To help your organisation become 100% ready to tender, the Greater Merseyside ChangeUp Tendering and Procurement Support Service (TaPS) is offering a series of tendering skills workshops which are free for Merseyside third Sector organisations. This course is designed to provide third sector organisations with an overview of the tendering and procurement process, including where to source relevant tenders/bids and grants, the importance of evidencing quality and capacity, twenty golden rules of tendering, what documents are important at pre-qualification stage, tender writing styles and how procurement bodies evaluate tenders. Delivered by: Tender Management Consultancy Duration: One Day course Date: 1st September 2010 (9.00am - 4.00pm) Venue: Kuumba Imani Millennium Centre, Liverpool
Contact Info : For further information and bookings contact Kate Taylor, Information Support Worker, Greater Merseyside ChangeUp. Email: taps@changeupmerseyside.org.uk or Tel: 0151 920 0726 (Ext. 318)
Date: 1 September 2010 (9.15am - 4.00pm). Venue: Liverpool. This Merseyside Network for Europe conference will look at a number of key areas and actions coming from Europe, that may provide opportunities for the Third Sector on Merseyside. Speakers and workshops will look at the new Europe 2020 strategy, funding opportunities, how the sector is represented and examples of best practice. Participants will be able to gain new and emerging information from Europe, influence strategy and policy for post-2010 and discuss options for partnership and consortium working.
Date: 6 September 2010. Venue: London. Not understanding or complying with Data Protection can put organisations at both financial and reputational risk. This conference will set out what you need to know to ensure that your organisation does not fall foul of the law and to enable you to apply best practice throughout your organisation in all your communication channels.
Date: 6 September 2010. Venue: London. Not understanding or complying with Data Protection can put organisations at both financial and reputational risk. This conference will set out what you need to know to ensure that your organisation does not fall foul of the law and to enable you to apply best practice throughout your organisation in all your communication channels. Cost: Voluntary/public sector organisation, NCVO member £94.50, Non member £135.00.
Date: 7 September 2010 (10.00am-4.00pm). Venue: NCVO, London, N1 9RL. Meet your legal requirements as an employer with this comprehensive training on the paperwork and processes you should have in place. This Masterclass will take participants through the key aspects of recruiting and checking staff. You’ll understand your contractual obligations as an employer and what policies and procedures you’ll need in place to help you if things go wrong. Places available from £140.
To help your organisation become 100% ready to tender, the Greater Merseyside ChangeUp Tendering and Procurement Support Service (TaPS) is offering a series of tendering skills workshops which are free for Merseyside third Sector organisations. Responding effectively to tendering opportunities is all about being fully prepared. For many organisations the tendering process is a challenging one often made more difficult when supporting documentation is dispersed across the organisation. One way to make the process more efficient is to assemble a Tender Toolbox. This workshop is designed to help you to build a Tender Toolbox within your organisation; making key documentation such as policies, references, insurances, financial statements, case studies readily accessible. Delivered by: Tender Management Consultancy Duration: One Day course Date: 8th September 2010 (9.00am - 4.00pm) Venue: Kuumba Imani Millennium Centre, Liverpool
Contact Info : For further information and bookings contact Kate Taylor, Information Support Worker, Greater Merseyside ChangeUp. Email: taps@changeupmerseyside.org.uk or Tel: 0151 920 0726 (Ext. 318)
Date: 8 September 2010 (10.00am - 2.00pm). Venue: Micah Room, 2nd Floor, Dale House, 35 Dale Street, Manchester M1 2HF. As part of the 2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, Church Action on Poverty is running this free briefing and training sessions to strengthen the skills of local people and organisations in the region. This course will guide participants in how to create an alternative space where people can meet to reflect on their reality, share experiences, learn together and plan action to have more control over what is happening in their lives and their communities. The course will give some ideas and practical tools to help participants build up skills and confidence, create opportunities for shared learning and lead to increased individual and collective voices, action and influence. This course is free.
Contact Info : Contact: janeta@churchpoverty. org.uk or Janet Gee, Church Action on Poverty, Dale House, 35 Dale Street, Manchester M1 2HF. Or telephone Andrea Jones on 0161 236 932
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David Prout, Director General for Communities at CLG, will outline the government’s agenda for communities at this year’s Development Trusts Association (DTA) national conference. The conference: Communities Assets Enterprise - Inspiring places: the art of the possible, will take place in Derby from 12-14 September. The conference offers delegates the opportunity to network with experienced community enterprise practitioners, share ideas and learn from the best practice that can be found across the movement. A wide range of visits to local development trusts and community enterprises, as well as innovative workshops have been arranged. Workshop topics include: community shares; asset transfer nuts and bolts; sustaining local trade; and housing related enterprise.
Contact Info : A full programme for the conference and booking information can be found at www.dta.org.uk/conference. Alternatively, contact the conference team on 01633 411732 or email: dta@eesolutions.co.uk
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Date: 13 September 2010 (10.00am - 2.00pm). Venue: Manchester.
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Date: 13 September 2010. Venue: Manchester. This course will provide strategies to help you persuade and influence people with confidence, and includes: - understanding the principles of effective negotiation - finding win-win solutions for effective working relationships - discovering your negotiation style - dealing with difficult situations and people. Cost: £49.
Contact Info : For information and bookings email: skild@navca.org.uk or Tel: 0114 289 3952.
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Date: 14 September 2010 (9.30am — 4.00pm). Venue: The Marriott Hotel, 1 Queens Square Liverpool City Centre L1 1RH. This event is an important opportunity for project co-ordinators to attend with your managers, to consider together initiatives and options for the future sustainability of your projects and organisations. The aim of the event is to spend a day focusing on the future, addressing alternative ways of generating income. The day will look at options such as personalisation, commissioning and fundraising, the implications of your charitable status and the readiness of your organisation to diversify, helping you to develop an achievable plan, to ensure you can continue delivering mentoring and befriending long into the future. The Network is run by Volunteer Centre Sefton in partnership with the Mentoring and Befriending Foundation.
Contact Info : For further details and to book onto the event contact Anne Whelan on Tel: 0791 8070611.
Date: 14 September 2010 (1.00pm - 4.30pm). Venue: Micah Room, 2nd Floor, Dale House, 35 Dale Street, Manchester M1 2HF. As part of the 2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, Church Action on Poverty is running this free briefing and training sessions to strengthen the skills of local people and organisations in the region. o you want to be more powerful!? Community organising is a highly effective tool for making change happen – it is what Barack Obama used to get elected as US president. This one-day course provides an introduction to community organising, what it is and why it works. This course is free.
Contact Info : Contact: janeta@churchpoverty. org.uk or Janet Gee, Church Action on Poverty, Dale House, 35 Dale Street, Manchester M1 2HF. Or telephone Andrea Jones on 0161 236 932
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To help your organisation become 100% ready to tender, the Greater Merseyside ChangeUp Tendering and Procurement Support Service (TaPS) is offering a series of tendering skills workshops which are free for Merseyside third Sector organisations. The ability to write simple and concise ‘narrative’ within a complex tender is a key skill needed within the sector. The sector may be competing against private sector companies and will therefore need to present their services in a simple to understand and highly visual format. Using practical examples the course will provide easy to learn principles and techniques for the organisation and presentation of information in the most effective and persuasive way. Delivered by: Tender Management Consultancy Duration: One Day course Date: 15th September 2010 (9.00am - 4.00pm) Venue: Kuumba Imani Millennium Centre, Liverpool
Contact Info : For further information and bookings contact Kate Taylor, Information Support Worker, Greater Merseyside ChangeUp. Email: taps@changeupmerseyside.org.uk or Tel: 0151 920 0726 (Ext. 318)
Date: 15 September 2010. Venue: London. In the UK sickness absenteeism results in 172 million lost working days every year. In April 2010 the 'sick-note' was replaced with a 'fit-note', actively shifting the focus from what an employee cannot do to what they can do. This symposium offers employers the opportunity to examine how to shape a healthier workforce and more efficient workplace through tackling sickness absenteeism and integrating flexible working into the workplace. Cost: Voluntary/public sector organisation, NCVO member £94.50, Non member £135.00.
Date: 16 September 2010 (10.00am - 4.30pm). Venue: Leeds. In an age of austerity, our ability as third sector leaders, to work with organisations within and beyond our sector will be crucial. Now, more than ever third sector organisations must look carefully at current and potential partners to continue to deliver a more innovative and cost effective solution.
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Date: 17 September 2010 (9.00am - 4.00pm). Venue: The Circle, Sheffield. This conference is specifically for service providers from the voluntary and community sector (VCS), focusing upon the key issues for VCS organisations. It includes a choice of practical workshops, and will look at personalisation from both an organisation’s and a user’s perspective.
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Date: 21 September 2010. Venue: London. This one-day workshop will provide an invaluable opportunity for the person responsible for recruitment in your organisation to gain a detailed insight into the mechanisms involved in working with the Points Based System. Throughout the day, participants will also take part in a series of practical, hands-on exercises enabling them to piece together the vital components needed to develop a successful framework for vetting and employing non-UK nationals.
Date: 21 September 2010 (10.00am - 4.00pm). Venue: Manchester.
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Date: 21 September 2010. Venue: Sheffield. Help your groups choose the right quality system and support them as they implement it. Quality is a measure of how far a service satisfies the expectations of its stakeholders. The groups you support will want to manage quality in a comprehensive and systematic way in order to consistently provide high quality services. This course introduces and compares different quality systems, enabling you to help groups choose the right approach and support them as they implement it. Run by the National Performance Programme at CES.
Contact Info : To book your place contact Peter Norgate on Tel: 020 7078 9394 or Email: peter@ces-vol.org.uk, or download a booking form from: www.performancemanagement.org.uk
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To help your organisation become 100% ready to tender, the Greater Merseyside ChangeUp Tendering and Procurement Support Service (TaPS) is offering a series of tendering skills workshops which are free for Merseyside third Sector organisations. If you have made it to the presentation stage its vital that you have the skills and confidence to present the best possible case for winning the contract. Making Winning Presentations will help delegates sell a proposal and add finesse to the presentation “pitch”. The course will provide skills in body language techniques to making speakers feel more confident in presenting the tender before a panel of commissioners and answering follow-up questions. Delivered by: Tender Management Consultancy Duration: One Day course Date: 22nd September 2010 (9.00am - 4.00pm) Venue: Kuumba Imani Millennium Centre, Liverpool
Contact Info : For further information and bookings contact Kate Taylor, Information Support Worker, Greater Merseyside ChangeUp. Email: taps@changeupmerseyside.org.uk or Tel: 0151 920 0726 (Ext. 318)
Social Enterprise Network are holding their 2010 AGM and 10th Birthday celebration on Wednesday 22nd September at Blackburne House, Liverpool from 10.00am. The AGM & 10th Birthday celebrations will include an opportunity for full SEN members to seek election to the Board of Social Enterprise Network, and an opportunity to hear from a number of high-profile speakers including: Peter Holbrook, Chief Executive, Social Enterprise Coalition. Cllr Joe Anderson, Leader, Liverpool City Council. Lucy Findlay, Chief Executive, Social Enterprise Mark Company. Cllr Richard Kemp, Deputy Leader, Local Government Association Claire Dove, Chief Executive, Blackburne House
Date: 22nd-23rd September 2010. Venue: Liverpool. Social Return on Investment (SROI) is an approach to understanding and managing the impacts of a project, organisation or policy. It is based on stakeholders and puts financial value on the important impacts identified by stakeholders that do not have market values. The aim is to include the values of people that are often excluded from markets in the same terms as used in markets, i.e. money, in order to give people a voice in resource allocation decisions. SROI is a framework to structure thinking and understanding. It’s a story not a number. The story should show how you understand the value created, manage it and can prove it. The benefits of SROI are: - a consistent and clear approach to understanding and reporting on the changes caused by an organisation; resulting in - better organisations, with better strategies, systems and accountability; and - organisations that are more able to manage risks, identify opportunities and raise finance required to achieve their mission or strategy Cost: Day 1 £295 +VAT. Both days £565 +VAT.
Contact Info : To book a place, contact Tania Vera-Burgos, Office Manager: 0151 703 9229, Email: tania.veraburgos@thesroinetwork.org
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Date: 22nd-23rd September 2010. Venue: Liverpool. Social Return on Investment (SROI) is an approach to understanding and managing the impacts of a project, organisation or policy. It is based on stakeholders and puts financial value on the important impacts identified by stakeholders that do not have market values. The aim is to include the values of people that are often excluded from markets in the same terms as used in markets, i.e. money, in order to give people a voice in resource allocation decisions. SROI is a framework to structure thinking and understanding. It’s a story not a number. The story should show how you understand the value created, manage it and can prove it. The benefits of SROI are: - a consistent and clear approach to understanding and reporting on the changes caused by an organisation; resulting in - better organisations, with better strategies, systems and accountability; and - organisations that are more able to manage risks, identify opportunities and raise finance required to achieve their mission or strategy Cost: Day 1 £295 +VAT. Both days £565 +VAT.
Contact Info : To book a place, contact Tania Vera-Burgos, Office Manager: 0151 703 9229, Email: tania.veraburgos@thesroinetwork.org
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Date: 23 September 2010 (10.00am - 4.00pm). St Helens CVS is hosting the first of its ‘Skilling Up for Personalisation’ workshops with a ‘Personalisation Conference for the Voluntary and Community Sector in St Helens’. The programme begins on the 23rd September at the World of Glass in St Helens, preceding a series of workshops specifically designed to help voluntary and community organisations understand the changes in personalisation and self-directed care. Such significant changes will impact on public sector organisations, the social care workforce, the individual receiving care, and of course voluntary and community organisations delivering health and social care services. You can reserve a place on any of the courses by downloading a booking form below and returning it to: ‘Personalisation Conference, St Helens CVS, 4th Floor Tontine House, 24 Church Street, St Helens WA10 1BD.
Date: 28 September 2010 (6.15pm - 8.15pm). Venue: City of Manchester Stadium, SportCity, Manchester M11 3FF. This event, hosted by Volunteering Greater Manchester (GMCVO) will help you find out how to create Games-inspired volunteering opportunities. It is anticipated that the 2012 Games will give rise to an increase in volunteering activity throughout the whole country, not just in London, and the workshops are therefore being held throughout the country with the aim of encouraging volunteer involving organisations to think about how they can create new Games-inspired volunteering opportunities and benefit from this increase in volunteers from all ages and backgrounds. The event will include exhibitors providing information and advice, signposting to your local Volunteer Centres and support with advertising Games-inspired volunteering opportunities.
Contact Info : To book a place contact: sue.barrett@gmcvo.org.uk or visit: www.gmcvo.org.uk/events or Tel: 0161 277 1001 For more info about this project visit: www.volunteering.org.uk/gamesinspired
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Date: 28 September 2010 (1.30pm - 5.00pm). Venue: City of Manchester Stadium, SportCity, Manchester M11 3FF. This event, hosted by Volunteering Greater Manchester (GMCVO) will help you find out how to create Games-inspired volunteering opportunities. It is anticipated that the 2012 Games will give rise to an increase in volunteering activity throughout the whole country, not just in London, and the workshops are therefore being held throughout the country with the aim of encouraging volunteer involving organisations to think about how they can create new Games-inspired volunteering opportunities and benefit from this increase in volunteers from all ages and backgrounds. The event will include exhibitors providing information and advice, signposting to your local Volunteer Centres and support with advertising Games-inspired volunteering opportunities.
Contact Info : To book a place contact: sue.barrett@gmcvo.org.uk or visit: www.gmcvo.org.uk/events or Tel: 0161 277 1001 For more info about this project visit: www.volunteering.org.uk/gamesinspired
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Date: 29 September 2010 (9.30am - 3.45pm). Venue: Manchester Conference Centre, Sackville Street, Manchester, M1 3BB. The keynote speaker for this event will be the Rt Hon John Bercow MP, Speaker of the House of Commons. This event, aimed at staff and volunteers in infrastructure organisations in the North West, will explore how the third sector can deliver for England's North West in a changing political landscape, and will feature: - Key note speakers from important policy-makers - Workshops to help you and your organisation understand the regional context and influence the decision-makers who matter - Exhibition of key regional infrastructure organisations The event will be free to staff and volunteers from Third Sector infrastructure organisations in the North West.
To help your organisation become 100% ready to tender, the Greater Merseyside ChangeUp Tendering and Procurement Support Service (TaPS) is offering a series of tendering skills workshops which are free for Merseyside third Sector organisations. Remember winning is just the beginning. Delivering contracts can be fraught with challenges. This workshop is designed to help you with all aspects of managing contracts including; legal compliance, handling unforeseen problems, managing relationships, sub contacting issues and negotiating contract variations. Delivered by: Tender Management Consultancy Duration: One Day course Date: 30th September 2010 (9.00am - 4.00pm) Venue: Kuumba Imani Millennium Centre, Liverpool
Contact Info : For further information and bookings contact Kate Taylor, Information Support Worker, Greater Merseyside ChangeUp. Email: taps@changeupmerseyside.org.uk or Tel: 0151 920 0726 (Ext. 318)
Date: 30 September 2010. Venue: London. The voluntary sector is facing difficult challenges ahead due to the recent government budget cuts. But how do you deal with the pressures of these cuts as well as moving forward with fewer resources? This training (which is packed with practical tips and advice) will introduce you to creative approaches and new thinking which will turn difficult times into new opportunities.
Date: 30 September 2010 (1.00pm until 5.00pm). Venue: Merseyside Maritime Museum, Albert Dock, Liverpool. The NICE CVD guidance, published in June, confirms the need for a population level approach to Cardiovascular health disease prevention. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence Cardiovascular health charity, Heart of Mersey, is hosting a showcase event highlighting the NICE guidance on CVD prevention at population level. A unique opportunity to hear from the people behind the guidance: NICE Public Health Director, Professor Mike Kelly; NICE guidance development group chair, Professor Klim McPherson; Professor Francesco Cappuccio from the WHO Collaborating Centre for Nutrition; National Heart Forum chief executive, Paul Lincoln; Dr Charlie Foster from the British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Unit at Oxford University; Professor Simon Capewell from the University of Liverpool; and Heart of Mersey chief executive, Robin Ireland. Recognising the key role which tobacco control plays in CVD prevention, Deborah Arnott, chief executive of ASH (Action on Smoking and Health) completes this impressive line-up of expertise and experience in the delivery of CVD prevention.
The lead and accountable body for Greater Merseyside ChangeUp is Sefton Council for Voluntary Service, a Registered Charity No. 1024546.
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Greater Merseyside ChangeUp has published a brochure which explores the impact that the programme has had on the local sector over the past two and a half years. To access this document, and for further information about current work, please click here. 
