Get Swapping your Skills in Yorkshire & Humber!
SkillSwap is an exciting initiative that will enable people in businesses, communities, organisations and other areas to connect with each other informally to share skills, try new activities, and, above all, have fun!
Can you remember back to the days of Multi-Coloured Swap Shop? If you remember, as children you could ring into the show and swap the things you no longer needed or wanted with the toy that you had been waiting for. Or simply swap your jungle action man for the urban ranger, and if you were really lucky, you’d get a multi-coloured notepad thrown in too.
Well those heady days have returned, however, this time it’s not toys that are being swapped but skills! Everyone has a talent for something, be it cake-making, gardening, golf, carpentry, computer skills or business related skills, and now is the time to share your skill with others and try out something new yourself.
Business in the Community is running a SkillSwap project in Yorkshire and the Humber with funding from the Learning Revolution Transformation Fund. The project brings education, community and business together to learn something new and to learn about each other, increasing understanding and knowledge in the local community.
The Hull Event will take place on Thursday 4 March at the Guildhall.
Full details of the event can be downloaded here.
Download the event flyer
Download the session descriptions
Session Descriptions
Basic Business Financial Management Skills (Yorkshire Bank)
This session is ideal for charities and start up businesses as it gives an insight into management of financial affairs.
- Book Keeping
- Profit and Loss Accountability and Basic Accounting Skills
- Creating Cash Flow Forecasts
- How to Understand Financial Accounts
- Financing within a Budget
Developing Communication and Leadership Skills (Kingston Communicators)
- Public Speaking and Confidence Building
- Learning Leadership Skills
- Impromptu Speaking and Evaluation
- Question and Answers about Speaking and Leadership
IT Surgery – To Fix your IT Problems (Virtual Riders)
- Effective & Appropriate use of Technology
- Problems with Small Office Networks
- Using On-Line Data Storage for Free
- Low Pricing Software for Charities
- Free Websites for Voluntary & Community
- Q&A Solution Session
First Aid in the Home (Health & Safety Training Services)
- Resuscitation
- Unconscious Casualty
- Bleeding/Broken Bones
- Burns/Scalds
Fit Fans – How to lead a Healthier Lifestyle (NHS Fit Fans)
- Weight Loss is only Appropriate if its Fat Loss – ‘Weight is no Issue if its Lean Tissue’
- Why we Must Develop a Relationship with Fat Foods – ‘Fat Free Diets are Very Bad’
- How do we Exercise for Fat Removal – ‘Focus on your Body Composition’
- Home-Base Exercise – ‘Consistency is the Key’
Learning Through Land – Healthy Living (Bransholme Enterprises)
- Promotion of Healthy Lifestyles – Grow your Own & Allotment Work Outs
- Environmental Education – Recycling & Conservation
- Training Courses & Employment Opportunities
Mental Health First Aid – What is it and Why? (North Bank Forum)
- What is Mental Health, and Why MHFA?
- Awareness of the Different Mental Health Conditions
- Stigma & Fear
- Mental Health in the Community
- Mental Health in the Workplace
- Knowledge to Enable Us and Others to 'Keepsafe'
Stress Management – How to Relieve Stress using Indian Massage (Hull College)
- Head massage
- Hand massage
Third Sector Support – Basic Accounting, Legal Structures, Gift Aid (Money Matters Plus)
- An Overview of Third Sector Organisations: Legal and Accounting Issues: Advantages
and Drawbacks of Operating in the Sector
- Basic Accounts by Spreadsheet: What Spreadsheets Are and How they can Help to
Record, Analyse and Share Information
- Gift Aid: How Charitable Organisations Can Benefit from Tax Concessions. How the System Works in favour of Donation
Tracing your Family Tree (Carnegie Heritage Centre)
- Information Required to Start your Research
- How to use Computers for Research
- Example of a Pre-Done Family History
- Trying it Yourself
Communicating a Good PR opportunity - Writing a Press Release (Kingston Communications)
- How to Identify a PR Opportunity
- Points to Consider when Writing Material for the Media
- Press Release - from Idea to Coverage
- Photography
- Contacts & Deadlines
Writing a Will – Getting Started (Graham & Rosen Solicitors)
The session with look at questions such as;
- What if there is no Will?
- What would be the Position of Loved Ones
- What are the Legal Requirements?
- Can a Will be Challenged? If so, How?
- Someone has Died. How can you Find Out if he or she left a Will?
