Are you a volunteer or work for a not-for-profit community group or are interested in starting or joining a community group, such as a local club or committee? Then this program will be suitable for you.
Join the Brimbank Community Governance Training Program to get all the tips and tricks required to make your community group or organisation a success.
Brimbank City Council provides a series of community governance training sessions plus ongoing access to a range of resources to assist with continued learning for community groups and small organisations in Brimbank. These training sessions can support your group with planning, operations, and decision-making.
Get involved:
- There is no cost to attend these workshops, however registration is required
- Participants can attend one or several sessions.
- Sessions will be run face to face or online via zoom based on public health guidelines.
- Training details will be emailed to registered participants before the sessions.
How to book:
Please select the session you wish to attend and follow the link to TryBooking and complete the online form. You can register for as many sessions as you like.
For more information email: CGPrograms@brimbank.vic.gov.au or phone: 9249 4000
Download a copy of the August-November 2023 training session calendar.
Community Governance Training Program 2023
How to run a community Group or Organization Effectively
- Roles and Responsibilities of Committee Members, Legal Duties.
This session will provide information roles and responsibilities of committee members and understanding the legal requirements. And discuss the need of Annual General Meetings.
Date: Monday, 7 August
Time: 10am to 1pm
Booking link: How to run a community group.
Social Connections and Mental Health
This session will cover the importance of community connections and mental health. How to manage the mental wellbeing of your community members. How social connections plays an important part in the wellbeing of the community.
Date: Wednesday, 16 August
Time: 5.30pm to 8.30pm
Booking link: Social Connections and Mental Health
Child Safety and Your Community Group
This session will cover the importance of Child Safety. What it means and how it can be observed by community groups.
Date: Tuesday, 29 August
Time: 10am to 1pm
Booking link: Child Safety and Your Community Group
Ideas to Projects – how to work your idea into a project.
Do you have an idea? Would you like to work on it? This session will encourage community members to work on the ideas they have for projects. Giving steps that can be taken to envision their projects and resources and tools available for planning and working on projects.
Date: Wednesday, 13 September
Time: 10am to 1pm
Booking link: Ideas to Projects – how to work your idea into a project
Grant Writing Workshop
General grants writing session. Providing relevant tools and resources on where to look for grants. Other means to sustain groups.
Date: Thursday, 21 September
Time: 5.30pm to 8.30pm
Booking link: Grant Writing Workshop
Project Evaluation and Financial Report (Acquittal Reports)
The session will help you find answers to questions including: how do you know if your project is achieving what it set out to do? how do you demonstrate whether you have used your resources effectively? how do you explain what you have achieved and how successful it is?
Date: Monday, 25 September
Time: 10am to 1pm
Booking link: Project Evaluation and Financial Report (Acquittal Reports)
Working in Partnership with other Organisations
– What you need to be aware of.
Community partnership is key to improving outcomes and making local services cost effective. In this session you will learn about what community partnerships mean, why it is important to form partnerships with local community groups and organisations, and key elements that create effective partnerships.
Date: Tuesday, 10 October
Time: 10am to 1pm
Booking link: Working in partnership with other organisations
Cyber / Online Safety and Legal Implications
Sharing information on cyber safety - what it means to be safe online and how to maintain this. The legal requirements and implications for community groups - social media - risks and benefits.
Date: Wednesday, 18 October
Time: 5.30pm to 8.30pm
Booking link: Cyber / online safety and legal implications
Restarting Your Volunteer Program and Groups
With community groups struggling to recruit and maintain volunteers and members, this session will provide information on how to retain volunteers and members as well as how to recruit new ones. What resources to use.
Date: Thursday, 26 October
Time: 10am to 1pm
Booking link: Restarting Your Volunteer Program and Groups
Grant writing workshop
General grants writing session. Providing relevant tools and resources on where to look for grants. Other means to sustain groups.
Date: Wednesday, 15 November
Time: 5.30pm to 8.30pm
Booking link: Grant writing workshop
Establishing / Starting a New Community Group or Organisation
This session will give community members the information required to start a community group. Where to register? What are the legal requirements? Benefits to register. Provide relevant resources.
Date: Thursday, 23 November
Time: 10am to 1pm
Booking link: Establishing / Starting a New Community Group or Organisation
Brimbank Community Grants Information Session and Applying for Grants online Via Smarty Grants.
Information sessions and grant writing workshops are held prior to each round of grants to help applicants understand requirements so their submissions are complete and ready for review. Information sessions cover all the aspects of the grant application process and there will be an opportunity to ask questions. Workshops are opportunities to get one-on-one support with grant applications.
There is no cost to attend any of these sessions however, registration is required.
Email to register your interest to attend session and get details:
cgprograms@brimbank.vic.gov.au