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Combined European Bureau for Social Development (CEBSD)
Training and Learning for Community Development
Report on the Relay visit to the UK The Community Development Foundation (CDF) hosted the UK Relaymeeting of the partners involved in the TLCD projectThis was a three day meeting 12
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This project is funded by Europe
This report outlines the visit to the UK of the relay group, as part of the Training andLearning for Community Development (CD) project. This project is led by theCombined European Bureau for Social Development (CEBSD’s) and is a partnershipbetween CEBSD’s and a consortium of organisations working within a CD context.
Meeting of European Partners
 Partners attending the UK meeting were from Hungary (Hungarian Association forCommunity Development), Bulgaria (Creating Effective Grassroots Alternatives) andRomania (Foundation PACT)
Relay Visit Aims are:
 
To transfer lessons from training and learning for CD from one context andcountry to another.
 
To build on the specific experience and expertise available from a range of settings to work out common guidelines for action and policy on Training andLearning for Community Development
 
To build up sustainable networking via the development of a network forTraining and Learning for Community Development, this can cross local, nationaland European borders and boundaries.The experience from one Relay visit is transferred to the next and so on until the finalrelay visit, which combines the findings and prepares for a Laboratory in Malmo Sweden.
 
There are 16 partner organisations and each partner participates in one of the relayvisits.At the Laboratory in Malmo in September 2008, partners will analyse the results of therelay meetings. The partner organisations will test methodologies that make exchange of experience come alive and distil the most important points for dissemination. Thecombination of relay visits and Laboratory is designed to test the most effective meansof sharing outcomes from the exchange of experience, skills and knowledge.
The UK Relay meeting considered:
 
Key elements of Community Work and practitioners roles in different contexts,
 
The nature of Influencing Policy within different cultures and contexts
 
An overview of current European policy
 
Lessons from training and learning for CD from one context and country toanother
Training and Learning For Community Development (TLCD) UK RelayVisitDates of relay visit: 12
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March 2008Aims of TLCD project:
 
To work out common guidelines for action and policy on Training and Learningfor Community Development
 
To build up sustainable networking on Training and Learning for CommunityDevelopment, which can cross local, national and European borders andboundaries
 
Influencing Policy within different cultures and contexts for communitydevelopment
Objectives of UK relay visit
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Exchange experience and share good practice on elements of communitydevelopment workers
 
To transfer lessons from training and learning from one context and country toanother
 
To build on specific experience and expertise on community developmentavailable from a range of settings
 
The meeting will consist of a mix of group discussion, project visits and presentationswith practitioners in the field of community development. Participants will each beencouraged to write their thoughts down during the course of the two day meetingwhich should help provide a space for reflection and comment.At the end of the meeting, participants will be invited to share some of their thoughtsand reflections to both feedback into the group and take away as part of the learningand exchange process.
Tuesday 12th MarchLocation: CDF London OfficeProgramme
10.30
 Welcome & Introductions – 
Sue Webb
 
10.45
Overview and logistics of the two days – 
Sue Webb
 
11.00
Report summary of February 2008 Budapest relay meeting -
Mate Varga
 
11.30
The practice of community development within a nationalvoluntary agency
 Denise Taylor, Adept Community Development Agency12.00
A local policy perspective: The practice of communitydevelopment within a local authority
 Paul Formosa, Haringay Council12.15 Refreshments12.30
Community Engagement methodologies and practice withinvoluntary &
 
community sector 
 Rehka Shivam, Wolverhampton Network Consortium1.00: Lunch1.45
Influence of national policy upon resources and practice of community
 
development
  Jane Dobie, Community Development Foundation2.15
Presentations/case studies of community development inBulgaria, Romania Hungary
 Discussion of context and practice3.00
Refreshments
 
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