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 Take Part
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What is it?
Take Part is a national learning framework for active learning for active citizenship. Being an 'active citizen'
covers anything from involvement in your local community, to campaigning for better services as a local resident
or as a 'service user', to taking part in consultations with public services. It could also be - but doesn't have to
be - through 'civic' roles such as being a trustee or governance board member, magistrate, or standing
as local councillor.
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What work with Take Part is happening in Dudley Borough?
Dosti is a delivery partner in the Black Country Take Part Pathfinder. This work of this Pathfinder is funded by
central government between December 2008 and March 2011.
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Why should I be interested?
The Black Country Take Part Pathfinder is for anyone who feels they want to make a difference in their
community, or address a particular issue or get a better service from an authority but who, at the moment,
isn't sure what they can do and whether it's for them.
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How can I find out more?
 Up to date information about all of the Take Part Pathfinder activities can be found at
 www.blackcountrypathfinder.co.uk
The national Take Part Learning Framework can be found at www.takepart.org
You can subscribe to our e-news and/or partner e-news and have Take Part news and
updates delivered straight to your inbox!
You are welcome to come along to a Reference Group meeting, or arrange to meet Lorna
or Katherine at Dosti to find out more about Take Part (contact details at the bottom of this page).
How does Take Part contribute to Dosti’s action plan?
 Dosti's Aims
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Ways That Take Part Contributes
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 1. To create opportunities for the voluntary,
community and faith sector to collectively influence
strategic decision making.
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The Joint Dialogue sessions and echo work promote changes
in the ways that public agencies and partnerships
involved groups. |
2. To engage and enable sector representation and
influence in public sector partnerships. |
The learning programmes and voice work provide people
and groups with the confidence, skills and knowledge to
be influential.
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3. To support and develop an empowering
engagement process.
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The Black Country Take Part Pathfinder approach is
underpinned by community development principles and
uses the dimensions of community empowerment.
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4. To facilitate the engagement of
under-represented groups. |
The learning programmes are proving attractive to people
from groups who are under-represented in decision-making
in Dudley, and will help those groups to understand how to
get involved and influence.
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