Training Tuesday

Happy New year!



We are starting the new year with additions to our training calendar.

If you love your garments but are unable to wear them as they need mending, join our "Make Do and Mend" course. This in person session will give participants simple hands-on skills on repairing and alteration. No sewing skills needed! Just bring your garments that need mending. 

As the shopping frenzy continues well into the new year, join us on any of our "Shopping on a Budget" sessions. This session will help you shop smarter by looking at your current shopping habits and identifying areas where savings can be made. As part of a nationwide project called Multiply this course is free for adults over 19 years and  will also help build confidence around adult numeracy skills.

The cost-of-living crisis continues and many of us are facing rising energy requirements and cost. Our "Know your Energy" session aims to explain what is happening in the energy market and how we are getting affected. Join the session to get tips and what savings can be made to energy costs.

A "Self Care" webinar has been added this year. An engaging hour long lunchtime session that will present ideas for looking after yourself.

As always we look forward to your email sharing suggestions of training you would like to see in the future, and feedback on sessions you have attended.



Continue to stay informed and warm. 

Kind regards,

Monita Marwaha

Training and Skills Facilitator

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.

18th January 2023 -  11am - 12pm

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Shopping on a Budget

This face-to-face course in Borehamwood helps you understand the benefit of shopping on a budget. It will look at current shopping habits and highlight areas where savings can be made.

24th January 2023 - 10am - 1pm

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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.

25th January 2023 - 10am - 12pm

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Know Your Energy

This one hour online session on energy aims to explain what is happening in the energy market and how it is affecting clients.  The participants will get an understanding of the difference between fixed and variable tariffs and whether clients should be switching energy companies. 

26th January 2023 - 11am - 12pm 

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Vision Loss Awareness Training 

This online session aims to focus on understanding sight loss and supporting people living with sight loss. The session will introduce participants on common sight loss conditions and how they affect vision. It will cover the role of volunteers in supporting people with vision loss and the help they can seek.

31st January 2023 - 1pm - 2pm

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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.

2nd February 2023 - 12pm - 1pm

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Make Do and Mend

In this face-to-face session in Borehamwood, participants will learn simple hand sewing techniques that will enable them to repair much-loved clothes and make them wearable again.

No sewing skills are needed. Just bring your garments that need repairing.

7th February 2023 - 10am - 1pm

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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. 

7th February 2023 - 11am - 12pm

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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.

8th February 2023 -  11am - 12pm

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HIV - Awareness and Support

This course explains, among other things, the difference between AIDS & HIV, Identify routes of HIV transmission and ways to support someone living with HIV. 

10th February 2023 -  11am - 1pm

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Shopping on a Budget 

This face-to-face course in Borehamwood helps you understand the benefit of shopping on a budget. It will look at current shopping habits and highlight areas where savings can be made.

22nd February 2023 - 10am - 1pm

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.

22nd February 2023 - 10am - 12pm

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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.

2nd March 2023 - 12pm - 1pm

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Gambling and Related Harm 

This online 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. 



 

14th March 2023 - 10am - 12.30pm

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Boundaries Webinar

Having clear boundaries is essential to a healthy, balanced lifestyle. This one hour long webinar explores how to maintain good personal and professional boundaries to assist us to manage our day-to-day commitments. It explores the definition of boundaries, barriers to managing boundaries and how we can implement change.

16th March 2023 - 12pm - 1pm

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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.

22nd March 2023 -  11am - 12pm

Register here

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.

22nd March 2023 - 10am - 12pm

Register here

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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Social Media made easy

An easy guidance on how to run your social media channels and how to get the most out of them

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Guide Dogs

A free one hour Introduction to Sighted Guiding session. These are live virtual sessions which are delivered by Guide Dogs expert staff. They are suitable for anyone who feels they would benefit from knowing how to guide someone who is blind or partially sighted. 

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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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