Community Learning Champions: Making the Big Society real

[Background] [Showcasing and discussing project outcomes and impact] [Provisional Agenda] [Event Information] [Application Conditions] [Application Form]

Background

Community Learning Champions are enthusiasts who want to share their excitement about learning with friends, neighbours and people right across their communities. This event will show how lives are changed when learning champions are given the resources to flex their creative talents, backed by effective support and training.

The Community Learning Champions Support Programme has been funded by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills from 2009 to March 2011. It has helped to raise the profile of the role of CLCs and to develop a range of support materials and resources for them and the projects which support them. These include: a new national CLC training programme, a register of CLCs, a nationally recognised badge, a website, toolkits and other resources for CLCs and project managers as well as regional and national discussion forums for CLCs. Films showing the work of CLCs will be launched at the event.

This dissemination conference will be of interest to:

• existing learning champions and people who run schemes which support them
• organisations that have an interest in working with or supporting the work of CLCs
• local authority elected members and officers
• policymakers in government and local government
• voluntary and community organisations and agencies in a wide range of fields including mental health, disability, worklessness, refugees, offenders and ex-offenders
• adult and community learning providers from the public, private and voluntary sectors.

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Showcasing and discussing project outcomes and impact

As well as hearing about the work of the national programme, participants will have the chance to learn more about the work of CLCs in workshops and the market stalls showcasing the work of a number of the 50 new CLC projects funded by the programme.

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Provisional Agenda

10:30 Registration and networking (tea/coffee available)

11:00 Welcome
Chair: Carol Taylor, Director of Operations, NIACE

11:05 The national support programme: key achievements including showing recently made films
Liz Cousins, Project Manager, Community Learning Champions Support Programme

11.30 Round table discussion or viewing the showcase projects

12.15 Lunch

1.15 Round table discussion or viewing the showcase projects

2.00 Keynote Address
John Hayes the Minister of State for Lifelong learning Further Education, Skills will speak about Community Learning Champions and the wider role of the volunteer in delivering the Government's Big Society ambitions

2.20 More films

2.35 CLCs:
What comes next

2.50 Q & A

3.00 Close of conference (tea/coffee available)

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Event Information

• Arrival and registration is at 10:30am for a 11:00am start. The event will end at 3:00pm
• Attendance is free
• Places will be allocated in order of receipt of completed application forms (one form per person)
• Places can be reserved online via: www niace.org.uk/events Alternatively completed and signed application forms can be faxed or posted to NIACE by the closing date. Reservations by telephone cannot be accepted
• Application forms are individually acknowledged by e-mail. Joining instructions, including map and directions, will be e-mailed out one week before the event
• Participants should be prepared to take their own notes as there will not be handouts for all sessions.
• If you have not received an e-mail confirming your attendance and joining instructions 4 working days before the event please contact:
  NIACE Events Team
  Tel: 0116 204 2833
  Fax: 0116 285 9670
  E-mail: events@niace.org.uk

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Application Conditions

Event: Wednesday 9 March 2011
Closing Date: Thursday 24 February 2011

• Substitutions are to be advised 5 working days prior to the event
• A 10 working days notice period is required for provision of electronic note-takers, sign language interpreters and transcription to Braille
• NIACE reserves the right to reject applicants who are not from the target audience list.

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Application Form

(For people not using the online reservation system above)