Youth Community Volunteer Training Portal
Welcome to our free training portal, open to anyone wanting to develop their skills and knowledge.
Whether you're interested in becoming a Youth Community Volunteer or simply want to learn something new, explore our training videos covering:
Leadership & Volunteering
Benefits of Co-production
Children's Rights
Welcoming and Supporting Children at Events
How to Chair a Meeting
Leadership Skills (4 parts)
Mental Health & Wellbeing
How to Manage a Panic Attack
Strategies to Help Emotionally Regulate
Health Tips Around Anxiety
Identifying and Managing Addictions
Equality & Inclusion
Understanding Tourette Syndrome and Neurodivergence
Unconscious Bias
Becoming an Active Bystander
LGBTQ+ Awareness
Become a Youth Community Volunteer
Put your learning into practice, meet new people, help shape projects and gain valuable experience for your CV.
Sign Up as a Youth Community Volunteer
Help Shape Our Training
Our Champions 4 Change helped develop this portal. As part of our Young Person's Project Funded by The National Lottery Community Fund.
Have an idea for a new training video or topic? We'd love to hear from you!
You will also get a certificate sent to you to recognise that you have completed the training.
Benefits of Coproduction
Find out all about coproduction, written and starring young people.
Children’s Rights
Roy Shabhankur Ghoshal, Youth Action Academy Member, runs through children’s rights and explores 5 of them, chosen by Champions 4 Change. Including how we include them in Champions 4 Change and SPW.
Welcoming and Supporting Children at Events
Talia Burns, Volunteer Manager, walks you through how to welcome young people to an event, plus offering support. Including prompts, insights, questions and scenarios.
How to Manage a Panic Attack
Amy Holland, SPW CEO and trainee Human Givens Therapist, talks to you about how to manage a panic attack, including breathing techniques and the AWARE approach.
Strategies to Help Emotionally Regulate
Rowan from Bridging the Gap guides us through some journaling techniques that can help us feel more settled and understanding of what we need in each moment.
Positive Mental Health Tips Around Anxiety
In this video, Si Martin from Heads Above The Waves, gives some simple and effective ways of managing anxiety, and keeping your head above the waves. Helping you find ways to make it through bad days.
How to Chair a Meeting
In this video Anna and Maria talk about how to chair a meeting.
Understanding A bit more about Tourette Syndrome and being Neurodivergent
Sean Yhnell (He/Him) - (Founder of Beat Technique) is a neurodivergent multidisciplinary creative artist. Sean has an inspiring story about developing Tourette's Syndrome and how he used beatboxing and music as a way of initially managing his symptoms and ADHD. This creative outlet turned into an impressive career path as Sean continues to use his talents for good!
Unconscious Bias
Russel Thomas (He/Him, Volunteer Manager) helps us to understand what having Unconscious Bias means, where it comes from, how (if not identified and acted upon) it can impact others and most importantly - how to take intentional steps to ensure our treatment to everyone is equal and inclusive.
Becoming an Active Bystander
Russel Thomas (He/Him, Volunteer Manager) speaks about the importance of learning to become an active bystander. He covers: What is Non-inclusive behaviour?, Reasons why we can be passive bystanders and key steps for becoming an active bystander.
Identifying and Managing Addictions
Sharon Lewis Harvey-Lewis (She/Her) and Roy Goshal (He/Him) open up about their own experiences with addiction. They cover some of the signs and symptoms of addictions, insight into what it can feel like and what to do if you think you or someone you know might be experiencing an addiction.
LGBTQ+ Awareness
Archie Woodrow (They / Them) and Al (He/She/They) are a part of an LGBTQ+ youth group and will be outlining key LGBTQ+ terminology, important insights into the experience, emotions and fears a lgbtq+ young person may have and how to be supportive, inclusive and respectful.
Leadership
1 of 4
In these 4 series of leadership videos, hosted by Hanna Andersen. Which was coproduced with young people.
In this video Hanna highlights: Why Leadership is important and goes into detail about each one.
Leadership
2 of 4
In this video Hanna highlights: What leaders look like and how can we spot them.
Leadership
3 of 4
In this video Hanna highlights: Finding opportunities to lead.
Leadership
4 of 4
In this video Hanna highlights: Handling difficult conversations.
Resources
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How to Chair a Meeting