Cruse Bereavement in Children and Young People April 2025

30 April 2025 4:00pm–6:30pm

This online workshop is open to any UNISON member but it is particularly aimed at those who work with children and young people. The session provides a greater awareness of the impact of bereavement on children, young people and their families. It looks at the understanding of death at different stages of development and how […]

Setting up a Branch Mentoring Scheme

7 May 2025 10:00am–1:00pm

  This session will focus on how to set up a mentoring scheme in your branch. There will be a brief introduction to mentoring, along with some practice and then some action and planning around how to get started. This is a pilot so it might be subject to review and update throughout the year. […]

Advanced Employment Law – Sexual Orientation Discrimination 2025

13 May 2025 9:00am–1:00pm

This half-day course is part of our expanding set of courses on discrimination under the Equality Act 2010. It looks at the protection against discrimination in relation to sexual orientation. It covers how to interview a member sensitively; what constitutes legal harassment in this particular context including issues of ‘outing’ a worker and making false assumption; […]

Branch Treasurer/OLBA Training Spring 2025

15 May 2025 9:30am–1:00pm

An online half-day course delivered over Microsoft Teams is aimed primarily at recently appointed Branch Treasurers.

Advanced Employment Law – Disability Discrimination 2025

20 – 22 May 2025

It can be difficult to recognise when members have a realistic chance of proving disability discrimination and activists may lack confidence in this area. This course will give practical skills for discussing the matter with members and recognising possible cases. More generally, it will build skills of interviewing members and analysing evidence which can be […]

Climate Crisis and Green Skills May 2025

14 May 2025

This three module online course over three consecutive Wednesdays (14th, 21st and 28th May) is designed to support branch activists to plan a strategy to engage with environmental issues in the workplace and at a wider level. The sessions will be delivered virtually via MS Teams on the following dates: Wednesday 14th May, 9.30 – […]

Branch Treasurer/OLBA Training Spring 2025

28 May 2025 9:30am–1:00pm

An online half-day course delivered over Microsoft Teams is aimed primarily at recently appointed Branch Treasurers.

Union Learning Rep (ULR) Stage One Training – Summer 2025

21 May – 11 June 2025

Online via Microsoft Teams

Introductory training for new UNISON learning reps.

Cruse Bereavement in Children and Young People June 2025

11 June 2025 4:00pm–6:30pm

Online via Microsoft Teams

This online workshop is open to any UNISON member but it is particularly aimed at those who work with children and young people.

Getting Started with Mentoring – June 2025

18 June 2025 10:00am–1:00pm

An online course via Microsoft Teams for members who are interested in getting started with mentoring