Learning

Make It Click – improve your online digital skills

Kirklees Council

Digital Skills

There’s a chance that even after the coronavirus lockdown ends, the way we communicate, interact with one another and learn will have changed significantly. You may have already become more familiar with tools like Zoom to video call your family and friends, but what about using digital tools for work as well?

Make it click flyer

Thornton Lodge Action Group have teamed up with the Good Things Foundation and Google to offer a chance for individuals to gain digital skills using a range of online tools. They are offering free training to explore using video tools for meetings, apps for managing projects and tips on how to adapt to remote working.

The opportunity to access this digital learning is open to everyone. Whether you’re employed, unemployed, furloughed or self-employed, everyone is eligible.

You will be able to learn at your own pace and as it is all online you can do this from your own home.

If you’re unsure about what you want to learn or where to start, a member of staff from Thornton Lodge Action Group will call you to complete an initial 5 minute questionnaire to help set you off in the right direction, focused on the area of the digital world you’re most interested to learn about.

How to begin your digital learning journey

If you have an idea of what you want to learn already, you can dive straight in by visiting:

Make It Click

When registering use the code 8004620.

If you’re unsure about what you want to learn and need some support, you can contact the team on 07871 938 174.

 

Get healthy & budget better with Fusion Learning online

Kirklees Council

An image of different words about healthy living

At a time when we can’t get together and access all the usual training and learning opportunities we’re so used to, more of us are relying on the internet. To help people keep learning, Fusion Housing’s community learning service is now available online.

Fusion offers support to people who need a helping hand to get them into work and would like to try learning something new. They have redesigned their very popular Cooking, Nutrition and Health & Wellbeing courses so that they can continue to provide learning to Kirklees residents during the Coronavirus lockdown.

The Fusion Learning Team have several courses where you can learn skills for cooking healthy food and ways to improve your physical health and wellbeing. Here’s a brief outline of what’s on offer.

‘Come Dine With Me’ Healthy Eating Course

Not only does this course help you plan and cost nutritionally balanced meals, it teaches practical kitchen skills too.

This course is 4 hours a week and runs for 7 weeks.

Fit For Life

Helping you understand fitness and wellbeing and moving toward a healthier lifestyle, this course explores new and different ways you can exercise. You can measure your own fitness levels and make your way to being a healthier you.

This course runs for 4 weeks.

Healthy Eating and Cooking Workshop

This short course is designed to give you insight to a balanced diet and the importance of it, how to eat healthily and how to cost a meal.

This short course runs for 4 hours.

‘£1 meal makers’

Learn how to save money and cook tasty, healthy meals.

This course runs for 4 weeks.

Bread and Budget

This is a bread making course for adults, where you can also learn a bit about budgeting.

How to join

If you have a laptop, a tablet or a smart phone, and you want to join any of these courses, telephone 01484 532280 or email learning@fusionhousing.org.uk

For full details visit:

Fusion Housing

Online self-confidence courses with Crosland Moor Community Learning Centre

Kirklees Council

Hand written note above desk saying Never Stop LearningAt times of stress and change our self-confidence can easily be affected. Motivation can be hard to come by. During our time in lockdown because of coronavirus, we need opportunities to keep our minds active and focused.

Fortunately Crosland Moor Community Learning Centre are providing exactly those opportunities and over the next several weeks are providing a range of free online courses to support people’s personal development.

There are lots of opportunities for you to learn something new, including:

  • How to use Zoom effectively for communicating with friends or in work meetings
  • Work it Out – skills for confidence and positivity
  • Developing digital skills for working in an office
  • Food Hygiene training (level 2)
  • Progress yourself – Looking at next steps and how to get there

How to take part

You can find out more about these courses on the Crosland Moor Community Learning Centre website . If there is something there that takes your fancy you can sign-up using the enrolment button and complete your details using the online form:

Crosland Moor Community Learning Centre

You  can also ring Joe on 07972 929495 or email joanne.berry@croslandmoorclc.co.uk to find out more information first hand.

 

Online Volunteer Safety training through Paddock Community Trust

Kirklees Council

woman using laptop

Safeguarding in our communities has become a big talking point in recent weeks as many volunteers try to make sure the most vulnerable people in our neighbourhoods are kept safe. It is just as important that volunteers in Kirklees, whether part of a Mutual Aid Group, registered as a volunteer with Kirklees Council or volunteering in another capacity shouldn’t be forgotten when it comes to staying safe.

Paddock Community Trust are offering free online volunteer training courses and are encouraging any volunteers who might benefit from the training to get in touch. The course focuses on volunteer safety and everyone is welcome to participate.

The course covers:

  • Looking at the benefits and types of volunteering
  • Exploring ways to keep yourself safe when volunteering
  • How to keep others safe when you are volunteering

The course is a short series of one hour Zoom calls. There are two courses to choose from:

  • Fridays 12th June, 19th June and 26th June from 1pm to 2pm
  • Tuesdays 30th June, 7th July and 14th July from from 11am to 12 noon

How to take part

Enrolling is simple. Please get in touch with either Yvonne at yvonne@paddocktrust.org.uk or Sarah at sarahwk@paddocktrust.org.uk to book a place or find out more. Or you can telephone Yvonne on 07928 810 355.

These courses are funded through the Paddock Community Trust’s OFSTED-inspected Adult Community Learning programme.

Please feel free to share this information with anyone who might like to take part.

Paddock Community Trust

 

Introduction to Zoom – 45 minute training

Kirklees Council

Volunteering Kirklees

Zoom (whom many of us had probably never heard of a few months ago) is an online platform for meetings, chats and conferencing , enabling us to keep connected at this time.

If you’re part of a community group or organisation in Kirklees and want to learn more about using Zoom, you can join in one of these 45 minute interactive sessions delivered by James Bulley (Calder IT), who is donating his time to run these sessions for Volunteering Kirklees.

Due to the interactive nature of these sessions, places are limited to a maximum of 10 attendees, but there are regular sessions to choose from. If you book on and then find yourself unable to attend, then please do cancel your place to allow another group in Kirklees to take part.

Introduction to Zoom training – book your place

 

Community Skill Centre – by phone and online

Community Skill Centre – by phone and online

Kirklees Council

 

 

These new phone and online workshops from Community Skill Centre will help you to build confidence, practice language skills, meet new people, learn something new and stay busy in isolation.

Choose from:

They are open to anyone but may be particularly helpful to people whose first language isn’t English and may be struggling to keep up their English studies without going to ESOL classes.

Support can be offered by phone and text for those without IT or internet access.

The workshops are funded by Community Learning Works.