Charity Training

Directory of Social Change back on the Rock

Over the weekend the Kusuma Trust in conjunction with the Directory of Social Change provided a series of training and support for local charities. Our last such event was held in November 2011 and it was inspiring to see how far many of our local charities had come in this time and that the sessions had gone some way in supporting and giving the charities tools to develop themselves.

The weekend centred on facilitated open sessions where groups could discuss what they as a charitable organisation have been experiencing, struggling with and how they can over come these obstacles, workshops and our popular one to one sessions. Whilst past sessions had purposely been quite generic these were more focused and structured so that the charities came away feeling they had an action plan.

Trainer Noam in an open session. 

The weekend was also a great way to launch our resources area at our offices at 3 Bell Lane, Gibraltar, where we house a small resources centre specifically for charitable organisations. Titles include volunteer retention, fundraising strategies, budgeting and developing your organisation. We also have rooms where charities can come and meet if they do not have a premises and can use our technical facilities should they not have access to a printer or computer. If you are a local charity that would like to use our resource centre please feel free to contact me.

A great way to network, talk to people in the charity sector in Gibraltar and gain useful relevant information from three experienced trainers. if you are interested in taking part in the next charity training day please contact me or look on the website for the next date.

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