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volunteer), how you can get local and national
companies to help with materials and business
skills. You will go away inspired.
Recycle Cycles
18-19 May 2015
Trainers: Gary Kelly
Ever thought of using recycled materials to help
your community? Interested in delivering cost
effective, affordable, green transport options to
your community? Bring back to life old unloved
bikes and create a useful income stream for your
community project and improve the health of
those around you.
On the course you will learn how to source
unwanted bikes and how to get them back in
to a condition where they can be re-sold or
hired out to the public; creating your own social
enterprise helping to bring in extra money
for your group. You will learn about other
successful projects and action plan for your own
community.
Running Social Events
25-26 June 2015
Trainers: Engage Associates
A successful event can bring your community
together.
This course will explain how you can use social
events of various kinds as a tool for increasing
community participation and promoting your
own aims and objectives.
You will learn about and understand:
• The legal requirements relating to running
various social events
• The need for planning, working together and
spreading responsibility
• A range of new and innovative social events
from which to choose
• How different events can be used to attract
different sections of the community
You will have a fun time organising a small social
event while you are at Trafford Hall, which will
give you the confidence and commitment to
organise your own local event.
Cooking on a Budget
6-7 July 2015
Trainers: Corin Bell and Juliet Lawson
(Cracking Good Food)
Find out everything you need to know to
support people in your local area to learn about
cooking healthy food on a budget. The course
covers the importance of cooking from scratch,
the barriers to preparing fresh meals at home,
and how to support people in your local area
to overcome them. We look at how to shop
and plan meals in ways that stretch to even the
smallest budget, and great tips like adapting
recipes to use what you’ve got and reduce food
waste.
This course is brought to you by Cracking Good
Food, a Manchester based sustainable food and
community cooking organisation with five years’
experience and over 500 successful cooking
events under their belt.
The course includes:
• Step-by-step practical activities in delivering a
cooking session that is safe and fun
• How to address issues around insurance,
hygiene, equipment
• How to find a venue
• How to publicise your local cooking club.
Introduction to Welfare Benefits and
Universal Credits
13-14 July 2015
Trainers: Pennysmart
With welfare reform and changes to benefits
and allowances people are struggling to know
where to turn and what they are entitled to.
This two-day course will give you a basic insight
into most common welfare benefits, including
Universal Credit and where service users can
access support. Participants will be able to
identify where a benefit may be applied and
how to access support through the application
process. The course will also deal with the most
common issues and signpost participants to an
appropriate service for help.
Sustainable Allotment Technology
21-22 September 2015
Trainers: The Earth Skills Project
This two-day course has been designed to
integrate simple technology to allotments.
Using a practical approach participants are
shown how to use scrap or waste materials to
build systems to improve services and utilities
for the allotment.
Examples of areas covered include:
• How to build and install a composting loo
• How to set up and use water catchment and
human powered irrigation systems
• How to light sheds for free.
Effective Marketing
5th-6th October 2015
Engage Associates
Is there an epidemic of apathy in your
community? Marketing can make the difference.
Whether you are trying to get more people to
join your tenant panel, or need some new faces
to help out with activities and events, or are
trying to get your neighbours motivated