Training:
The Changing Ageing Partnership offers a number of free training courses and workshops to groups in the age sector and to individuals aged 50 and over. These training opportunities are designed to develop the skills and confidence required to get your voice heard on issues that concern you.
Upcoming training opportunities:
Advanced IT for Advocacy Workshops
Older People’s Commissioner Workshop
Policy Training Workshops
Book keeping for senior groups
Media Spokesperson Training
Tailored Programmes
Opportunities to share your skills and experiences:
Silver Surfers’ Day, 2010
Reviewing Advocacy Websites
Has CAP helped you?
Training lessons learned:
The twelve point plan for successful lobbying.
For further information on any of the above, please contact:
Attracta Cosgrove, CAP Training Development Officer
Tel: (+44) 028 9032 9718
Email: Attracta.Cosgrove@wea-ni.com
Advanced IT for Advocacy Workshops
These workshops are the next stage on from the IT for Advocacy (Internet and Email) courses, and are aimed at those wishing to improve and build on their Internet and Email skills. The first in the series of these workshops will look at an introduction to Facebook, and how social networking can be used for many different purposes including lobbying.
Please click here to download details of the Introduction to Facebook Workshop.
Please click here to download upcoming IT for Advocacy Courses.
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Older People’s Commissioner
“We Agree” Campaign Advocates workshop
This workshop is being jointly run by the WEA and “We Agree” campaign partners; Age Concern Help the Aged NI & Age Sector Platform. The aim of the “We Agree” campaign is to increase awareness and knowledge and to create opportunities to influence the shaping of the powers and duties of the forthcoming Older People’s Commissioner.
The aim of this workshop is to build our campaigning capacity by developing a cohort of ‘Campaign Advocates’ and equipping them with the skills to enable them to confidently inform and involve others in the campaign activities.
The workshop taking place on 26th February 2010 in Belfast is now full Please register your interest in taking part in future Campaign advocate workshops with Attracta on 9032 9718 or at attracta.cosgrove@wea-ni.com
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Policy Training Workshops
These workshops, led by the Age Concern Help the Aged NI strand of CAP, builds on the CAP Lobbying skills workshops, and will take a practical look at how you can get involved in changing policies, in areas such as pensions, transport and health care. This will be a fun opportunity to put your lobbying skills to use!
Workshops will be held in March 2010, in Cookstown and Belfast.
Please click here to download further details of the Cookstown workshop
Please click here to download further details of the Belfast workshop
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Bookkeeping for senior groups
This workshop will help group representatives to better manage their financial records, and to understand basic principles of good bookkeeping.
Filled with good practical tips and advice, this workshop will be of interest to all.
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Details of this workshop will be available shortly.
Media Spokesperson Skills Training
Description:
These one day workshops are aimed at group representatives who may be called to undertake tv or radio interviews relating to older people’s issues. This practical workshop is led by practitioners in the field and will prepare you to deal effectively with media interviews and present your message clearly and with confidence.
The workshops take place throughout the year across Northern Ireland.
These workshops can also be tailored for small groups. For further details, please contact Attracta on 9032 9718 or at attracta.cosgrove@wea-ni.com
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Tailored Programmes
Many groups have had courses and programmes designed specifically to suit their needs. Examples include lobbying skills training around specific issues, digital photography for advocacy, confidence building, presentation skills, developing a group newsletter, and many more.
Please contact Attracta on 9032 9718 or at attracta.cosgrove@wea-ni.com for more details of how your group could benefit from a tailored programme.
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Opportunities to share your skills and experiences:
Silver Surfers’ Day, 2010
Date for your diary!! Friday 21st May 2010 is Silver Surfers’ Day, and this year, there is an Intergenerational theme. CAP would like to invite IT for Advocacy learners to bring along a friend to a informal coffee morning to get online, learn new skills and have some fun! There are many different ways you could be involved. Please contact Attracta for further details.
Reviewing Advocacy websites:
Throughout the project, CAP learners have responded to requests by different organisations, and have given practical, construcive feedback to help ensure that website content and appearance is relevant and accessible to older people. Other CAP learners browsed a number of different websites and put together a small booklet of useful websites they felt would be interesting to other older people.
As we draw towards the end of the project, CAP would like to invite individuals to build on this work and to help review other useful online advocacy resources, which could then be collated in order to help others. No experience is needed – if you would enjoy checking out different websites and giving your opinion, you would be very welcome! For further details, please contact Attracta
Has CAP helped you?
Has your life changed as a result of CAP? Have you put your training skills to practical use in lobbying/advocacy for the first time? Have you successfully got your voice heard?
We would love to hear from you! Please take a look at the CAP questionnaire here to tell us about your CAP experiences or contact Attracta with any other thoughts or comments.