Benefiting families and communities through personal development
Speaking Up is a range of NOCN-Accredited adult learning courses hosted in community centres across the South West and beyond. Speaking Up courses empower individuals with the personal confidence and skills to make a difference in their own lives, and to engage with their community, speak up and influence decisions that affect them.
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Exeter CVS is now able to provide this acclaimed adult learning programme as a supported delivery package to any organisation with an interest in benefiting its staff or community; find out more >
Local press attention for Speaking Up Active Citizen
Local press attention for the Waste Not Want Not, the freecycle-style project run by Speaking Up/Active Learning for Active Citizenship 'graduate' Karen Berger. Download full article - 2-page PDF (2MB)
Speaking Up Learner Presents to Labour Party Leader
In February 2011, Speaking Up learner Katrina Commander gave a presentation to Labour Party leader Ed Milliband and local MP Ben Bradshaw about her personal development through the Speaking Up courses. The presentation was part of a meeting at Wonford Community Centre about the impact of budget cuts on local women.
Speaking Up at a Regional Conference
Two Speaking Up learners, Michelle and Maggie, shared their experiences of the course and how it had helped them make a difference in their community at the regional Big Society Conference in Taunton, November 2010. The learners impressed a delegation of over 150 senior representatives from local government voluntary sector organisations with their confident delivery and ongoing community and personal development.Speaking Up Learners Visit to Parliament
In this radio interview on Phonic FM's 'CVS Show' Speaking Up learners Abby and Sinead talked about their experience on the course, and of the visit to Parliament they took in 2010.
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The positive impact of Speaking Up on the people taking part has been truly incredible. For many of the people I have spoken to who have done the course, it has literally turned round their and often their family’s lives.
Ben Bradshaw, MP for Exeter