Training Tuesday

Talk Money week was observed last week. It is an annual campaign that encourages open conversations about personal finances, money management and financial wellbeing. Communities 1st organise Money management sessions helping people deal with this topic.

Maths Anxiety is defined as a negative emotional reaction to mathematics. 10th Nov has been designated as Maths Anxiety Awareness Day designed to help restore confidence and love for learning maths. We run Help your Child love numbers sessions for parents who would like to support their children overcome maths anxiety with fun and engaging creative activities. Browse through our Multiply courses via the link Community Learning. 

We offer a range of online and in person training options for organisations in the voluntary sector. These cover topics ranging from Safeguarding, Writing reports, Full cost recovery, Marketing and Cyber security. You can access the different choices using the link Training calendar

We hope to see you at some of these sessions. 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. 

Kind regards,

Juli Riley
Head of Engagement and Skills

Introduction to Air Frying

Have an Air fryer or considering buying one? Looking to cook cheaper and healthier? Come along to our cooking with an Air Fryer 3 hour session. Learn to cook with one, add new recipes and learn about the cost savings. Cooking tips will be provided on this free course along with a chance to taste food cooked in the air fryer. 

Any Hertfordshire resident aged 19 and over is welcome to attend this course. Participants are eligible for the draw to win an air fryer if they have obtained a D grade or below in their Maths GCSE (or equivalent), or are in receipt of any benefits.

        - IN PERSON COURSE -Letchworth Garden City
          28th November 2023, 1pm -4pm
          John Coxall Court, Hadleigh Road
          Letchworth Garden City, SG6 2DD
          Register here

        - IN PERSON COURSE -Letchworth Garden City
          29th November 2023, 10am -1pm
          Edwin Nott House, Birds Hill
          Letchworth Garden City, SG6 1PH

          Register here 

        - IN PERSON COURSE - St Albans

          5th December 2023, 10am -1pm

          Cottonmill Community and Cycling Centre
          Off Old Oak, Cottonmill Ln, St Albans, AL1 2EF

          Register here

        - IN PERSON COURSE - Potters Bar

           6th December 2023, 10am -1pm

           The Clayton Centre, 32 Barnet Road,
           Potters Bar, EN6 2QU

           Register here

         - IN PERSON COURSE - Borehamwood

           12th December 2023, 10am -1pm

           Farriers Way Community Centre, 
           Borehamwood, WD6 2TB

          Register here

Self Care Webinar
An engaging hour-long webinar to present ideas for looking after yourself. 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.

- ONLINE EVENT on Zoom.

30th November 2023, 12pm - 1pm
Register here

Introduction to Bookeeping for the self employed

This course will take place at the South Hill Centre in Hemel Hempstead, the course is a basic introduction course.

Join this course to learn about:

Setting up a basic bookkeeping system.

Accurately keeping and recording financial transaction

How to create essential financial reports.

Taxation and Compliance

-IN PERSON COURSE - Hemel Hempstead
16th November 2023, 10am - 1pm
South Hill Centre, Cemetery Hill, Hemel Hempstead, HP1 1JF

Register here

-IN PERSON COURSE - Hemel Hempstead
14th December 2023, 10am - 1pm
South Hill Centre, Cemetery Hill, Hemel Hempstead, HP1 1JF
Register here

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 nation wide project to help adults improve their numeracy skills.  Please note this is an in-person course. 

- IN PERSON COURSE - Hatfield

30th November 2023, 10am - 4pm
Hatfield Hub, 56 Town Centre, Hatfield, AL10 0JT

Register here

Full Cost Recovery Training 

This training will be delivered by Stephen Craker from Communities 1st
Members can join this course for £25, and non members can join for £40. This training will be delivered at Phillimore Community Centre in Radlett. 

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

• Fully understand what is meant by Full Cost Recovery
• To 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

If you have specific access needs, please email memberservices@communities1st.org.uk or call 01727 649940. A member of the team will be happy to help you

- IN PERSON COURSE - Radlett

4th December 2023, 10am - 1pm
Phillimore Community Centre, Phillimore Place, WD7 8NN

Register here

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.

Suicide Prevention Training 

This course is aimed at frontline professionals and volunteers whose role may bring them into direct contact with people experiencing suicidal thoughts and ideation.

The three-hour session is delivered via Zoom by an expert Samaritans facilitator and uses a variety of tools to encourage interaction and group learning.

The session will equip participants with practical skills to have a supportive, controlled and effective conversation, assess and respond to risk and signpost to relevant support services.

Thursday 23rd November 2023, 9.30am - 12.30pm on Zoom

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Dementia Friends - Sport and Physical Activity

The Alzheimer's Society are delivering a virtual dementia Friends Information session specifically for sport and physical activity providers in Hertfordshire. the session will offer attendees a chance to develop a greater understanding of what it means to live with dementia, and how you may be able to start adapting your sport or physical activity session to better support someone living with dementia. 

Tuesday 5th December 2023, 12.30pm - 1.30pm on Zoom

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Budget Workshop

This workshop will give you more control with your finances and help you save money by reducing unnecessary expenditure. You will learn how to:

- Develop an understanding of budgeting.
- Identifying your Income (weekly, monthly)
- Identifying you Expenditure (weekly, monthly)
- Identifying unnecessary expenditure
- Work out the difference between the total income and total expenditure

Tuesday 5th December 2023, 10am - 12pm

Waltham Cross Library, 123 High Street, EN8 7AN
 

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Develop your digital presence: Marketing series

This 5-part training series will be delivered online
A series of short, fully funded marketing sessions that will look at different marketing topics will be offered giving the tools and knowledge to help your organisation thrive in todays digital World.

To make the most of the series we recommend all five sessions should be attended, bookable via the clickable button at the top of this page. Individual sessions can also be booked via the links below.

• Differentiating your audience - Thu 7th December 2023 (10-11am) 
• Content marketing - Thu 11th January 2024 (10-11am)
• Video marketing - Tue 13th February 2024 (10-11am) 
• Search engine optimisation (SEO) - Thu 21st March 2024 (10-11am) 

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This Autumn - Free on line workshops to help protect vulnerable people from carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning

You will learn about the sources, signs and symptoms of CO poisoning as well as what to do to help prevent the risks and some of the sources of support that exist for those people in fuel poverty. 

Tuesday 19th December 2023, 9.30am - 10.30am

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