Transforming Adult Learning - Agents of Change
The ECA's latest conference "Transforming Adult Learning" was held on Saturday 17th October 2009 at The Resource Centre, Holloway Road, London. The conference incorporated the Annual General Meeting.
The event showcased the ECA's transformational projects from the past year. Some excellent presentations were made by colleagues who have worked in partnership with the Association and with whom the ECA continues to collaberate to ensure that the value of adult learning is recognised by all.
For a summary of the ECA's wide ranging activities during 2008/2009, view our Annual Report
Contributors included:
 | Mark Walton is the Head of Stonger Communities at the Community Development Foundation. The Stronger Communities team aims to support the development of stronger and more sustainable communities and community sector, and of a skilled and recognised and recognised community development workforce. From 2006 to 2009 Mark was the Head of the Every Action Counts programme, an innovativepartnership between 29 community sector organisations and DEFRA to engage the voluntary and community sector on the issues of sustainable development. |
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| Hazel Capper is currently the Leadership and Governance Programme Manager for the Community Sector Coalition. During the last year, she has overseen the development of Liberating Leadership - a fresh perspective on leadership for the community sector, part of the NSS Leadership and Governance workstream. She has ten years experience in the voluntary and community sector working in various roles at a local level including regeneration, community development and employment and skills. | |
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 | Maureen Milgram Forrest is the Founding Chair and Co Chair of the LeicestHERday Trust, an organisation formed to give an equal voice to all women and enhance the community at large by enhancing women's life experiences. Her career has included being Chair of Leicestershire Learning & Skills Council and Special Executive for the Leicester Mercury. Along with her husband she set up the Milgram Forrest Trust to assist young people gain education and skills for the future. |
 | Walt Crowson is the Learning, Skills and Employment Network Co-ordinator for the Learning Skills Employment Network (LSEN), Manchester. LSEN supports organisations delivering learning, skills and employment support. It offers capacity building support to Third Sector organisations and networking opportunities internally within the sector and externally with public and private sector partners. Walt is the ECA's North West regional representative. |
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| Mark Freeman is a Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow. He has published widely in the field of modern British social, educational and business history. His most recent book is St Albans: A History (2008). As a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, London, in 2009, he explored in depth the Educational Centres Association archive, and is working on various publications based upon it. He has already published work on the early history of educational centres. His website is http://www.markfreeman.org.uk/. |
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 | In addition to his two decades as an area adult education principal in Norwich, Bernard Godding has extensive experience in the voluntary sector. Bernard has a long-term interest in staff development: including directing some of the earliest ACSET 1&2 programmes and chairing a regional REPLAN panel. He has served on the executive of NIACE where he helped to establish the special needs group that he subsequently chaired. He was elected as the ECA National Chairman in October 1999 and over the past decade has managed the Association's conference programme and contributed to a range of successful projects and partnerships within UK and across Europe - focussing on citizenship, sustainability, emerging technologies and intergenerational learning. |
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