Community Learning Development :
‘’ We seek to encourage and support ways of working with disadvantaged and excluded people in communities and neighbourhoods, which use learning as the core process, to enable them to build their own individual, collective and community capacity, and successfully gain a better quality of life for themselves and for those around them’’.
What will you find here?
- Background information on the concept and development of this website – our beliefs, some history and some philosophical meanderings!
- Access to a collection of practical training and development Resources centred around a key theme that learning is the core process that enables and encourages people to successfully participate in capacity building, community development and neighbourhood regeneration.
- Access to training and development programmes and materials that have been used to support a variety of workers and agencies.
- Contact Us opportunities to engage interactively with the website and with other visitors through Blogs, and where prompted and developed – forums.
Why this website?
This Community Learning Development (CLD) collection of training and development resources, has been produced and accumulated during the last twenty years or so, during work in the fields of adult and community learning, and youth and community development, within the UK.
The development and use of the resources and training programmes has been within local authority provision; higher education programme development; consultancy and through voluntary and community sector work.
There are many opportunities, where by learning successfully from their experiences, people can choose to change themselves, their lives and the lives of others. In this website we are seeking promote interest and investment in putting learning effectively at the heart of community development and neighbourhood regeneration work.
The development of the website could not be happening without the support of family members skilled in the world of website development, internet communications and public relations!
What’s in a name?
We realise that this small website’s domain name: www.communitylearningdevelopment.com.sounds like one for the ‘’Federation for Community Development Learning’’ (www.fcdl.org.uk) – the lead body for the National Occupational Standards in Community Development Work in the UK. The choice of the domain name, rather than leading visitors into how to train and gain community development work qualifications, will hopefully connect them with the concept – that learning is the essential core process within any community development and regeneration work.
CLD website access and use
No subscription fee is required from visitors and users. The website is about sharing some ideas and experiences, which might help support the development of community learning work with excluded learners. We are concerned that workers and learners in the fields of community learning, capacity building and community development etc., get free access to whatever they might find useful here.
Whilst the website resources are here to be used, we ask that any copying or use acknowledges academic ownership of the material by the website (or other sources if these are already referenced within the material).
There are no subscription or usage charges for the website materials, however where these are helpfully used professionally in training, or for monetary gain, a donation is requested, to be made voluntarily to our local community development and regeneration charity. This is:
Community Action Hinckley & Bosworth (CAHB) at Earl Shilton Community House, Peggs Close, Earl Shilton, Leicestershire, LE9 7BP.
(further details can be sent by email – see Contact Us for our address)
Cheques payable to ‘Community Action Hinckley & Bosworth’, where any donations would be gratefully received and acknowledged.
We welcome feedback and comment from visitors and users, which can be posted as a blog or emailed to us. We are looking at other ways of raising the profile of community learning through sharing through forums, links and networking.
Paul Pittham (November 2013)