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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 Relay meeting 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 and Learning for Community Development (CD) project. Thisproject is led by the Combined European Bureau for SocialDevelopment (CEBSD’s) and is a partnership between CEBSD’s and aconsortium of organisations working within a CD context.
Meeting of European Partners
Partners attending the UK meeting were from Hungary (HungarianAssociation for Community Development), Bulgaria (Creating EffectiveGrassroots Alternatives) and Romania (Foundation PACT)
Relay Visit Aims are:
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 To transfer lessons from training and learning for CD from onecontext and country to another.
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 To build on the specific experience and expertise available from arange of settings to work out common guidelines for action andpolicy on Training and Learning for Community Development
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 To build up sustainable networking via the development of anetwork for Training and Learning for Community Development,this can cross local, national and European borders andboundaries.
 
 The experience from one Relay visit is transferred to the next and soon until the final relay visit, which combines the findings and preparesfor a Laboratory in Malmo Sweden. There are 16 partner organisations and each partner participates inone of the relay visits.At the Laboratory in Malmo in September 2008, partners will analysethe results of the relay meetings. The partner organisations will testmethodologies that make exchange of experience come alive and distilthe most important points for dissemination. The combination of relayvisits and Laboratory is designed to test the most effective means of sharing outcomes from the exchange of experience, skills andknowledge.
The UK Relay meeting considered:
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Key elements of Community Work and practitioners roles indifferent contexts,
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 The nature of Influencing Policy within different cultures andcontexts
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An overview of current European policy
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Lessons from training and learning for CD from one context andcountry to another
Training and Learning For Community Development (TLCD) UK Relay VisitDates of relay visit: 12
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March 2008Aims of TLCD project:
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 To work out common guidelines for action and policy on Trainingand Learning for Community Development
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 To build up sustainable networking on Training and Learning forCommunity Development, which can cross local, national andEuropean borders and boundaries
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Influencing Policy within different cultures and contexts forcommunity development
Objectives of UK relay visit
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Exchange experience and share good practice on elements of community development workers
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 To transfer lessons from training and learning from one contextand country to another
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 To build on specific experience and expertise on communitydevelopment available from a range of settings The meeting will consist of a mix of group discussion, project visits andpresentations with practitioners in the field of communitydevelopment. Participants will each be encouraged to write theirthoughts down during the course of the two day meeting which shouldhelp provide a space for reflection and comment.At the end of the meeting, participants will be invited to share some of their thoughts and reflections to both feedback into the group and takeaway as part of the learning and exchange process.
Tuesday 12th MarchLocation: CDF London OfficeProgramme
10.30
Welcome & Introductions –
Sue Webb10.45
Overview and logistics of the two days –
Sue Webb11.00
Report summary of February 2008 Budapest relaymeeting -
Mate Varga11.30
The practice of community development within anational voluntary agency
 Denise Taylor, Adept Community Development Agency12.00
A local policy perspective: The practice of community development within a local authority
Paul Formosa, Haringay Council12.15Refreshments12.30
Community Engagement methodologies and practicewithin voluntary &
 
community sector
 Rehka Shivam, Wolverhampton Network Consortium
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