Responding to community tension
Facilitated workshops
E-learning courses
Riots, Protests and Truth
Bespoke sessions
If you have specific needs, our team can create a custom package tailored to your needs. This can include e-learning, face to face or online facilitated sessions.
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Facilitated sessions
Before delivering any training, we’d like your trainer to be aware of certain issues which we’d like handling sensitively. Can I share this with you pre-booking?
Yes. Please capture this information on the booking form as it’s helpful for our trainers. If there are any specific issues or incidents that the trainer should be aware of, or dynamics that are of concern to you then do let us know. Please note, this info will NOT be shared externally.
Alternatively, you can call the team at ConnectFutures to discuss.
Can we have bespoke workshops for our setting?
Yes. We specialise in creating bespoke and tailored content for each cohort and audience, through close communication during the design process. Our facilitators are highly skilled at adapting to the moment, but the more we can learn about an audience and their contexts beforehand, the more planning and design we can build into your workshop or programme.
Bespoke content is only created for workshops that are one day long in duration.
Please contact us via [email protected] to discuss this.
How do you undertake due diligence of trainers? Any DBS details?
All our trainers have an enhanced DBS check undertaken. Once a workshop is booked, we will email you their DBS details including their DBS numbers for your records. Staff do NOT carry certificates to sessions; however, they will have their ID badges with them. For your records, we can confirm that all our staff are enhanced DBS checked and are not barred from working with children.
Are your workshops face to face or online deliveries?
Whatever you decide. We advise youth workshops to be delivered as a face to face delivery in settings and we’ve found adults/community members and practitioners tend to prefer online deliveries and more people are likely to sign up. Online deliveries save you time on booking a space/refreshments costs/covid secure too, but we’re happy to work around your needs. We’ll still deliver a brilliant workshop.
How many people can attend the session?
We don’t tend to put a limit on numbers. A note that smaller numbers encourage people to ask more questions on some of the topics we talk about as the environment is less formal.
ROOM LAYOUT FOR DELIVERIES
We tend to take the lead from your organisational spaces. For young people in year groups, we tend to deliver in assembly settings. For adults, we’d suggest cabaret style seating with tables (if space allows) so people can write and take notes and participate in group activities. In this type of setting, smaller numbers encourage people to ask more questions on some of the topics we talk about as the environment is less formal. However, classroom and auditorium seating is equally fine.
TECH REQUIREMENTS?
For face to face deliveries, please ensure you have
+ Projector
+ Clicker
+ WIFI
+ Sound.
Our trainers will also bring their memory sticks as a backup. We cannot email or share slides with you in advance.
HOW MANY TRAINERS DELIVER A SESSION?
Please discuss your needs.
costs
Our costs are inclusive of VAT. Costs typically involves the train journey and overnight cost of the accommodation for a trainer so that we can start a delivery promptly.
We reserve the right to add train journey fares as an additional cost if your venue is remote from our normal bases.
What online platforms do you deliver on?
We tend to deliver on Teams or Zoom but are happy to discuss your needs.
E-learning courses
How can people register for the online workshop?
We will create the Eventbrite link for you and you can then share this link with your colleagues. The booking process is then entirely your responsibility. Every fortnight, we will update you on booking numbers too. We will then provide attendees with the Zoom/Teams link 2-3 days beforehand too.
We encourage workshop participants to sign up through Eventbrite at least 3 hours before the event – should you require last minute access a member of our team will manually add you, so please contact us directly.
What happens after the workshop? Do we get a certificate? Can I get access to the slides or other materials for continued learning?
It’s quite simple. We want to have continued learning after the workshop ends. The catch? If attendees fill out our feedback form link then we’ll add you onto our website learning portal for free. It contains blogs, videos and other learning material. We’ll also send a certificate which can be downloaded. In addition, why not join our 5000+ online community that can be accessed on our LinkedIn group called “Safeguarding & anti-extremism best practice group.”
Do you have packages for Trusts or organisations?
Yes, we can create and design a bespoke programme of offerings for you and our organisations and settings. This is the type of work we’re passionate about so that we can see change meaningfully incorporated across different sectors. Our trainers are adept at working with both adults and young people!
Advice and Support
We like to keep in touch with those who’ve attended our workshops even after deliver. – Should you require further information, have questions before or after a workshop or would like to run an issue by us, please get in touch via email or phone, we will do our best to help or signpost!
Can we record the workshops?
We do not allow settings to record our material, but our resources and post-workshop materials are in-depth so you really don’t need to!
Can we cancel the workshops?
We appreciate that occasions arise which necessitate clients/schools, PRUs and colleges to cancel their course due to unforeseen circumstances and we therefore try to be flexible in our approach to each individual case. In some cases this has an effect on our costs and resources, i.e. accommodation, trainer and transport costs and we must try to ensure that all parties are not disadvantaged through loss of earnings etc.
Clients cancelling a course or changing course date delivered by ConnectFutures must do so at least 5 working days in advance in order to avoid paying a 100% cancellation fee.
If a date had been booked, and due to COVID-19 related issues, the organisation deems face to face delivery impossible, then we will revert to online delivery for the date that’s been booked.
It will be your duty to alert us (CONNECTFUTURES) so that we can be flexible. There is no guarantee of an alternative date being found prior to the course date as current spaces are limited and provided on a first come, first served basis. Any such issues are resolved at the discretion of CONNECTFUTURES.
What’s the process for bookings?
Have a look at our website which contains our catalogue of workshops and the kind of topics we can cover.
Need something bespoke? Get in touch to discuss your needs! Drop us an email at [email protected]
why choose us?
Through our combination of academic knowledge, practitioner experience and community connection, we have developed courses to increase understanding to promote equality and challenge hate.
We don’t just talk about the issues – we focus on practical actions that participants can use directly in their settings.
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