Superhighways Training
Please find details of Superhighways’ autumn data training programme here

NCSC Cyber Security Training
The National Cyber Security Centre is offering this free online training course for organisations to build their understanding of cyber security and learn how to stay safe online.

Editors for Impact
Editors for Impact is a UK-based social enterprise providing charitable organisations with media content creation by matching each charity with an E4I volunteer. They believe charitable organisations deserve high-quality media content to best reflect their value and work, and aim to eliminate barriers of time, cost, and access to great content. Becoming their partner means that you will be able to request projects for your charity and E4I will deliver high-quality content including video editing and motion graphics productions at no cost. For more information, please email partnerships@editorsforimpact.org

‘Digital Explorer’ sessions for Ealing and Hounslow Community Voluntary Service will resume every Tuesday from 14 September 2021
Looking at Digital Strategy for your Community Voluntary Sector Group. Book your ‘An introduction to Digital Strategy for Community and Voluntary Groups’ sessions below:

Data and the Stories it Tells – Wed, 22 September at 10:30 – 12:30
Data is for everyone, and it can be used to help you to meet the needs of the people that matter to you. It could even help you to save money – or even raise money – for your organisation.Jen Stirrup, Data Whisperer, is an award-winning data strategist and practitioner in Artificial Intelligence, Business Intelligence, Big Data and Data Visualisation solutions with over twenty years of experience in delivering solutions globally. Jen is the founder of a boutique consultancy firm that offers strategic advice and implementation in data technologies, focusing on delivering business value for organisations of various sizes globally.Join this session to get inspired on what data can do for you, your volunteers, and your organisation.

Financial Planning and Budgeting
Ealing and Hounslow CVS, in partnership with Epitome Consultancy Training is offering an introduction to Financial Planning over 2 days.Held over 2 x 3 hours, this course will help you to understand how to develop a realistic budget and to report against it. You will learn about cash flow and managing income and expenditure. At the end, you will understand the importance of budgeting and how to use budgets in fundraising and organisational development, as well as open and transparent reporting.You will learn:
– Budgeting and Forecasting
– Cash flow
– Managing income and expenditure
– Financial Compliance
– Reporting accounts
– Managing petty cash

JMD Training and Consultancy: Microsoft Excel Basics – Creating, Formatting and Printing a Workbook – Tue, 12 October 2021 at 10:30 – 12:00
Do you need to set up spreadsheets for storing text and numbers either as a data list or to do simple calculations?Do you need to use Excel for everyday tasks such as setting up a budget, maintaining an address list, or keeping track of a list of to-do items?Microsoft Excel Basics is an effective workshop giving plenty of hands-on experience. It will enable you to have the confidence and skills to create, format and print an Excel workbook.Objectives:
• Create an Excel workbook
• Format an Excel workbook
• Edit an Excel workbook
• Print preview a workbook
• Print an Excel workbook

Impact:
• Confidence to create an Excel workbook
• Ability to edit, format and print an Excel workbook

JMD Training and Consultancy: Basic Formulas – Getting to grips with Excel calculations – Tue, 19 October 2021 at 10:30 – 12:00
Would you like to be able to use simple calculations? Do you need to be able to quickly add up columns of figures?Basic Formulas is an effective workshop giving plenty of hands-on experience. It will enable you to have the confidence and skills to do basic calculations in Excel, including addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and using the AutoSum button to create totals, averages, counts, maximums and minimums.Objectives:
• Add, subtract, multiply, divide numbers in an Excel workbook
• Use the Excel AutoSum feature to total, average or count a range of numbers
• Use the Excel AutoSum feature to find the maximum or minimum of a range of numbersImpact:
• Confidence to do basic calculations in Excel
• Ability to rely on Excel rather than a calculator when faced with many calculations

JMD Training and Consultancy: Basics of Microsoft Word – Tue, 26 October 2021 at 10:30 – 12:00
Are you a self-taught Word user? Would you like to be learn how to use and understand Microsoft Word? Would you like to be able to edit documents and format them so they look professional?Creating and Formatting Simple Documents is an effective workshop giving plenty of hands-on practice. It will enable you to have the confidence and skills to create, edit and format Microsoft Word documents.Audience: Anyone who has never had formal training in Microsoft Word or who learnt some time ago and would like to improve their skills.Objectives:
• To create simple Word documents
• To format simple Word documents
• To spellcheck a document
• To create bulleted and numbered lists
• To select text
• To move and copy text
• To print preview and print

Impact:
• Confidence to create Word documents
• Creation of professional-looking reports, letters and business plans with ease

JMD Training and Consultancy: Working with Word Tables – Laying Out Information with Microsoft Word – Tue, 23 November 2021 at 10:30 – 12:00
Would you like to be able to format text rapidly and organise it into neat columns?Do you need more appropriate ways to lay out Word text? Are you currently pressing the SpaceBar key several times to get text lined up?Working with Word Tables is an effective workshop giving plenty of hands-on experience. It will enable you to have the confidence and skills to create, edit and format Word tables.Audience: Those who have never had formal training in Microsoft Word or who learnt some time ago and would like to update their skills. This session will be of benefit to anyone who wants to be able to layout text in appropriate ways. Sometimes although people have used tables for some time, they are not aware of techniques such as getting two or more columns to be of equal width. Anyone who uses tables but feels they are not using them to their full potential should also attend.

Objectives:
• To create Word tables
• Format tables
• Insert and delete rows and columns
• Adjust column widths, row heights
• Merge cells
• Split cells
• Add or remove borders and shading
• Sort data within a table
• Splitting tables
• Showing column headings on each page of a long table

Impact:
• Confidence to create Word tables
• Creation of professional-looking reports, letters and business plans with ease

Further Digital Training planned for the Hounslow Digital Festival November 2021

Workshops on:
– Social Media for Community Voluntary Sector Groups – Aliya Zaidi
– Improved Digital Working for Community and Voluntary Sector Groups – CAP Enterprise (Kent) cic
– Digital Techniques for Engaging and Supporting Clients for Community and Voluntary Sector Groups – CAP Enterprise (Kent) cic
– A look at improving Digital Capacity for Community and Voluntary Sector Groups – CAP Enterprise (Kent) cic
– Digital Monitoring for Community and Voluntary Sector Groups – CAP Enterprise (Kent) cic

Keep a look out for dates and bookings through Eventbrite.