Training Tuesday

December is a month of celebrations and cheer! It is also the time to reflect as another year comes to an end and a new year begins.
As the shopping frenzy continues well into the new year, join us on our Shopping on a Budget session. 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.

This week we have added a new course. "Make Do and Mend" will give participants hands-on skills in repairing their much-loved garments. No sewing skills are needed! Just bring your garments that need repairing, wear them again, save some money and reduce long-term negative impacts on the environment.

Our "Deaf Awareness" and "British Sign language" courses have been a hit this year. We have many dates to choose from in the New Year and we hope to see you at one of these sessions.

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 yallow youarn 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 Brh 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 hoone-houre 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 comton 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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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 hoone-hourness 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 yallow youarn 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, the Identification 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

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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 communication.

22nd February 2023 - 10am - 12pm

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Gambling and Related Harm 

This online CPD acCPD-accrediteding aims to help make problem gambling more identifiable for practitioners and volunteers working with women, men and young people in both generic and gendergender-specificces. 

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. 

14th March 2023 - 10am - 12.30pm

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Dementia Friends Information Session

This Zoom session will give yallow youarn more about what it is like to live with dementia and turn that understanding into action.

22nd March 2023 -  11am - 12pm

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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.

22nd March 2023 - 10am - 12pm

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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 easEasynce 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 on 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 lhour-longhop is aimed at front front-line 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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