We offer bespoke training in the following areas:
These are all half day sessions, you could combine any two to make a full day session:
- Confidentiality
- Dealing with Difficult Behaviour
- Befriending
- Exits & Endings
- Working in Groups
- Working Safely
- Volunteer Induction
- Supporting & Supervising Volunteers
- Motivating and Retaining Volunteers
- Volunteer Recruitment
In addition we have the following half day workshops which again could be combined:
- Difficult Volunteer Situations
- Reducing Barriers to Volunteering for People with Disabilities
- Equal Opps and Diversity – how a volunteer can help
- Communication Skills for Volunteers
Other courses, these can be half days or full days:
- Presentation skills
- Media Awareness
- Equality and Diversity Toolkit
- Team Building/Effective Teams
- Child Protection
- Customer Service/Representing Your Organisation
All of our courses can be offered on an accredited or unaccredited basis depending on your requirements. We will be able to offer the one day first aid course and two day paediatric first aid from September.
We offer the Lantra Advanced Certificate in Volunteer Management, which is a Level 3 (A Level standard) qualification. It covers the following modules:
- Understanding volunteering and volunteer policies
- Integrating volunteers into your organisation
- Planning the work of volunteers
- Working with volunteers
- Improving management of volunteers
The price for enrolling on this is £125 + VAT 
and is done by distance learning. To help with distance learning (recommended 30 hours) we can offer three half days (over a maximum of nine months) where we will bring you all together and help with study support and motivation. There will be an additional cost to this of £30 per person per session
Because we only offer training that benefits volunteers our prices are extremely reasonable, if any of these are of interest, or there are courses not listed here that you would like please contact Laura to discuss your needs.