The Hastings Board are inviting you to contribute to an important moment. The Hastings Board are preparing a 10-year Long-Term Plan and 3-year Investment Plan to submit to government to enable us to deliver transformational inventions in the following areas:
1. Safety & Security
2. High Streets, Heritage & Regeneration
3. Transport & Connectivity
As leaders of this sector, Hastings Board would like your expert input on how we can best design, engage and co-produce meaningful community engagement so we want to seek your advice and input early on.
For this purpose, we are co-hosting with the Hastings Community Network, a Hastings Big Conversation and would be delighted if you are able to join us.
The aims: To be introduced to legislation regarding health and safety and appreciate the link between risk, assessment of risk and positive support for individual.
The objectives:
• To be introduced to health and safety legislation
• To know how to find access information regarding H & S
• To understand an individual’s responsibility to adhere to health and safety precautions
• To appreciate the importance of risk assessment to meet health and safety requirements
Are you new in post or keen to find out more about the sector? This workshop, led by HVA Director Steve Manwaring, will include a briefing about the scale and contribution of the VCSE sector in Hastings, information about the services HVA provide, and an opportunity to hear about and discuss the key issues affecting the sector.
Are you confused about the new GDPR (data protection) laws? Do you know what your organisation needs to do? HVA is hosting a free GDPR workshop for any charities, community groups or social enterprises that operate in Hastings.
In this session we will explore the sort of documents and procedures organisations should have in place to help recruit, support, retain and manage their volunteers.
This can be an emotional course and a willingness to share with others is important. It is not necessary to reveal personal issues but the attendees must be willing to engage with exercises.
The aims: To explore our own resilience to emotional ‘stress’ triggers and methods of minimising the impact of emotional responses.
• To share our own backgrounds and current stress factors
• To understand why we respond to stress
• To practice tools to help reduce stress
• To know where to turn to for more advice and information.
Course Aims
This course is aimed at voluntary organisations and volunteers to ensure they are aware of lone working risks and tips on how to avoid them.
The course will cover:
• The importance of a risk assessment
• Recognising risks for volunteers
• Safe lone working
• Home visits
• Recognising the warning signs of aggression
• De-escalating and defusing aggressive situations
• Knowing what resources exist
• Reporting possible safeguarding concerns
Target Audience:
Anyone who works on their own, without direct supervision or support at any time.
Are you new in post or keen to find out more about the sector? This workshop, led by HVA Director Steve Manwaring, will include a briefing about the scale and contribution of the VCSE sector in Hastings, information about the services HVA provide, and an opportunity to hear about and discuss the key issues affecting the sector.
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