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April Workshops

A new start

We are delighted to announce that today our new Project Assistant started working for Connecting Learners in Bangor. Hayley Wood comes to us from Bangor University's Skills & Enterprise team and is already contributing her ideas about how we can engage more people in lifelong learning in the 3rd sector in North & Mid Wales. Hayley will be the first point of contact for people wishing to book onto our courses, and with her passion for learning and expertise in literature, will be taking the lead on "informal" literacy learning in the workplace - including our new Monday Lunchtime Book Club.

Our 2012 Learning Programme

You may think that the Olympics are the big event of 2012; you could be wrong!!
Our 2012 Learning Programme is the main event of the year for Connecting Learners and is set to produce as many winners and awards as Team GB!
Every Wednesday throughout 2012 will be a ‘Connecting Learners Wednesday’ with a rolling programme of courses and workshops running each week in Cartrefi Cymru’s training rooms in Bangor, Newtown and Bridgend.
Coleg Harlech/WEA, along with expert independent providers, will be delivering the courses and workshops, with accreditation available through Agored Cymru. Learners can start from Entry Level 3 and progress to Level 1 then receive all the information needed to keep on learning through Learndirect and the Open University.
The free courses and qualifications are open to all paid staff and volunteers working for organisations in the in the third sector including Charities, Housing Associations, Social Enterprises and Community Groups.
And what a range of courses and workshops we have for you to choose from...
• Connecting with Computers: A basic ICT course for the terrified, including the “Online Basics” e-learning package
• Money Matters: Great tips for budgeting, maximising your income and minimising yours spending
• Effective Writing: Increase your confidence in writing reports, records or filling in application forms
• Knowing Me, Knowing You: Communication skills, active listening, body language a lots more in just 1 day
• Active Citizenship: Discover how you can make a difference at this 1 day workshop
• Modern Welsh Trades Unions: Understand more about the roles that Trades Unions play in contemporary Wales
• Internet Safety & Security: Learn to explore the wonders of the internet whilst keeping yourself and others safe
• Connecting with Change: Learn ways to cope with a changing working environment with this1 day workshop
• Skill Build: 3 one day workshops focusing on CVs, Application forms and Interviews
• Union Learning Rep (ULR) Taster: A 1 day session exploring how you can help your colleagues as a ULR
Our timetable of events will be available in our Learner Brochure for 2012 which is a guide to fun, free and fascinating learning at work, and will be available in early November.
If you’re lucky enough to get on of those hard to come by tickets for the Olympics we hope you enjoy the spectacle, but admission to our learning programme is free and easy to access, and for more information log on to http://bit.ly/joinCLC.

INCLUSIVE Grundtvig Partnership

Hi there,

I just wanted to share the good news with CLC members that the Connecting Learners Project has been successful in our application to the UK National Agency to take part in an EU Grundtvig Lifelong Project entitled INCLUSIVE.

INCLUSIVE stands for:
•Including
•New
•Communities of
•Learners
•Using
•Socially
•INCLUSIVE
•Virtual
•Environments

The idea of the partnership is to share and build on best practice in using social media tools such as CLC to support learning.

More details about how YOU can take part will be posted here soon.

Exciting times!!!

Rich

Connecting with Change - What a success!!!

This week the Lynn and I, the Connecting Learners team, have been running a series of personal development days for health, local government and 3rd sector staff alongside the STEP (Health) and Making the Learning Connections (Local Government) WULF project teams in North Wales and Viv Newman from Newman Training Associates.

It was a wonderful week due to the 60 fantastic participants from all three sectors that came along to find out more about change, improving confidence and using and improving their employability skills and qualities.

For me, these days highlight the benefit of partnership working - both between the three projects and with the hosts; Glyndwr University, Bodelwyddan Castle and Alltwen Hospital. In particular, we would like to thank Trish Maybury, Unison's ULR at Glyndwr University, Laura at Bodelwyddan Castle and Sister Aspen at Alltwen Hospital without whom the days would not have run so smoothly.

We're currently in the process of putting together all of the photos, resources and presentations into a package to send out to the participants and publish online. We hope to have this finished very soon.

If you would like to find out more about Connecting with Change, please leave a comment below.

Cheers,

Rich