Who is Groups in Action best suited to?

Any community group that wants to participate and influence local services and activities within their neighbourhoods, but who may lack the knowledge and skills to enable them to do this in the most effective way.

In particular, if you are a member of a group that may feel isolated because of unfamiliar processes and systems and require greater understanding, then this programme is for you.

What type of person will be suited to the role of Facilitator?

If you are a member of a community group who is committed to strengthening and developing their group, and who understand the value and importance gaining skills and knowledge to achieve their group's goals - then Groups in Action is for you.

You may be:

• Someone who is sensitive to the needs and differences of individuals within a group; but who acknowledges that there are common threads within the group.
• Someone who can advocate on behalf of others based on the trust and credibility of their position within local communities.
• Someone willing to gain the confidence, skills and knowledge to support group members to work through and complete their semi-distance learning modules.
• Someone who is open to learning to understand how adults learn and what motivates individuals and groups.
• Someone with a reasonable level of IT skills who can comfortably access and surf the internet, send emails with attachments, and use word and excel with ease.

Having completed your training you will be able to plan, listen and provide appropriate feedback, understand group formation and dynamics, and how to deal with difficult group members.

What we are asking of you?

The Groups in Action programme, like many things in life, will give you more back, the more you put in. While Groups in Action offers lots of goodies that you can sample and take advantage of as suits you best, if you are able to commit a regular amount of time and effort to working through parts of the website, this will help you to develop a rounded set of skills to help you take effective action in and for your communities.

What happens when the project ends?

During the life of the project ADEPT will further develop its package of 'franchising' in which groups of organisations can pay an annual subscription fee to access the training, accreditation, support and Facilitator development.

The development of a package that does not rely on grants from specific budgetary strands, but gives sufficient flexibility to respond to the support needs of communities will more effectively support the sustainability of those groups

If you are interested and would like to participate in Groups in Action please contact: Denise Taylor Tel: 07980 748470 or email: denise@adept.org.uk

If you already have a user name and password from ADEPT, you can log in here