Training Tuesday

We are surrounded by numbers and are constantly processing them in our brains.  Numbers and calculations help us with various activities and tasks we do in our everyday lives like shopping, cooking, playing football or even budgeting and sewing.

April is Mathematics and Statistics Awareness month.  As part of increasing interest and upskilling adults in numeracy, we are delivering courses funded by the national project Multiply. Shopping on a Budget will help you shop better, smarter, and lighter on the pocket. Our Make Do and Mend course will help you save your much loved clothes, save money on expensive repairs and protect the environment. We have dates for April!

Our endeavor to hit the 1000 target on creating Dementia Friends in the community continues. Do sign up on the one-hour Dementia Friends Information session, support the cause, and learn to support those living with Dementia.  

This year International Microvolunteering Day is being held on 15th April. The day is meant to showcase the power of coming together with little resources and energy but make big differences to yourself and communities. Sign up to our Anyone Can Volunteer sessions and learn how you can take your first steps towards your volunteering journey.

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 training; send us an Email.

Continue to stay informed!

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.

19th April 2023 -  11am - 12pm

Register here

Shopping on a Budget 

Shopping can be very stressful and expensive. Simple tips and techniques can help us in sticking to a budget and control costs. 
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. 

19th April 2023 - 10am - 1pm

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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.

19th April 2023 - 1pm - 2pm
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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.

20th April 2023 - 12pm - 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 communicating.

26th April 2023 - 10am - 12pm

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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. 

26th April 2023 - 10am-1pm

Register here

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.

27th April 2023 - 11am - 12pm
Register here

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.

2nd May 2023 - 1pm - 2pm
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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. 

Please note this is an online event on Zoom. 

11th May 2023 - 11am - 12pm
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Children's Safeguarding Training 

This online course is suitable for staff and volunteers working with young people. 

During this course you will learn:

• What abuse is and how to recognise the signs.
• To understand the key words and phrases used in safeguarding work.
• Accountability - including confidentiality, disclosure, reporting concerns, and working with statutory agencies.
• What happens next - the investigation process

Please note this is a paid event. 

The cost for members is £35, and for non -members is £50

22nd May 2023 - 10am -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.

24th May 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.

24th May 2023 - 10am - 12pm
Register here

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
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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. 

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

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.

21st June 2023 -  11am - 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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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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Community Courses

Step2Skill has created new interesting courses:

- Rebuild your Confidence in English  (free course)   

- Beginners Word for Work (free course)  

- Introduction to Counselling and Active Listening Skills (concessions apply)        

- ESOL Borehamwood and St Albans (concessions apply)              

Talk Cancer online workshop.

Feel confident talking about cancer with this free online workshop.

You will learn how to: reduce cancer risk, understand the need of early diagnosis, breakdown cancer myths and understand health inequalities.

4th April 2023 - 10am - 12pm

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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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