• Housing and Sport: Improving wellbeing and providing better value for public money

    Wales Audit Office, SWALEC Stadium, Cardiff CF11 9XR Wales Audit Office, SWALEC Stadium, Cardiff CF11 9XR

    The Good Practice Exchange at the Wales Audit Office is running a seminar that may be of interest to the Health and Social Care Facilitators and wider people / organisations involved with health and well-being in the voluntary sector. The event is looking at how organisations can provide better services and better outcomes by working...

  • ‘Setting up a network’ seminar

    GAVO offices, Newport (NP19 7EJ) GAVO offices, Newport (NP19 7EJ)

    This Participation Cymru seminar explores how to establish a successful network, with practical ideas, tips and participatory methods for setting up a new network, and for refreshing and re-focussing an existing network. Find out more and book your place via the Participation Cymru website.

  • Renting Homes Bill

    Cardiff Cardiff

    The Renting Homes Bill will completely overhaul tenancies for all rented homes in Wales in both the private and social sectors. Due to be introduced to the Assembly in early 2015, the Bill will create a new legal system for tenancies based on principles of equality, simplicity and fairness. This Shelter Cymru half-day briefing session...

  • C3SC Training: Emergency First Aid at Work

    C3SC offices, Brunel House, 2 Fitzalan Road, Cardiff CF24 0EB. C3SC offices, Brunel House, 2 Fitzalan Road, Cardiff CF24 0EB.

    FULLY BOOKED C3SC has partnered with First Rate Training to provide this much requested course for staff, volunteers and trustees alike.  The training is suitable for people who have been nominated as 'appointed persons' within the workplace and covers a wide range of essential topics – enabling delegates to act swiftly and make a real...

  • Creative Care Planning

    NewLink Wales, Meridian Court, North Road, Cardiff CF14 3BE NewLink Wales, Meridian Court, North Road, Cardiff CF14 3BE

    A NewLink Wales training course There’s a vast amount of evidence showing that a good care plan can significantly improve outcomes for people who have substance misuse problems. However, many practitioners and service users have become disillusioned with this process and often see it as a tokenistic paperwork exercise. It doesn’t have to be! Through...

  • Free Mental Health Awareness training

    Cardiff Mind, 166, Newport Road, Cardiff. (Map and directions will be sent to participants.) Cardiff Mind, 166, Newport Road, Cardiff. (Map and directions will be sent to participants.)

    Facilitated by Cardiff Mind and organised by Cardiff Council, this one-day course is for staff and volunteers working in social care. The learning outcomes of the course are: Participants will be able to identify the differences between mental health and mental illness Participants will be able to recognise signs and symptoms of mental illnesses Participants...

  • Drugs, Housing & Homelessness

    Cardiff Cardiff

    The Shelter Cymru course highlights the linked problems of increased levels of drug use amongst people who are homeless, the associated risks this poses, and the barriers to services for people in this situation. Participants will gain an understanding of the links between homelessness and drug use and how to address key risk factors for...

  • Free workshop

    Butetown Community Centre, Unit 4, Second Floor, Butetown, Cardiff CF10 5UZ Butetown Community Centre, Unit 4, Second Floor, Butetown, Cardiff CF10 5UZ

    Are you thinking of setting up a business? Are you interested in learning how to patent and protect your own brand/logo? Then join The Mentor Ring at their free workshop, where a representative of the IPO (Intellectual Property Office) will happily offer advice, guidance and answer any of your queries or questions. Light refreshments provided.

  • Ever read a headline about human rights and wondered if there was more to the story?

    WCVA, Baltic House, Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff CF10 5FH WCVA, Baltic House, Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff CF10 5FH

    Join WCVA and the British Institute of Human Rights in Cardiff for the next instalment of BIHR's evening events to discuss some of the most commonly reported human rights stories, as they go Beneath the Headlines. We will look at some of the big issues that continue to feature in reporting as well as recent...

  • Love Your Vote – a free workshop for people with a learning disability and autism

    Future Inn Hotel, Cardiff Bay Future Inn Hotel, Cardiff Bay

    Time: 10:30am to 12:30pm OR 2.00pm to 4.00pm Dimensions Cymru is working with the Houses of Parliament to hold a free workshop in Cardiff to explain the process of politics and how to vote. These workshops are open to people with learning disabilities, autism and their supporters. Love Your Vote aims to raise awareness of voting...

  • Welsh Language Progress Plan Launch

    WCVA offices, Cardiff WCVA offices, Cardiff

    WCVA is launching the plan with the Welsh Language Commissioner at a free breakfast seminar at WCVA's offices in Cardiff. The Welsh Language Commissioner's new plan for businesses and third sector organisations aims to develop and increase their use of the Welsh language, and includes a new website full of information about the benefits of...

  • South Wales Fuel Poverty Forum

    Urdd Gobaith Cymru, Wales Millennium Centre, Bute Place, Cardiff CF10 5AL Urdd Gobaith Cymru, Wales Millennium Centre, Bute Place, Cardiff CF10 5AL

    NEA Cymru invites you to attend their spring Fuel Poverty Forum in Cardiff. The forums (there's one in North Wales too) have grown from strength to strength and are the recognised Welsh network in which to raise awareness of fuel poverty and to discuss solutions to the problem. Why attend?Spring’s focus will be on pre-payment...