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This three-day course will fully equip advisers with the knowledge and skills needed to successfully and professionally represent their clients at the first tier Social Security Tribunal.

Extra Financial Support during Covid-19 To help support people through the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic the Department for Communities has enhanced the available discretionary support scheme and put in place additional support. This webinar will give an overview of the current scheme as well as highlighting the changes introduced due to Coronavirus (Covid-19).

You will get an introduction to your camera’s manual controls, focusing on how to control aperture, shutter speed and ISO to correctly expose your photographs. This course will also enable you to apply a practical and theoretical knowledge to help you use a digital camera effectively and creatively.

This creative and practical course will help you to develop and gain confidence in street photography, how to approach your subject, shoot candid shots and develop your personal style and technique.

This course is designed to support advice service managers in gaining confidence with setting up and running statistical service reports using Advice Pro.

Have you often thought you would like to go to university, but don't have the qualifications? Perhaps you had negative experiences of school and lack confidence in your ability to learn? This online course will help you to overcome the barriers to your learning and enable you to develop skills needed for learning at university.

This one-day course focuses on commonly experienced problem areas within Universal Credit. Learning involves using case studies collected from our network and the GB experience of Universal Credit.

This two-day, skilled-level course provides an opportunity to explore key factors to promote good practice in dealing with debt cases which includes: case management, referrals and quality frameworks, including support and supervision.

This course is taught largely from the front & draws from the latest thinking in eating disordered clinical research, evidence based treatments, coaching, health & counselling psychology.

This course will be run over 2 x three hour sessions starting with picture taking, through to editing, processing, and printing your negatives.

Join Team Action Cancer on this fantastic Open Challenge Trek through the majestic Alps.

This IHRN training programme aims at enhancing the skills of justice sector personnel, consultants, managers etc, in applying Human Rights Based Approaches to Justice and Security Sector Reform. The programme is designed for people working in the justice and security sector.

These workshops are an excellent method of support for Quality Assessors within member organisations, who have either achieved, or are working towards the Northern Ireland Advice Quality Standard (NIAQS).

Introduction to Working with Eating Disorders and Body Esteem & The Psychology of Dieting & Eating Disorders These courses are taught largely from the front & draw from the latest thinking in eating disorders clinical research, evidence-based treatments, coaching, health & counselling psychology.

Level 1 Makaton training is the starting point for learning Makaton. It is recommended for: parents, family members, carers and workers who need to use Makaton at home and in their work participants who need a more detailed knowledge about using and applying Makaton to develop the communication skills of others

This one day, introductory level course will provide generalist advisers with an overview of: How to access Social Rented Housing; The rights of Social Rented Tenants (including repair); The rights and responsibilities of Private Rental Tenants and Landlords (including repair); Grants and Disability Adaptation for tenants and owner-occupiers; Specialist/Sheltered Housing; How to access specialist advice and when to refer onward

The course will introduce you to the Photoshop interface and will cover the basic Photoshop features such as working in layers, and techniques that you can use to adjust, correct and enhance your photographs.

This one day, intensive workshop will let you relive the excitement experienced by the pioneers of photography. Each participant will shoot and process their own unique ambrotypes, from start to finish.

Join Team Action Cancer and cross the formidable Transylvanian Alps on this daring Open Challenge, 07 - 12 July 2020.

You will gain knowledge of studio lighting setups and techniques to enable you to take quality studio images from family portraits and stylish fashion shots, to interesting still lifes and eye-catching products. You will learn how to set up the lights and various lighting techniques that you can easily replicate in your home as the cost of studio lighting has fallen dramatically.

You will learn new camera settings and develop your photography skills, focusing on how to use white balance, metering, bracketing, focusing, histogram and more. This course will also enable you to apply a practical and theoretical knowledge to help you use a digital camera effectively and creatively.

You will get an introduction to your camera’s manual controls, focusing on how to control aperture, shutter speed and ISO to correctly expose your photographs. This course will also enable you to apply a practical and theoretical knowledge to help you use a digital camera effectively and creatively.

Due to COVID19, we have extended the application deadline to Friday 29th May! If you are working or volunteering in the community or voluntary sector and would like an opportunity to gain a professionally recognised degree in Community Development, apply now!

Join Team Action Cancer as we explore the stunning country of India on the Dalai Lama Trek in October 2020.

Join Team Action Cancer on this stunning cycle from Saigon in Vietnam all the way to the glorious Royal Temples of Angkor Wat in Cambodia.