Changes

Training

changes develops and delivers public courses and bespoke training for clients in public, voluntary and community sectors in subjects relating to community development, community engagement, active citizenship and influence.

At the current time, all of our training is commissioned. When it looks like courses might not fill completely, we encourage clients, where appropriate, to open these up for wider access. To keep in touch with training opportunites, sign up to our networking site and you will automatically receive up to date news to your inbox.

Bespoke training courses

Members of the changes team have been developing and delivering training for more than 20 years and each programme is unique!

• We are keen to know what clients want from our courses, so we can adapt and tailor them, or design something specific
• We never start completely from scratch – the training we offer is around particular areas of work where we already have experience, stories, ideas and resources which we make best use of
• We bring ideas, information, concepts and examples to the training and we encourage participants to share their own experiences and understand the subject from their own position – so it is real and applicable for them
• We offer training around particular frameworks that others have found useful and which are tried and tested
• We also offer training which is subject specific – often linked to government priorities
• We offer half-day taster sessions on our tools and frameworks:
  • voice
  • echo
  • DUO

Pricing

We want to make our courses affordable and believe that we offer good value for your money. The whole point is about sharing and learning.

Our 2 day Voice and echo courses typically cost £3,000 each, plus £450 for materials. For that you get 2 trainers, all the preparation, templates for publicity and applications, assessment of applications and contact with participants who may be questioning their suitability, pre-course information, a full resource pack and follow up networking and support for all participants

• Taster sessions are usually about £500
• We also do ‘packages’ of courses, follow-up days, mentoring and support
• Add in reasonable costs for travel, accommodation and subsistence (we don’t need posh and expensive – just somewhere you would be happy to stay yourself!)
• We usually write up basic notes from a session – if you want anything more detailed then speak to us about costing this separately
• Add VAT at the current rate

Clients

We are commissioned to deliver training by different organisations across sectors. Below are some examples, please see ‘our clients’ for a full list.

• Shropshire Partnership: a two-day course for people with facilitation skills wanting to work with the `echo’ framework
• South West Forum: a two-day course for people with facilitation skills wanting to work with the `Voice’ framework
• Black Country Take Part Pathfinder: a 5 day course in facilitation skills for people from different sectors wanting to work with groups
• Wolverhampton Partnership: a two-day course for people with facilitation skills wanting to work with the `Voice’ framework
• Locality: a one day course to teach Managers to deliver Voice briefing sessions
• Hostels Liaison Group (Nottingham): a one day course on `Managing Aggression at Work’
• Coventry City Council: a two-day course for people with facilitation skills wanting to work with the `Voice’ framework