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Keep up to date with what’s happening at the Charity Learning Consortium. Check out our handy guides and guest articles.Festival of Work 2025 – What I Took Away
Another year, another fantastic Festival of Work in London and as always, it didn’t disappoint. This year felt particularly energising, with lots of brilliant conversations (especially with charities and not-for-profits) and a real buzz around accessibility.
Empowering employee voice at YMCA
Rebecca Dawson, Head of Learning & Development at Central YMCA, is a shining example of why we should stop jumping into solutions. Gathering employee voice enables learning and development (L&D) to know what learners know, and don’t know. This means that learning can be relevant and required but will also add real value.
Free eBooks to help develop key L&D skills
The Charity Learning Consortium has created a growing range of little books, filled with top tips, hints, exercises, case studies and action points to support good practice in learning and development.
Seven reasons to join our growing Consortium
Do you want to do more for less with your learning and development budget? Are you looking for effective ways to develop the skills of your workforce?
Transforming onboarding at CIWF
The onboarding programme at Compassion in World Farming International starts as soon as someone accepts their new job, which might be months before they start work.
Boosting confidence with creativity
Lucy Gower shares her tips for using creativity to solve your organisation’s problems.
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