Joanne Jones - Training Officer, eVOLution

As Training Officer for eVOLution (formerly Darlington CVS), Joanne regularly provides advice on training and locates suitable local courses from a wide range of voluntary sector organisations in the Darlington area.

Researching and identifying suitable courses for a diverse range of training requests used to be a very time consuming task for Joanne, until she discovered the voluntaryskills.com website.

"Using conventional search engines to identify training courses often brings up information that is not what you're looking for, which often makes it a very frustrating, fruitless, waste of time."

"voluntaryskills.com makes identifying suitable local courses so much easier and quicker, which makes it an invaluable resource for me."

Joanne says that by regularly using the voluntaryskills.com website and its monthly e-bulletins, she has been able to link clients and staff to suitable local training to meet a range of personal and professional development needs. Courses that she's sourced and recommended range from introductory to advanced level, including training in first aid, childcare, drug awareness, health and safety, project management and management of volunteers.

"voluntaryskills.com is the best single place to find training for the voluntary sector in the region. Its easy to use search facilities make identifying the most suitable course a quick and successful experience."

As well as searching for courses, Joanne says that it's also the ideal place to advertise eVOLution's own training programmes, and that it has enabled her to identify suitable training providers to deliver courses for her.

"Every time I have a training enquiry, I know that voluntaryskills.com will have the answer. It's top of my favourite websites list as it's the best training website of the voluntary sector that I've seen".

To find out more about eVOLution visit: http://www.evolutiondarlington.com/