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New CVS training programme

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Details of our 2019-20 training programme have just been published. Courses include:

  • What’s your digital plan?
  • Step up into volunteering
  • Your group, your neighbourhood (ABCD)
  • Recruiting and retaining volunteers
  • Introduction to volunteering
  • RSPH Level 2 Understanding health improvement (Health Champion training)

Full details can be found here.

In addition to the above courses, we can also offer training on request to groups on:

  • Accurate Record Keeping
  • Health champion ‘bite-size’ tasters
  • Introduction to Fundraising
  • Safeguarding Children

We can also supply information on availability of  Emergency First Aid at Work and Food Hygiene courses.

For information on any CVS training opportunities, please contact Helen Jones on 0165-733737 or email helenj@wlcvs.org

‘Level Crossing’ project

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The ‘Level Crossing’ project has run for the past 18 months as an intervention project to support local people diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes who struggle to make behaviour changes to prevent further health problems. West Lancs CVS has been working in partnership with Skelmersdale Community Food Initiative and the University of Central Lancashire.

The Level Crossing project has been training people across West Lancashire as health champions and local connectors to sources of help, and has now trained 45 people as fully qualified health champions.  A further 21 individuals have completed a short course on how to promote health.

The Level Crossing twitter account has been posting news and health tips (@levelcrossingwl), and the project now has a webpage with details of the health champion role and a story of change – it only needs to start with one person!

For more information, go to www.wlcvs.org/level-crossing

Dr Dawne Gurbutt, Clinical Lead for Interprofessional Education, Faculty of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, says “This was a complex project involving community engagement and liaison across a wide geographical area of West Lancashire. Whilst maintaining a focus on the key issues that the project sought to address, West Lancashire CVS was able to utilise its role as an umbrella organisation to maximise other links and enhance the project in various ways via establishing connections, mapping against other projects and creating an interface between this and other projects which was mutually beneficial.

The links made via West Lancashire CVS and the willingness to listen, engage and adapt led to some good insights into the area, as well as the development of training which was fit for purpose for the client group and a sustained engagement across the community for the duration of the project. This project has given good insights into the locality, the communities and the challenges of provision and has taken a solution-focused approach to developing initiatives.

There is scope to build not only on the project, but on the connections and links which were developed around this piece of work”.

 

New CVS training courses

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Details of our 2017 training programme have just been published.  Courses include:

  • Health Champion “bite size” (taster)
  • Building the Strengths in your Community (ABCD)
  • Working with Volunteers
  • Monitoring & Evaluation (Health & Wellbeing Focus)
  • Meet a Funder
  • Digital Health : a basic guide
  • The Joys of Social Media
  • Building Connections (ABCD)
  • Writing Workshop – Effective Press Releases
  • An Introduction to Volunteering
  • An Introduction to Fundraising
  • Safeguarding Children
  • RSPH Level 2 Understanding Health Improvement

Full details can be found here.