Working together to develop and strengthen a vibrant Voluntary, Community and Faith Sector
Main menu
You are here
Home ›VAO Training
We offer a learning and development programme covering topics such as management skills, health and safety, fundraising, financial management, volunteer management, communication and interpersonal skills and organisational development to help local voluntary and community and faith groups in the Oldham borough grow and thrive. In-house tailored training is also available from our accredited trainers. Contact Clare Taylor clare.taylor@vaoldham.org.uk for further details.
To download a PDF version on our Training Programme click here.
| Course Title | Date and Time | Course Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Writing better funding applications | Tuesday, 7 February, 2012 - 10:00 |
An intermediate level training course for those who already have some experience of writing applications. |
| Building a brand identity | Tuesday, 14 February, 2012 - 10:00 |
Second in a series of marketing workshops to cover all you need to know to market your group/organisations successfully. |
| Measuring the Impact of Volunteering | Wednesday, 15 February, 2012 - 10:00 |
The aim of this course is to improve your knowledge and skills on measuring the impact of your volunteer project and to equip you with resources and a plan for carrying out an evaluation exercise. |
| Child Protection Training Level 1 | Tuesday, 21 February, 2012 - 18:00 |
In addition to direct support with your safeguarding policies and procedures, The Hub now offers free Level 1 Child Protection training to the staff and volunteers of voluntary, community and faith groups in Oldham. |
| Sources of Funding | Wednesday, 22 February, 2012 - 17:30 |
Do you need money to run an activity? Are you wondering how your group is going to pay for the services that members in your community need? |
| Campaigning - the basics | Thursday, 23 February, 2012 - 11:00 |
An introductory level campaign workshop equipping voluntary, community and faith groups with the skills to bring about change. |
| Safeguarding Adults | Tuesday, 28 February, 2012 - 10:00 | |
| Financial Reporting | Tuesday, 28 February, 2012 - 17:30 |
An introduction into the different types of annual accounts set out by the Charity Commission, looking at the difference between cash based and accruals based accounts. |
| Budgeting, Cash Flow Forecasting and Management Accounts | Wednesday, 29 February, 2012 - 17:30 |
This course will go through the practical steps involved in preparing a simple budget. Using a budget we will look at preparing a cash flow forecast to help an organisation manage their cash resources. We will then look at the process of producing a simple set of management accounts then comparing these results against the budget, analysing the variances and how this information can influence decision making. |
| Effective marketing literature | Thursday, 1 March, 2012 - 10:00 |
Third in a series of marketing workshops to cover all you need to know to market your group/organisations successfully. |
Pages
Comment
on our blogs
Follow us
on Twitter
Join us on
Facebook