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Course dates

Free Short courses and workshops

We are currently planning the courses for 2010/2011 and want you to take this opportunity to shape the content by letting us know what training would benefit you email angelastanley@blackburnehouse.co.uk.

We intend to run the following courses over the coming months, more details will be provided as the timetable begins to take shape.

MAY


DEFINING YOUR SOCIAL AIMS
Facilitator : Ronnie Hughes | A Sense of Place
Date & time : Wednesday 11th May 2011: 10:00am - 12:30pm
Venue : Blackburne House

This will be a half day session for people involved in setting up social enterprises. About how to move beyond the paperwork of setting up your social enterprise/community interest company, and define what will make your enterprise special. So you can identify your social aims - the differences you will make in the world.
This session will look at:

  • Building on your beliefs and identifying your enterprise?s driving principles, its values
  • Practical work on how to then use these values, not as some weak addition to your mission statement, but as part of systematically defining and driving your business;
  • Strategy matrix
  • Including using the values to define your social aims;
  • And then monitor how you can continually improve your social outputs, systematically.


EFFECTIVE EVENT MANAGEMENT
Facilitator : Debbie Boyd | Orb Events
Date & time : Thursday 12th May 2011: 2pm - 4:30pm
Venue : Blackburne House

An opportunity to examine the important elements of event organising including:

  • Events are they good for business?
  • How to organise a successful event
  • Marketing Events
  • Managing an Events Budget
  • Connecting with your Buyers


MEDIA WORKSHOP: NEWS WRITING AND PAGE DESIGN
Facilitator : Alan Smith
Date & time : Thursday 19th May 2011: 1:30pm - 4:00pm
Venue : Blackburne House

Ideal for those tasked with writing press releases, producing newsletters, providing copy for web pages or for anyone with a general interest in how printed news media is put together. The workshop identifies the ingredients of a news page and the recipe used to ensure that the publication is picked up and read! Delegates can then take part in a news interview session before practicing their skill s in a copy writing exercise leading to a page design finale.

The skills taught are transferable to today's web based technologies.