Community Leadership Certificate



Special introductory offer:

Free places for students working in the community

funded by European Social Fund



Birkbeck's new Certificate in Community Leadership is for community
practitioners at the sharp end who want to understand better the
context in which they operate, to discuss common issues with
colleagues from other organizations, and to take a step back and
reflect on their work and its significance.



Community Leadership work in London includes a wide range of roles in
local strategic partnerships, neighbourhood renewal, New Deal for
Communities, voluntary community sector organizations, faith
communities, local authority officers working with local communities,
and the various partnerships which have been set up for urban
regeneration.



Birkbeck is London's largest provider of part-time adult and higher
education and lifelong learning in over 90 centres around greater
London. This new course links into that and is part of a growing
portfolio of courses designed to meet the needs of the voluntary and
community sector in London.



Thanks to European Social Funding, the summer 2005 presentation of the
first core unit or 'module' of the Certificate in Community Leadership
is free to suitable participants who can benefit from the course.
Those who complete this module only will be given the Certificate of
Achievement in Community Leadership. To achieve the full award
Certificate, participants must also complete the second core module
and one other option.





ENTRY QUALIFICATIONS

* No formal entry qualifications.

* Applicants must complete a special application form including a
brief personal statement (up to 500 words) about why they want to take
the course and how they hope to benefit from it.

* Applicants need to have been actively involved in front-line
community work, voluntary or paid, for at least a year, and be
competent in both spoken and written English.



DATES AND VENUES [to be finalized and confirmed]

Community Leadership core module - all teaching of this module will
take place on four Saturdays in April, May and June 2005.

All classes will take place at Birkbeck in the Bloomsbury/South Camden
area of central London.



Details from James Simister (Director of the Birkbeck Volunteer
Programme) and overall co-ordinator for the new certificate.



You can reach him at j.simister@... or at 020 7631 6699.



Faculty of Continuing Education 26 Russell Square, Bloomsbury London
WC1B 5DQ

Tel 0845 601 0174 - Fax 020 7631 6688

Email info@... - http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ce As



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