Upcoming events
Mental Health First Aid (2-Day Course)
This comprehensive two-day course will equip you gain and develop the essential skills to recognise mental health issues, provide initial support, and guide people towards appropriate help. It's perfect for anyone who wants to increase their confidence, help raise awareness, and advocate for those they work with and support.
Fundraising: Storytelling for Impact
At the heart of fundraising, there’s a need for our work to be understood, remembered and, ultimately, to move someone to action – whether that’s becoming involved as a volunteer, donor, advocate, or funding partner.
Storytelling is about sharing real examples, moments or journeys that bring your message to life. It shows the human impact of your work and helps people to understand, remember, and care about it.
In this workshop, we’ll explore storytelling as a technique that can help people in fundraising and marketing roles to do just that.
Safeguarding Adults Essentials - Building Safer Communities Together
Join us for a practical training session designed to strengthen your understanding of essential adult safeguarding responsibilities.
Carbon Footprint: What It Means For You and Your Organisation
Join us for an online training session delivered by Kelly Osborne, Sustainability and Engagement Officer at Gloucestershire County Council.
Using Social Media for Collaboration and Networking
Exploring the importance of partnerships in creating opportunities for impact on social media.
Introduction to whatimpact
GCC has partnered with whatimpact to connect local VCSE organisationswith suppliers delivering social value. Find out more at this webinar.
Safeguarding Children Essentials - Creating Safer Spaces for Young People
Join us for a practical session designed to strengthen your understanding of safeguarding responsibilities when working with children.
Building an Inclusive Organisational Culture Check In and Chat
Join our team to share your thoughts and experiences about your organisation's equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging journey.
Volunteer Management for Small and Micro Organisations
Join us for a workshop by Go Volunteer Glos on managing volunteers in small organisations: recruit, train & retain with limited resources.
Inclusion Allies Programme
Building confidence in active allyship through inclusive language and courageous conversations on equity and inclusion.
Introduction to Domestic Abuse Awareness
Gain essential insight into domestic abuse, your responsibilities in identifying and responding, and how to safeguard colleagues and staff.
Measuring EDIB Impact in Your Organisation
Learn to measure EDIB impact: why it matters, how to measure it, tools to use, how to report, and plan ongoing improvement.
Getting the Most out of Go Volunteer Glos
Learn how Go Volunteer Glos can support volunteer recruitment for your organisation.
Tips & insights in a short lunchtime webinar.
Creating a Just Climate Transition
Fostering inclusive climate action that can improve health and wellbeing and save your organisation money.
First Aid at Work
This course provides a comprehensive set of practical skills needed by first aiders in most workplaces.
Intersectionality
EDI(B) training webinar with Cleo Morris from Mission Diverse - learn to tackle workplace discrimination with an intersectional approach.
Unlocking Social Value for VCSE Organisations
Learn to understand, measure, and apply social value to benefit your charity, align with new laws, and support your community impact.
Platform Migration and Alternatives in Social Media
Learn when & how to diversify beyond one social platform. Explore risks, new channels & steps for a smooth, audience-friendly transition.
Maximising Social Value: Building VCSE Partnerships
Gloucestershire County Council has partnered with whatimpact, the National Social Value Marketplace®, to connect local VCSEs with suppliers delivering mandatory social value in the county.
This partnership ensures that supplier resources – including funding, volunteering, and pro bono support – are directed to organisations making a positive local impact. VCSEs in Gloucestershire now have the valuable opportunity to set up a free profile on whatimpact, attend upcoming webinars and training sessions, and begin building partnerships with corporate and public sector suppliers.
Setting up a profile gives your organisation visibility, but the real value comes when you use the platform to connect with suppliers, tell your story, and showcase the difference you make. Being proactive will help ensure your organisation is chosen for new partnerships.
Gloucestershire VCSE Alliance is delighted to host this training session on 'Maximising Social Value' :
Session overview:
Hands-on support in setting up and optimising your organisations whatimpact profile.
How to demonstrate best practice in engaging suppliers and maximising partnership opportunities.
Understanding mandatory supplier social value commitments.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
Create and manage an effective whatimpact profile.
Identify opportunities for partnership with suppliers.
Confidently showcase their work to attract funding, volunteering, and in-kind resources.
Understand how impact reporting works and why it is valuable for both VCSEs and suppliers.
Important information:
Places are fully funded for VCSE organisations delivering services in Gloucestershire.
To enable as many organisations as possible to access this event, we have limited bookings to two per organisation. If you would like to book more than two spaces, please email bookings@glosvcsalliance.org.uk and we will aim to accommodate individual needs where possible.
We only accept bookings from individuals attending the event and are unable to accept multiple bookings in one name.
Our events are often over-subscribed and we will activate our wait list process if this happens. We advise anyone interested in booking to book a place asap.
Please ensure that you read our Terms & Conditions of Booking before you book your place: Terms & Conditions of Booking
If you book a place and cannot attend for any reason, please email bookings@glosvcsalliance.org.uk asap so that we can allocate your place to someone else.
If you have any enquiries about this event, please email bookings@glosvcsalliance.org.uk and a member of our team will get back to you.
We look forward to welcoming you on 27 November.
Funding your Green Transition
An online training session on funding opportunities for sustainable action.
Building Belonging Online: Digital Inclusion
Digital inclusion and social media through an EDIB lens.
Event information
Building Belonging Online: Digital Inclusion & Social Media through an EDIB Lens
Date: 16 September 2025
Time: 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
This event will be delivered online. A joining link will be sent out by email in advance.
Webinar Objectives
Participants will:
Understand what digital inclusion means in the context of EDIB.
Recognise common barriers to equitable participation on social media.
Explore inclusive communication and representation practices online.
Gain tools to make social media more accessible, inclusive, and engaging.
Course Outline
Why Digital Inclusion Matters: Explore how digital exclusion impacts engagement and learn why inclusive social media is essential for equitable communication and outreach.
Representation & Visibility on Social Media: Understand what inclusive content looks like, how to make it accessible, and what barriers may prevent your messages from reaching everyone.
Accessibility & Inclusivity Best Practice & Tips: Learn how to co-create content with diverse communities, plan inclusive campaigns, and build trust through authentic storytelling.
Measuring Impact: Discover practical steps for improving your social media inclusivity, and how to evaluate what’s working—and what still needs attention.
This event is fully funded for VCSE groups & organisations in Gloucestershire.