• Delivering Better Services for People with Learning Disabilities

    Port Talbot Port Talbot

    This Learning Disability Wales course will help you improve the lives of the people you provide services to. It will look at how valuing people with a learning disability is key to delivering better services and how this can be achieved while achieving value for money, thereby resulting in positive outcomes for all.   Designed forAnyone who...

  • C3SC Training: Charity Annual Accounts

    C3SC Offices, Brunel House, Cardiff C3SC Offices, Brunel House, Cardiff

    Content: Covering the basics required for charitable account keeping, developing a better understanding of the requirements of charity annual accounts, as well as exploring the CharityCommission  best practice for the reporting process. Ideal for: Small and medium sized organisations, Treasurers, Trustees and Chief Officers. 

  • Sexual Violence and Substance Use

    Newport Newport

    This New Pathways course is aimed at anyone who works with people who have been affected by sexual violence, who use substances. This may include health and social care workers; substance misuse workers; criminal justice workers and workers from the domestic abuse sector.The content includes: - Forms of sexual violence, myths and statistics - Categories...

  • Talking Points: A Personal Outcomes Approach Seminar

    Committee Rooms 1 & 2, Glamorgan Building, Cardiff University Committee Rooms 1 & 2, Glamorgan Building, Cardiff University

    WCVA is pleased to invite you to Talking Points: A Personal Outcomes Approach Seminar, which aims to inform the development of Wales’s Social Services National Outcomes Framework.  Who: Bringing academic rigour, researchers Ailsa Cook and Emma Miller have been working with the Scottish Government to develop Talking Points: A Personal Outcomes Approach combining user and...

  • C3SC Training: Networks, Consortia and Alliance

    C3SC Offices, Brunel House, Cardiff C3SC Offices, Brunel House, Cardiff

    Content: This course explores looking at getting the most from the many Networks and planning groups in the area, and how best to work in consortia. Essential study for those looking to explore tendering consortia.   Ideal for: Any organisation wishing to explore greater partnership working.

  • All in This Together

    Cardiff County Hall, Atlantic Wharf, Meeting room D Cardiff County Hall, Atlantic Wharf, Meeting room D

    Putting co-production at the heart of public services in WalesChris Vanstone will share insights from his work at the Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI) where he leads a team developing new peer-to-peer solutions and new approaches to social problem solving with families, older people and indigenous Australians.He’ll be talking about the development of solutions for carers and about Family by Family, an award...

  • Energy Management 2013

    Wales Audit Office, 24 Cathedral Road, Cardiff CF11 9LJ Wales Audit Office, 24 Cathedral Road, Cardiff CF11 9LJ

    Energy costs have increased by an average of 246% for businesses over the past seven years.* This upward trend is having a profound impact on the ability of the public sector to continually deliver services within a tight budget. This seminar will share how public sector organisations are addressing the need for better energy management...

  • C3SC Training: Budgeting

    C3SC Offices, Brunel House, Cardiff C3SC Offices, Brunel House, Cardiff

    Content: This course looks at the requirement for organisations to develop accurate, realistic budgets. It provides attendees with the skills to set annual project costs, how to monitor against those budgets, and to produce project cost reports. Ideal for: Small and medium sized organisations, Treasurers, Trustees and ChiefOfficers.  • “Very useful for my work”• “Good and...

  • Syria: An Internal and International Catastrophe

    Temple of Peace, Cardiff Temple of Peace, Cardiff

    The WCIA, Oxfam-Cymru, Cardiff & District UNA & Cardiff University presents 'Syria: An Internal and International Catastrophe'Tens of thousands of Syrians have lost their lives. The bloody internal battle has forced over one million to flee across the country’s border and is now threatening to tear the nation apart. The international community has been divided...

  • “Love and forgiveness” Retreat

    Coleg Trefeca, Brecon Beacons National Park Coleg Trefeca, Brecon Beacons National Park

    Theme: “Addiction – A family disease”The Welsh Council on Alcohol and Other Drugs is holding their next "Love and forgiveness" Retreat in July at Trefeca in Brecon. It is in association with Living Room, Cardiff (The day-care recovery center for Cardiff and South Wales, http://www.livingroom-cardiff.com).It is the perfect chance for you to spend a weekend in (the gorgeous!)...

  • Streets Alive

    Adamsdown and Splott Adamsdown and Splott

    NoFit State Circus and Rubicon Dance are coming together to present something special this summer on the streets of Adamsdown and Splott. For anyone who’s ever dreamed of running away with the circus, or dancing through the streets, Streets Alive invites you to get involved, try something new and see something great. Keep your eyes...

  • Street Games Summer Festival

    Splott Park and Splott Pool Splott Park and Splott Pool

    Free activities, including: football, climbing wall, swimming pool games, extreme cheerleading, basketball, street golf, atomic touch ... and lots more.Take part in six activities or more and you could win prizes!