We hope you will be able to join us at the next Volition members’ conference, which will be on Thursday 28 January 2010, 9:30 am – 4 pm at the St George’s Centre in the city centre.
This is a great chance to get together with colleagues from across the mental health voluntary sector – as well as some commissioners and other statutory sector workers. You can discuss and learn about some of the important issues that the sector is currently facing, or things that will be important for our work in the future.
We’re lining up some excellent speakers and workshop facilitators, including representatives from Adult Social Care, NHS Leeds, the Dept of Health, service users and of course, our own member organisations. This should all add up to a really exciting – and useful – event.
What people said about last year’s conference:
“Another fantastic event!”
“I go away better informed and dealing with issues of relevance to my work”
“The day was a great success – lots of information and ideas – and will be a useful springboard for me to reach out to organisations locally”
“Very valuable”
This conference is open to anyone who works in the mental health voluntary sector in Leeds, whatever your role. And we welcome people who haven’t come to a Volition event or conference before. Please pass this information on to other colleagues in your organisation, and display the poster.
We’ve kept the cost of the conference the same as last year – just £30. So book your place now, the booking form gives more information. The poster and booking form are available from our website.
Breaking news!
The following speakers have confirmed their attendance:
Peter Bates – National Development Team. Peter delivered a very successful and thought provoking workshop around the challenges of real social inclusion last year. This year we hope he will challenge us all!
Kim Adams and Sinead Cregan – Leeds Adult Social Care. Kim and Sinead will explore the developments and challenges of self directed support/ personalisation within the context of Leeds mental health services. We particularly welcome Sinead’s view of the future challenges from a commissioner’s viewpoint.
