Events

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Safeguarding Essentials for Trustees- Training

Safeguarding Essentials for Trustees- Training

Safeguarding is everyones responsibility – including the trustees of an organisation. This workshop will strengthen your safeguarding practice and give you an understanding of the risks, roles, responsibilities and responses for trustees. The session is aimed at any UK-based trustees of international development or humanitarian organisations. It is suitable as a first introduction or as…

Event Starts
September 18th, 2025 at 13:00
Location
Online
Communications Working Group

Communications Working Group

Welcome to the second in our new working group for our members who work in communications roles at their organisation. This group focuses on building collaborative networks with peers facing similar challenges, and building resilience through working together and sharing knowledge. For this session, following feedback from attendees who joined is in the last working…

Event Starts
July 10th, 2025 at 13:00
Location
Online
SWIDN Mentorship Scheme- Final Feedback Sessions

SWIDN Mentorship Scheme- Final Feedback Sessions

Thank you to those who have taken part in this years Mentorship Scheme. We hope you have found it a rewarding learning experience! Please join us for the final feedback sessions to share your thoughts, questions and comments. If you are unable to attend on the day, a survey will also be sent out to…

Event Starts
July 3rd, 2025 at 11:30
Location
Zoom
SWIDN Summer Social 2025

SWIDN Summer Social 2025

Join us in person to celebrate the long days and (hopefully!) warm summer weather! We are pleased to hold this in person meet up for SWIDN members and prospective members and look forward to connecting with you all. This networking event will offer you the opportunity to meet the SWIDN team, chat to other like…

Event Starts
June 26th, 2025 at 17:30
Location
Bristol, Watershed
SWIDN at the DSA Conference 2025

SWIDN at the DSA Conference 2025

Towards a Meaningful Practice of Reparative Development: Bridging Crises and Reimagining Opportunities for Decolonisation Join us on 26th June at the University of Bath as we collaborate with colleagues to convene a round table discussion at the 2025 Development Studies Association conference; 9am – 10.30am / 11am – 12.30pm Through exploring decolonisation discourses and practice,…

Event Starts
June 26th, 2025 at 09:00
Location
the University of Bath
Improving Safeguarding Practice for INGO’s – Training

Improving Safeguarding Practice for INGO’s – Training

This online workshop will strengthen your safeguarding practice and give you an understanding of the risks, roles, responsibilities and responses for INGOs. It is aimed at any UK-based organisation working with international programmes in a development, humanitarian or academic setting. It is suitable as a first introduction and as a refresher course. This course is…

Event Starts
June 19th, 2025 at 10:00
Location
Online
Climate Action Working Group

Climate Action Working Group

Join us as we host our Climate Action Working Group, following World Environment Day on 5th June. Come along to this free to access, open to all discussion on how our sector and those of us working within it can take positive climate action and understand the climate crisis. We will be joined by knowledgeable…

Event Starts
June 18th, 2025 at 13:00
Location
Online
Climate Fresk

Climate Fresk

The science of the climate can be challenging, yet solving the crisis means we all need some level of knowledge about it. Boost your understanding with the Climate Fresk, an interactive, in-person 3 hour workshop with experienced facilitator, Sarah Poppy Jackson. Following last November’s brilliant Climate Fresk we are pleased to welcome Sarah back to…

Event Starts
June 11th, 2025 at 09:30
Location
Central Bristol - location TBC
Learn to create your own AI-led interview with Qualia (“SurveyMonkey, but for stories”)

Learn to create your own AI-led interview with Qualia (“SurveyMonkey, but for stories”)

Join the team at Causal Mapping at this free learning session where they will present their AI interviewer, Qualia. Qualia allows you to set up an interview quickly and share the link with between 25 and 100 respondents who can simply click the link to complete their interview. With conversational and exploratory agents, Qualia is far…

Event Starts
June 5th, 2025 at 13:00
Location
Online