Trainers working with ViSTA

Anne Allen, along with Kaye Elston are Multi-agency Trainers for the Local Somerset Safeguarding Children Board.

John has a long career in social work including time as director for Somerset Social Services.  He is a member of the British Institute for Conflict management and the Federation of Health and Safety in Social Care.

Catherine offers bespoke training in marketing (both marketing communications and general marketing) and customer care.  She can also facilitate sessions with both paid and voluntary staff and board members on business and organisational development.

Catherine is  freelance project manager, consultant and trainer and a Chartered Marketer.  She has extensive experience of working autonomously to a general brief, managing projects and motivating and supporting people.  She has a background in the voluntary and public sector, including the arts and education, as well as experience of running a business.

Sarah (PGCE) is a voluntary sector youth worker with over fifteen years experience.  Currently Sarah is employed as the Sedgemoor Deanery Youth Development Worker with The Diocese of Bath and Wells.

Amba Chawla is a solicitor, an experienced trustee and a facilitator, working in business and the voluntary sector.  Amba specialises in organisational development and management and works with staff and volunteers across a range of sectors.

Karen Cole has worked as an HR and Training Manager in a number of large VCS organisations over the past 16 years.

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Caroline Copeman is a Senior Visiting Fellow at Cass, Tutor on the Cass CCE degree programme and heads up their Leadership and Management Development practice. She has 20 years' senior experience in the commercial, public and voluntary sectors and has particular knowledge of strategy development and business planning, HR management, change management, leadership and organisational development.

Exeter CVS deliver a number of accredited learning programmes for Voluntary and Community sector staff.

Liz Devaney has been working within the Voluntary Sector for 15 years – advising on national strategies and developments for the voluntary sector; managing local and regional projects; and providing consultancy and training services to national and local organisations.  She has particular expertise in Volunteer Management, Strategic Planning and training voluntary sector staff and volunteers.  She is an Examiner for Lantra.

Julia Dinsdale has worked as an adult educator for the last 25 years working in all sectors of further and higher education as well as the voluntary and community sectors.  She has offered training courses in a range of areas including equal opportunities, interviewing skills, training the trainers and more extensively in community development work.  She is currently delivering the Certificate in Community Development.

Julia began work in inner city London then moved to work in Brighton and later in the rural areas of Worcestershire and Herefordshire and is now working in the South West. 

Previous work experience includes a range of community work, social work, working in a women's refuge and teaching.

SEEDS (Survivors Empowering and Education Domestic Abuse Service)

Tamara Essex is a freelance trainer and consultant working for charities, Local Authorities & Health Authorities, and for community partnerships.  In a voluntary capacity she is a Trustee of Swans Trust in Shaftesbury, north Dorset, and the organiser of the Shaftesbury Local Food Festival.  Tamara has been an NCVO Approved Consultant since 2003, and is currently on the approved lists for the Capacity Builders Modernisation Fund in Dorset, Somerset and Hampshire. 

Full training & consultancy details available at www.tessex.co.uk 

Cara is Project Manager for the Children and Young People's Partnership in Somerset.

www.chypps.org.uk

01278 691434

Anne Fowler is an experienced Training Officer for supporting people with a visual impairment throughout Somerset.

More info to follow

I am a marketing consultant with over a decade’s experience. My company, imagetext, provides strategy, design and technology services for small to medium enterprises and I have extensive experience of the voluntary sector across the UK.

http://www.imagetext.co.uk/

http://www.redfront.co.uk/

Colin Gould is responsible for managing and developing the work carried out by Mediation Somerset with specialism in conflict within the provision of special educational needs.

www.mediationsomerset.co.uk

Tim is a freelance associate who is a qualified accountant (FCMA).  He has over 27 years experience in industry latterly as Financial Director of a number of SME organisations. Tim is working 1 – 1 ½ days per week helping to pilot the Community Accounting Service and is currently working closely with ChYPPS and SVSN to improve and develop their financial systems and management imformation.

Exeter CVS

Anna is an experienced trainer within the volutnary sector and is currently working with East Cornwall CVS.

Sara Iles has extensive experience as a client adviser in the public sector and the voluntary sector.

Tracy Isbell, a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, who possesses 20 years experience in HR and Training related roles at operational, managerial and strategic level within the public and private sectors. Committed to best practice in people management and development, Tracy has a reputation for seeing things through, being down to earth and maintaining a sense of humour!

tracyisbell@peoplemeanbusiness.com

Alex Janes is a trainer and consultant specialising in marketing, creativity, and change and project management. He is a chartered marketer and majored in innovation, creativity and change for his MBA from the Open University. Alex has many years experience of marketing and project management in both commercial and third sectors. He was the senior manager in charge of discretionary funding and ESF at the LSC in Somerset until 2006. More recently he has worked as a project director with Business Link Somerset and led fundraising at West of England School and College.

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Nick has considerable experience in the private and voluntary sector supporting organisations to develop and improve their financial management systems.

SMK was established in 2005 to help develop a new generation of campaigners who are tackling the root causes of injustice. Set up in memory of Dame Sheila McKechnie, SMK is entirely dedicated to helping campaigners create positive and lasting social change.

ViSTA Finance Director

Judith Nealon has 20 years experience of training, coaching and mentoring.

Michael has spent more than 40 years supporting voluntary organisations, developing creative ideas for a better world and turning them into successful projects, and encouraging others to go out and change the world.

In 1975 Michael Norton set up the Directory of Social Change and in 1995 he set up the Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action, where he has initiated a raft of innovative projects worldwide.  He is currently working on launching Buzzbank, which is an internet platform to enable the crowdfunding of social ventures. 

Michael is the author of "365 Ways to Change the World", "The Everyday Activist" and numerous other books on fundraising.

Debbie Ovenden, MSc, MCIPD, Personal & Organisational Development Specialist.

Debbie has been working in training and organisational development for nearly 20 years, primarily in the public and voluntary sectors as line manager, trainer, facilitator and independent consultant.  Organisations worked with include NHS trusts, social services, environmental NGOs, and a number of voluntary organisations in arts and health.

Robert Barton Trust, 3 Silver street, Glastonbury.

Trainer/Cert Ed/secondary school teacher.

Trainer for plannning and running an enterprise project - Spring 2009.

Everyday small charitable organisations support individuals, families and communities and positively touch the lives of millions. On a daily basis thousands of these organisations struggle to keep their doors open and reach everyone that needs their help.

In April 2007, philanthropist Emma Harrison, made the decision to start a charity that would allow her donations, and those of others, to give small charities the strategic support they need to stay open and be there for everyone who needed their help.

Instead of criticising small charities, it was a vision of strengthening them. This vision has become The FSI’s mission.

Linda Pawlowski worked as a Public Fundraising Manager for the NSPCC's Full Stop Campaign and Head of Fundraising for St Barnabas House Hospice and Chestnut Tree House Children's Hospice.  She believes passionately in the FSI's values of empathy, respect, energy, excellence and persistence.

Philip Provenzano is Assistant Director at the Institute of Public Care and has 19 years of local government experience in a variety of departments, which included Environmental Health, Parks & Recreation, Social Services, and Chief Executives’ departments.  From 1986 to 2000 he held a number of positions in social services with responsibility for information management, finance, human resources, policy, service planning and performance functions.

From 2000-02 Philip was the Corporate Best Value and Performance Manager for an inner London authority with overall responsibility for the introduction and support of the authority’s Best Value Review and performance programmes.

Sally is Sustainable Income Information Officer for the
National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) and Funding Central Champion.

www.ncvo.org.uk

Mark has worked in a variety of voluntary sector organisations – with young people, offenders, and victims of crime.  He currently works part time in management and leadership development for the NHS.  He also has his own business, Diamond Facilitation with a focus on team development.

Mark is an experienced senior manager, with extensive experience and training in supervision and coaching.

http://www.diamondfacilitation.co.uk/

Liz Simmons has 18 years of experience in the VCS as a volunteer, project manager and chief executive.

Trevor is a Member of the Institute of IT Trainers (MIITT) with over twenty years experience in the IT industry.  Over the past ten years he has worked in the corporate market as a manager within the retail sector.  He will also be running various training programmes in IT including delivering Microsoft Office training.

Gill is an experienced trainer within the voluntary sector and is currently working with Plymouth Guild.

We are a Health & Safety Executive (HSE) approved training provider offering a wide variety of first aid courses to suit businesses and individuals alike.

http://www.jaleefirstaid.co.uk

Mel Usher’s idea for an improvement agency for local government
triggered the birth of the IDeA with him as the inaugural chief
executive. He specialises in chief executive appraisals, mentoring
members and senior staff, individual coaching and solving unique
knotty problems for local authorities. He has worked on cultural
change and top team development. He is trained in mediation and
transactional analysis.

usher.mel@googlemail.com

Lin is a highly experienced consultant, evaluator and facilitator with a background in policy and strategy development, change management, and capacity building.  She has over 20 years’ experience of working in and with the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector and the public sector in SW England and in Wales.

Lin has served in a voluntary capacity on a range of Trustee boards, including two years as Vice-Chair of Governors at a large FE College; she chaired the SW England Regional Committee for the Community Fund (now the Big Lottery Fund) for four years; and she is currently a Trustee of Quartet Community Foundation.

www.linwhitfield.co.uk

Merv has had over 14 years experience working with a youth organisation in the Voluntary Sector.   Initially becoming involved as a voluntary activity leader, Merv became a Trustee before becoming a senior manager.   He has been responsible for all aspects of managing a Youth and Community Centre.

Merv is currently in the Training environment.

Tom Winsborough is a CES licensed PQASSO mentor, experienced manager and tutor.