new training opportunities

NEW: 'Fresh Training' Free training opportunities from Modernising Volunteering

Don't know your LinkedIn from your Twitter? Wondering how Facebook and MySpace can support you in recruiting volunteers or communicating with members? Or perhaps you're feeling overwhelmed by the growth in enquiries from members and companies looking for employee volunteering opportunities?

Then help is at hand through 'Fresh Thinking', a series of free training seminars and workshops, brought to you by Red Foundation through the Modernising Volunteering programme.  

Through the 'Fresh Training' programme we will be running a half day seminar to provide an introduction to working with social networks, aimed at volunteer support service workers who are thinking of or just starting to use these networks for volunteer recruitment and communication with their peers or members.

managers and other infrastructure bodies on strategies to advise and support their memberRunning alongside side this will be a half day advanced workshop for volunteer centre organisations to respond to the growth in enquiries from companies looking for employee volunteering opportunities.

Both sessions will be held on the same day, am and pm, so you will have the opportunity to attend both although places on the employee volunteering session will be limited due to their workshop format. Dates and locations are listed below. Bookings are being managed by Red's CCI team, so please email fabia@redfoundation.org to reserve your place.

We look forward to seeing you!

'Fresh Training' - Locations and dates

• London - 29th September, 9th November and January 13th
• Birmingham - 7th October, 16th November and 20th January
• Newcastle - November 30th
• Liverpool - January 27th
• Bristol - January 30^th

For more information about Modernising Volunteering please visit www.improvingsupport.org.uk/volunteering and for more information about Red Foundation please see our site www.redfoundation.org