Posts Tagged “Activist Academy”

  • Carl Roper Carl Roper

    Young members Get on the Bus to PUT PEOPLE FIRST

    Last Saturday and Sunday 10 young members from TSSA, Unison, PCS and NUT as well as a representative of Westminster Uni Students Union attended the TUC Activist Academy special ‘GET ON THE BUS’ to the G20 weekend school at Ruskin College.

    The school was designed to maximise trade union participation in the PUT PEOPLE FIRST march which is taking place in London on March 28th.

    During the weekend, the group learnt more about the issues behind the G20 summit and the march and the policy platform agreed by trade unions and a host of other organisations.  Using this information, they linked it to the issues that their members were concerned about to plan awareness raising events in the workplace and how they could persuade as many members as possible to get down to London on the 28th.  During the march, they will be filming their experiences as part of a special project and to help them with this they also got some training in making short films whilst they were at Ruskin.

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    Posted on March 2nd, 2009 by Carl Roper filed under: Union news, Union organising

  • Carl Roper Carl Roper

    Sign up for the Activist Academy

    The first TUC Activist Academy courses are due to get underway over the next few weeks. 

    During January and February, courses will be starting in Birmingham (first session January 14 and 15), Ruskin College, Oxford (Jan 15 and 16), Stowe College, Glasgow (January 26 and 27), Leeds (Jan 28, 29 and 30), Plymouth (Feb 9 and 10), Newcastle (Feb 19 and 20), Hull and Manchester (Feb 26 and 27).

    For details of how to sign up for an Activist Academy course, contact the relevant TU Ed unit – details available on the Activist Academy website at www.tuc.org.uk/activistacademy.

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    Posted on January 5th, 2009 by Carl Roper filed under: Union organising, Union reps

  • Carl Roper Carl Roper

    Activist Academy programme dates

    The TUC is pleased to announce the full list of TU Education Centres who will be Activist AcademyCentre’s of Organising and Recruitment Excellence (COREs) and also initial dates of Activist Academy programmes running at the participating centres – vist the TUC website Activist Academy page for a full list of CORE contacts and programme dates.

    The COREs will be based at;

    • Newcastle College
    • East Riding College, Hull
    • Park Lane College, Leeds
    • South Birmingham College, Birmingham
    • South Nottingham College, Nottingham
    • Lewisham College, London
    • Ruskin College, Oxford
    • The Manchester College, Manchester
    • Wirral Met College, Liverpool
    • City College, Plymouth
    • Bridgend College, Bridgend
    • Stow College, Glasgow

    The Activist Academy is aimed at union reps and activists who want additional skills and resources to build stronger unions in their workplace or branch by recruiting new members and new activists. 

    To get on an Activist Academy programme, applicants must have a workplace or branch based  campaign or project that allows them the chance to recruit new members and activists and raise the profile of the union in the workplace.  They must also be supported by their union who must nominate a mentor who will support them through the training.

    Activist Academy programmes will usually last 6-days and be delivered via three, two-day blocks usually over a period of about 3 months.

    For more information about the Activist Academy, visit the TUC website or email activistacademy@tuc.org.uk

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    Posted on October 27th, 2008 by Carl Roper filed under: Union organising, Union reps

  • Carl Roper Carl Roper

    Activist Academy

    One of the projects that I will be working on over the next 12 months will be setting up the TUC Activist Academy.

    The Activist Academy is being set up to increase the number of lay union reps accessing organising training, support the efforts of unions to engage lay activists in organising and recruitment activity and build on the work of the Organising Academy.

    The organising training materials aimed at lay reps – ORGANISE – have recently been updated and re-launched as ORGANISE 2, however the number of lay reps attending specific organising related training is particularly low especially when placed along side the numbers attending training related to either Health and Safety or Industrial Relations/Collective Bargaining.

    The Activist Academy will pull together unions nationally and regionally as well as Region TUCs and TUC Education Units to offer training combined with specific work and/or community based organising projects.

    The Activist Academy will be trialled initially in three TUC Regions – Yorkshire and Humber, Midlands and Southern and Eastern with national roll-out scheduled for early 2009. If you want to know more about the Activist Academy drop me a line at here.

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    Posted on April 14th, 2008 by Carl Roper filed under: Union organising