[WiLT] Learning for Action: Tools and Strategies for deepening democracy and tackling povert

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Learning for Action: Tools and Strategies for deepening democracy and
tackling poverty

FREE EVENT
Thursday 6th March 2008, 9.00 - 5.00
City Temple, Holborn Viaduct, London

An interactive day for learning and exchange

Poverty, inequality, social exclusion, community cohesion and
unsustainable economic development are huge challenges.

Yet every community, however disadvantaged, has the potential for
transformation.

Brought to you by nef (the new economics foundation), Novas Scarman
and the Campaign for Learning, this one-day event is a chance to
experience, learn, reflect and take-away practical action-focused
tools and approaches to creating a more sustainable and fairer
society.

Participants will have the opportunity to experience practical
sessions on how to
* Use learning, skills and innovation to increase opportunities
* Strengthen community voice and community-based action
* Enable public services to become more responsive to communities they
serve
* Plugging the Leaks - supporting positive local money and resource
flows
* Develop a strong local asset base (personal, physical, financial,
natural)
* Enable businesses to improve their local economic, social and
environmental impact
* Promote community cohesion and interdependence
* Ensure that environmental sustainability informs everything you do
* Integrate social justice into community and economic development
* Understanding interdependence of communities
* Campaign effectively and learn practical political skills

Who is it for?
* Policy-makers, managers and practitioners in learning and skills
* Regeneration practitioners and activists working with local
communities
* Local authority officers, councillors, public service providers and
LSP members
* Voluntary organisations, faith groups and youth groups active in
communities
* Economic and business development providers open to new ways of
working
* Members of environmental and Transition Town groups

If you are looking for new ways to improve well-being in communities,
this event is for you.

For details & to book go to:
http://www.campaign-for-learning.org.uk/cfl/events/
Places are free, strictly limited and offered on a first come first
served basis.
Or contact: Rebecca Goodbourn - rgoodbourn at cflearning.org.uk  Tel: 020
7766 0018