Archive - Better Together Building Social Capital through Co-operative Community Based Learning
Date(s)
This conference was held on the following date(s)19/03/2009
Supplemental Material:
Booking your place
Visit www.lsen.org.uk to book on-line or send a completed booking form to
LSEN Conference Booking
c/o Commitment in Communities
Wesley Centre
Royce Road
Manchester
M15 5BP
Background to the Conference
Investing in the social capital of communities enables them to work co-operatively to solve problems, to act for the future and to participate in decision making. The greater the social capital available, the greater the resources available to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes in a community.Aim of the Conference
The conference is for Manchester organisations that deliver community engagement, community development, community support, and community or adult learning opportunities across a range of sectors – education, health, culture, leisure, housing, ward co-ordination, regeneration, trade unions, faith groups and third sector infrastructure and delivery organisations.
During the day participants will
- Develop a clear understanding of the range of community learning activities available across the City
- Collectively identify the key principles and benefits of this type of learning and explore a range of ways in which the impact of this type of learning can be measured
- Ratify a Charter for Community Learning for the City
- Begin a process of linking this provision together to create community learning pathways which can be assessed much more easily y community members
- Spend the time working together as District Groups and put together pilot projects which will be taken out into the community, tested and evaluated.
- Confirmation and validation of a Charter for Community Learning for the City
- Greater co-operation across all sectors involved in the deliver of community based learning at a local level
- Development of practical pilot projects which can actively build the social capital of our communities
Conference Programme
9.30 Registration
10.00 Welcome
10.10 Keynote address – Alan Tuckett, Director of NIACE
10.30 Workshop 1 – Validating the “Community Learning Charter for Manchester” Principles, practice, benefits and impact assessment of community based learning
11.30 Coffee11.45 Workshop 2 – “Building Learning Pathways” Identifying the key elements of a successful community based learning pathway
12.45 Plenary session
13.00 Lunch13.45 Workshop 3 – “Building District Based Models” Working in area based groups to develop co-operative community based learning projects that can be taken out into the community
15.00 Plenary session
15.30 Group evaluation
15.45 Date for Adult Learners Week Event (May) and Wider Learning Partnership (September) announced
16.00 Close of event
| LSEN | Learning Skills Employment Network supports organisations delivering learning, skills and employment support. It offers capacity building suport to Third Sector organisations and networking opportunities internally within the sector and externally with public and private sector partners. |
| Community Network for Manchester | is a collection of voluntary and community groups organised through networks that exist to find new ways of enabling people to fully participate in Manchester's economic, social and cultural life. |
| Commitment in Communities (CIC) | is a charity, associated with the Methodist Church but working in partnership with faith and non-faith organisations to develop the capacity and skills of the disadvantaged and excluded to enable them to participate more fully in society and to support urban regeneration and combat social/ economic deprivation in Greater Manchester and surroundig areas. |