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In these unprecedented times, businesses are needing to find new ways of working across finance, management, marketing and personnel. Below, we have links to useful webinars and online training developed by ourselves and other organisations that we hope you will find useful in guiding your business through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Visit County Durham Webinars
Online Booking: Now is the time
Presentation explaining why businesses should be looking at using an online booking system.
Stargazing and Durham’s Dark Skies
How to make the most of the Dark Sky market.
Walking and Cycling
How to make the most of the Walking and Cycling markets.
Key Consumer Trends for 2021
Visit County Durham engaged consumer insights agency Foresight Factory to deliver a webinar on key emerging consumer trends for 2021 that businesses should look to take advantage of this year.
General Online Training
VisitEngland/VisitBritain
A collection of recorded webinars – sign-up required.
New College Durham
Looking to brush up your IT skills, or wanting to upskill IT skills in your workforce? Register now to join New College Durham’s free Durham Digital training programme.
Events will run every two weeks starting from Wednesday 6 January.
There are a range of free courses available:
Other training options include a range of Microsoft Office Specialist and Adobe qualifications including:
There are no financial costs, all training, registration and certification costs are supported by the European Social Fund.
You must pre-register to attend. Events take place fortnightly on Wednesdays between 4-6pm – registration closes at 9am the Monday before each event.
To arrange a meeting to discuss the requirements of your workforce and receive further details, contact:
Veronica Spowart
Veronica.spowart@newdur.ac.uk
0191 375 4987
bethebusiness
A not-for-profit organisation set up by government to support SMEs. All the information and resources are completely free.
Enterprise Nation
Attend events on topics from building your brand to growing your social following. They happen every day, across the UK and online.
Skills Toolkit Webinars (various contributors)
Introductory Level
Cyber Security
Digital Workplace
BT Skills for Tomorrow
Skills Toolkit Webinars (various contributors)
Introductory Level
Intermediate Level
Financial Support
HMRC Webinars
Watch videos and register for free webinars to learn more about the support available to help you deal with the economic impacts of coronavirus, including:
You can sign up for email alerts about live and recorded webinars, YouTube videos and online guidance.
If you register for a webinar, you:
Use HMRC’s digital assistant to find more information about the coronavirus support schemes.
Online Advertising & Selling
Visit County Durham
TXGB
Tourism Exchange Great Britain (TXGB) is a business to business digital platform, connecting tourism suppliers in England to distributors around the world. In partnership with VisitEngland, TXGB is a ‘one stop’ exchange for suppliers to manage availability, pricing and bookings and for distributors to tap into a huge range of England tourism product.
The videos below take you step by step through connecting to TXGB:
Digital Drive County Durham
Masterclasses, workshops and conferences to drive your business forward digitally.
VisitEngland/VisitBritain
A collection of recorded webinars from the Business Recovery series (sign-up required), including:
Skills Toolkit Webinars (various contributors)
Intermediate Level - How to Create Great Online Content
Advanced Level - Fundamentals of Digital Marketing
Social Media
Visit County Durham
Social media is a great way to connect your business with new customers and build relationships with your existing customers.
Take a look at our Social Media help page for some really helpful tips to reinforce your brand and give your business a voice.
BT Skills for Tomorrow
Skills Toolkit Webinars (various contributors)
Intermediate Level
Accessibility
VisitEngland/VisitBritain
VisitEngland
Training slides to help provide your staff with basic accessibility training.
Purple
Providing free e-tutorials on delivering a good experience for disabled customers.
Tourism for All
Online modular training platform for Tourism for All partners.
Health & Safety
County Durham Training Hub
County Durham SME & VCS Business Training Hub is committed to building the mental health, wellbeing and community resilience of all small and medium sized businesses and Voluntary Community Sector organisations across County Durham. This Training is FREE for anyone working for a Small or Medium sized organisation (SME) and voluntary and community sector (VCS) organisation with fewer than 250 employees based in County Durham.
Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH)
Managing mental wellbeing when returning to work webinar.
Research
VisitEngland
Sustainability
VisitEngland/VisitBritain