• State Aid: What does it mean for third sector organisations?

    Orbit Business Centre, Merthyr Tydfil Orbit Business Centre, Merthyr Tydfil

    European Union State Aid rules are designed to regulate competition in order to maintain a level playing field in the European single market. The rules apply to all public funding (not just European funding) that is given to organisations involved in economic activity ('undertakings'). Third sector organisations are facing challenges in the application of State...

  • South East Wales Participation Network

    Vale of Glamorgan Council, Civic Offices, Holton Road, Barry CF63 4RU Vale of Glamorgan Council, Civic Offices, Holton Road, Barry CF63 4RU

    Fully booked The regional participation network will start with no formal agenda beyond the general theme of public engagement and shared power. The network will be an Open Space Technology event. Each individual participant will have the option to organise and facilitate their own breakout session, based around a topic, discussion point or participatory technique of your...

  • Austerity and Older People: Building Supportive Communities

    Pierhead Building, Cardiff Bay Pierhead Building, Cardiff Bay

    Age Alliance Wales would like to invite you to this event. Wales is working towards becoming a good place to grow old; we have an older people’s strategy, a commissioner for older people and new legislation for social services which all demonstrate that, at a strategic level, we are fully committed to achieving our goal....

  • Make your community more age friendly

    Gladstone Road, Barry, Valve of Glamorgan CF62 8NA Gladstone Road, Barry, Valve of Glamorgan CF62 8NA

    Interested in making your community Age Friendly? Come along to this FREE Ageing Well in Wales event where you will find out how to get started and learn from other communities.

  • Update from Professor Sally Holland, Children’s Commissioner for Wales, followed by Children in Wales’s Annual General Meeting

    Children in Wales, 25 Windsor Place, Cardiff CF10 3BZ Children in Wales, 25 Windsor Place, Cardiff CF10 3BZ

    Professor Sally Holland has now been in post for a few months and we are delighted that she will be joining Children in Wales to give an update on her work and that of the Commissioner's Office. This session is open to members of Children in Wales, as well as Policy Council members, and is...

  • Code of guidance briefing – allocation of accommodation and homelessness

    Nantgarw Nantgarw

    This Shelter Cymru half-day briefing will look at the content of the new code of guidance that accompanies the Homelessness legislation contained in the Housing Act (Wales) 2014. Its purpose is to support staff of local authorities to guide them in implementing their functions in connection with allocations and homelessness. It applies to both the...

  • Organising and Delegating in the Workplace Training For Managers

    Glamorgan Archives, Clos Parc Morgannwg, Cardiff, CF11 8AW (Map & directions available) Glamorgan Archives, Clos Parc Morgannwg, Cardiff, CF11 8AW (Map & directions available)

    This Cardiff Council course is ideally suited to staff who are currently undertaking or are about to undertake a level 5 diploma level in Leadership for Health and Social Care. The course is open to all staff who are managing or supervising staff in a social care setting including managers, deputy/assistant managers and key/senior care staff. -    ...

  • Thinking about the Unthinkable: Child Sexual Abuse

    Cardiff Cardiff

    A two-day Children in Wales course Child sexual abuse is in the media like never before, but the extent of the abuse and the variety of ways children are sexually abused can be overwhelming. The aim of this course is to help us disentangle the subject so we can think clearly and safely, thus enabling...

  • Integrating health and social care – service redesign, resources and next steps for delivery

    Central Cardiff Central Cardiff

    Policy Forum for Wales Keynote Seminar With Professor Marcus Longley, Professor of Applied Health Policy and Director, Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care, University of South Wales and Dr Susan Carnes Chichlowska, Lecturer, Public Health and Policy Studies, Swansea University and Lead Author, The Integrated Care Evaluation Framework (ICE-F): A Realistic Evaluation of Integrated...

  • Want to be a mystery shopper?

    Tenant Resource Centre, Central Library, Cardiff Tenant Resource Centre, Central Library, Cardiff

    If you are a Council Tenant then you could join Service Improvement Group, which mystery shops housing services.Sign up at the coffee afternoon. www.cardifftenants.co.uk/index.php

  • Creating Homes 2015 ‘Back to the Future’ workshop

    Park Inn, Mary Ann Street, Cardiff Park Inn, Mary Ann Street, Cardiff

    Wales's only equality and housing conference This year at Tai Pawb we will be celebrating our 10th year, it's also 5 years since the Equality Act came onto the statute books. Find out more and book online.

  • Fundraising Skills Day

    The Ivy Bush Royal Hotel, Carmarthen The Ivy Bush Royal Hotel, Carmarthen

    An Institute of Fundraising Cymru event Facilitated by broadcaster Arfon Haines-Davies, this is a full day of useful, current advice and workshops - offering ways in which you can add to your portfolio of fundraising expertise:  Social Enterprise – Dr Martin Price Social Enterprise is a term bandied about by politicians of all hues. Social enterprises use...