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Essentials of Community Development (ECD) 

How do you implement sustainable community development in a context of government cuts and a challenging economic environment? The ‘Essentials of Community Development’ is a series of four 1 day courses designed to give you the understanding, tools and skills you need to design, develop and project manage community development activity.

Learn core skills such as community appraisal, collecting and using information, and partnership working. Enjoy a practical toolkit to take away including best practice project planning templates, checklists, policy and procedural protocols.

The four one day courses cover:

  1. Making your community sustainable
  2. Projects and Partnerships – designing, managing & evaluating 
  3. Collecting & using good quality information 
  4. Exploring alternative approaches to developing sustainable communities

    Full details, aims and learning objectives for each course can be found by clicking on each course title listed on this site.

These four short courses can be taken as a complete programme or individually, giving you the best value for money.

  • Explore real world examples of community development projects and research
  • Gain valuable input from practitioners and academics involved in community development
  • Potential for moving on to deeper learning and higher qualifications

If you would like more information on this course, please email us with your contact details shortcourses@glos.ac.uk.

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Duration

4 days (over 2 months)

Cost

£600 full 4 day programme
[£175 per 1 day course]

Time

9am - 4.30pm

Dates

9th February 2012 
23rd February 2012 
8th March 2012
22nd March 2012

Location

The Park. Cheltenham

For directions go to
www.glos.ac.uk/travel

Tutor

Dr John Powell

Contact

01242 714104

Discover more about this course

University of Gloucestershire, The Park, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL50 2RH. Telephone +44 (0)844 8010001.