Outreach Service - Information

Information/training Sessions for Community Groups - Introductory sessions raise awareness of the purpose and use of evaluation, supporting groups to meet funders' evaluation and monitoring demands as well as utilising evaluation to inform planning and project development. Sessions are tailored to needs and vary from facilitative discussions with staff, one-hour workshops and more detailed half-day or full-day programmes.

Examples: CENI has worked with a number of community and voluntary organisations and their funders. These include: National Council of YMCA, NITAP, New Opportunities Fund, Community Foundation NI - Weak Community Infrastructure, Community Development Learning Initiative, Strabane District Council - Community Services, Voluntary Arts Ireland, Women's Aid North West, Ashton Community Trust and many others. Full-day sessions can be offered at a reduced rate to community network agencies, but many shorter taster sessions are free.

If you are a network agency and would like to host a seminar, workshop or training day on the theme of evaluation for your network please contact: Gladys Swanton - Training Manager at CENI email gladys@ceni.org or telephone 028 9024 8005

Training - Through funding from the Big Lottery CENI will be offering further training and support to community and voluntary groups within priority areas. There will be more about this 3-year funded project, which will be kicking off in September 2005, at a later stage. Please contact CENI/training if you would like to find out more about training opportunities.