Thursday 27 January 2011, 1.30pm to 5pm
Quaker Meeting House, 10 St James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW
Cuts, privatising public services, commissioning replacing grants, voluntary agencies being run like businesses, managers who don’t understand the front line work, nonsensical targets… If you’re feeling angry, you’re not alone!
At the last NCIA assembly we discussed ways in which voluntary groups, workers and community activists are responding to the cuts. Now we want to look at alternative ways to organise ourselves:
- how to tell our stories about how privatisation is killing voluntary action
- how to work with communities wanting to speak up and seek changes
- how to keep hold of our politics and values in our organisations and fight hierarchies and rigid management
- how to make trade unionism relevant for voluntary and community action
We have three speakers followed by three facilitated workshops.
Speakers
- Steve Radford, The Community Union
- Susi Miller, Federation for Community Development Learning
- Penny Waterhouse, National Coalition for Independent Action (NCIA)
Workshops
- public services and privatisation: telling our stories
- supporting activism
- managing for independence: alternatives to ‘managerialism.’
You can decide which workshop to go to on the day.
Cost
There is no charge for the meeting. Please note we will have tea and biscuits but no lunch.
Travel
We may be able to pay your travel expenses if you’re coming from outside Sheffield, especially if you book in advance and get a cheap ticket.
Megatrain has cheap train tickets to Sheffield from a few destinations. Go to http://uk.megabus.com/default.aspx and select ‘all’ in ‘travelling by’ to get trains as well as buses.
The meeting is about an 8 minute walk from the train station, or you can get a tram.
Directions: http://www.sheffieldquakers.org.uk/node/7
How to book
Contact rachael@independentaction.net or melaina@independentaction.net to book your place or telephone: 020 8536 3828.
About the NCIA assembly
Click here to read more about joining the assembly and see notes from the last meeting.