Neath Port Talbot Council for Voluntary Service

Training for the Third Sector in Neath Port Talbot

CVS provides informal and formal learning opportunities designed to enhance the skills, knowledge and confidence of individuals, voluntary organisations, community groups and volunteers.

Courses cover a broad range of topics including fundraising, employment law, strategic management, basic food hygiene and first aid.

What’s on?

For a list of courses please visit www.coursesforcommunitiescymru.org.uk or download the programme.

Don’t see what you need, want more information - or something different?

Then please talk to us - we can help! Email or call us with your name, organisation, address, and telephone number.

Cost

Course fees are kept to a minimum. Third sector organisations are normally expected to pay no more than £20 for a one day course!

Tailor Made Courses and Facilitation

CVS also arranges tailor-made in-house courses and can provide a facilitation service for organisations wanting to hold planning or ‘Away Days’. To discuss your requirements further please contact us.

Learning in the Community

CVS is proud to support its partners in the sector who deliver community- based learning opportunities. With many years of experience and expertise in community development, these learning providers help engage with those learners who might otherwise continue to miss out on real personal achievement opportunities.

Take a look at what they do:

www.doveworkshop.org
www.glynneathtc.org.uk
www.ystalyfera.org
www.nsasr.co.uk

OCN Level 1 in Community Food and Nutrition

The Local Health Board has funding to run a OCN Level 1 in Community Food and Nutrition for young people aged under 25.  Download the poster for more information.

CVS and the local learning infrastructure

As well as providing courses that meet the needs of the third sector, CVS is actively involved in local and regional networks and partnerships that work together to bring about the best learning opportunities for all communities in the area.

If you’d like to be involved or have any views about training, education and learning that you’d like us to take up on your behalf, we’d be pleased to her from you.

For more information on the work of key learning partnerships in the area please visit:

www.learningpool.org
www.swan.ac.uk/dace
www.estyn.gov.uk

Training for Early Years Development and Childcare

Are you involved in working with our much younger age range? Thinking of becoming involved in the childcare sector? If so, this programme will be of interest to you.

CVS, in collaboration with the Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership (EYDCP), arranges a wide range of courses that meet the needs of those working in this sector.

For more information please visit:

www.npteydcp.org.uk

Strategy Launched: ‘Skills That Work for Wales’ - An Employment & Skills Action Plan

July 2008

This document is a new skills and employment strategy and action Plan which builds upon and replaces the Skills and Employment Action Plan 2005. The strategy provides a response to the Leitch Review of Skills in the UK and the independent review of the mission and purpose of Further Education (Promise and Performance). This strategy describes the ‘One Wales’ ambition for a highly educated, skilled and high employment Wales. It builds on previous strategies and action plans including The Learning Country: Vision into Action, Wales: A Vibrant Economy, the Skills and Employment Action Plan of 2005, and Words Talk - Numbers Count, our Basic Skills Strategy (2005).

The strategy and action plan include: new approaches to funding; a more demand responsive skills and business support service; integrated skills and employment services delivered through partnership between the Assembly Government and Department of Work and Pensions; and the transformation of the learning network.

As the Webb Review noted, we must make best use of public funds and secure good value for money for our investment in ACL. In September 2008 we (Welsh Assembly Government) will publish for consultation a draft policy on ACL, to improve the way we plan, fund and deliver this type of learning, so that it better reflects local priorities. Neath Port Talbot CVS will provide details of the proposed consultation when it becomes available.

Download a copy of ‘Skills That Work for Wales July 2008′

WCVA

WCVA are holding a number of forthcoming tender training courses.  More information is available in Welsh and English.

Influencing decision-makers: How to have your voice heard

Voices for Change Cymru is a WCVA project supported by the Big Lottery Fund.  It aims to help third sector organisations influence policy and legislation at local and national levels.

If you want to have your voice heard about things that matter to you, you need to know how to talk to the right people about the right things in the right way. These three half-day training events will help you to find your way around Welsh political structures and processes, understand different ways to influence the National Assembly for Wales, and introduce the principles of campaigning and lobbying.

All courses will be held at Neath Port Talbot CVS and are free of charge.  The flyer and booking slip is available to download for further information and to book your place.

Please fill in your personal details and indicate which course/courses you would like to attend and return the form to Neath Port Talbot CVS, Tŷ Margaret Thorne, 17-19 Alfred Street, Neath, SA11 1EF or maryc@nptcvs.org.uk.

Alternatively, you can call CVS on 01639 631387 and complete your booking over the telephone.

Consultation on the Strategic ICT Vision for the Communities in Neath Port Talbot

Closing date for responses for this consultation is 17th July 2009.