Training and events

Welcome to the training page where you will find information and current training opportunities relevant to the voluntary community and social enterprise sector in the city of Manchester.

03 October 2024, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Venue: Online
Cost: Free
Provider: Charity Digital
Ransomware attacks are one of 2024’s most pressing cyber threats, with signs showing it could worsen in the future. Ransomware is a type of malicious software that can block access to files and…
04 October 2024, 9:00am - 3:00pm
Venue: Online
Cost: £120 - £180
Provider: Resolve Poverty
Understand our social security system and the financial support available to help people find and access what they're entitled to. What you’ll learn: How to understand the social security system…
08 October 2024, 9:00am - 11:00am
Venue: Online
Cost: £49
Provider: Shoosmiths
Join Shoosmiths for this interactive training webinar, which will cover: The law on equal opportunities and the different types of discrimination Recruitment to dismissal – avoiding discrimination…
08 October 2024, 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Venue: Online
Cost: Free
Provider: Caritas Salford
About the session: Run by our (Caritas Salford) accessibility coordinator, Minna, this session will ask: Do you understand what neurodiversity is? Do you think you or a person you know may be…
09 October 2024, 8:30am - 10:30am
Venue: Online
Cost: Free
Provider: Triceratops Training
We exist to deliver change in our various contexts and how to evidence that impact is at the heart of monitoring and evaluation, fundraising and decision making. In this session we (Triceratops) look…
09 October 2024, 9:00am - 10:30am
Venue: Online
Cost: From £36
Provider: Media Trust
Are you a charity that does incredible work but struggles to communicate the impact of that work to your stakeholders? Effectively communicating your impact to the world can be difficult, but vital…
10 October 2024, 8:30am - 11:30am
Venue: Online
Cost: £120 - £180
Provider: Resolve Poverty
Understand what data tells us about poverty in the UK, how to find this data and how to use it to build effective responses to poverty. What you’ll learn: The importance of data in designing…
10 October 2024, 9:00am - 12:00pm
Venue: Online
Cost: £50-£100
Provider: Association of Chairs
This online workshop is aimed at Chairs who are new in post or about to take up the post. The session will explore the leadership skills and knowledge that will make you the most effective Chair you…
10 October 2024, 10:00am - 11:30am
Venue: Online
Cost: Free
Provider: Greater Manchester Law Centre
In Greater Manchester Law Centre’s latest free legal workshop ACAS and Maternity Action will detail your Pregnancy and Maternity Rights at work and how to enforce them. Greater Manchester Law Centre…
10 October 2024, 10:30am - 11:30am
Venue: Lloyds Bank, 42-46 Market Street, Manchester, M1 1PW
Cost: Free
Provider: Lloyds Bank
With 80% of people feeling that working from home has negatively affected their mental health, this active participation workshop will look at stress overload and ways to manage your mental wellbeing…
10 October 2024, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Venue: Online via Zoom
Cost: Free
Provider: easyfundraising / Macc
Does your community organisation need additional funds? Come along to find out how your organisation can receive free unrestricted funding via funding platform easyfundraising. In this informal…
10 October 2024, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Venue: Online
Cost: Free
Provider: Charity Digital
Getting a few likes, perhaps the odd share, maybe a few comments can prove quite simple. In fact, organisations often generate loads of engagement with not much effort. But all charities, of all…
10 October 2024, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Venue: Online
Cost: Free
Provider: Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit
An introductory level session looking at the asylum support system, entitlements and discontinuations. In this training session, put on by the Restricted Eligibility Support Service, aimed at people…
11 October 2024, 9:30am - 11:30am
Venue: Delivered via Zoom
Cost: Free
Provider: Volunteer Centre Manchester
This webinar will have interactive and discussion-based elements, and will broadly cover: Different methods of recruitment How and why data and research on volunteering can influence recruitment and…
11 October 2024, 12:00pm - 3:30pm
Venue: Central Hall MCR, 4-5 Central Buildings Oldham Street, Manchester, M1 1JQ
Cost: Free
Provider: Macc
Do you run a social enterprise, community interest company, or socially-driven business? Have a great idea for a business with a social or environmental mission? Macc is thrilled to expand our…
12 October 2024, 8:00am - 4:00pm
Venue: Moss Side Leisure Centre & Hulme High Street Library, Hulme High Street, M15 5NN
Cost: £27.80
Provider: MCRactive
Manchester's sport coaches and volunteers, do you need to renew your First Aid qualification? Or perhaps attend a course for the first time? We (MCRactive) are hosting a one day Emergency First Aid…
15 October 2024, 8:30am - 12:30pm
Venue: Online
Cost: Free
Provider: Farrer & Co, HaysMacIntyre, Cazenove Capital
This session delivered by Farrer & Co, Cazenove Capital and Haysmacintyre, will provide a comprehensive summary of trustees’ duties and responsibilities, answering the question: What information…
15 October 2024, 9:00am - 17 October 2024, 11:00am
Venue: Online
Cost: From £50
Provider: Media Trust
Is your charity getting the most out of LinkedIn? LinkedIn users in the UK have grown by 17% since September 2020. There’s a huge audience which you can tap into if you know how to use the platform…
15 October 2024, 9:00am - 11:00am
Venue: Online
Cost: £49
Provider: Shoosmiths
During the final workshop in the series, we (Shoosmiths) look at how employers can effectively deal with workplace data subject access requests (DSARs). The Information Commissioner’s Office received…
15 October 2024, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Venue: Online
Cost: Free
Provider: Media Trust x Edelman
Join Media Trust’s series of interactive Drop In Clinic for Charities with global PR and communications agency Edelman. How does it work? Each hour-long drop-in session will focus on a…