This practical and reflective training session explores the importance of healthy professional boundaries within supportive roles.

This practical and reflective training session explores the importance of healthy professional boundaries within supportive and relational roles. Participants will develop a greater understanding of how clear boundaries support safe, ethical, and effective practice while protecting wellbeing and strengthening working relationships.

The session will introduce the “Zone of Unhelpfulness”, helping participants recognise how boundary drift can occur and the impact this can have on clients, colleagues, and organisations.

Participants will also explore how Trauma Informed Approaches support trust, safety, and consistency within professional relationships.

Suitable for staff, volunteers, managers, and practitioners across health, social care, education, housing, and VCSE settings.

This course is fully funded for Gloucestershire VCSE Alliance members

And is subsidised for non-member VCSE organisations.

To enable as many groups & organisations to access this course, we limit bookings to two per member organisation. Please note we are unable to accept multiple bookings in one name. If you would like to book more than two spaces, please email bookings@glosalliance.org.uk and we will aim to accommodate individual needs where possible.

Our events are often oversubscribed, and we will activate our waiting list process if this happens. We advise anyone interested in booking a place to book asap.

For charities to understand, measure and apply social value, meet new laws, and maximise community impact.

For charities to understand, measure and apply social value, meet new laws, and maximise community impact.

Learn to understand, measure, and apply social value to benefit your charity, align with new laws, and support your community impact.

This practical training will help you understand and apply for social value in a way that benefits your charity and your communities.

You will learn:

• What social value is and the key terminology

• A short history of social value and how it has evolved

• Why social value is now a "must have" rather than a "nice to have"

• How social value arises and is measured

• The objectives of the Procurement Act and what they mean for you

• The link between social value and the UN Sustainable Development Goals

• How to prepare your organisation to receive, evidence, and maximise social value

This course is fully funded for Gloucestershire VCSE Alliance members

And is subsidised for non-member VCSE organisations.

Tea and coffee will be provided.

Important information

This course is fully funded for Gloucestershire VCSE Alliance members. If you're not already a member but are a non-profit organisation operating in Gloucestershire, you can become a member for free here: Become a Member | Join & Collaborate Today — Gloucestershire VCSE Alliance

To enable as many groups & organisations to access this course, we limit bookings to two per organisation. Please note we only accept bookings from individuals attending the course and we are unable to accept multiple bookings in one name. If you would like to book more than two spaces, please email bookings@glosalliance.org.uk and we will aim to accommodate individual needs where possible.

Our events are often over-subscribed and we will activate our wait list process if this happens. We advise anyone interested in booking a place to book asap.

Please ensure that you read our Terms & Conditions of Booking before you book your place:

Booking Terms & Conditions

If you book a place and cannot attend for any reason, please email bookings@glosalliance.org.uk asap so that we can allocate your place to someone else.

If you have any enquiries about this course, please email bookings@glosalliance.org.uk and a member of our team will get back to you.

We look forward to welcoming you on 21st October 2026.

Gloucestershire VCSE Alliance team