Mind Your Own A training
event for
Business! everyone
involved in
acquiring,
…a practical approach to managing community assets
managing
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Mind Your Own Business! developing
community
a one day training assets
programme for Shetland
Orkney
communities Nan Eilean Siar
all you need to develop and manage Caithness and Sutherland
community-led initiatives
Skye and Wester Ross
in Lochaber and the Small Isles
Inverness and East
on 29th November 2008 Highland
at Arainn Shuaineirt Moray
www.sunartcentre.org
Strontian Lochaber
10.00am – 5.15pm
Argyll and the Islands
(registration from 9.30am)
Stirling
ADVANCE BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL
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Free training for community members, volunteers, paid workers, trustees,
directors and committee members
Support for travel expenses is available
Community Land Unit
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Mind Your Own Business
Workshops
Programme Each workshop provides a fast-paced overview of key issues for community initiatives,
exercises for participants to focus on their own initiative’s situation, and questions and
Registration 9.30am answers. Workshop packs will contain both ‘introductory’ and ‘advanced’ materials,
so if you are new to the topic the pace can be adjusted to meet your needs.
(Coffee/tea)
All workshops packs will posted on the website below after the training.
Session 1 10am Session One options
• 1. Governance (Adv) Workshop 1 – Governance Workshop 2 – Effective Meetings
• 2. Effective Meetings (Advanced Level) This workshop will help you get the most from
The workshop will help you review your Board the time you spend in meetings, providing
or committee's strengths and help you define tools and techniques for managing different
Coffee/tea some of the roles needed to develop and kinds of meetings strategically: Board
sustain your group. meetings, partnership meetings and
Session 2 11.15 negotiations.
• 3. Finance (Adv) Session Two options
• 4. Project Workshop 3 – Finance Workshop 4 – Project Development and
(Advanced level) Fundraising
Development and The workshop will give an overview of how to This workshop will look at the process of
Fundraising manage cash flow and risks in larger scale taking projects from the ‘idea’ stage to the
projects. It will also enable participants to ‘application for funding’ stage, including the
apply some business planning processes to testing of ideas to see if they will work (the
Session 3 12.15 their own project ideas. basics of feasibility), developing ideas into
• 4. Project project plans for funders and partners, and the
essentials of good funding proposals
Development and
Fundraising (continued) Session Three options
• 5. Employment (Adv) Workshop 5 – Employment Continuation of Workshop 4 – see above
(Advanced level)
The workshop will consider how groups can
Lunch get the most from their staff and consider
some more complex employment issues, such
Session 4 2.00 as when staff do not meet expectations. Those
• 6. Working with with specific concerns can use the session to
work towards solutions.
volunteers (Adv) Session Four options
• 7. Managing Workshop 6 – Working with volunteers Workshop 7 – Managing Contractors
Contractors (Advanced level) This workshop will start with the basics of
The advanced workshop will prepare procurement and getting the specification and
participants for developing their group's recruitment process right, and cover the
Coffee/tea (working break) approach to ensuring good practice when monitoring of progress of contracted work, with
working with volunteers. Groups with specific pointers on solving problems.
Session 5 3.15 concerns can use the session to work towards
• 8. Communications solutions.
(Adv) Session Five options
Workshop 8 – Communications Workshop 9 – Project Management
• 9. Project (Advanced level) This workshop will follow the process from
Management The workshop will help you to use receiving funding to implementation. It will look
communication effectively to raise your profile at translating aims and objectives into a
and increase your network of support. It will workplan, the role of Boards in leadership and
Session 6 4.15 management implementation, risk assessment
also explore some of the tricky issues around
• 9. Project working with the media. and overcoming challenges, monitoring and
control and reporting progress to stakeholders
Management
(continued)
Session Six options
• 10. Securing a
Workshop 10 – Securing a sustainable Continuation of workshop 9 – see above
sustainable future future (Advanced level)
(Adv) The workshop will consider long term issues
for communities, and how changing policies,
funding envrionments, technology and social
Close 5.15pm development may change demands on groups
which own and manage community assets.
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Mind Your Own Business
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Please indicate your workshop preferences:
Session 1 Governance Adv or Effective meetings
Session 2 Finance Adv or Project Dev. & Fundraising
Session 3 Employment Adv or Project Dev. & Fundraising (ctd)
Session 4 Working with volunteers Adv or Managing Contractors
Session 5 Communications Adv or Project Management
Session 6 Sustainable Future Adv or Project Management (ctd)
Send these details to: Comas, 182/2 Restalrig Road South, Edinburgh EH7 6EA or
Email to: mail@comas.org.uk by Friday 31st October.
For further information call: Ruth on 07980 844350
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