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Community Development Training

ViSTA have extensive experience of providing accredited training for Community Development Workers at both level 2 and level 3. Over the last 3 years we have supported and encouraged a wide variety of community workers and public sector officers to be able to more effectively engage with their communities. The main topics we have covered have been:

  • Practice & Principles of Community Development Work
  • Social Justice 
  •  Reflective Practice
  • Funding & Resources for Community Groups
  •  Effective Partnership Working
  • Monitoring & Evaluation
  • Getting People Involved

We also offer short taster sessions on a variety of topics that might be useful for your staff, volunteers and community members:

Topics include:

  1. What is community development work?
  2. How groups work?
  3. Problems within groups.
  4. Involving people.
  5. Understanding and getting involved in partnerships.
  6. Skills for representing your community.
  7. Common issues in partnerships.
  8. Making meetings effective.
  9. Contributing effectively to meetings.
  10. Assertiveness/confidence building.
  11. Feedback and listening skills.
  12. Report writing skills.
  13. Presentation skills - giving a short presentation.
  14. Creating effective presentation materials.

For further information on how this could help your work please call Sara Iles at VISTA on 0845 358 0372 www.vistaproject.org.uk

ViSTA, Suite 1, Bank Chambers, Cheapside, Langport, Somerset. TA10 9PD

Telephone: 01458 259487 or 01458 253599