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Survey to help voluntary sector

A survey has been launched to assess the ICT training needs of people working in the Third Sector in the North East. The North East Third Sector ICT Survey is being conducted by voluntaryskills.com, on behalf of VONNE (Voluntary Organisations Network North East). Voluntaryskills.com hope that the survey will identify current ICT training needs and barriers to learning in the sector, which will help develop future training and support programmes in the region.

Paul Lancaster, voluntaryskills.com Project Manager, said: “Recent research has suggested that ICT training is a problem area in the voluntary and community sector and that many people don’t access it even when courses are offered free of charge. We’d like to use the North East Third Sector ICT Survey to find out if this is really true, and if so how we can improve future training and support programmes in the region, in response to what people really want rather than what trainers think they need.”

Anyone working in the Third Sector who would like to share their views on ICT skills and training is invited to do so by the 3 March 2008 by completing the survey online at www.voluntaryskills.com/ictsurvey.

Surveys can also be sent out through the post or completed over the telephone by calling a member of the voluntaryskills.com team on 0191 261 6009.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .