Befriending Training

Befriending training for volunteers on building essential, supportive relationships within your community.

Do you want to volunteer locally, befriending a local resident, offering them a regular contact and support?

Join our two-part training session to gain essential skills and tools for creating supportive relationships within your community.

1. What is Befriending?

2. Benefits of Befriending

3. Effective Communication Skills

• Techniques to engage with someone you don't know
• Face-to-face vs Telephone

4. Confidentiality, Boundaries and how to escalate safeguarding issues

5. How to signpost to practical support

The Wellbeing Friends will also learn about how to manage challenging clients and how to work on closure. This will be an interactive session with Q&A.

This is a safe space where you can interact, ask questions, discuss and learn about this topic.

Attendance at both sessions is required, so please do not register if you cannot commit.

We will not be recording, have your say, share your story to learn and enhance the community knowledge.

Delivered by: Lisa Cunningham - Expert Trainer

Date/Time: Thursday 23rd April and Thursday 30th April, 10am -12.00pm

Venue: Zoom (We ask you kindly to be Punctual, and use devices compatable with Zoom)

Hosted by: Slough Council for Voluntary Service (SCVS) & Windsor And Maidenhead Get Involved (WAM GI)

Where to find your tickets

Your email inbox: Search your inbox (or spam/junk folder) for an email from noreply@order.eventbrite.com

Your Eventbrite account: When you register for an event, Eventbrite automatically creates an account associated with your email address. Log in using the same email address and select “Tickets” from the dropdown in your Eventbrite account.

This training is free to join but there is a cost for us to deliver.

NB. A charge of £10 will be incurred for non-attendance not notified to us within 48 hrs of the course start time; this will be invoiced to you or your organisation.

Slough CVS is a local charity funded to support groups in Slough, Windsor, Ascot , Maidenhead and surrounding areas, UK only, so please only register for this training if you provide services or intend to volunteer in the areas we serve. If we have places available 24 hours before the start of the training and you would like to attend but are not in our area of benefit, please email training@sloughcvs.org.uk and we will try to accommodate you.