Its keynote speaker is Andy Milne, Chief Executive of Surf and our workshops will be facilitated by our members who will present a real life piece of work, showing it’s context, exploring practice issues and any challenges and how they dealt with them. During the afternoon workshops there will be time for you to relate this to your own practice and look at ongoing support and solutions. We are also looking to offer more innovative ways of capturing your feedback this year so as to further strengthen your voice as our members. Our AGM will take place at the end of the conference.

Places are limited and are going fast so register at the below link. Please ensure if you are unable to attend you cancel your place. As our funding is limited, a fee will be charged for any uncancelled places to cover our costs.

Register here 

SCDN Fife Regional Network Meeting

Over the past few months, SCDN has been working closely with Fife CLD to establish a local Fife based Network.

Following on from an initial meeting with Community Education Staff on 25th April with SCDN all those who attended agreed that there would be real benefits in establishing a Fife network which would provide support and advice to community development practitioners. Participants also agreed that the opportunity to network with community development colleagues to discuss issue based work would be invaluable.

The launch of the first Fife Network meeting will take place on Wednesday 13th September from 1.30pm – 4pm, Room 10 at Rothes Halls. If you would like to attend please could you confirm by emailing Claire Bruce (claire.bruce-CS@fife.gov.uk) no later than Friday 8th September. An agenda will be sent out to participants on confirmation.

Please feel free to circulate this invitation to any other relevant partners who you think would be interested in becoming involved in the network.

Free Seminar – Community Engagement: What’s the Problem

Book your free place for this workshop on Friday 22nd September from 2pm – 4.30pm at G43, Paterson Land, Moray House, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh, EH8 8AQ.

The speakers are:

Sarah Beattie-Smith, Green activist, writer and artist
Mick Doyle, Head of Programmes, Scottish Community Development Centre
Anne O’Donnell, LEARN Co-ordinator, CAPS Independent Advocacy
Neil Saddington, Senior Lifelong Learning and Employability Worker, Midlothian

Jo McFarlane, Community Education and Survivor Poet will also be in attendance.

After the seminar, all are welcome to meet for a drink in Hemma, 73 Holyrood Road, Edinburgh, EH8 8AU.

To book a place contact mae.shaw@ed.ac.uk

Unlocking the potential of Erasumus+ Worshops

Xchange Scotland and YouthLink Scotland have been funded by the European Commission (through its representation in the UK) to promote and support organisations in Scotland to participate in the Erasmus+ programme, and enable more young people across Scotland to benefit from European funding and international volunteering opportunities.

To spread the word about these projects and how to apply, they will be running a series of interactive workshops which aim to give organisations the information necessary to apply for an Erasmus+ project that’s best suited to your needs and interests. The workshops will equip you with all the information you need to know about Erasmus+, the practicalities of funding applications, and the benefits your organisation can hope to gain through applying. They will also support organisations through peer support and free, tailored individual mentoring guidance to develop applications.

The workshops will focus on youth mobility funding, and cover the following areas:

– The benefits young people and organisations can gain from being involved in Erasmus+ projects.

– Information about types of projects, case studies and countries involved in the Erasmus+ programme.

– Different types of exchanges for young people (EVS, youth exchange and youth worker mobility training and seminars). This includes who is eligible to go on an exchange, where exchanges take place and the duration of Erasmus+ projects.

– Information regarding funding and how funding is allocated.

– Practical guidance and support for applications.

– Information on finding partner organisations.

– Games to get to know each other and Erasmus+ better!

If this sounds like something you and your organisation would like to be involved in, sign up for one of the free workshops below:

Erasmus+ Workshops

Case Studies

SCDN is keen to promote the positive CD work that is going on across Scotland and we would like to ask our members/contacts to share any areas of work they are involved in that would be insightful and inspiring to others. We would like to be able to promote this work on our website and social media. If you would like to support us with this please just contact me directly at susan.campbell@scdn.org.uk

SCDN on Social Media

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Twitter – @scdninfo

SCDN Membership

Membership of SCDN remains free at this time. If you haven’t yet taken out membership you can do so by clicking on the ‘join today’ link below. Please note you don’t have to take out membership on a yearly basis. Your membership roles over from year to year. Benefits of being a member include:

·         Have a strong, collective, grassroots voice within Community Development across Scotland competitive

·         Be part of a strong, dynamic forum to share experiences, exchange information and debate practice and policy issues

·         Receive up to date information on relevant policy developments

·         Discounted rates at SCDN events and conferences

·         Opportunities to link with like-minded people

·         Be first to find out about local and regional events to share practice issues

Join Today

That’s all for now, but I’ll be in touch again soon.

Kind regards
Susan

Susan Campbell – CD Consultant
Scottish Community Development Network
Tel –   07738 067 072
Web – www.scdn.org.uk