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Southern Brooks Community Partnership are offering a training course to begin this autumn for those wanting to become Community Development workers.  For more information click on the link.

Certificate in Community Development

Become a Volunteer Buddy or Mentor
Buddying or Mentoring is an excellent way of using your skills and experience to help and support others who may lack experience, confidence or live isolated lives. Currently there are many volunteering opportunities for buddys and mentors to work with people of different ages and backgrounds.

This training course over 3 sessions is for anyone who is interested in volunteering in these roles and it will cover:

What we mean by mentoring
The skills and qualities needed to be a mentor or buddy
How to build a buddying relationship
Boundaries and contracting

For those who wish to achieve a nationally recognised qualification in mentoring, it will be possible to gain an OCN level 2 Award in Mentoring, but this will required additional work over and above the time spent in these workshops

The workshops are free.

Dates: March 3rd, 10th and 17th
Time: 9am to 1pm
Venue: Yate Library

For further information and a booking form please contact Carole Zorzo @ Volunteer Centre Yate, Yate Library, 44 West Walk, Yate, BS37 7YW on 01454 868006 or email: volunteercentreyate@btconnect.com

Getting Involved in the Community
An Introduction to Community Development

Venue: Dodington Parish Hall, Finch Road, South Glos BS37 6JZ
Dates: Wednesdays: 23 February, 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30 March 2011
Times: 09.30am – 1.30pm

This course is about bringing together people who want to make a difference in their community. We’ll spend time together listening and learning from each other, as well as having inputs from the
tutor that will help understanding. We’ll also look at what we mean by community development and skills needed to make things happen in the community.

You may already be involved in community groups either as a paid worker or a volunteer and are looking to develop skills and strategies to enable the group to achieve its aims, as well as deal with the problems that all groups experience. Maybe you are looking to take part in some community
activity, in which case the course will provide you with a good understanding of communities and groups.

To give you an idea of what we will be doing, here is an outline of the topics we shall be covering:
 How to build good relationships and improve communication
 Understanding the importance of groups and how they work
 What we mean by community development
 Looking at what people and the community needs and how to respond
 Forming a group and recruiting members
 Running meetings
 The legal side of running groups
 Working in partnership with other groups and agencies
 Fundraising
 Looking at what we’ve learned and how we can use it

The course will be practical and we’ll be working in pairs, small groups and sometimes as a whole group. You do not need any particular experience or skills to join the course, so come along, bring a
friend if you wish and we’ll do our best to make the course as enjoyable as possible. In addition the course is an ideal introduction to the Level 3 Certificate in Community Development which Southern Brooks Community Partnership will be running in the Autumn of 2011.

Booking is essential as these courses are extremely popular. Bring a packed lunch!

For further information please contact: office@sbcommunitypartnership.org.uk or ring on 01454 868570
Tutor: Derek Close 01453 520183 derekclose1@btinternet.com