Training and events

Discover free and affordable events and training hosted by Spark Somerset and our partners to help your organisation connect and grow.

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Training: Making Community Spaces and Outreach Activities Accessible

Online, Tuesday, 10 November

Free

Practical tips on removing barriers, ensuring everyone can participate in activities and services. Reasonable adjustments are ways in which we can change our working environment...

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Training: Professional Boundaries Training

Online, Monday, 16 November

Free

Gain practical tools to enhance wellbeing, practice self-care and set healthy boundaries for a compassionate workplace. Professional boundaries are important. They help ensure that our...

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Event: Somerset Food and Growing Forum

Online, Tuesday, 17 November

Free

Somerset Food and Growing Forum: A free forum for anyone in Somerset involved with initiatives that use food, growing and gardening to support positive change....

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Training: Lunch & Learn – Grief, Loss and Change

Online, Tuesday, 17 November

Free

A session for those whose roles bring them into contact with grief, loss and change, through their own experiences or supporting others. Grief, Loss and...

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Training: Making Corporate Volunteering Work for You: A Good Practice Workshop

Online, Wednesday, 18 November

Free

Hear from Somerset VCFSEs about approaches to corporate volunteering, and how it can deliver real value. Corporate volunteering can be a powerful way to bring...

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Training: Safeguarding for Trustees: Ensuring Compliance

Online, Wednesday, 18 November

Free

Learn how you and your Board can review your organisation's safeguarding arrangements in line with official regulators. Trustees, Directors and Boardmembers of charities in the...

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Training: Accessible Communications and Inclusive Social Media

Online, Thursday, 19 November

Free

Practical tips and tricks to ensure your content is easily accessible and understood. Reasonable adjustments are ways in which we can change our working environment...

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Training: Lunch & Learn: Introducing the Opportunity Noticeboard for Somerset VCFSEs

Online, Monday, 23 November

Free

Explore the Opportunity Noticeboard: learn what it is and why it has been developed. VCFSE organisations across Somerset bring local knowledge, experience, insight and trusted...

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Event: Meet The Funder: Morrisons Foundation, Connecting Communities

Online, Tuesday, 24 November

Free

Join us for our first Meet the Funder with the Morrisons Foundation, sharing about their Connecting Communities grant offer Morrisons Foundation: Connecting CommunitiesThe Morrisons Foundation:...

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