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Training support for your organisation

Our VCSE Learning Academy offers funding for organisations to enhance training opportunities for staff and volunteers.

Visit our FAQs at the bottom of this page for more information.

Make an enquiry by completing our training form below.

Training opportunities

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Smarter Smiles

Oral diseases are largely preventable and with effective self-care this is crucial for overall good health. The Smarter Smiles outreach team will provide you and your clients direct education focusing on oral health promotion and prevention.

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Training offer

Safer Cornwall & DAAT Summer Training Programme

The Safer Cornwall & DAAT Training Programme will be delivering the following courses this Summer between July and September 2025.

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Webinar

Social Leaders Cornwall Webinar

8 July 2025
12:30pm

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Media Trust x NVCO: Free AI training

29 July 2025
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ActivePlus: Leadership Course

16 — 21 July 2025
9:00am
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Perinatal and infant mental health training

3 September 2025
9:30am
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Active Cornwall: Basic First Aid (November)

13 November 2025
6:00pm
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Trustee training

5 August 2025
10:00am

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Training offer

FREE Brook Training 2025

Brook Cornwall are pleased to announce their upcoming training sessions

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Lunch and Learn Recordings

Watch past Lunch and Learn workshop recordings designed to provide bitesize offers of information to the VCSE sector.

Training offer

We Find Any Learner: Free Government-funded, mental health practitioner training

WeFindAnyLearner are thrilled to announce they are offering over 50 of their online courses completely free of charge!

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Lullaby Trust : Free Safer Sleep Training

Cornwall Council Public Health and Our Safeguarding Children Partnership (OSCP) have funded FREE Lullaby Trust safer sleep training for 6 months for anyone working with families with babies in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly to significantly reduce the chances of SIDS.

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Dementia + Delirium Courses 2025

This training meets tier 2 dementia training standards framework.

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Headstart Kernow: Workforce development opportunities

These funded events are open to professionals with an interest in the topic(s) covered, including: TIS, Thrive Practitioners, educators, voluntary sector colleagues and foster carers. There is no cost to attend.

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Media Trust: Communicating Climate

Now in its fifth year, Communicating Climate is a six-month strategic communications and campaign training programme designed for organisations working on climate justice, grassroots climate advocacy, and community-focused climate action. This programme will give you the tools and expertise to create and implement powerful campaigns that recognise the climate crisis as a social and political problem as well as an environmental one. 

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Children & Young People’s Mental Health: Early intervention Training Programme

This expert-led training programme is made up of short, bite-sized sessions in-person and online. and virtually, supported by a range of learning resources. It equips infant, children, and young people’s intervention staff to address a wide range of emotional, social, wellbeing and mental health challenges.

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Digital Unite: Free CPD Accredited Course on finding affordable internet

Digital Unite and the West London Alliance have worked together to create a free 10 minute course on how to help others find affordable home and mobile internet, including how to switch to a social tariff. You will receive a certificate and course notes when you complete it.

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The Skills Network : Government Funded Qualifications

The courses are all distance learning and take between 8 - 12 weeks. With support from a dedicated Learner Support Adviser and subject specialist Tutor throughout, we will guide you and your employees through to success.

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Free Online Courses in Cornwall

Free Courses in Cornwall provides fully funded learning opportunities to empower people to develop lifelong skills and pursue rewarding careers. Offering a variety of accredited Level 2 courses, all available for free. We specialise in lots of different sectors including Healthcare.

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Christina Poulton Creative: Free “how-to” guides for non-profits

Free guides and support for CIC and non-profit organisations. From setting up an organisation, to running your organisation.

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Media Trust: Free Climate Communications Resources

Looking for free resources on climate communications? From bite-size videos from leading climate organisations to support on reducing your charity’s digital carbon footprint, Media Trust have a resource for you.

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NCVO – free resources and guidance for smaller charities

NCVO's website offers a wide range of free help and guidance pages from setting up your organisation, managing volunteers, digital and technology, funding and governance.

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Volunteer Cornwall: Volunteering and the law

This four-hour online session is designed to give learners a basic understanding of volunteering & the law.

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Cornwall Council: Healthy Cornwall – Training and Skills Development

Cornwall Council Public Health provide a wide range of short courses delivered directly to your organisation, group, or workplace to promote better health and wellbeing within your workforce, and for the wider community.

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Active Cornwall: Free Safeguarding Adults in Sport and Physical Activity – online

On this newly-updated online course you will learn how you can effectively and appropriately support and promote the welfare of adults.

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Active Cornwall: Live Longer Better – for practitioners

This workshop has been designed for you to gain the confidence to be able to support people experiencing mental health problems, and help them to thrive inside and outside of your sessions.

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Active Cornwall: Mental Health Awareness for Sport and Physical Activity

This workshop has been designed for you to gain the confidence to be able to support people experiencing mental health problems, and help them to thrive inside and outside of your sessions.

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Active Cornwall: Supporting Physical Development in children under 2 years

This online, on-demand and bite-size course is suitable for any professional working with children under 2 years old and their families. Specifically early years practitioners, childminders and family health support.

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Get Grants

Get Grants provides practical support, information and training that fundraisers with all levels of experience can take away and put into practice.

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Smarter Smiles

Oral diseases are largely preventable and with effective self-care this is crucial for overall good health. The Smarter Smiles outreach team will provide you and your clients direct education focusing on oral health promotion and prevention.

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Leadership and management training

Our VCSE Learning Academy offers training for senior managers and leaders in the VCSE sector.

This includes funding for qualifications at Level 3 and above.

The VCSE Learning Academy can fund courses delivered at a time and place that is convenient to you. This could include online and distance learning.

Contact us to find out what courses we can fund. Some eligibility criteria may apply.

Make an enquiry by completing our training form below.

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Training for charity workers

Our VCSE Learning Academy offers training for community workers.

This training is for people in roles such as community workers, support workers, and social prescribers.

The VCSE Learning Academy can fund courses delivered at a time and place that is convenient to you. This could include online and distance learning.

Contact us to find out what courses we can fund. Some eligibility criteria may apply.

Make an enquiry by completing our training form below.



Are you a training provider?

If you are a training organisation in the VCSE sector and want to join as a potential supplier, please email [email protected]

Please send information about the courses you offer including costs and locations.

FAQ

  • Can the VCSE learning Academy fund more than one person in an organisation?

    Yes, we can fund anyone who fulfils the eligibility criteria.

  •  Will the funding cover the whole cost of my training course?

    The VCSE Learning Academy can fund eligible courses costing up to £650. Courses costing more than £650 may be eligible for part-funding.

  • Will the funding cover travelling and other expenses?

    VCSE Learning Academy funding is for training only. Some course providers include course books. We are unable to fund travel and other expenses.

  • How much of the course details do I need to know to apply?

    If you have a specific course in mind, please give us as much detail as possible. If you have a topic in mind but can’t find a course, let us know. We might be able to gather a group from different organisations and arrange training for you.

  • Can I do a non-accredited course?

    We can fund some non-accredited courses – please use our enquiry form to find out more.

  • Can I do more than one course?

    Unfortunately, we can only fund one training course per person.

  • How is the VCSE Learning Academy funded?

    The VCSE Learning Academy is funded by Cornwall Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board and Cornwall Council.