• Delivering Better Services for People with a Learning Disability

    Cardiff Cardiff

    This Learning Disability Wales training course looks at how valuing people with a learning disability is key to delivering better services. It considers how this can be done while achieving value for money, thereby resulting in positive outcomes for all. It will develop participants' understanding of how people with a learning disability have been, and...

  • C3SC Training – Business & Strategic Planning

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

    This course will help you understand the importance and benefits of long-term planning and provide you with practical resources to plan more effectively. The course is suitable whether you are new to business and strategic planning or wish to gain further insight into planning. This course will help you to: ·         Understand the difference between business...

  • Positive Approaches to Creating Positive Behaviour

    Cardiff Cardiff

    A one-day course facilitated by Windfall TrainingThe aim of this Children in Wales 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...

  • Gift Aid registration surgery – five simple steps to Gift Aid

    Baltic House, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff Baltic House, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff

    This half-day WCVA course aims to provide you with practical information so that you are able to understand the benefits of income you could generate from Gift Aid and the process of registration.By attending this session you will understand how to:• Register with HMRC to claim Gift Aid• Encourage your donors to complete Gift Aid declarations• Maintain appropriate...

  • C3SC Training – Monitoring & Evaluation

    C3SC, Brunel House, 2 Fitzalan Road, CF24 0EB C3SC, Brunel House, 2 Fitzalan Road, CF24 0EB

    This course will introduce you to monitoring and evaluation - and explains why they are so important.By the end of the session, you will understand: - What can be measured - The different methods of measurement - How to design a simple monitoring and evaluation system

  • 2nd annual Co-operative Wales / IWA national conference

    ATRiuM, University of Glamorgan, Cardiff ATRiuM, University of Glamorgan, Cardiff

    Co-operative Enterprise – Building a Better WalesDelivering wealth creation and social responsibility FREE eventThe annual Co-operative Cymru/Wales Conference (in association with the Institute of Welsh Affairs) will, this year, be a special two-day event to celebrate the UN 2012 Year of the Co-operatives. The conference will focus on how the co-operative model can be utilised...

  • A Magnificent Montage of Magic, Music and Merriment

    Cathays Liberal Club, Cathays Terrace, Cardiff Cathays Liberal Club, Cathays Terrace, Cardiff

    HOST & AUCTIONEER ‘nessa2 the entertainer’ courtesy of CARDIFF MAGICAL SOCIETY Magic - ‘Sean Anthony-Davies’Escapology - ‘Chris White’Mentalist - ‘Nathan’Glass Walking - ‘Russell Wells’Close-up magic - ‘Elliott cooper’Disco supplied by Discos CymruThere will be a raffle, auction and silent auction.Tickets in advance £5 - over 18s onlyAvailable from Cathays Liberal Club, Cathays TerraceSean Anthony-Davies - 07981...

  • Growing our woodlands in Wales

    Parc Hotel, Park Place, Cardiff Parc Hotel, Park Place, Cardiff

    In association with the Forestry Commission Wales, this conference will engage with the Welsh Government’s policy to significantly increase the woodland cover in Wales from the present 14 per cent of the land area to 20 per cent by 2030. Creating new woodland offers benefits to the people in Wales aside from helping mitigate the...

  • New developments in safeguarding and CRB checks

    Future Inn, Cardiff Future Inn, Cardiff

    WCVA’s Criminal Records Unit is proud to offer a unique opportunity for you to gain a close understanding of changes in safeguarding and CRB checks, due to be phased in from this September.The Government plans to scale back criminal records and barring systems, while still maintaining effective safeguarding. Meanwhile, the Protection of Freedoms Act, which...

  • Personal Relationships and Sexuality

    Cardiff Cardiff

    Course aimsThis Learning Disability Wales course aims to help you understand your role in supporting adults with their relationships and sexuality. People with learning disabilities have a right to develop and explore their own personal and sexual relationships.This course will help you support people to lead happy and fulfilled lives within the context of current...

  • Mental Health First Aid (Wales)

    Cardiff Cardiff

    This Diverse Cymru 12-hour MHFA (Wales) course is part of the national training programme for Wales and its partners include the Welsh Government, Health Challenge Wales and Mind Cymru.Comparisons can be drawn between MHFA and emergency first aid. In both cases members of the public can offer immediate aid and support the person to get...

  • C3SC Training – An Introduction to Tendering

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

    This course has been postponed until the autumn. Dates to be announced.This is a one day introductory course, and is intended for people with no experience of tendering, particularly smaller organisations who would like information to help them make an informed decision about whether to pursue contract opportunities.Learning Outcomes: - To improve understanding of the...