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Chat-lines for Change. Making the Connection – an evaluation of local partnership working. Lesley Smith and Dean Cawsey. Dove Workshop Community Education Centre Cwmdulais Uchaf Communities First Partnership. Dynamic Challenging Frustrating. Complex Rewarding Resourceful.
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Chat-lines for Change Making the Connection – an evaluation of local partnership working
Lesley Smith and Dean Cawsey • Dove Workshop Community Education Centre • Cwmdulais Uchaf Communities First Partnership
Dynamic Challenging Frustrating Complex Rewarding Resourceful Partnerships
The Role of Education • Formal • Informal
Key Partnerships • Dulais Valley Partnership Ltd • Cwmdulais Uchaf Communities First • New Learning Network • Community University of the Valleys
Partnership Working DVP G&G Housing Communities 1st DoveWorkshop ATFJ NLN CUVP
Lifelong Learning Community Participation Entrepreneurship Environment Healthy Living Employment Gardd Cymunedol Sarn Helen
Keeping It Real • Raising aspirations • Maintaining engagement • Bending the programme • Sustaining the chat
The Power of Conversation • Relationship not Partnership • Conversation not Communication • Network not Framework
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples, then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” – George Bernard Shaw