WTP develops and delivers training and workshops for organisations and teams in-house. If you have a number of people that need training in the same topic area, it might be more cost-effective and tailored to your needs, to buy it in rather than book lots of places on open courses and not quite get what you want.
We will discuss your needs with you and tailor a course to meet your organisation and sector’s exact needs, thanks to our wide range of experienced specialist trainers. We will organise the training at a time and venue to suit you, which can be at your premises, or at a lovely away-day venue.
We can deliver in-house courses and workshops in the following areas and under the broad headings outlined below. Click on the title of any of the courses to get more information on indicative learning outcomes – however, these can all be tailored to fit your needs. We can also put the content from a number of courses together if that is what makes sense for your organisational context.
Management and leadership
- Change management
- Change management
- Managing staff
- Supporting and managing volunteers
- Leadership
- Project planning and management
- Restructuring and redundancies
- Mentoring
- Partnership and collaboration
- Understanding local partnership structures
- Recruiting Volunteers
- Developing New Roles for Volunteers
- Working with volunteers with support needs
- A-Z of employing people
- Supervising staff
- Policy development
- Supporting people through redundancies
- Coaching skills for managers
- Managing strategy in the economic downturn
- Developing outcomes led work
- Quality assurance
- Monitoring and evaluation
Fundraising and income generation
- A-Z of fundraising
- Business planning as a fundraising tool
- Fundraising in the new environment
- Fundraising for volunteer support programmes
- Fundraising for small community groups
- Running successful fundraising events
- Introduction to commissioning
- Bid writing for commissioning
- Getting ready for commissioning
- Effective pitching for contracts
- Writing skills for funding bids
Finance
- Accounting on QuickBooks
- Introduction to bookkeeping
- Finance for non-finance staff
- Budgeting and financial management
- Full cost recovery
Legal and equal opportunities and diversity
- Emergency first aid at work
- Health and safety
- Food safety
- Safeguarding
- Employment law
- Lone working
- Data protection
- Equalities Act 2010
- Equal opportunities and diversity awareness
- Volunteers and the law
- Charity and company law
- The legal structures of organisations
- Understanding and challenging attitudes towards LGBT people
- Mental health awareness
- Disability awareness
Trustee and committee skills
- Roles and responsibilities of a management committee
- The legal and statutory responsibilities of third sector organisations
- How to structure your board
- The role of the CEO and the chair
- Employing staff
- Financial responsibilities of management committees
- How to read management accounts
- Recruiting trustees
- Effective meeting skills
- Chairing skills
- Minute taking
- The role of the Treasurer
Community and user engagement
- Community development including developing and sustaining community engagement with diverse communities
- Campaigning
- Representing your group
- Involving people in your group
- Effective community networking
- Organising a community event
Working with people and personal development
- Facilitation skills
- Working with conflict and conflict resolution
- Networking
- Listening and communication skills
- Assertiveness in the workplace
- Negotiation skills
- Boundaries and confidentiality
- Training for trainers
- Presentation skills
- Effective customer service
- Dealing with difficult people and situations
- Personal safety and lone working
- Recognising and reducing stress at work
- Time management
- Decision-making
- Advice skills
- Introduction to the voluntary sector
Administration
Marketing and external communications
- Producing a newsletter
- Making leaflets and posters
- Press and marketing skills
- Developing a marketing strategy
- Report writing
- Writing for the Internet
- Demonstrating your value to funders
- Building a website using WordPress
- Producing an effective e-newsletter
Personal career development
- Coping with life changes
- Interview skills
- Completing an Equal Opportunities Application form
- Developing personal effectiveness
- Developing you and your career
IT skills
- MS Word
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Outlook
- Publisher
- Social media
All of these courses can be delivered at introductory, intermediate or advanced levels.
IT skills can also be embedded into many of the courses. So, for example, Presentation Skills can have Microsoft PowerPoint embedded into it and Producing a Newsletter can have Publisher or Word embedded into it. We work with SCIP, a specialist third sector IT organisation to deliver this aspect of our work. Please talk to us if IT related training is of interest.
The training in this section is not an exhaustive list, but just an indication of the training that we can offer. If you can’t see exactly what you want, then please just ask.
Please do ask for a bespoke quote to meet your needs. If you are getting quotes from a number of providers, do come back to us, as we may be able to match a quote. For guidance:
- The standard rate for a whole day for a group of up to 12 people is £800, and a half day is £500. We can also quote for larger groups and multiple days.
- Community groups in Brighton and Hove can usually access subsidised support – please give us a ring or go to the ‘community leadership’ and ‘neighbourhood training’ sections of the website.
Bespoke training and workshops
WTP develops and delivers training and workshops for organisations and teams in-house. If you have a number of people that need training in the same topic area, it might be more cost-effective and tailored to your needs, to buy it in rather than book lots of places on open courses and not quite get what you want.
We will discuss your needs with you and tailor a course to meet your organisation and sector’s exact needs, thanks to our wide range of experienced specialist trainers. We will organise the training at a time and venue to suit you, which can be at your premises, or at a lovely away-day venue.
We can deliver in-house courses and workshops in the following areas and under the broad headings outlined below. Click on the title of any of the courses to get more information on indicative learning outcomes – however, these can all be tailored to fit your needs. We can also put the content from a number of courses together if that is what makes sense for your organisational context.
Management and leadership
Fundraising and income generation
Finance
Legal and equal opportunities and diversity
Trustee and committee skills
Community and user engagement
Working with people and personal development
Administration
Marketing and external communications
Personal career development
IT skills
All of these courses can be delivered at introductory, intermediate or advanced levels.
IT skills can also be embedded into many of the courses. So, for example, Presentation Skills can have Microsoft PowerPoint embedded into it and Producing a Newsletter can have Publisher or Word embedded into it. We work with SCIP, a specialist third sector IT organisation to deliver this aspect of our work. Please talk to us if IT related training is of interest.
The training in this section is not an exhaustive list, but just an indication of the training that we can offer. If you can’t see exactly what you want, then please just ask.
Please do ask for a bespoke quote to meet your needs. If you are getting quotes from a number of providers, do come back to us, as we may be able to match a quote. For guidance: