The Federation is committed to publishing a range of resources on community development learning. From strategic to practical, the publications listed cover many of the areas and issues relevant to anyone interested in community development learning. The Federation has developed a series of Practice Sharing publications: from information sheets to training exercises and tools for learning.

For a full list of publications available from the Federation, click on the headings below or scroll down the page - many of these resources are FREE and can be downloaded. There is also a separate Training Resources page - see menu on left. Publications can be ordered by downloading the relevant order form below and invoices supplied, and Federation members receive a 10% discount on all publications. Join the Federation now.

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Packs and information sheets Reports Ubuntu publications National Occupational Standards Other useful resources

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Packs and information sheets

NEW - How To ...Guides
These guides are published by FCDL as part of a series produced by members of the National Empowerment Partnership. The Department for Communities and Local Government's Community Empowerment Action Plan aims to "enable more people to play an active role in the decisions that affect their communities."
FREE - Click on the titles to Download a copy. Guides in the series:

• Engaging and Influencing Decision-Makers - a Guide for Community Groups
• Engaging with Local Government Regarding Sustainable Development - a Guide for Community Groups Concerned about Environmental Impacts on their Community
• Working Effectively With Communities - a Guide for non-Community Development Workers.[To be published Autumn 08]
  

How to set up a Refugee Community Organisation - New
This resource is now available. Find out more.
Free to refugee community organisations. £15 to voluntary and community organisations. £30 to statutory organisations

Tasting the Tasters
The Federation has published a series of 14 taster sessions as part of its commitment to provide quality training resources.
Click here for more information and an order form.
New prices for Spring 2008: £5 each. Five packs for £20
Full set of 14 Taster Session Packs available for £50

Resource Packs for the OCN Community Development Programme
Eleven resource packs have been produced as part of a series which is linked to the Open College Network Community Development Programme
Seven more will be available soon. Click here for more information and to view sample pages, and to download an order form.
New prices for Spring 2008: £25 - £50 each, see order form for details.
Special offer until 31 July 2008: Buy two copies on CD, get a third pack free

Sustainable Development Taster Session Packs
A series of ten three-hour taster session packs is available to download FREE. The sessions cover the main areas of sustainable development policy and explore how community groups can contribute to a more sustainable world. A free 'informal learning pack' is also available.
More details

Get accredited
Creating opportunities for accrediting community development training courses
This guidance pack is for community organisations and training providers interested in offering Open College Network accredited training in community development learning. Whether you are already providing training or are planning to do so, this publication aims to help you think through the issues involved in accreditation. Jointly published by FCDL and the Open College Network (South Yorkshire).
Download an order form. Price: £10.00


Community Work Skills Manual
Community worker's practice guide, written by community workers, covering everything from the values and principles underlying community work, to roles and responsibilities, working with groups, community surveys etc. Publ. 2001
Available to buy on CD: more details. Price: £10
A new revised edition of the Community Work Skills Manual will be available in Summer 2008.Click here for details

Learning and Qualifications Framework FREE [NB. Orders for over 10 copies will be charged at 60p each]
This free leaflet aims to enable people who come into community development from varied backgrounds, with different levels of expertise in community work, to work out what their learning needs are and how best to meet them. It helps people to work out their own pathways and progression routes to suit their individual learning needs at a particular point in their lives. The diagram included in the leaflet relates the different CDW learning and qualification opportunities to the national qualifications framework for England.
Download our new leaflet here

We have also produced four diagrams to illustrate different progession routes within the community development work learning and qualfications framework, available to download FREE:

• Health
• Sustainable communities
• Sustainable development
• Community empowerment and community engagement

Sharing Practice Information Sheets
This series of information sheets has been produced out of the practice sharing events run by the Federation in partnership with our members. The events were a chance to get together and learn different techniques and tools from each other. The information sheets are available to download FREE as pdfs by clicking on the titles:

1. What is community development work?
2. Turning over a new leaf: identifying barriers and solutions to learning
3. Challenging stereotypes
4. Using games
5. Using mapping

The Federation would like to thank TWICS (Training for Work in Communities, the Workers Education Association in Southampton, Healthy Islington and Camden and Islington Health Action Zone, for their ideas, support and commitment. If you have any ideas for future sharing practice sheets, contact the Federation: info@fcdl.org.uk.

Ice Breakers
12 ice-breaking activities to get your group work started based around community development themes such as to set the scene for anti-racist work, to start a discussion about power, to learn about new cultures - and exercises just to relax, get moving, or get talking.
Order from FCDL by emailing admin@fcdl.org.uk. Price: £2


Being White Video and Training Pack
Although produced a number of years ago, Community Workers still find this video a useful resource for use in anti-racist training. A group of white people talk about what it means to be white, from the different perspectives of being Irish, Jewish and working class. The video looks at ways of effecting change through a greater awareness of racism. Aimed at a white audience and designed to make them less comfortable with the status quo, it raises a lot of issues about individual and institutional racism, its causes and effects. The accompanying training pack provides a resource for those developing anti-racist training for white workers and activists. It includes 4 articles on anti-racism and anti-racism training, a book list and 4 progressive training exercises.
Order from FCDL.
Video (includes Training Pack): To buy £15.00 [or £10.00 for 2 weeks hire]


Activity sheets: Promoting participation - Linking key themes to the National Occupational Standards

Please click here to download the Arts, Games and Drama training resource from the Federation's 2004 Skills for Change Training Programme.

This is a group activity which aims to:
1. Give participants an opportunity to share their experience and understanding of flexible approaches to encouraging community participation, and;
2. Give each small group to have a taste of a different type of creative group activity to assess in terms usefulness, adaptability or not for their own community work context.

Reports

FREE Making Changes
Practice into Policy - A Strategic Framework for Community Development Learning in England
This Strategic Framework aims to support the development of learning and training opportunities needed by people and organisations involved in community regeneration. This learning is based on equity, social justice and genuine community involvement in decision-making processes that affect people's lives. A core theme of the Framework is the absolute improvement in the content and quality of training and learning opportunities for those with an interest and commitment to community involvement based on the values and principles of community development. Whatever level you are working at - local, regional or national - this Framework will be a tool to help develop community development learning strategies that are appropriate to diverse experiences and environments.
Click here to download [Word]

Celebrating Achievement
Evaluating the Community Development Learning Fund
ISBN: 1-904111-02-5
Celebrating Achievement demonstrates a model of good practice in getting funds to small, marginalised community groups. The report uses case studies and photographs to illustrate the wide range of learning that takes place in communities. Celebrating Achievement shows how the use of outreach development workers and innovative evaluation techniques ensured the success of the Fund. If you are involved in funding community groups at any level this report provides both valuable lessons and an insight into improving practice.
Order from FCDL. Price: £5. FREE to members.

Learning for Social Change
Sharing information and experience of Community Development in a global context
How do diverse communities really get involved in social change? How do they support each other? In Learning for Social Change groups outline their community, education and campaigning work at different levels from the local to the international. Included are contributions from organisations based in Southern countries and those working in the Southern Hemisphere but based in the UK. They provide valuable insights and lessons that can help to establish networks based on mutual solidarity and respect.
Order from FCDL. Price: £3.

Women in Collective Action
This book, produced by the Association of Community Workers in 1982, is a series of case studies about women taking action on a variety of issues, and aims to help break down the isolation felt by women struggling alone or in small groups in their neighbourhoods.
Order from FCDL. FREE

FREE
FCDL Annual Review 2005-2007 Click here to download [PDF]
FCDL Annual Review 2004-2006 Click here to download [PDF]
FCDL Annual Review 2002-2004 Click here to download [PDF]

Ubuntu publications

FREE Ubuntu Strategic Plan: summary
Ubuntu has developed a comprehensive strategic plan which has as its central plank disseminating examples of community development learning and training, and creating a forum where BME practitioners and activists can contribute to wider policy debates surrounding community based adult learning within the context of community development.
Click here to download [Word 37k]

Other FREE Ubuntu documents to download:

Defining Black Perspectives on Community Development Work
Making the Connections Ubuntu Conference Report
Ubuntu Mission Statement
UBUNTU Steering Group Terms of Reference
Ubuntu Registration of Interest
Ubuntu information leaflet

National Occupational Standards

National Occupational Standards for Community Development Work: Summary - FREE [NB. Orders for over 10 copies will be charged at 60p each]
This free summary sheet outlines the revised occupational standards. If you are planning or revising a training course, running a workshop or giving a presentation on community development work, seeking to employ a community development worker, developing a mentoring scheme or involved in any aspect of community development work, the standards can help.
Order from FCDL or Click here to download [PDF]

The full version of the National Occupational Standards for Community Development Work can be downloaded free or ordered on CD. Please use the order form below.
Order from FCDL. Price: £5 or Click here to download [PDF - 201 pages]


Other useful resources

You may find the following useful for community development training. These resources are not published or stocked by the Federation: details of how to order are shown below.


Every Action Counts is an innovative programme aimed at engaging national and local voluntary and community sector organisations across England in work to protect and improve our environment and to deliver sustainable development. The following publications are available to download below. Find out more about the Federation's role in Every Action Counts here.

	FREE What happens when Every Action Counts Inspirational examples of good practice from the Third Sector The case studies in this publication illustrate the five themes of the Every Action Counts programme - Save energy;Travel wisely; Shop ethically; Save our resources; Care for your area - and demonstrate that imagination, commitment and energy can make a difference. Click to download this report.
	FREE Your Community Building Counts Helping community buildings lead the way to a better future This free booklet will help you to make your community building even more of an asset by minimising its impact on the environment and maximising its role as a place to inspire, inform and strengthen your community. Click to download this publication.
	FREE Changing the way we work An Every Action Counts guide to greening your office This guide shows why and how your organisation should change how you work in ways that will benefit your environment and save you money. The guide is specifically for organisations working in the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) and you’ll find a range of examples showing how VCS groups are already making a difference. Click to download this guide.

Training for Transformation
There are now 4 volumes of this useful series of handbooks designed to help community development workers and others build self-reliant creative communities. They integrate the approach of Paulo Freire, participatory education and reflections on spiritual teachings into a method of building participatory democracy.
Vols 1-3 £19.95. Vol 4 £12.95
Contact: ITDG Publishing, 103-105 Southampton Row, London WC1B 4HL. Tel: 020 7436 9761. Email: orders@itpubs.org.uk

For further information on development books visit www.developmentbookshop.com

Sharing Experience
Report of a workshop/conference which brought together people from around Britain who are delivering the NVQ in Community Work to share issues and concerns and suggest improvements and good practice ideas.
£10.00
Contact: CEDR, 28 Percy Street, Rotherham S65 1ED. Tel: 01709 722834.

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