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.
27 March 2025, 9:30am - 28 March 2025, 12:30pm
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…
27 March 2025, 12:30pm - 1:45pm
Venue: Online
Cost: £0-40
Provider: Association of Chairs
Chairs have a key role in recruiting and developing a strong board and bringing out the best in trustees, starting from the beginning of the trustee cycle at recruitment and continuing to departure…
31 March 2025, 10:30am - 12:00pm
Venue: Online
Cost: Free
Provider: Caritas Salford
The topic of accessibility can feel overwhelming at times. Caritas has produced a guide of points to consider when reviewing accessibility in terms of environment, communication, mindsets and…
03 April 2025, 10:00am - 12:30pm
Venue: Virgin Money, 48-50 Market Street, Manchester, M1 1PW
Cost: Free
Provider: Macc
Join Macc for this Introduction for businesses which will explore how to work with voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations in a mutually beneficial way
Macc is a charity and…
03 April 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Venue: Online
Cost: Free
Provider: The Saltways
Stand out with compelling video evidence in your applications using just your phone.
Discover how to create compelling visual evidence that strengthens your grant applications. With insights from…
24 April 2025, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Venue: Online
Cost: Free
Provider: Caritas Salford
Run by Caritas Salford's accessibility coordinator, Minna, this session will ask:
Do you understand what neurodiversity is?
Do you think you or a person you know may be neurodiverse?
Do you operate…
20 May 2025, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Venue: St. Joseph's, 24 Curzon Street, Mossley, Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL5 0HB
Cost: Free
Provider: Caritas Salford
More than 920,000 people in the UK are living with dementia – a number expected to rise to over a million in 2024. Most people with dementia are aged 65 and over, accounting for over 880,000…
22 May 2025, 11:00am - 1:00pm
Venue: Online
Cost: Free
Provider: Macc
Macc’s new Connect and Collaborate drop in’s aim to bring together Businesses, Voluntary, Community or Social Enterprise (VCSE) and passionate philanthropists for meaningful connections,…
16 June 2025, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Venue: Caritas Cornerstone Centre, 104b Denmark Road, Manchester, M15 6JS
Cost: Free
Provider: Caritas Salford
The way in which people learn can have a wider implication for how they navigate people and activities.
Sometimes known as “specific learning difficulties/differences” or “SpLD”, conditions such as…
15 September 2025, 11:00am - 1:00pm
Venue: Online
Cost: Free
Provider: Macc
Macc’s new Connect and Collaborate drop in's aim to bring together Businesses, Voluntary, Community or Social Enterprise (VCSE) and passionate philanthropists for meaningful connections,…
20 November 2025, 11:00am - 1:00pm
Venue: Online
Cost: Free
Provider: Macc
Macc’s new Connect and Collaborate drop in’s aim to bring together Businesses, Voluntary, Community or Social Enterprise (VCSE) and passionate philanthropists for meaningful connections,…
28 January 2025, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Venue: Creative Space, Wythenshawe Forum Library, Forum Grove, M22 5RX
Cost: Free
Join Wythenshawe Community Housing Group (WCHG) for their first Community Connector of the year! The Creative Communities Connector will be held in the Creative Space, upstairs at Wythenshawe Forum…
13 March 2025, 10:00am - 4:30pm
Venue: Manchester Hall, 36 Bridge Street, Manchester, M3 3BT
Cost: Over £50
Resolve Poverty's 2025 Annual Conference will bring together people across the country who want to know what more we can do to tackle poverty and boost household incomes at a local and regional level…