Our community engagement course catalogue
Find the right course for your teams, volunteers, and partners below. And don’t forget, Network members receive a discount on all training courses!
Supporting Street Champions
This one-day course provides delegates with ideas, tools, and practical advice on how to develop their own ‘Street Champion Scheme’ or community project using a 'How To' workshop approach. Recently updated with comprehensive research on supporting volunteers from Keep Britain Tidy’s Centre for Social Innovation, delegates will learn to identify triggers and barriers to participation, define what motivates community leaders, and determine the practicalities of volunteer management systems.
Who it's for: Anyone involved in working with a community, including local authorities, housing providers, local land managers, action-based charities, and community group leaders.
Duration: One day.
Cost: Contact us for Member and Non-Member pricing.
Breaking Barriers: Building Community Engagement
This one-day course provides delegates with practical guidance on how to increase community participation, inspire practical action, and encourage people to take greater ownership and pride in their community. Attendees will learn to identify potential triggers and barriers, analyse engagement group classifications to select appropriate messages and define factors needed to develop effective strategies that incorporate education, engagement, and enforcement.
Who it's for: Anyone involved in working with a community in areas like neighbourhood management, resident involvement, and community education. Highly relevant for local authorities and housing providers.
Duration: One day.
Cost: Contact us for Member and Non-Member pricing.
Why is Perception Different to Reality?
This one-day course aims to promote understanding of the issues that drive perceptions of place and equip delegates with practical tools to influence positive change in the way the public perceives your neighbourhoods and services. Delegates will learn to explain the 'perception/reality gap' and apply Keep Britain Tidy’s ‘Scale of Deprivation’ and ‘Perception Wheel’ tools to explain drivers affecting local perceptions and 'nudge' negative views to positive ones.
Who it's for: Anyone working in the public realm, including local authority managers and officers, particularly those in communication, neighbourhood management, and resident involvement roles.
Duration: One day.
Cost: Contact us for Member and Non-Member pricing.
Effective Planning for Community Projects
This course is based on a simple but effective method of outcomes monitoring. It will help delegates to both identify the desired outcomes of their work and plan a simple strategy for monitoring those outcomes in order to communicate the value of their work to funders and stakeholders. The approach can be applied both to teams/departments/schemes and to standalone projects.
Who it's for: Officers, managers, and leaders working in the public sector who are challenged by the difficulties of demonstrating the benefits, progress, and changes that result from programmes of work to engage with and educate the public on environmental issues.
Duration: One day.
Cost: Contact us for Member and Non-Member pricing.
Litter Heroes Workshop
This one-day interactive workshop is aimed directly at your army of volunteers, community, and friends of groups who support local authorities in cleaning up streets. By investing in them, you show your appreciation. This practical course provides your volunteers with the skills and knowledge they need to organise, promote, and deliver a successful litter pick or clean-up event, including how to engage the wider community, communicate effectively, and record and evaluate the event's success.
Who it's for: Volunteers, community groups, and friends of groups who dedicate their time to improve the local area.
Duration: One day.
Cost: Contact us for Member and Non-Member pricing.
Workplace Wellbeing
This course will enable delegates to implement a simple but effective strategy for remaining mindful and reducing overall levels of work-related stress. It equips staff—particularly those on the frontline who are vulnerable to conflict—with the tools and knowledge to remain calm and composed in stressful situations, including using simple, science-based breathing techniques to manage the stress response.
Who it's for: Officers, managers, and leaders working on the frontline.
Duration: One day.
Cost: Contact us for Member and Non-Member pricing.
Eco-Schools Training
We offer separate training aimed at nursery, school or college educators to help them implement and advance the internationally recognised Eco-Schools programme. There are three separate sessions available for each type of setting.
Who it's for: Education teams, teachers, and staff within schools, colleges, nurseries, and early years settings.
Duration: Varies (3 separate sessions available for each setting type).
Cost: Find details on the website.
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