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Six nationally accredited one day
skills development workshops at only $25 each

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Don't miss this wonderful opportunity for your community organisation to develop the skills and networks that will ensure your long term success and growth!

From local festivals to CFA support crews, the passion, blood, sweat and tears of people working for their communities provide the foundation for the cultural life of regional Australia.

Creative Volunteering - No Limits is a project that recognises and supports this vital activity by providing the first nationally accredited skills development course for volunteers in Australia.

The course is made up of six self-contained one-day workshops that focus on the day to day and practical challenges that face every community based organisation where volunteers do most of the work.

Delivered by qualified tutors who have first hand experience as volunteers, the workshops are designed to enable people to draw on their own experience and apply the information directly to their organisation.

Participants can choose to complete the whole course or attend any single workshop they like.

Workshops will be held on weekends, are low cost and accessible. They are offered in thirteen locations in New South Wales in 2003, with a second round reaching into more locations in 2004.

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WHO CAN ATTEND?

Although the workshop content is geared towards cultural organisations, volunteers from any community-based organisations in regional Australia are welcome to enrol.

This includes:

• performing arts centres
• art galleries & museums
• arts councils
• associations organising festivals and events
• presenter groups
• performing arts companies
• arts societies
• local historical socieites
• heritage site committees
• historic building committees
• National Trust branches
• libraries
• health, sport & recreation groups
• emergency serivces
• welfare sector groups

Come one, come all!

What will I gain from attending the workshops?
All workshops are nationally accredited. This means that participants will be eligible for a Statement of Attainment that can lead on to other nationally recognised training and a formal qualification.

The workshops have been especially designed for community organisations where volunteers do much or all of the work. They are hands on, practical and directed towards your needs.

You will have the opportunity to work on specific issues your organisation is grappling with now.

Where will the workshops be held?
Workshops will be held in thirteen locations around New South Wales in 2003, with a second round reaching into more locations in 2004. (See Schedule).

What will it cost?
Creative Volunteering is funded jointly by the Department of Family and Community Services and the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts. The cost to each participant will be a materials fee of only $25 per workshop. This includes the cost of an excellent resource book that can be taken away.

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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

The course includes four core workshops:

Carry Out Business Planning
Covers the essential areas of how to contribute to planning and management for regional not-for-profit and cultural organisations. Participants will look at where their organisation is now, where they want to be and how to get there; and draft the key elements of a Business Plan.

Network Within Communities
Concentrates on how to establish and maintain successful networks within and across communities. Participants will learn key concepts and undertake practical exercises dealing with the nature of networks, identifying network opportunities and effective networking tools to suit their organisation.

Undertake Marketing
Concentrates on how to develop a marketing plan suitable for not-for-profit and cultural organisations. Participants will explore the purpose and uses of a marketing plan, identify target markets and develop practical actions
to help their organisation to position and present itself effectively.

Develop Funds And Resources (Core)
Developing strategies and preparing proposals for funding, sponsorship
and other resourcing options. Participants will work through developing the basics of a grant or sponsorship application for funding or other resources and identify and target potential sources of support.

and two electives:

Plan And Program Events
Covers the key elements of planning and programming arts and cultural events. This workshop will include generating concepts for and designing an event, event planning tools, event budgeting and scheduling, programming activities and identifying risk management strategies.

Work With Collections
The essential areas of working with cultural collections including ways
of linking with the community, planning a collections strategy, developing a collections policy, assessing the significance of objects and/or collections, ethical issues, interpretive approaches, target audiences and legal and insurance requirements.

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SCHEDULE

All workshops are held on a Saturday or a Sunday from 10:00am to 4:00pm. Venues will be confirmed at time of enrolment.

Please note: The Schedule may be subject to change.

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ENROLMENT

Download the registration form below. Print it out, fill it in and post to: Regional Arts NSW, Pier 5, Hickson Road, Millers Point NSW 2000 or fax to 02 9247 7829.

Download the enrolment form.

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ENQUIRIES

If you have any enquiries or would like to know more about Creative Volunteering - No Limits, contact Suzanne Crowley at CCD NSW Tel 02 9821 2210. Email suzanne@ccdnsw.org.

Creative Volunteering — No Limits is an initiative of Regional Arts Australia. The project is federally funded by the Department of Family and Community Services and the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts. In New South Wales, the workshops are being managed by Regional Arts NSW and delivered by the registered training organisation, CCD NSW.

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