Training
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Training
The CVS has a training programme featuring a wide range of one day and half day courses.
For more information, contact 01695-733737
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The CVS Training Programme for spring and summer 2025 has recently been launched.
Please see full details and book your place here
If you have any suggestions for courses you would like to see as part of the CVS’s Training programme, please email Vicky Attwood via enquiries@wlcvs.org
In addition to the scheduled courses and on request, we can offer bespoke training to groups on:
- Accurate Record Keeping
- Governance – The Basics
- Introduction to Fundraising
Please contact us if you have any suggestions on how we can improve our training in any way.
As a welcoming organisation and holder of the Lancashire LGBT Quality Mark, we encourage groups to consider LGB and Trans awareness training. Lancashire LGBT offers training http://lancslgbt.org.uk/training-packages and provides updates @LancsLGBT
Access Ability CIC provides courses in Lancashire, on, for example, Disability Awareness www.accessability.org.uk/courses
Lancashire and South Cumbria Suicide Prevention Training Consortium
The consortium is commissioned to provide a range of training, interventions and campaigns to help professionals and community members across Lancashire and South Cumbria grow in confidence and skills around talking about suicide and helping to prevent it. The training aims to address the high suicide rates within our area, and to tackle the harmful stigma surrounding suicide.
Some of the courses enable learners to receive an Orange Button to signify that they are happy to be a Connector for someone who is experiencing thoughts of suicide.
Lancashire Mind courses
Lancashire Mind runs a number of interactive online training sessions, which are for free for anyone who lives or works in Lancashire, including:
- Suicide First Aid
- Virtual Mental Health First Aid (adults)
- Understanding Self Harm
- Managing Mental Health in The Workplace
- Youth Mental Health First Aid
- Adult Mental Health First Aid
For more information, please email admin@lancashiremind.org.uk
Mental Wellbeing Training
Lancashire Mind can deliver in-house flexible training options to your workforce, from conferences to small groups and open access. All proceeds from their training stay in Lancashire to support the mental health and wellbeing of people across the county.
For more information on how Lancashire Mind can help you support your staff email admin@lancashiremind.org.uk
First Aid Training
Heartbeat First Aid Training – More information here.
Food hygiene courses
1. West Lancs College list Food Hygiene under short course provision: Apprenticeship Team 01695 52300 or email wlcapprenticeships@westlancs.ac.uk
(www.westlancs.ac.uk/employers/workforce-development)
2. See The food safety team for West Lancs Borough Council link to their Food Hygiene Courses online enquiry service.
Dementia Friends (Alzheimer’s Society)
To join online and become a Dementia Friend, go to:
https://www.dementiafriends.org.uk/register-digital-friend (includes an awareness video).
Makaton sign language training
Amanda Glennon, Regional Makaton Tutor (Inclusive Teaching Matters 07500 016544) offers Makaton sign language training to individuals and groups. Content, for example, covers how we communicate and core signs and symbols from the Makaton Charity.
Indicative cost: £12.50 pp with group discount and travel costs (on-site training). A one-day workshop has an indicative cost of £60 pp. Amanda can offer shorter-length workshops.
Contact amanda@itmatterscic.co.uk for further information (enquiries) and to book training.
Need support on taking minutes? See the West Lancs CVS guide
Trustee welcome pack 2018 – from the Charity Commission
