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Join us for a 2-day Mental Health First Aid (MHFAider®) course at The Ashcombe School in Dorking! Learn how to provide crucial support during a mental health crisis while gaining the skills to spot early signs of mental health issues. This in-person course creates a safe, supportive environment, with self-care prioritised throughout. Subsidised price: £10. Let's make mental health a normal part of everyday life!

Join us for a 2-day Youth Mental Health First Aid (MHFAider®) course at The Ashcombe School in Dorking! Learn how to provide crucial support during a mental health crisis while gaining the skills to spot early signs of mental health issues. This in-person course creates a safe, supportive environment, with self-care prioritised throughout. Subsidised price: £20. Let's make mental health a normal part of everyday life!

Add to your weekly recipe options by learning how to cook with Cous Cous, Quinoa and other grains such as buckwheat, freekah and millet. Simple quick recipes. The meals are based on a vegetarian diet which can be adapted at home and do contain allergens (soy, sesame). Please advise if you have a vegan diet or specific allergen. At the end of the cooking session we will eat together as a group This event includes full list of recipes for all meals and a free meal kit to cook at home. £10 per ticket

What did it mean to be a Russian in the time of the Tsars and Soviets? This one-day event examines the building blocks of Russian identity, asking how people expressed themselves through culture, gender, and sexuality. These topics are some of the ‘intangibles’ of Russian and Soviet history. Hard to conceptualise and tricky to teach, they are nevertheless important components of major A-level and GCSE history specifications. Join the Historical Association and world-leading academics for talks to reboot your knowledge of Orthodox Christianity, gender and sexuality, and visual art. Trial new pedagogies for teaching Russian and Soviet culture and religion. Explore primary sources to immerse your students in the world of Russian and Soviet sex, symbols, demons, and death.

Netgear switches training course description A hands on course covering the product specifics of Netgear switches. Installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting are all covered in a practical oriented way. What will you learn Install Netgear switches. Use the command line interface and the web based interface to manage Netgear switches. Configure and troubleshoot Netgear switches. Perform software upgrades. Netgear switches training course details Who will benefit: Anyone working with Netgear switches. Particularly aimed at engineers and technicians supporting Netgear switches. Prerequisites: None. Duration 2 days Netgear switches training course content Introduction How Ethernet works with hubs, How Ethernet works with switches. Installing Netgear switches. Hands on Building a network with a hub, building a network with a Netgear switch. Basic troubleshooting The Netgear switch range, LEDs, cabling issues, factory resets, default settings. Hands on Building a network with multiple Netgear switches. Configuration methods Managed vs. unmanaged switches, Console port access, telnet, web based access, SNMP, saving configurations, NVRAM, switch stacks, stacking ports. Hands on Accessing the switch using the console, IP address configuration, telnet. Console interface Password protection, the menus, menu options. Hands on Setting a password, displaying the switch configuration. Web based interface Getting started, basic format. Hands on Configuring the switch using the web interface. Port configuration Common port configuration tasks, port trunking. Hands on Configuring ports. STP configuration What is STP? Configuring STP. Hands on Enabling and disabling STP, configuring STP VLAN configuration What are VLANS? 802.1Q, tagged/untagged, creating VLANS, applying VLANS. Hands on Setting up VLANS, setting up 802.1Q, Inter VLAN traffic. Housekeeping TFTP, upgrades Hands on Boot from net. SNMP SNMP configuration, NMS's. Hands on Using SNMP to manage a Netgear switch, putting it all together: troubleshooting.

This qualification delivers a solid foundation in finance administration and core accounting skills, including double-entry bookkeeping, basic costing and an understanding of purchase, sales and general ledgers. Course Overview This qualification delivers a solid foundation in finance administration and core accounting skills, including double-entry bookkeeping, basic costing and an understanding of purchase, sales and general ledgers. Students will also learn about accountancy related business and personal skills and be introduced to the four key themes embedded in the qualification: ethics, technology, communications and sustainability. The jobs it can lead to: • Account administrator • Accounts assistant • Accounts payable clerk • Purchase/sales ledger clerk • Trainee accounting technician • Trainee finance assistant Entry requirements: Students can start with any qualification depending on existing skills and experience. For the best chance of success, we recommend that students begin their studies with a good standard of English and maths. Course Content: Introduction to Bookkeeping: This unit provides students with an understanding of manual and digital bookkeeping systems, including the associated documents and processes. Students will learn the basic principles that underpin double-entry bookkeeping systems. Learning outcomes: • Understand how to set up bookkeeping systems. • Process customer transactions. • Process supplier transactions. • Process receipts and payments. • Process transactions into the ledger accounts. Principles of Bookkeeping Controls: This unit builds on the knowledge and skills acquired from studying Introduction to Bookkeeping and explores control accounts, journals and reconciliations. Students will develop the ability to prepare the value added tax (VAT) control accounts as well as the receivables and payables ledger accounts. They’ll use the journal to record a variety of transactions, including the correction errors. Students will be able to redraft the initial trial balance, following adjustments. Learning outcomes: • Use control accounts. • Reconcile a bank statement with the cash book. • Use the journal. • Produce trial balances. Principles of Costing: This unit gives students an introduction to the principles of basic costing and builds a solid foundation in the knowledge and skills required for more complex costing and management accounting tasks. Students will learn the importance of the costing system as a source of information that allows management to plan, make decisions and control costs. Learning outcomes: • Understand the cost recording system within an organisation. • Use cost recording techniques. • Provide information on actual and budgeted cost and income. • Use tools and techniques to support cost calculations. The Business Environment: This unit provides knowledge and understanding of key business concepts and their practical application in the external and internal environment in which students will work. Students will gain an understanding of the legal system and principles of contract law and an appreciation of the legal implications of setting up a business and the consequences this may have. This unit will also give an understanding of how organisations are structured and where the finance function fits. Learning outcomes: • Understand the principles of contract law. • Understand the external business environment. • Understand the key principles of corporate social responsibility (CSR), ethics and sustainability. • Understand the impact of setting up different types of business entity. • Understand the finance function within an organisation. • Produce work in appropriate formats and communicate effectively. • Understand the importance of information to business operations. DURATION 170-190 Hours WHATS INCLUDED Course Material Case Study Experienced Lecturer Refreshments Certificate

This qualification will develop complex skills and knowledge necessary to work in a bookkeeping role or to progress to higher level accountancy roles or study.  Course Overview This qualification will develop complex skills and knowledge necessary to work in a bookkeeping role or to progress to higher level accountancy roles or study. Students completing this qualification will become competent in financial processes including accounting principles and concepts, advanced bookkeeping and preparing financial statements. They will also be introduced to business issues regarding payroll and value added tax (VAT). Learn enhanced skills and expertise in bookkeeping activities, critical for the smooth and efficient running of all finance departments. The jobs it can lead to: • Professional bookkeeper • Senior bookkeeper • Accounts manager • Ledger manager Entry requirements Students can start with any qualification depending on existing skills and experience. For the best chance of success, we recommend that students begin their studies with a good standard of English and maths. Course Content: Financial Accounting: Preparing Financial Statements: This unit provides students with the skills required to produce statements of profit or loss and statements for financial position for sole traders and partnerships, using a trial balance. Students will gain the double-entry bookkeeping skills needed to record financial transactions into an organisation’s accounts using a manual bookkeeping system. Learning outcomes: • Understand the accounting principles underlaying final accounts preparation. • Understand the principles of advanced double-entry bookkeeping. • Implement procedures for the acquisition and disposal of non-current assets. • Prepare and record depreciation calculations. • Record period end adjustments. • Produce and extend the trial balance. • Produce financial statements for sole traders and partnerships. • Interpret financial statements using profitability ratios. • Prepare accounting records from incomplete information Tax Processes for Businesses: This unit explores tax processes that influence the daily operations of businesses and is designed to develop students’ skills in understanding, preparing and submitting Value Added Tax (VAT) returns to HM Revenue & Customs. The unit provides students with the knowledge and skills needed to keep businesses, employers and clients compliant with laws and practices that apply to VAT and payroll. Learning outcomes: • Understand legislation requirements relating to VAT. • Calculate VAT. • Review and verify VAT returns. • Understand principals of payroll. • Report information within the organisation.

Concise Cisco switches course description A hands on course covering the product specifics of Cisco switches. Installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting are all covered in a practical oriented way. VLANs often take up a large part of the course. The course covers all interfaces but concentrates on using the command line interface. Delegates are, however, free to use the web based interface in all exercises. What will you learn Install Cisco switches. Use the command line interface and the web based interface to manage Cisco switches. Configure and troubleshoot Cisco switches. Perform software upgrades and maintain configurations using TFTP. Concise Cisco switches course details Who will benefit: Anyone working with Cisco switches. Particularly aimed at engineers and technicians supporting Cisco switches. Prerequisites: None. Duration 2 days Concise Cisco switches course content Ethernet review Single segment Ethernet, CSMA/CD, Broadcast domains, collision domains. Hubs, Extending the LAN. Hands on Hub based Ethernet. Cisco switches What are switches, frame forwarding and filtering, the forwarding database. Hands on Switched based Ethernet. Configuring Cisco switches Accessing the switch, installing the switch, The CLI, connecting PCs using the switch. Hands on Configuring Cisco switches. The command line interface User and privilege modes, online help, show, basic troubleshooting. The configuration editor, Global, major and sub commands, enable, secret and other passwords. Hands on Simple troubleshooting using the CLI. Port configuration Speed, duplex, security, trunking. Hands on Port trunking. Spanning Tree Protocol Spanning Tree, Loops, effect, root bridges, bridge port states, STP reconfiguration. RSTP and variants. Hands on STP. VLANS What are VLANs, configuring VLANs, access ports and trunks, 802.1Q, inter VLAN routing. Hands on Access ports, trunks, layer 3 switching. Housekeeping Configuration management, software management, password recovery. Hands on TFTP. Managing interconnection devices SNMP, RMON, RMON II. Troubleshooting LEDs, CDP, logging, Layer 1, layer 2, layer 3. Hands on Fixing things.

Training and networking day for those working in community, events & corporate fundraising roles in UK hospices: FREE for HIGN members £25 fee for non-members (or commitment for your hospice to take organisational membership - you MUST have your line manager's approval before booking if you are a non-member) 10am: Arrival & refreshments 4pm: Close Lunch will be provided at no extra charge, please specify if you have any dietary requirements when booking The day will NOT be online or recorded so that people feel more comfortable openly sharing.