Training Academy

Community Training – Your time, your way!

The Digital Training Academy for Community Groups, Charities and Social Businesses.
Built by the voluntary sector, for the voluntary sector.

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The information you need, when you need it!

Pre-recorded talks, live online interactive workshops and networking that all cover a wide range of subjects, our Academy is accessible at a time that suits you. We appreciate that everyone’s knowledge is different so you can choose your journey from beginner to expert.
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Benefits:

  • Access your resources when it suits you

  • Only pay for the training you need

  • Led by our In House Expert Team

  • Profits Reinvested back into the Community

6 Modules - 11 Strands to choose from:

Financial Sustainability
Financial Systems: building up your money management systems as your organisation grows.
Income Generation: from the basic level of raising resources to contracts and competitive bidding. This module is kindly supported by Church House Investments.
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Business Planning
Plans and Planning: takes you on a journey from making initial action lists to strategic planning.
Creating a Business Plan: a step by step guide to creating a business plan with links to all the resources you need.
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Governance & Trustees
Roles and Responsibilities in Governance: legal requirements, what Trustees need to do and how to get really good governance at your organisation.
Constitutions, compliance and legal: from your first constitution to creating a trading arm.
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From Need to Impact
Monitoring and Evaluation: The full process from talking about the need you see to showing funders the impact your work makes.
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Operations Management
Employing Staff: from your first employee to managing a team.
Policies and Procedures: templates, models and support in this essential area.
Day-to-day Management (coming soon)
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Marketing, Comms & Partnerships
Marketing and Communications: simple tips for communicating up to full-on marketing planning.
Partnerships and Stakeholders: working with people who affect what you do and who are affected by you.
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FAQs:

We’ve created a handy HOW TO guide, Thinkific is quite an intuitive system and we’re sure you’ll be able to find your way round although you may find this handy to see too. (The direct link to our Academy infographic is available by clicking here.)
Should you have any feedback on any of the sections or information then please do get in touch as this is a growing system and relies us understanding your needs, you can contact us via academy@dorsetcommunityaction.org.uk

We require learners to sign up and create a free account through Thinkific, to do so you can click on this link. 

Thinkific is an online platform that allows it’s customers to create learning modules and bespoke courses. We are using this platform as the medium for our Academy, it allows all our tools and resources to be in one place and for you as a learner to have easy access to our learning materials as you move through the courses. 

Our Members are valued customers and we’re able to pass on financial benefits to them. To sign up as a Member and start your benefits straight away please click here.

Membership is just £45 a year for most organisations, unless you operate out of County or are a statutory body, the discounted price on not only our Academy but also other paid for sessions and resources quickly allows you to recoup the outlay of Membership, and your benefits will continue all year. 

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