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 […]

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

Branch Treasurer/OLBA Training Summer 2025

25 June 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 – Sexual Harassment 2025

3 July 2025 9:00am–4:00pm

This course is part of our expanding set of courses on discrimination under the Equality Act 2010.  It goes well with our course on sex discrimination law which covers flexible working issues and menopause discrimination. This one-day course works through a film and discusses how to interview a member sensitively, how to prove that sexual […]

Cruse Bereavement in Children and Young People July 2025

3 July 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.

Autism Awareness for Members Working in Schools July 2025

8 July 2025 1:00pm–4:00pm

Online via Zoom

A virtual workshop recommended for anyone working with children or adults with autism.

How Learning Agreements Can Help You and UNISON July

15 July 2025 12:00pm–1:30pm

Aimed at UNISON activists, this online workshop will focus on how learning agreements can help engage with members and employers. It will introduce how a learning agreement can work and will explore how it can form part of an organising plan or project across any sector. By the end of the session participants will have: […]

Setting up a Branch Mentoring Scheme

23 July 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. […]