GWT National Conference & Awards 2017 - Embed & Sustain

When: Wednesday 8th March 2017
Where: Stirling Court Hotel – University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA
Time: 10am – 4pm
Cost: £30

GWT is delighted to report that registration for our national conference will begin on Thursday 8th December 2016. Our programme is one of our most exciting yet.
Speakers this year include:

  1. Prof Mariano Sanchez (University of Granada)
  2. Tom Peterson (Oxford Academy)
  3. Richard Leckerman (Alzheimer Scotland) & Stuart Miller (Food Train)

Delegates will have the opportunity to pick a morning and afternoon workshop from a variety of workshops including:

Morning workshops: 11:00am-12:20pm

  1. Shared spaces, connecting communities
  2. Inclusive communication
  3. Education & Life Long Learning
  4. Young Start Connected projects

Afternoon workshops 13:30-14:50

  1. Old School, Oxford Academy
  2. Building effective networks
  3. Project ideas
  4. Successes of working together

At the end of the day GWT will be presenting the 2017 Recognition Awards.

Nominations for the awards are open as of the 1st December 2016.

The awards celebrate and recognise the outstanding talent, commitment and inspirational involvement of workers, volunteers and groups who promote Intergenerational activities.

This year there are five categories:

  1. New Intergenerational Project (Less than 12months)
  2. Established Intergenerational Project (Greater than 1 year)
  3. Outstanding volunteer contributing to intergenerational work
  4. Building successful partnerships through intergenerational work
  5. Yvonne Coull Local Network Coordinators Award

Application forms and guidelines are now available and must be completed and returned by Thursday 2nd February 2017.

Eligible applicants must be from within the Scottish Network Areas and are open to charitable, voluntary and community groups or public sector organisations.

For further details on the conference please check out the programme below for more details. Spaces are limited and we are expecting a great response so please pencil the date in your diary and check out the website next week to book your place.

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