Glamorgan Voluntary Services (GVS) is pleased to be able to facilitate an in-person Canva session. Canva www.canva.com is a design tool that has thousands of ready to use templates at your fingertips enabling you to create quick, easy and effective social media graphics, posters, business cards, flyers, presentations and more!  

The Carer’s Leave Act comes into force this year. The Act will give new rights to people juggling unpaid care and paid employment. This is a huge cause for celebration, making a tangible difference to the hundreds of thousands of working carers in Wales.

Carers Wales is running six 1-hour online events throughout February and March to help you prepare for the Carer's Leave Act. These events will help you understand your responsibilities and ensure compliance with this important new legislation.

Place of Study: Palmerstone Learning Centre, Barry, CF63 Length: 4 weeks (2 x 2.5-hour sessions per week). Mondays from 6pm to 8:30pm and Wednesdays from 6pm to 8:30pm. Dates: 26th Feb 2024 – 20th Mar 2024 Cost: Free

ASC Accredited Training, Room Hire and in need of extra office space East Cardiff/St Mellon?

The programme is aimed particularly at community-facing organisations working to support older people to thrive in safe, healthy and well-connected homes and communities. Free of charge, it will be delivered principally via a series of webinars

We are holding a series of short online ‘drop in’ sessions which we’re calling The Empower Hour for youth workers and youth support workers over the next few weeks to discuss some aspects of our proposals to strengthen the legislative framework for youth work.

Location: Cottrell Park Golf Resort, St Nicholas Saint Nicholas CF5 6SJ  Book your FREE place through Eventbrite

We are excited to announce an upcoming training opportunity that will empower you with the knowledge and tools to better serve migrant communities in a post-Brexit world. Citizens Advice has secured funding to offer FREE training on Migrant Rights and Public Services.

FREE 1–2 hour workshops in Cyber Security Awareness; Working with Data; Basic Digital Survival Skills and more!

For all candidates wishing to enrol, we will be holding an informal interview day at One Canal Parade, Cardiff, CF10 5BF on Monday 11th December. 

Dunhill Medical Trust is partnering with the team at Moore Kingston Smith Non-Profit Advisory and the University of Birmingham’s School of Social Policy to deliver high quality training as part of a Capability Development Scheme.

A Safeguarding Week webinar for trustees in Wales. Tuesday 14 November 2023 - 2pm - 3pm (Online).

This event will introduce you to the signs and risk factors of gambling harms and the process into treatment, we will also be discussing a Domestic Homicide Review that had a connection with gambling and opening up a discussion to get your thoughts on this. This awareness event will leave you feeling more secure in your knowledge of gambling harms and Domestic Abuse, and how to help someone either in your personal or work life who is struggling with this topic.

RNIB is running a free Vision Friends Taster session for professionals who work with older people on Thursday 7 September at 10am. This 30 minute online session will introduce some of the topics covered in the Vision Friends Training.

Vale of Glamorgan Council with Cardiff School of Technologies, Cardiff Met University & Technocamps, Swansea University will run from September 2023 to March 2024

Being a trustee can be a daunting prospect, particularly if a person has no previous experience. This training session is there to provide an informal overview of the role and responsibility of being a trustee.

This training session is there to provide an informal overview of the role and responsibility of being a trustee.

At the end of the session you will be able to:  Identify existing and new volunteering roles for volunteers, identify where to recruit volunteers, establish an effective selection procedure and establish a simple guide for managing volunteers

Glamorgan Voluntary Services (GVS) offers a range of training courses specific to the Third Sector and partner organisations. Our current training programme includes Being a Trustee, Recruiting, Selecting and Managing Volunteers, An Introduction to Social Media, How to Market your Community Event and How to use Twitter – a workshop for beginners

15, 22 & 29 June 2023 | 9.30 am – 12.30 pm | Online

This course will provide you with practical project management skills and knowledge so you can plan and deliver projects that successfully meet your project outcomes.