Take Part Workshops
Take Part Cornwall, working with Parliamentary Outreach and the South West Take Part Champions can now offer a range of short workshops to community groups in the county.
These are designed to be active and fun and to both help individuals and groups to gain information and skills to help them make a difference in their community.
Subjects covered include:
| | Workshop title | Looks at: |
| 1 | How your local council works | how is local government organised? what does it do? how is it paid for? what are the different roles of elected members and officers? |
| 2 | How the Police Authority works | what does the Police Authority do? how is it paid for? how can you get involved? |
| 3 | How to access information | how can you get a question discussed by your local council? how can Data Protection and Freedom of Information legislation help you to access information about yourself or your community? How can your MP raise issues on your behalf? |
| 4 | How to influence health research | what is research? how can you turn something you want to know into a research question? how can you find reliable information about health research? |
| 5 | What is the Voluntary and Community Sector? | what organisations are there in the sector? what do they do? |
| 6 | What is Democracy? | what does it mean to say we live in a democracy? how does democracy work? |
| 7 | What is Parliament? | what is Parliament for? what does it do and how does it work? |
| 8 | What is Government? | what does the word ‘government’ mean?how is a government formed? what is the relationship between government and Parliament? |
| 9 | How laws are made | how does something become a law? what stages does it go through and how can it be influenced on the way? |
| 10 | What is a Select Committee? | who are select committees? who selects them and whatfor? how canordinary citizens get involved and put their point of view? |
| 11 | Keep it local or make it national | how are local issues affected by national law? |
| 12 | How to engage effectively with Parliament | what are the best ways to engage with Parliament? What are the benefits of engaging more effectively? |
For more information contact:
Kath Maguire
Cornwall Voluntary Sector Forum
13a Kenwyn Street,
Truro
Cornwall
TR1 3DJ
kath.maguire@cornwallvsf.org
07791089434 (mobile)
