Working for more and
different adult learners
different adult learners
Learning Champions
Unleashing the creative energy of your community
| Date: | 15 Dec 2011 |
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| Venue: | Leicester: NIACE Renaissance House, 20 Princess Road West, Leicester LE1 6TP |
| Ref: | BIS308E1/1211 |
| Fee: | £50 NIACE Members |
| Contact: | NIACE Events Team (events@niace.org.uk) Tel: 0116 204 2833 |
| Apply: | Apply Online is now closed for this event |
[Background] [Aims] [Outcomes] [Audience] [Programme] [Event Information] [Application Conditions]
Background
The Community Learning Champions approach has been proved to work. In the past two years over 2,000 champions have reached over 100,000 people from some of the most disadvantaged areas in the country. Community Learning Champions (CLCs) - aka learning advocates - are a way of tapping into the resources of local people, enabling them to design solutions to the problems they define. With the right training and support, CLCs have shown a remarkable capacity for devising new solutions to seemingly intractable social problems. Intersecting with a wide range of other peer support initiatives, including union learning reps, digital champions, health champions and mental health advocates, CLCs put learning at the heart of volunteering, community empowerment and the localism agenda.
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Aims
This seminar is for managers of adult learning provision; small, medium and large workplaces; public health; and community and voluntary organisations who want to know how learning champions can contribute to achieving their organisational aims and to making more effective use of their resources.
It will look at the way the CLC approach is being developed in three settings:
- a local authority adult learning service
- a healthy living network
- the workplace.
The aim is to help current and aspiring organisers of CLC projects think through how they can address key issues in order to develop a thriving and effective learning champions programme. Areas that will be covered include:
- targeting groups or communities;
- recruitment, support and training;
- funding and sustainability;
- building links with other local champions' initiatives
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Outcomes
At the end of the seminar participants will :
- Understand the key features of the CLC approach and role of the national support programme
- Understand how the CLC framework can be adapted to local contexts
- Be aware of how to set up and develop a CLC scheme
- Understand how to develop local networking and collaboration to build synergies with other peer and volunteer initiatives.
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Audience
- Senior staff in local authority adult and community learning services
- Managers of learning partnerships
- Community engagement staff in schools, colleges and children's centres
- Senior managers in voluntary sector organisations
- Managers of healthy living networks
- Managers of small, medium and large workplaces
- Organisers of union learning schemes
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Programme
A late start so those travelling from London and the South can take advantage of the 9.15am off-peak rail fare and arrive in Leicester at 10.30am
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10:15 |
Arrival, registration and networking (tea/coffee available) |
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10:45 |
Welcome, introduction and aims of the day from the Chair |
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10:50 |
The story so far: |
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11.05 |
Video followed by presentations from organisations delivering Community Learning Champions projects touching on: Aims of their project |
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11:10 |
CLCs and local authorities |
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11:35 |
Learning champions in a healthy living network Jon Hindley, Healthy Living Network, Leeds |
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11:50 |
Learning champions in the workplace including unionised and non-unionised workplaces |
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12:10 |
Round table discussion (including coffee) |
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12:35 |
Questions and discussion with the contributors |
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12:50 |
Next Steps |
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13:00 |
Close of seminar - lunch and networking |
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13:30 |
Depart |
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Event Information
- Arrival and registration is at 10:15am for a 10:45am start. The seminar will end at 1.30pm
- Event fee per person: £50 for NIACE members; £99 for non-members (includes sandwich lunch, tea/coffee)
- NB: NIACE does not charge VAT on conference or course fees
- Only online application forms with the payments section completed will be processed
- NB: If you wish us to invoice your employer we require a copy of the Purchase Order before the form is processed
- Places will be allocated in order of receipt of completed online application forms (one online application form per person)
- Video cameras may be in use at this event. If you do not wish to be photographed or appear on the video outputs please indicate this on the application form and make yourself known at registration
- 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: events@niace.org.uk
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Application Conditions
- Event: Thursday 15 December 2011
- Closing Date: Thursday 8 December 2011
- Cancellations are non-refundable
- The full fee is payable prior to the event
- Substitutions are to be advised 5 working days prior to the event
- A 15 working days notice period is required for provision of electronic note-takers, sign language interpreters and transcription to Braille
- Places are to be reserved online - scroll up and click on Apply Now
- 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
- NIACE reserves the right to reject applicants who are not from the target audience list.
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