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The cooperation partners of the Volunteer Academy present the training programme for volunteers for the first half of 2025.

22. January 2025Honorary office

Free training courses, events, workshops and seminars for volunteers

Bocholt Volunteer Academy presents programme for the first half of the year // Including rhetoric training to counter slogans at regulars' tables

Free training courses, events, workshops and seminars for volunteers and full-time staff can now be booked again at the Bocholt Volunteer Academy.

Under the title "Volunteer Academy Bocholt" - developed from the city-wide network "engagiertestadt Bocholt" - a demand-orientated programme is created every six months. The programme booklet for the first half of 2025 has now been published and can also be accessed online at https://wir-fuer-bocholt.de/freiwilligenakademie.

10 different courses

There are ten different programmes in total: Qualification for neighbourhood help, seminars on board work (bookkeeping, cash audit), a reading with Firas Alshater followed by a panel discussion, a basic training course for reading mentors and a workshop on rhetoric against regulars' slogans, as well as a training course on "dementia" and on promoting democratic attitudes and behaviour. The prevention course on "abuse of power and sexualised violence" is an important basis for many voluntary positions and is therefore offered every six months. A workshop on "Artificial intelligence in associations" has already taken place.

Strong cooperation community

Since 2017, the cooperation between the adult education centre, family education centre, Verein Leben im Alter, Caritasverband für das Dekanat Bocholt, jusina e.V., Integrationsbüro der Stadt Bocholt and Freiwilligen-Agentur Bocholt has been offering a joint educational programme for associations and volunteers. The offer is also open to full-time employees of organisations who are involved in the coordination of volunteers.

All programmes are free of charge and can be booked with the respective provider. The programme booklets are available in the offices of all cooperation partners.

Contact

The Volunteer Academy is part of the programmes coordinated centrally by the Bocholt Volunteer Agency. The aim is to strengthen voluntary work in Bocholt. The volunteer agency in the shop on Langenbergstraße 18 can be contacted on 02871 / 34 25 763 or by e-mail at ehrenamt(at)bocholt(dot)de. There is a lot of interesting information on the Internet at www.wir-fuer-bocholt.de.