Training Tuesday

Our free Creative Fun with Numbers offer fun, creative and engaging activities for families during the summer holidays. The previous sessions have been a huge success, so we are pleased to announce more dates for your diary. We’re so pleased to offer these opportunities for you and your kids to have fun learning together!  

September is just around the corner and we have been working hard alongside our training partners to bring you a range of fresh, engaging and interesting Awareness sessions. Next month we will be focussing on Self-Care . Sign up to our introductory session on this topic via the Training Calendar.

We hope to see you at these sessions soon. We’ll continue to keep you informed through these newsletters! As always, we look forward to hearing your views on our training; what more would you like to see? Send us an email. Enjoy the sunshine! 

"Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers" .
Shakuntala Devi

Kind regards,

Juli Riley
Head of Engagement and Skills

Creative Fun with Numbers
Come and join us for 3 hours of free summer fun with your child!
Help them explore numeracy through a range of creative and physical activities. Make new friends and play with numbers!
Please note parents and guardians are required to participate with their child/children at this event.

• RADLETT - Phillimore Community Centre - Radlett WD7  8NN.

  30th August, 2023, 10am - 1pm

  Register here

• WELWYN GARDEN CITY - WGC Library- Campus West - WGC, AL8 6AJ

  31st August, 2023, 10am - 1pm

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Help your Child love Numbers

This in person session will teach you how to improve your child's confidence in numbers by incorporating activities and awareness in everyday tasks.

The best way to improve confidence in numbers is by doing tasks where children are focused on something they enjoy and numbers are part of an activity. This in turn will improve your confidence as parent to continue to help your child develop this important life skill. Introducing Arlo the Alien our Children's storybook. 

11th September, 2023, 10am - 1pm

Aberford Community Centre, Borehamwood - WD6 1PN

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Family Budgeting

Budgeting can be very stressful in these difficult times. Simple tips and techniques can help us in sticking to a budget and control costs.  

This course helps you understand the benefits of budgeting. It will help you look at how you spend your money, what are your current shopping habits and highlight areas where savings can be made. It will improve your confidence in planning lists on budgets whilst improving your numeracy skills. 

This course is funded by Multiply, a nation wide project to help adults improve their numeracy skills.  Please note this is an in-person course. 

13th September, 2023, 10am - 1pm

Phillimore Community Centre, Radlett - WD7 8NN

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Money Management

Managing personal finances and making decisions about money are an important part of everyday life.

In this session you will understand how to budget and keep track of your spending and gain an overview on how finance is designed whilst improving your numeracy skills.

This course is funded by Multiply a nationwide project to help adults improve their numeracy skills. 

• ONLINE COURSE

  19th September, 2023, 10am -1pm

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• IN PERSON COURSE - Hatfield

  25th September, 2023, 10am -1pm

  Hatfield Hub, 56 Town Centre, AL10 0JT

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Self Care Webinar
An engaging hour-long webinar to share ideas for maintaining your own wellbeing. The webinar will walk through the eight categories of self-care, discuss how to implement change, and focus on mechanisms to better look after yourself.

28th September 2023, 12pm - 1pm
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Volunteer Management Training parts 1 and 2

AM Session (10am - 1pm)

Topics for this session will include:

1. Volunteer Motivation; 2. Writing Role Descriptions

3. Writing Recruitment Adverts ; 4. Selection Process

5. Induction and Support

PM Session (2pm - 5pm)

Topics for this session will include:

1. Volunteer Supervision; 2. Managing changing motivations 3. Dealing with challenging or difficult behaviour ;

4. Saying “Goodbye”; 5. Rewarding and recognising volunteers; 6. The Six-Point Promise

Ideal for those new to volunteer management and for organisations wishing to complete the 6 point promise.

Please note there is a charge to attend this training

6th September 2023, 10am - 5pm

1st Floor, Ver House, Park Estate, Frogmore, AL2 2WH 
 

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Full Cost Recovery

This training will be delivered by Stephen Craker, CEO of Communities 1st.

By the end of this session, we hope that you will be able to:

- Fully understand what is meant by Full Cost Recovery
- Understand your Direct Costs and Over Head Costs, and know how to factor these into your applications
- Be confident in your ability to apply the Full Cost recovery concept to your future grant and funding applications

The price for Members is £25, and non members can join for £40.

28th September 2023, 10am - 1pm
1st Floor, Ver House, Park Estate, Frogmore, AL2 2WH
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Online training

We have over 500 training courses online, available to your staff and volunteers. Including Safeguarding, manual handling and GDPR.

Prices start from £125 for up to 25 staff. 

For more information see online training.

Live Longer Better in Hertfordshire Celebration Day

Bookings are open for the Live Longer Better in Hertfordshire.
Celebration Day on Thursday 7th September 2023 at the University of Hertfordshire and Hertfordshire Sports Village in Hatfield. The event will run from 9.30am-3.30pmand you are welcome to enjoy the whole day or come and go as you please. This event is free of charge to attend and lunch and refreshments will be provided.
The event’s aim is to promote the importance of physical activity for living longer better, and to heighten awareness of the range of opportunities available forgetting and staying active aimed at adults aged 50+.
The day will feature a number of talks, interactive workshops, marketplace and practical physical activity and sport sessions. You can expect seated dance workshops, walking football sessions, pickleball sessions and lots more.

Thursday 7th September, 9.30am -3.30pm

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New Leaf College
New Leaf College offers hope for the future despite life's challenges, offering opportunities, learning from other student's experiences and equipping students with skills to make changes to support their wellbeing. 

The college offers sessions in Stevenage, Watford, Ware and Hemel Hempstead as well as continuing to provide sessions online. 

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Social media for beginners: Staying relevant

This course is for those who are new to using social media to support marketing their organisation. Use of at least one social media account for personal purposes would be beneficial.

This course is fully funded for paid workers and volunteers from VSCE organisations in Hertfordshire.

Tuesday 17th October, 10am - 12.30pm (online)

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GS CYBERFEST WORD - A Great Digital Online Course

Get started in a Cyberfirst world. 

Learn about the growing importance of cyber security in the digital world on our free Get Started in a CyberFirst World course.
You'll gain an understanding of the history of cyber security from industry experts. And you'll discover how you could play a role in its future.
Get hands-on experience and explore whether a digital career pathway could be right for you. You’ll benefit from support from our staff or one of our mentors to help you uncover your next steps.

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Discover a new skill this Autumn with Step2Skills 

The Autumn timetable of courses and workshops at Step2Skills is now live on the website!

There’s lots of adult learning opportunities to browse!!

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Think CO- An Introductory workshop to Carbon Monoxide(CO) risks at home

The aim of this virtual Zoom workshop is to raise awareness of carbon monoxide risks for people who work in the homes of vulnerable people. This online, hour long workshop is aimed at front line staff and volunteers from social care, NHS, FRS, voluntary and private sectors working in the UK who visit vulnerable people in their homes every day. 

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Spot the Signs Training Dates

Anyone working in primary care or in the voluntary sector with adults is able to sign up to either a 1 hour or a 3 hour fully funded training sessions on learning how to Spot the Signs of those at risk.

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