Women in Democracy
2013-11-22 12:00 - 14:00 (Europe/London) | Pierhead Building, Cardiff Bay, Pierhead Building, Cardiff Bay
Chwarae Teg is proud to be an official partner of Parliament Week 2013 and in this capacity is running a number of events to celebrate ‘women in democracy’.
Delegates will be able to hear from a number of speakers and find out about how to get involved in decisions that affect their communities and what support is available to help them do that. You will be joined by prominent women from public life and guests will have the opportunity to find out more over lunch.
This event is being sponsored by Rosemary Butler AM as part of the Women in Public Life campaign and is supported by Women Making a Difference and the Electoral Reform Society.
For more details or to book a place, visit: http://chwaraeteg.com/news-1/2013/09/26/more-women-need-to-get-engaged/
Chwarae Teg is particularly calling on trustees who would be willing to share their story or any other stakeholders who would be interested to get more involved in local decision making.

BME Heritage Film Release
2013-11-22 | Butetown Multimedia Centre, 40 Loudoun Square, Cardiff Cf10 5UZ, Butetown Multimedia Centre, 40 Loudoun Square, Cardiff Cf10 5UZ
Please join Diverse Cymru for the launch of the Heritage Lottery Funded Film: All Our Stories – Writing BME history back into Welsh History.
Stories of growing up as a minority here in Cardiff.
Refreshments will be provided followed by the film and then a debate about representation of the BME community in Welsh Heritage and History.
A FREE event for the community by the community.
To reserve your place please email

South Wales Parents with a Learning Disability Network Meeting
2013-11-25 | The Pumphouse, Swansea, The Pumphouse, Swansea
The parents with learning disabilities network is aimed at both parents with learning disabilities and their supporters.
The network meetings are organised by Learning Disability Wales, Carmarthenshire People First, Vale People First and Conwy Connect for Learning Disabilities.
If you are interested in joining this network, please email enquiries@learningdisabilitywales.org.uk
Find out more on the Learning Disability Wales website.

Annual Light a Candle Ecumenical Event commemorating International Day to End Violence against Women
2013-11-25 11:00 - 12:00 | Llandaff Cathedral, Llandaff Cathedral
The event will start with a march from BAWSO (9, Cathedral Road) at 10:00am to Llandaff Cathedral. Guest speakers: Local Government Minister and Survivor.
Lunch & bazaar at Bawso

Race Council Cymru Annual General Meeting
2013-11-25 18:00 - 20:00 | Glamorgan House, 94 Walter Rd, Swansea, Glamorgan House, 94 Walter Rd, Swansea
You are cordially invited to the Race Council Cymru Annual General Meeting. Papers relating to the AGM such as the annual report, Agenda, etc. will be emailed to everyone prior to that date.

Advising Clients in Debt
2013-11-26 | Cardiff, Cardiff
Full-day Shelter Cymru course. Price: £130 per delegate. Concessionary rate: £85.
If you would like to book a place, please visit our website www.sheltercymru.org.uk or call 01792 483020. Alternatively, you can email training@sheltercymru.org.uk

“No Longer a Diagnosis of Exclusion – working with Personality Disorder and Substance Misuse"
2013-11-26 | NewLink Wales, Meridian Court, North Road, Cardiff CF14 3BE, NewLink Wales, Meridian Court, North Road, Cardiff CF14 3BE
This NewLink Wales course offers a useful and in-depth exploration of Personality Disorder within the context of substance misuse. There has been a lot of debate on these issues over recent years and this session aims to challenge the myths that surround this subject area. The impact of Personality Disorder and substance misuse on teams of professionals will also be explored with the aim of raising awareness of transference issues.

By the end of the course participants will have:
– 1. An understanding of Personality Disorder, its prevalence and diagnostic criteria – 2. An understanding of the role played by substance misuse in Personality Disorder and how this impacts on treatment – 3. A greater knowledge of how working with Personality Disorder can often lead to conflicts within substance misuse teams – 4. An overview of good practice recommendations for working more effectively with this client group.

Dr Tracy Carlson is a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist with a particular interest in Personality Disorders. She has vast experience in this area which includes a number of roles working within in-patient secure settings as well as in the community. Dr Carlson previously worked on the only Tier 6 unit for Dangerous and Severe Personality Disordered women in the UK.
Voluntary Sector WORERS- £145.00Statutory Sector WORKERS – £155.00This includes facilitation, handouts, refreshments and a buffet lunch

Universal Credit
2013-11-26 | Cardiff, Cardiff
The introduction of universal credit from October 2013 will fundamentally change the current system of benefits and tax credits. This one-day Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) course in Cardiff examines how the new benefit will work and the likely effect on claimants.
Find out more and book your place via the CPAG website.

Free Turn2us benefits and grants workshop
2013-11-26 13:00 - 16:00 | Jasmine Enterprise Centre, Cowbridge Road West, Cardiff CF5 5BQ, Jasmine Enterprise Centre, Cowbridge Road West, Cardiff CF5 5BQ
Working Together to Maximise IncomeFree Turn2us benefits and grants workshop
Turn2us helps people in financial need gain access to welfare benefits, charitable grants and other financial help – online, by phone and face to face through our partner organisations. Turn2us is part of the national charity, Elizabeth Finn Care.

Everything you need in one placeThe Turn2us website – www.turn2us.org.uk – brings together an easy to use Benefits Calculator, Grants Search database giving access to over 3,000 charitable funds and up-to-date information about benefits, welfare reform changes, grants and managing money. Turn2us is also supported by a freephone helpline, for anyone who cannot access the website.
Free training in CardiffTurn2us is inviting staff and volunteers from voluntary and community organisations, local authorities and housing associations, who offer front line advice, support or information, and who are familiar with using the internet to attend a free workshop. It is for those who are not benefit experts but want to know where to find the latest information and updates on welfare benefits and grants.
Activities will include:
– Live interactive demonstrations of the Turn2us Benefits Calculator and Grants Search – Introductions to the other resources including Find an Adviser, intermediaries’ forum, information on welfare reforms, grants and managing money – Demonstration of the MyTurn2us account features which enable intermediaries to apply directly to grant-giving charities online and to save benefit calculations – Identifying where to find the latest information on benefit changes including the roll out of the benefits cap and universal credit, localised council tax support and housing benefit – Engaging card game to learn more about charitable grant funds Opportunities for questions, answers and sharing of ideas throughout!When and where
Date and times: 26 November 2013, 13.00 to 16.00Venue: Jasmine Enterprise Centre, Cowbridge Road West, Cardiff, CF5 5BQ
How to attend
Please note pre-course preparation is required. To register your interest, or for more information, email pat.cripps@elizabethfinn.org.uk
Places are free but limited to 2 bookings per organisation.

C3SC Training: An Introduction to Tendering
2013-11-26 17:00 - 20:00 | C3SC Offices, Brunel House, Cardiff, C3SC Offices, Brunel House, Cardiff
With more and more third sector funding sources being tendered for, this course will give your organisation an overview of how tendering works. It covers what tendering is and how your organisation can take part to maximise your chances.
Including:
– Jargon buster: commissioning, procurement, tendering, contracting – Are you fit for contracting? – The procurement process – The tender process – finding and evaluating opportunities – Key considerations for joint working
Ideal for: any organisation or individual wanting to understand tendering.
MarkATugwell: “Spent the day training @C3SC – learning all about the tendering process. Really good stuff!”

Registration from 4.45pm

Personal Independence Payment
2013-11-27 | Cardiff, Cardiff
This full day Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) course for advisers examines the replacement of disability living allowance (DLA) for adults by a new ‘personal independence payment’ (PIP) from April 2013.
The course covers:
– who can claim PIP – the structure of the benefit – the assessment criteria and process – claims, awards and appeals – migration of existing DLA claimants on to PIP
NOTE: The course is suitable for anyone wanting to get to grips with the detail of PIP, including experienced advisers who want to update their knowledge.
Book your place via the CPAG website.

Alzheimer's Society Social Evening
2013-11-27 | Venue to be confirmed, Venue to be confirmed
Social Evening for those under 65 with a diagnosis of dementia and their carers.

Building Resilience in Young People
2013-11-28 | Merthyr, Merthyr
A one-day Children in Wales course Why do some young people cope with difficulties more easily than others? What factors really make a difference to how we deal with adversity? What can practitioners do to make a difference? This one-day course explores how you can develop an approach that builds on strengths to help young people deal with adversity, cope with change, survive disappointment and manage crises. It will draw upon practice, research and theory. Above all, it will enable participants to reflect upon their experience and build on their own strengths. The course will include:
– Resilience, risk and coping – what do we mean – Key resilience qualities for individuals and families – Implications of the different coping styles of young women and young men – Protective factors for individuals, families and communities – The significance of emotional intelligence, problem solving and optimism – Listening to young people and families and developing relationships of care – Supporting connectedness
COST: Members £115
Non-members £135
Book your place via the Children in Wales website.

Introduction to Benefits
2013-11-28 | Swansea, Swansea

Riverside Advice Drop-in Session: Welfare Benefits, Debt and Housing
2013-11-28 09:00 - 13:00 | 41a Lower Cathedral Road, Riverside, Cardiff CF11 6LW, 41a Lower Cathedral Road, Riverside, Cardiff CF11 6LW
Further to demand this session is a one-off session, which may take place again and/or may be scheduled regularly in the future.

Making Autism Work for YOU
2013-11-28 09:30 - 16:15 | Heronston Hotel, Ewenny Road, Bridgend CF35 5AW, Heronston Hotel, Ewenny Road, Bridgend CF35 5AW
An interactive forum for employers and people on the Autistic Spectrum
A series of talks and workshops aiming to:
– Open employers’ minds to employing people with Autistic Spectrum Conditions; – Make people on the autism Spectrum aware of local opportunities for employment
SpeakersRobert Lloyd Griffiths, Autism Employment Ambassador for WalesJenny Berman, Autism ConsultantKeith Ingram, Lead Officer, Vale of Glamorgan ASD Project

WCVA Annual Conference 2013 - Time to visit your future
2013-11-28 09:30 - 16:30 | Venue Cymru, Llandudno, Venue Cymru, Llandudno
Book before 1 November and get two places for the price of one.
Step into the Tardis and take a trip to the future to take a peek over the horizon to see what’s in store for the third sector in Wales.
Jeff Cuthbert AM will be on hand to tell delegates about the Welsh Government’s vision for how they and the sector can work together, while Martyn Evans of Carnegie UK Trust will ask if a more active role would allow individuals and communities to improve society well-being in future.
Workshops will take a look at the present and future of social investment in Wales, the development of leaders in Wales, and the Future Generations Bill – and much more besides.
You’ll also get to hear about the new European Structural Funds programmes for 2014-20, and have the chance to network with other sector members and discuss the future together.
And if you book before November 1, 2013, you can get two places for the price of one.
You can read the full programme here and book your place (or places) here. Don’t miss out on this glimpse of things to come.#visityourfuture

Christmas Crafts Fayre
2013-11-28 12:00 - 15:00 | Sbetrwm Hall, Sbetrwm Hall
A Vision 21 eventSeasonal food for sale
Home made seasonal pickles and preserves, cakes, biscuits, mince pies, waffles, and spicy Christmas punch.
Local craft stalls selling
– Seasonal gifts and crafts – Hand-made pottery, knitted & sewn gifts, cards, jewellery, tree decorations, Christmas wreaths, table decorations & more
Entrance: 20p
Vision 21’s AGM will start in Sbetrwm Hall at 5.30pm prompt and will finish at approximately 6.30pm.

Understanding Hate Crime workshop
2013-11-29 | Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
Run by Diverse Cymru, this half-day workshop will enable you to gain a better understanding of race, faith, homophobic, transphobic and disability hate crime and to discuss strategies to raise awareness within your workplace or with the communities you work and live in.
Cost: £55 per person
Find out more at www.diversecymrutraining.org.uk/understanding-hate-crime/

Advice Providers' Network event
2013-11-29 09:30 - 12:00 | Brunel House, 2 Fitzalan Road, Cardiff CF24 0EB., Brunel House, 2 Fitzalan Road, Cardiff CF24 0EB.
The network is facilitated by Cardiff Third Sector Council in order to provide a forum for third sector advice providers to work in partnership with Cardiff Council, one of the largest funders for advice work in Cardiff.
If you’re interested in joining the network or would like to attend the event, please contact Kevin (his details are below).

Carers' Rights Day
2013-11-29 10:00 - 16:00 | Cardiff Central Library, Cardiff Central Library
Rights, Advice, Support• Know your right to financial and practical support• Get the right advice about your finances• Make the most of support from technology
Find out more at the Advice and Information stands.
Speak to Sue and Nigel from Cardiff and Vale UHB Carers Support.
This event is also taking place at Barry Library from 10am to 3pm on the same day.

Celebrating 75 years of the Temple of Peace
2013-11-30 11:00 - 16:00 | Marble Hall, Temple of Peace, Marble Hall, Temple of Peace
Welsh Centre for International Affairs invites you to celebrate the 75 years of the Temple of Peace. See the full programme on the WCIA website.

Positive Approaches to Creating Positive Behaviour
2013-12-02 | Cardiff, Cardiff
A one-day Children in Wales course
The aim of this training is to help those working with children and young people gain a deeper understanding of the functional nature of behaviours that we consider challenging, and identify positive and progressive ways of responding. The course will offer a practice-based forum to consider ways of working with children whose behaviour creates a barrier in social, learning and play relationships. It also covers behaviour in different ages and ranges of ability, underpinning the communicative nature of behaviour.
This course will include:
– The functional nature of behaviour and working with the ABC framework of assessment – A variety of evidence-based strategies to respond to difficult and aggressive behaviours – Crisis intervention guidance – How to cope with our own responses and personal stress

You can find out more and book your place via the Children in Wales website.

Mental Health First Aid
2013-12-02 - 2013-12-03 | Chapter, Cardiff, Chapter, Cardiff
Front line workers in Wales often have to deal with people with experience of mental distress but lack the skills and confidence to support them appropriately. With one in four of us affected by mental health problems each year, service providers across Wales this 2 day course will assist you to deal more effectively with these challenges.
MHFA aims to help participants:
– Preserve life where a person may be a danger to themselves or others. – Provide help to prevent a mental health problem developing into a more serious state. – Promote recovery of good mental health. – Provide comfort to a person experiencing mental health distress.

Feedback comments:
‘Excellent approach & very engaging’
‘Instructor was very informative & clearly knowledgeable’
‘I really enjoyed the course, learnt a lot and feel more confident’
‘Just the right balance of material v practical’

Cost: £140 per person

Please visit http://www.diversecymrutraining.org.uk/mental-health-first-aid/ for more information and to book a place.

Cardiff and Vale Carers Support and Information Network Group (CSING)
2013-12-02 14:00 - 16:00 | Cardiff, Cardiff
CSING aims to bring together a range of sectors, agencies and organisations providing services for carers and provide a forum for sharing information, promoting partnership working, sharing good practice and raising issues relating to services for carers and the cared for. To book a place, contact linda@valecvs.org.uk

MESIG (ME Support in Glamorgan) Special Christmas Support Group Meeting
2013-12-02 14:00 - 16:00 | Bethel Church, Llangrannog Road, Llanishen, Cardiff CF14 5BL, Bethel Church, Llangrannog Road, Llanishen, Cardiff CF14 5BL
Tea and cake
All welcome – members, friends, family, carers, partners. Please email to let MESIG know you’re going.

Equality Impact Assessments
2013-12-03 | Glamorgan Archives, Cardiff, Glamorgan Archives, Cardiff
An introduction to the Equality Impact Assessment process. This Diverse Cymru course is for anyone with a management or non-management role, in the public sector, who has responsibility for developing a new policy or service or making changes to a current policy or service. It is helpful both for anyone who has carried out, or is carrying out EIAs, but has not had training in how to do so, and for those who have not yet carried one out.
Cost: £85 per person
Find out more at www.diversecymrutraining.org.uk/equality-impact-assessments/

Social investment and how it could work for you
2013-12-03 | Wales Council for Voluntary Action – Baltic House, Wales Council for Voluntary Action - Baltic House
WCVA half-day training course
AimsTo provide an overview of social investment and how it works. Identifying potential providers of social investment and the basic requirements to be investment readyContentIncreasingly ‘social investment’ is being used as an alternative way of financing growth within third sector organisations. There are many different types, but social investment is best described as investment for organisations that provides a social as well as a financial return. Typical examples include loans, social impact bonds and philanthropy capital. This workshop will introduce participants to social investment and understand what is required to attract finance from a social investorLearning outcomesBy the end of the course participants will have learned / be able to:
– Understand what social investment is and the various types of investment available to third sector organisations – Understand what is required to attract finance from a social investor – Recognise social investment as a driver for growth in third sector organisations Who this course is forSenior managers, trustees and development workers interested in using social investment as a viable means of developing organisations Book your place via the WCVA website.

Person Centred Thinking Skills
2013-12-03 - 2013-12-04 | Swansea, Swansea
This two-day Learning Disability Wales course will give you a good foundation in the person centred thinking skills to work towards delivering personalised services by using a one page profile and a person centred essential lifestyle plan as the beginning and foundations of a support plan.
The course addresses each of the person centred thinking skills tools, with an opportunity to explore and practice them with other participants through group exercises and discussion.

C3SC Training: Internet Fundraising
2013-12-03 10:00 - 16:00 | C3SC Offices, Brunel House, Cardiff, C3SC Offices, Brunel House, Cardiff
The internet, email and mobile technologies are now having a great impact on fundraising, creating strategic opportunities for the third sector. Digital media is becoming increasingly used to attract, engage and develop potential supporters.
Including:
– Building an online marketing strategy – knowing and engaging your audience – Building your brand – Using e-commerce as a fundraising tool – Developing partnerships – Where to go for further information, help and advice
Ideal for: those new to digital fundraising and those wanting to increase their understanding of the potential for fundraising through these media.

Registration from 9.45am
