Events and Training

National or Regional events

The place of spirituality in youth work

Durham, Thursday 17 May 7pm

A free interactive public lecture with excellent speakers (Phil Daughtry, Maxine Green and Andrew Orton) to explore the place of faith and spirituality in young people's development in the wider community. How can youth workers assist young people in spriritual growth in a secular and pluralist society? Add your perspective to the experience and practice of others!

More information and to book

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Promoting, Protecting and Preventing

A Safeguarding Children and Young People Conference
Plymouth, Saturday 19th May from 10 am - 5pm
£19.50 per delegate (or £15 for groups of five or more)

A one-day conference is being hosted by the South West Ecumenical Safeguarding Forum (SWESF) – a network of safeguarding professionals representing a number of the main Christian denominations and organisations operating across the south west region of England. It's for those in leadership positions, or working with children and young people in a voluntary or paid capacity, or supporting either victims of childhood sexual abuse or those who have offended against children.

Contributors include:

• The Geese Theatre Company
• Donald Findlater Director of R&D, Lucy Faithfull Foundation
• Josephine Ziegert, Child Sexual Abuse Expert, Lucy Faithfull Foundation
• Justin Humphreys, Safeguarding & Policy Advisor, CCPAS
• Peter Saunders, CEO, National Association for People Abused in Childhood
• Chris Wilson, National Development Manager for Circles UK

More information and to book via the CCPAS website

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Free taster sessions on how to use the 'Well Being Measure'

The Well Being Measure is an impact measurement tool from New Philanthropy Capital and is aimed at those who...

• Work with 11-16 year olds?
• Want to evaluate the impact of your programme?
• Want to find out more about subjective well-being of the young people you work with?
• Work for a third sector organisation, school or organisation that works with young people in the UK?

Find out more at these half day sessions:

London, Monday 21 May 1.30pm - 4pm at Esmee Fairburn Foundation, Kings Place, 90 York Way N1 9AG

Edinburgh, Thursday 24 May 2 - 4.30pm at Riverside House, 502 Gorgie Rd, EH11 3AF

London, Wednesday 4 July 9.30 -12noon NPC Offices 3rd Floor, 185 Park St, SE1 9BL

More information, booking details and short videos about the Well Being Measure here (places limited to one person per organisation)

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Is collaborative working... Essential? Desirable? or actually Inevitable??

Thursday, 31 May 9.30am - 4.30pm
Abbey Community Centre, Great Smith Street, London, SW1P 3BU
organised by Children England, CYP Together and Partnership for Young London

Many voluntary sector and faith organisations have collaborated with others over the years to achieve more for the children, young people and communities they work with. With less funding to go round and different strategic priorities emerging, it's now becoming even more important. This free one day event brings together live examples of collaboration, mergers and consortia from across London and SE England to show what's possible.

More information and to book

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This is the third year for the Big Church Day Out on 2/3 June at Wiston, West Sussex.

Don't be fooled by the title, it's not for Big Churches! but for people from any church or background, to come together to celebrate their faith in many different ways. Oasis is a partner this year, bringing their perspective on how faith is lived out through serving our communities – and they're looking for volunteers to work alongside their staff...see Steve's message below!

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Bristol, 14 May A South West Families Network event to explore how Payment by Results will affect voluntary organisations who work with families. More

London, 16 May Advising members of the community on accessing services specific to issues around welfare benefits, debt, worklessness, housing and immigration. For faith, refugee and BME organisations. More

Children England training

Training specifically aimed at voluntary, community and faith organisations working with children and young people. Costs are from £35 for half a day, £75 for a full day AND a limited number of free places if you would struggle to pay but show you can benefit.

Tendering Masterclass

1 May, Bolton
23 May, Kendal

Working through Change (covering Personalisation, Commissioning and Safeguarding)

23 May, Newbury

Love your Tender

13 June, Brixham, Totnes

Partnership working between schools and VCS

19 June, London

All the details of these Children England training events are here. Scroll right to the bottom for information about free places. Spurgeons Network is a member of Children England, so if you are willing to feed back to us after the training in order to share the learning across the Network, we can book you in at the members' rate to attend on our behalf. Just get in touch if that's of interest.

The Big Lunch

Now in its 4th year, the idea is to have lunch with your neighbours in a simple act of community, friendship and fun. There's still plenty of time to plan it for June 3rd 2012. More

Find local training

Ask to be added to the email list or training bulletin of your local voluntary sector umbrella body. So that's either your:

Council for Voluntary Services (CVS)
Voluntary Action (VA)
or Council for Voluntary Youth Services (CVYS)

You can find their contact details by typing the name of your local authority followed by cvs or cvys into your search engine.

Some CVS have staff with a specialist remit for children and young people or faith communities – worth finding out!

If there's something you particularly want or need...

Please get in touch! We may be able to help by offering the training through Spurgeons or by sourcing it elsewhere for you.

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