Professional development

The GM Creative Health Champions programme is a free online training offer for people working across health, social care, local government, culture, heritage, the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCFSE) sector, academia and related fields who are interested in the role of creativity in supporting health and wellbeing in Greater Manchester. It is particularly suited to those who want to influence change within their organisation, community or wider system, build their knowledge of creative health, and develop the confidence to embed creative health approaches in practice

Detached Youth Training offers a fantastic opportunity to strengthen your engagement skills, broaden your understanding of detached youth work and learn effective ways to reach and support young people in their own communities

Even if your organisation doesn't have an official policy or subscription to an AI service, employees, volunteers and service users are using it: sometimes for good, sometimes for bad. That’s why it's more important than ever that every VSCE organisation has a robust ethical position on AI, not just a tick box policy. 

Most people involved in charities, CICs and community organisations spend a lot of time doing — supporting people, answering emails, chasing funding, solving problems and keeping things moving.

The Thinking Shop is a 90-minute facilitated session exploring a simple question:

How much of what we are busy doing is actually helping us do what we exist to do?

It isn’t a training course. There are no presentations and no expert standing at the front with all the answers.

Join the gunnercooke charities team, Michele Price and Robert Nieri for a 45-minute webinar and short Q&A at 12:00 on Tuesday 20th October, to address recent legal, regulatory, governance and policy developments that may not only impact your charity but that you can harness with confidence to better advance your organisation’s purposes.

Advicenow are running a free course for organisations across England which support care leavers in securing their housing rights. The course will be delivered online and is funded by the National Lottery Reaching Communities project.

The course will give you the basic knowledge and skills you need to deal with key housing and benefits issues faced by people who have left care. 

The free online workshops will take place on the following dates:

Learn more about what it means to be a good employer when it comes to the employment of people with criminal records

What does it mean to be a good employer when it comes to people with criminal records? What is the Greater Manchester way of understanding and rehabilitating the history of offending through employment?

Join Charity Digital for a one-hour masterclass to supercharge your productivity with AI prompt engineering, covering platforms such as ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and more. 

Attendees, for just £20 per person, will learn exactly how to craft effective prompts, boost their AI capabilities, and streamline operations and processes. 

Most people now know how to ask AI a question but getting consistently useful and ethical outputs requires going a step further. 

Join Roots HR for an essential webinar designed specifically for charities, social enterprises, and other not-for-profit organisations. 

We’ll provide a practical update on the latest employment law developments, including reforms introduced through the Employment Rights Act and other key legal and regulatory changes affecting social sector employers.