Training Tuesday

Planning a holiday, shopping for new clothes or looking to makeover the garden? Money is tight and budgeting is stressful and numbers can be mind Planning a holiday, shopping for new clothes or looking to makeover the garden? Money is tight and budgeting is stressful and numbers can be mind boggling. Join our Money management and Family budgeting courses to help you manage personal finances and make decisions about money a part of everyday life.

Looking to take the first steps to improving your numeracy skills? Be part of the national project Multiply and pick a course that will help you take the first steps. Browse through more courses via the link Community Learning.

We are thankful to our training partners that deliver our Awareness sessions. These short bite size sessions delivered online are free and provide valuable information on various topics and the support needed. This month we are focussing on Dementia Friends Information sessions and Introduction to British Sign Language. Sign up via the Training Calendar.

Want to be part of the Big Help Out campaign and start volunteering? Pop in online to our Anyone Can Volunteer session to get answers to the how, where, when, why and what of volunteering.

We hope to see you at some of these sessions online or in person. Continue to stay informed! As always, we look forward to hearing your views on our raining; send us an email.

 

Continue to stay informed!

 

Kind regards,
Juli Riley
Head of Engagement and Skills
COMMUNITIES 1ST TRAINING

 
MULTIPLY WORKSHOPS

Family Budgeting

Learn how to create a family budget in easy steps and how to keep track of your spending, which in turn, can make your money go further. You will learn how to keep a track of your spending, whilst improving your numeracy skills at the same time!

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. 

 

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.

 

Shopping on a Budget
This course helps you understand the benefits of shopping on a budget. It will look at 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.

20th June 2023 - 10am - 1.00pm
Register here

Make Do and Mend
Garment repair can be painful and expensive. We have so many clothes in our cupboards that occupy space and are loved that we don’t have the heart to throw them away. Mending your clothes and upcycling them not only helps save money but also helps reduce long term impacts on the environment.
In this session, participants will learn simple hand sewing techniques such as button sewing, hemming and altering at waist, whilst improving their numeracy skills and save money.

No sewing skills are needed. Just bring a garment that needs a simple hand repair and you will get the opportunity to begin working on it. If they wish, participants may bring their own sewing supplies.
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.

22nd June 2023 - 10am-1pm
Register here
AWARENESS TRAINING SESSIONS

Dementia Friends Information Session

This Zoom session will give you the opportunity to learn more about what it is like to live with dementia and turn that understanding into action.

 

Introduction to British Sign Language
An online introduction to the British Sign Language and how it can be applied effectively to communicate with those living with deafness and hearing loss.

Anyone can Volunteer
If you wish to take your first steps towards volunteering, this one hour online session will aim to answer the how, where, when, why and what of volunteering.
The session will cover an understanding of volunteering and its roles, volunteering with benefits, researching volunteering roles and identifying skills.
This online session is for anybody who is looking to embark on their volunteering journey.

 

Please note this session is on Zoom.

25th May 2023 - 11am - 12pm
Register here

Gambling and Related Harm 

This CPD accredited training aims to help make problem gambling more identifiable for practitioners and volunteers working with women, men and young people in both generic and gender specific services. 

In this session you will have the opportunity to discuss these issues and: 

• Gain an understanding of problem gambling issues specific to women. 
• Learn about the impacts and risks of problem gambling. 
• Increase your confidence to discuss the subject of problem gambling. 
• Gain vital knowledge about screening tools and referral pathways for support and treatment. 

Please note this session is on Zoom.

6th June 2023 - 2pm - 4.30pm
Register here

Diabetes Awareness Training

This one hour awareness session aims to impart knowledge and understanding of diabetes. The session will give an understanding of the signs and symptoms and risk factors of Type 1 and 2 diabetes. It will provide participants with preventive measures they can take and talk about the correlation between food and diabetes. The session will also cover possible treatments and complications that arise from the condition. will provide participants guidelines on signposting and how those living with diabetes can be supported.

Please note this is an online event on Zoom. 

14th June, 2023 - 11am - 12pm

Register here 

Deaf Awareness Training
This online session will give the confidence and basic skills to communicate with those who are living with deafness and hearing loss. It will enable them to understand deafness, signs that someone can’t hear you, body positions and communicating.

21st June 2023 - 10am - 12pm

Register here
TRAINING FROM OTHER ORGANISATIONS

Dementia Friends Training

A Dementia Friend is somebody that learns about dementia so they can help their community. This in person training will raise awareness and understanding of the challenges people with Dementia face in the community.

The training will involve an awareness session followed by a round table discussions on how participant can put into practice what they have just learnt.

7 June 2023, 2pm - 4pm.

Council Chamber, SADC Offices, St Peters Street St Albans

Please book in advance by emailing Peggy Sharp or calling 01727 819340 

Prince's Trust Sessions programmes

Prince's Trust has promoted its new courses in Health and Social Care and Digital Skills. 

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Living Well Courses

These courses have been designed to support people make positive changes in their lives. Courses and workshops will be delivered online and in their local centres by experienced and passionate Mind in Mid Herts trainers.

 

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the Long-COVID & Physical Activity Learn and Share

The Herts Sports and Physical Activity Partnership invite you to attend our online learn and share event, which will focus on the connection between physical activity and Long COVID. This event is free as part of a pilot project funded by Public Health within Hertfordshire County Council and delivered in collaboration with the county's NHS COVID rehabilitation teams.

 

24th May 2023, 2pm - 3.30pm

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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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New courses at Step2Skills

Step2Skills is promoting its new courses, like:

- Introduction to Working in the Health and Social Care Sector

- Introduction to working in schools

Friends against Scams

This is a National Trading Standards Scams team initiative which aims to protect and prevent people from becoming victims of scams by empowering people to take a stand against scams. Become a Friend against Scam to inspire action, highlight scale of the problem, change perceptions and make scams a community, regional and national topic.

 

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