Events

To register your interest for this course please contact your branch.

This course is essential for new Health and Safety Representatives, or for those Health and Safety Representatives who have more experience but who haven’t yet had the chance to go on this course.

This course will take place on 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 March 2025.

Branch Charge: £150 per delegate

To register your interest for this course please contact your branch. You will need approval from your branch to attend.

This course is designed as a general introduction to the law on employment rights and contracts of employment and is aimed at stewards with little experience of employment law and no previous training in employment law beyond what is covered in the general stewards’ induction course: The Organising Steward.

Branch Charge: £50 per delegate

To register your interest for this course please contact your branch. You will need approval from your branch to attend.

This course covers the strategic role of organising Health and Safety Reps and
members around health and safety issues. It is not suitable for Health and Safety
Representatives who have not had any training or have only recently been trained.
The course will look at the role of safety reps and the Branch, investigating hazards
and members’ complaints, agreements with the employer, and future planning.

Cost to Branches: £100 non-residential (2 days) £250 residential (2 days with 1 night accommodation on Saturday night).

To register your interest for this course please contact your branch. You will need approval from your branch to attend.

This course will examine in detail the role and function of Branch International Officers and how we can make ‘international solidarity’ a reality, not just a slogan. The course will look at UNISON’s international priorities, the effect of globalisation on developing countries, and how branch-based activities can make a difference.

Cost to Branches: £100 non-residential (2 days) £250 residential (2 days with 1 night accommodation on Saturday night).

To register your interest for this course please contact your branch. You will need approval from your branch to attend. 

Good education within the Branch is vital for making local organisation work. This course is for Branch Education Officers and will look at how to identify your Branch
education needs, how to budget for education, and how to encourage and support representatives in training.

This course will provide Lifelong Learning Coordinators with the knowledge and skills to effectively establish UNISON’s learning and skills agenda in their workplace and
successfully support the work of others to achieve branch aims around learning and skills.

Cost to Branches: £100 non-residential (2 days) £250 residential (2 days with 1 night accommodation on Saturday night).

To register your interest for this course please contact your branch. You will need approval from your branch to attend. 

This course helps new Labour Link Officers to understand their role within the branch,
equip them with campaigning techniques, understand why politics are important in
the branch and develop skills to encourage interest in political activity in the branch. In
order to be able to undertake this role, members would need to pay into the Labour Link
Campaign Fund and be individual members of the Labour Party.

Cost to Branches: £100 non-residential (2 days) £250 residential (2 days with 1 night accommodation on Saturday night).

To register your interest for this course please contact your branch. You will need approval from your branch to attend.  If you are unsure how to contact your branch, please use our branch finder tool

This course is mainly for those branch activists who are already or wish to become
involved in branch publicity, producing leaflets, newsletters and branch magazines.
The course will be practical-based drawing on the skills of UNISON’s publicity
department. It will cover writing copy, headlines and captions plus explore how to
use layout to best effect to produce finished newsletters.

Cost to Branches: £100 non-residential (2 days) £250 residential (2 days with 1 night accommodation on Saturday night).

To register your interest for this course please contact your branch. You will need approval from your branch to attend. 

Open to all Branch Equalities Officers and Branch Officers for Self Organised Groups.
This course will help you to understand how discrimination affects members, what the union can do to tackle discrimination at work and how under-represented members
can be encouraged to become involved in union activity.

Cost to Branches: £100 non-residential (2 days) £250 residential (2 days with 1 night accommodation on Saturday night).

To register your interest for this course please contact your branch. You will need approval from your branch to attend. 

This course is designed to give branch activists the opportunity to get initial training
as an Environmental Officer/Green Rep. It should enable you to understand the role
that UNISON can play in tackling the challenges around climate crisis and to plan a
strategy for your branch to engage around environmental issues on a workplace and
wider level.

Cost to Branches: £100 non-residential (2 days) £250 residential (2 days with 1 night accommodation on Saturday night).

To register your interest for this course please contact your branch. You will need approval from your branch to attend.

The course is aimed at anyone who has to chair a formal trade union meeting, whether it be a Branch meeting, Branch Committee, Working Group or Self Organised Group.
Find out how to practice the skills needed to run a meeting that is fair to all participants.
This is suitable for all activists but especially Branch Chairs.

Cost to Branches: £100 non-residential (2 days) £250 residential (2 days with 1 night accommodation on Saturday night).