be assertive upwards and say ‘no’ and mean it.
• It’s all in the delivery…. how to say ‘no’ and keep all of your friends!!!
• How to keep saying ‘no’ when people are persistent.
• How to avoid saying ‘yes’ all the time at meetings
• How to be confident to not feel ‘guilty’ and change your mind.

Trainer: Linda Bannister and Tracy Francksen
Date: Thursday 18th March 2010
Venue: The Greenfield Centre, Park Avenue, Winterbourne. BS36 1NJ
Time: 9.30am to 3.30pm
Cost: Free to CVS Members, Non CVS Members £25

Lunch will be provided

This workshop is part the Spring 2010 Training Programme for local organisations from CVS South Gloucestershire. For further information and to download the training programme with a booking form, visit the CVS Training page.

Sometimes managers have difficult people to manage and may need practical help with how to manage them and their performance.

Other managers maybe need to develop greater confidence that they are doing it the right way.

This is a very practical course which will look at 10 practical steps to make you a better leader. The 10 practical steps will include – ‘If only I had more time!’, ‘Hints for using delegation effectively’, and ‘Developing my Leadership Styles’. On the day we will share with you the 10 practical steps and ask you what are your top 5 preferences to look at. We will then give those subject areas more allocated time during the day. We really want make a difference to how you work as a Leader in your organisation.

Three questions to ask yourself in deciding whether you would want to attend this course:
1.Do I think I am a great manager?
2.Do I think I could do some things differently?
3.Do I always get the best out of people?
If your answer is ‘no’ or ‘unsure’ to any of the questions - this course is the one for you!

Trainers: Linda Bannister and Tracy Francksen
Date: Wednesday 3rd March 2010
Venue: Baileys Court Activity Centre, Baileys Court Road, Bradley Stoke, S. Glos. BS32 8BH
Time: 9.30am – 3.30pm
Cost: Free to CVS Members, Non CVS Members £25

This workshop is part the Spring 2010 Training Programme for local organisations from CVS South Gloucestershire. For further information and to download the training programme with a booking form, visit the CVS Training page.

Partnership working itself is now a major factor for many organisations involved in bidding for service contracts or applying for funding from Trusts, Foundations or the Big Lottery. This course will look at the practicalities of developing relationships and networks and the joys and necessary first steps to take towards developing formal partnerships.

Course Aim:

For participants to be more confident and assured in identifying networking and partnership opportunities and effectively building relationships to increase their circles of influence and support and increasing capacity to deliver services.

Course Objectives
By the end of course participants will have:

• Defined networking and understood the benefits
• Explored the factors which aid successful networking
• Practised a range of techniques for networking in order to best represent their organisation and themselve
• Factored the gain of partnership working into their networking strategy
• Developed skills in the creation of a ‘Memorandum of Understanding’
• Developed personal and organisational networking and partnership goals

Trainer: Jim McNeil
Date: Wednesday 10th February 2010
Venue: Baileys Court Activity Centre, Baileys Court Road, Bradley Stoke, S. Glos. BS32 8BH
Time: 9.30am – 3.30pm
Cost: Free to CVS Members, Non CVS Members £25

This workshop is part the Spring 2010 Training Programme for local organisations from CVS South Gloucestershire. For further information and to download the training programme with a booking form, visit the CVS Training page.

What types of events, activities or services can be funded?
Grants should be to help engage people, fund activities or raise awareness of switchover in a way that adds value to what is already planned. We want to help local organisations to include digital switchover information in local events, meetings, presentations and visits with the target groups we need to reach.
The fund is only for fund activities that can demonstrate that they can engage:

• Older people
• People with sensory, mobility or dexterity impairments
• People with learning difficulties
• People who have experienced mental health problems
• People whose first language is not English
• People who may be socially isolated.

If you work with any of these groups of people and you would like to find out more about how you can gain funding to help people understand the Digital Switchover then come along to this half day event, be trained to deliver switchover training yourself and be informed about how you can be funded to run your own event.

Trainer: Dildar Singh
Date: Tuesday 2nd February 2010
Venue: Studio 4, The Kingswood Foundation, Britannia Road, Kingswood. BS15 8DB
Time: 9.30am – 1pm
Cost: Free to CVS Members, Non CVS Members £25

This workshop is part the Spring 2010 Training Programme for local organisations from CVS South Gloucestershire. For further information and to download the training programme with a booking form, visit the CVS Training page.

For further information on the Digital Switchover, including what will be available on Freeview and which paid services are available in the area please go to the following link:

http://www.digital-tv-advice.co.uk/switchover-south-gloucestershire.html .

South Gloucestershire Council are looking to work with partner organisations to develop and deliver advocacy services for vulnerable people in South Gloucestershire, in particular services for older people, carers and adults with a physical or sensory impairment, complementing the existing advocacy services in place.

If you have any questions or would like to receive further information, please contact Sabrina McAndrew by phone on 01454 868287 or via email sabrina.mcandrew@southglos.gov.uk.

Helen will be starting at CVS South Gloucestershire on 4th January 2010 and will be CVS South Gloucestershire’s first full-time Chief Officer.