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Sustainable development taster sessions

Update on New Packs, January 2008

We are now preparing the final set of Sustainable Development taster session packs for the Every Action Counts (EAC) programme. We are looking for creative training techniques and exercises that you are using with groups which could be adapted to the different themes of EAC, and for examples based on REFLECT action. We are also looking for examples of how community workers are using environmental actions and activities to promote cohesive communities. This can be at the day-to-day level of informally supporting people to share resources, like cars, recycling wheelie bins, shared compost bins, and other very local activities between neighbours, to the more formal activities of walking buses, food get-togethers, interfaith workshops, intergenerational activities, and cross community projects.

If you have examples or ideas you would like to share, please could you contact Val Harris at valharris@phonecoop.coop.

Sustainable development taster sessions packs 1 - 10

As part of the Every Action Counts programme, FCDL has been getting the government's sustainable development message out to people through community groups. Following a detailed survey, we ran a series of workshops and have produced sample training material which can be used with community group members, activists, people working in the community and community development workers.

Four three-hour taster session packs have been designed for members of community groups. These cover the main areas of sustainable development policy and explore how groups can contribute to a more sustainable world. Click on the titles below to download the packs as pdf documents.

Although much of the material we have produced so far has been created for workshops and more formal kinds of training, the material can also be used in informal learning, where a trainer/worker is working with groups and needs information on a particular topic or a way of introducing an idea, or some examples of what other people have been doing. We have produced a matrix of all the material in the taster packs so that you can find the relevant bits easily.

Find out more about this series of taster session packs.
Download a summary of the courses available.

1. Care for your area
2. Community buildings and environmental action
3. Climate change communications
4. Food and communities

Scroll down the page for packs 7 - 10

Click here to download Adobe Acrobat reader to read the taster packs