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0113 218 2627
24 – 28 March 2025
UNISON Regional Centre, Quayside House, Leeds
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
24 March 2025 12:00pm–1:00pm
Virtual Training via MS Teams
In this session we will explore and discuss the concept of mindfulness, understand the benefits of practicing it regularly plus try out some short mindfulness exercises.
To register your interest for this course, please email Rose on r.bent@unison.co.uk
19 March 2025
UNISON Regional Centre, Quayside House, Leeds
To register your interest for this course please contact your branch. You will need approval from your branch to attend.
This one-day course introduces:
• the Equality Act and the definition of disability
• the duty to make reasonable adjustments
• tribunals and time limits
The law is only one option of a range of steps which activists may take to challenge
disability discrimination at work and improve the rights of disabled members. The
purpose of the course is not to explore awareness or policy issues as such, but to
provide an introduction to how the law works in this area.
Branch Charge: £30 per delegate
18 March 2025
UNISON Regional Centre, Quayside House, Leeds
To register your interest for this course please contact your branch. You will need approval from your branch to attend.
This one-day course explores race and sex discrimination law by examining case
studies. It introduces: concepts of direct discrimination, indirect discrimination and victimisation, discrimination time limits and the Public Sector Equality Duty.
The law is only one option of a range of steps activists may take to challenge race and sex discrimination in the workplace. The purpose of this course is not to explore awareness or policy issues as such, but to provide an introduction to how the law works in this area.
Branch Charge: £30 per delegate
10 – 14 March 2025
UNISON Regional Centre, Quayside House, Leeds
To register your interest for this course please contact your branch.
This face to face training looks at what the roles of the steward are and gives you the skills, knowledge and understanding to carry out these roles, for example recruiting members and involving them in the union and how to work with members to tackle problems at work.
This course will run on 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 March 2025.
This course is 30 hours learning in total.
Branch Charge: £150 per delegate
12 March 2025 10:00am–4:00pm
UNISON Regional Centre, Quayside House, Canal Wharf, Leeds, LS11 5PS
Aimed at Black members, the Empowered Leadership is designed for the individual to identify the links between empowerment and successful leadership. It will demonstrate the power of language and communication in affecting positive changes, within the workplace and the home environment. It will also explore what it means to take responsibility and how your thinking can create your reality.
To book your place you will need to contact your branch for approval to attend.
11 – 12 March 2025
UNISON Regional Centre, Quayside House, Leeds
To register your interest for this course please contact your branch. You will need approval from your branch to attend.
This 2 day course is designed to follow on from the 5 day Organising Stewards course or equivalent and is aimed at existing UNISON stewards. The course reinforces some approaches and procedures introduced in the 5 day course and explores in more detail:
• Process for identifying needs and exploring what is and isn’t a case
• Recap on sources of information especially the ACAS code
• Preparing for a grievance and a capability case
• Planning and building a case including interviewing witnesses
• Possible outcomes from cases.
Branch Charge: £60 per delegate
7 March 2025 10:00am–11:30am
Virtual Training via MS Teams
This session with the RNIB will improve your understanding of different types of visual impairment and how they impact people’s lives. Using visual aids, myth busting, videos and more, it will give you key takeaways around facts and figures as well as practical skills, such as how to guide a blind person.
To register your interest for this course, please email Rose on r.bent@unison.co.uk
3 – 7 March 2025
Brunswick House, Strand Close, Beverley Road, Hull, HU2 9DB
To register your interest for this course please contact your branch. You will need approval from your branch to attend.
Local Learning Hubs – This is a new initiative where we are working to bring regional training opportunities closer to you.
This face to face course looks at what the roles of the steward are and gives you the skills, knowledge and understanding to carry out these roles, for example recruiting members and involving them in the union and how to work with members to tackle problems at work.
This course will run on 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 March 2025.
This course is 30 hours learning in total.
Branch Charge: £150 per delegate
5 March 2025 1:00pm–2:30pm
Virtual Training via MS Teams
This session will explore the causes and consequences of prejudice and discrimination plus understand the impact of unconscious bias and privilege on our thought processes.
To register your interest for this virtual workshop please add your details to the form.
