VTraining ~ Volunteer Now Training Courses and Workshops ~ 27 March 2015

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1 VTraining ~ Volunteer Now Training Courses and Workshops ~ 27 March Charity Registration Support 2. Training the Trainers of Volunteers 3. Skills for Volunteers - Improving Wellbeing! 4. Recruiting & Selecting Volunteers 5. Best Practice When Running a Volunteer Befriending Service 6. Managing & Motivating Volunteers 7. Safeguarding and Risk Management in Befriending 8. Keeping Children Safe: Training for Managers, Supervisors and Management Committee Members 9. Keeping Children Safe: Designated Officer Training 10. Keeping Children Safe: Training for Staff and Volunteers 11. Keeping Children Safe: Safeguarding Children & Young People with Disabilities 12. Keeping Children Safe: Policy Development Training 13. Keeping Adults Safe: Training for Staff & Volunteers 14. Training for Volunteer Befrienders 15. Investing in Volunteers 16. Volunteer Management Health Checks Our Training Calendar has the following programmed courses open for booking through our website at Volunteer Management Courses Charity Registration Support Are you currently going through the registration process with the Charity Commission? Would you like some one-to-one support? Volunteer Now is offering a FREE drop in day for organisations at our Shaftesbury Square offices March, 9am-4pm in Belfast - Click here for more information

2 Training the Trainers of Volunteers This interactive three day course is for people who are responsible for designing and delivering training or presentations but have little or no experience in doing so. It is also ideal for people who deliver training but have not had the opportunity to learn about professional structures and approaches. It is accredited by OCNNI at Level 2 (3 credits). - 15, 22 & 29 April, 9.30am-4.30pm in Belfast - Click here to book online Skills for Volunteers - Improving Wellbeing! This one day accredited programme is to help volunteers to understand the factors which affect wellbeing and be able to demonstrate effective ways to support their communities on issues of health and wellbeing. The course will give volunteers the information, support and confidence for effective volunteering roles in health. It is accredited by OCN at Level May, 10am-4pm in Belfast - Click here to book online Recruiting & Selecting Volunteers This two day course is the recommended first step for people interested in developing their volunteer management practice. It looks at how to establish fair and consistent recruitment and selection processes and how to attract volunteers to your organisaiton. It is accredited by OCNNI at Level 2 (3 credits) & 28 May, 10am-4pm in Belfast - Click here to book online Best Practice When Running a Volunteer Befriending Service * SPECIAL DEAL when booking both this & Safeguarding and Risk Management in Befriending * This course explores what befriending is all about and considers the policies and procedures needed to deliver an effective volunteer befriending service. It will look at the risks involved, making good matches and how to establish and manage boundaries for the volunteers June, 10am-4pm in Belfast - Click here to book online Managing & Motivating Volunteers This is a two day course in the specialist field of volunteer management. Managing volunteers is very different from managing staff and requires a different approach. It provides the key skills and knowledge for development as a volunteer management specialist and to inform how an effective and supportive volunteer programme should be structured. It is accredited by NOCN at Level 2 (3 credits) & 25 June, 10am-4pm in Belfast - Click here to book online Safeguarding and Risk Management in Befriending *SPECIAL DEAL when booking both this & Best Practice When Running a Volunteer Befriending Service * This course is suitable for staff and volunteers who are involved in befriending, looking at awareness of vulnerability of those being befriended, the legal context of adult safeguarding, awareness of abuse issues, procedures for reporting concerns you have in relation to the person you are befriending, procedures for planning befriending activities and assessing and managing

3 risk, confidentiality issues and code of behaviour for those involved in befriending relationships June, 10am-4pm in Belfast - Click here to book online Certificated Safeguarding Courses Keeping Children Safe: Training for Managers, Supervisors and Management Committee Members This one day CERTIFICATED training course is suitable for managers and supervisors of staff and volunteers working with children and young people and members of voluntary management committees of groups and organisations that provide activities for children and young people April, 10am-4.30pm in Cookstown - Click here to book online - 30 May, 10am-4.30pm in L'Derry - Click here to book online - 5 November, 10am-4.30pm in Antrim - Click here to book online - Cost: 35 +VAT Keeping Children Safe: Designated Officer Training This one day CERTIFICATED course will support Designated and Deputy Designated Officers in their role. All participants must have completed a safeguarding children course prior to attending April, 10am-4.30pm in Larne - Click here to book online - 4 June, 10am-4.30pm in Antrim - Click here to book online - 25 June, 10am-4.30pm in L'Derry - Click here to book online - 1 December, 10am-4.30pm in Cookstown - Click here to book online - Cost: 60 +VAT Keeping Children Safe: Training for Staff and Volunteers This one day CERTIFICATED course is suitable for staff and volunteers who have regular and/or direct contact with children and young people (e.g. supervisor, leader, officer in charge) April, 10am-4.30pm in Omagh - Click here to book online - 10 September, 10am-4.30pm in Enniskillen - Click here to book online - Cost: 35 +VAT Keeping Children Safe: Safeguarding Children & Young People with Disabilities This one day CERTIFICATED programme is suitable for staff and volunteers that work directly with children and young people with disabilities and will explore abuse issues, dealing with concerns and disclosures and how to create a safe and inclusive environment May, 10am-4.30pm in Enniskillen. Click here to book online - Cost: 35. Keeping Children Safe: Policy Development Training This half day CERTIFICATED programme will support the policy makers within organisations to develop and/or review their safeguarding children policy and procedures to ensure the minimum

4 standards are met and maintained June, 10am-1pm in Omagh. Click here to book online - Cost: 25. Keeping Adults Safe: Training for Staff/Volunteers This is a one day FREE CERTIFICATED course for those working/volunteering with vulnerable adults. The training will raise awareness of vulnerability and assist voluntary, community and independent organisations working with vulnerable adults to achieve the minimum standards of best practice April, 10am-4.30pm in Cookstown - N Click here to book online Please note: Area: N is for the Northern Trust area only. If you don't see a course in your area, please contact us to discuss. Training for Volunteer Befrienders - Communication Skills for Befrienders - Managing Boundaries in Befriending This training is for volunteers and will look at specific skills needed in a befriending relationship. Relationships take work and being able to communicate with the person you are befriending and in some cases being assertive will help volunteers build more effective relationships. Knowing the boundaries and being able to manage these is a skill in itself so this training will help volunteers to think about how they will communicate and manage the do's and don't of befriending. Get your volunteer together and we will come and deliver this training for you - one full day or two half days or evenings - you choose! We will tailor it just for your befriending scheme. SPECIAL DISCOUNT for a limited period 35 per volunteer for both topics or 20 per volunteer for one topic (*minimum 10 people) * Don't have 10 volunteer befrienders? Why not join with another organisation, the networking for volunteers would be an added bonus! For more information or to book a time to train your volunteers, contact Sandra Adair by or on Investing in Volunteers Are you reviewing your end of year budget or putting your budget together for next year? Now's the time to add the Investing in Volunteers Award to your 'to do' list!

5 Investing in Volunteers is the UK quality standard for good practice in volunteer management. If you want to benchmark the quality of your volunteer management and involvement, prove and improve the effectiveness of your work with volunteers and enhance your organisation's reputation, Investing in Volunteers is the ideal quality standard for you. Some other quality frameworks include volunteer management, but none of them cover the management of volunteers in such comprehensive detail. Investing in Volunteers is the best tool to help organisations involving volunteers achieve this good practice, as well as receive recognition for it. You could join over 750 organisations who have already achieved this quality accreditation throughout the UK and the 85 organisations who have achieved the Investing in Volunteers award in Northern Ireland. The Award, which is retained for three years, has been achieved by both small local organisations involving 6-8 volunteers and large regional and national organisations involving hundreds of volunteers. To find out more about how Investing in Volunteers can work for you, check out the Northern Ireland section of the UK Investing in Volunteers website or contact David Fitzsimons to discuss how you can get involved on or . Volunteer Management Health Checks The Volunteer Management Health Check involves a half day consultation with an Advisor who will benchmark your volunteer programme against the 9 indicators in the UK Investing in Volunteers Standard. A report will then be compiled for you, which will include a development plan and actions to assist you in building on your existing volunteer management to meet the practices in the standard. If you are a registered charity, and your organisation's income is over 100,000 the cost of the Health Check is 350 exc. VAT. The cost for statutory organisations involving volunteers is 500 exc. VAT. To book your Volunteer Management Health Check or find out more about how it can assist your volunteer programme, contact David Fitzsimons on or by . Volunteer Now and Volunteer Now Enterprises Ltd have a team of highly qualified and skilled trainers who are here to help organisations to meet and maintain the highest standards of practice in volunteer management, governance, child protection and safeguarding vulnerable adults. We support organisations of all sizes, in a variety of ways to help them improve their work. We have a full range of certificated, accredited and tailored training programmes to choose from. Our training is interactive and of the highest quality; over 5,000 people trained in 2013/14 achieved an overall satisfaction score of 98% across all training. Our work includes:

6 delivery of volunteer management courses from basic to third level; conducting volunteer consultations within organisations to inform development; supporting organisations through change, conflict and problems; support in developing volunteer policies, procedures and strategy at all levels; restructure of volunteer programmes at local and national level; and delivery of an extensive menu of safeguarding children and/or vulnerable adults training programmes; support to develop or review safeguarding policies and procedures to meet agreed minimum standards. All of our training and development work is available as a chargeable option, at very reasonable rates and at a time and place that suits you. To find out more about our bespoke training options, please contact: Volunteer Management Training Sandra Adair, Sandra.adair@volunteernow.co.uk Safeguarding Adults/ Child Protection Veronica Gray, Veronica.gray@volunteernow.co.uk Looking for volunteers? To register your organisation's volunteering opportunities FREE of charge go to Volunteer Now Out & About Go to to find out where Volunteer Now staff will be visiting this month. We also promote events from across the sector, to add your event communications@volunteernow.co.uk Membership Membership of Volunteer Now is open to all organisations and individuals with an interest in volunteering. There is no fee. By becoming a member you add your voice to support volunteering. Sign up for FREE membership at VConnect Volunteer Now also publish VConnect, a free monthly enewsletter that includes volunteering related news, events, publications, etc. To subscribe, please communications@volunteernow.co.uk

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