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The UK’s demographics are changing fast. Good communicators need to understand and acknowledge the business case for engaging with
ethnic communities. The one size fits all approach is no longer enough to ensure that your organisation's messages are being heard by everybody.

‘Communicating in Multicultural Britain’ is a half day seminar taking place at the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.

To give participants an overview of NGO advocacy, the different approaches that can be adopted, including lobbying and public campaigning, and to place these within a conceptual and strategic framework.

This introductory workshop will consider the pros and cons of undertaking advocacy work and explores the different approaches that your organisation can take. It acts as a foundation for BOND’s workshops on advocacy.

Learning objectives:

* Understand how advocacy can help fulfil the organisational missions of development NGOs

You work in PR, so good copywriting matters to you.
You produce press releases, features, spokesperson quotes, product releases, news stories and so on. Some gets used, but not all of it - and you want to know why.

You want to know what you need to change so more of what you write gets used by the top publications.

Or maybe you don't. Maybe you have journalists lapping up every word you write and faithfully reproducing it for their readers. Maybe you just don't care how much of your copy is actually used. If that's the case, then this course can't help you.

Speakers:

Estelle Taylor, Communications Director at the Campaign for Better Transport, will share the inside story on the organisation’s rebrand. One year on, Estelle will be looking back at the best and worst parts of the process, sharing her top rebranding tips, revealing whether she’d have done anything differently, and crucially, explaining whether the rebrand has been a success.

To provide an introduction to NGO complaint and response mechanisms (CRM) and enable participants to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to start the process of setting up a CRM within their organisation.

Learning objectives:

* Understand the importance and benefits of a CRM

* Understand best practice in this area especially in terms of
- principles that define an effective CRM
- what the main elements of the process are
- what the practical management of a CRM entails

* Start the process of planning a CRM for your organisation

To provide an introduction to monitoring and evaluation in the international development sector.

Learning objectives:

* Understand basic monitoring and evaluation theory in relation to accountability
* Identify what you want to monitor, how and for whom
* Identify indicators that can be used to monitor and evaluate your work
* Awareness of a range of tools for monitoring and evaluating, their limitations and advantages

In light of the recent published information regarding the rate of rural youth out-migration ‘Young people making a difference – the social inclusion of rural youth’, a national conference delivered by Rural Youth Network, aims to highlight the contribution young people can make to rural communities, through community planning, participation and empowerment. 

This one-day practical workshop will explore the opportunities that social media/Web 2.0 offers your organisation.

The day will focus on free or inexpensive applications and provide easy ways for you to use new media. The course will help you understand the jargon and will offer practical guidance on areas including blogging, social networks, podcasting, wikis and social bookmarks.

To guide participants on the need for child protection (CP) and the key steps for developing CP policies and procedures.

Learning objectives:

* Understand organisational CP and why it is important
* Have explored strategies to take forward the development and implementation of CP policies and procedures, including undertaking stakeholder and risk analyses in the UK context and with Southern partners.
* Have been introduced to the stages which make up the building of a child-safe organisation, including underlying principles and components of a CP policy and standards.

Date for your diary. Speakers and venue to be confirmed

Date for your diary. Speakers and venue to be confirmed