Presentation from Leanne Doohan & Paul Webster at Learning Pool Community Day 14th September 2011.

1. Training Third Sector Partners

3. Third sector statistics

4. What is My Learning Pool?

7. Helping local Support & Development organisations understand and use technology efficiently

10. Income: £157 Billion

11. Paid Workforce: 1.6 Million (FTE)

12. 32% of organisations have less than 10 staff (7% in Public Sector)

13. Average training spend: £121 (pp/year)

15. Skills Gap Most common skills gap in medium / large charities: Leadership Communications Planning Use of IT (Skills Third Sector 2008)

17. People who volunteer for local community organisations

19. My Learning Pool Courses

21. Great meetings

22. Delivering Projects

23. Managing performance appraisals

24. Essential skills for managers

26. Ability to print out a certificate of completion

27. Links to related websites and downloads of fact sheets and template documents

29. Relevance to Public Sector Local government is an important partner to third sector organisations Public sector organisations support third sector staff development

30. Worcestershire County Council

32. Some reluctance to adopt e-learning as training services are income generating

34. Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) Unemployed need to: Know where to look for job opportunities Know how to complete an application form Understand what to include in a CV Know how to prepare for job interviews

37. Delivering presentations

38. Running Events

39. Getting started with IT

41. 20% discount until 31/10/11Discount code: LP2011

42. In summary Flexible, online training in all the important topics for a modern community organisation A building block as part of wider blended learning

43. What You Can Do Let your communities team know about My Learning Pool Consider a joint purchase or licences to help specific organisations Discounted bulk purchase of licences for donation or re-sale to the local community sector

44. Q: How could you work with your local voluntary sector on to use this?Q: Are there other modules your community would be likely to use?Q: Could joint training be offered?

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46. www.mylearningpool.com