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Teaching women inNepal The Long and the Quick Revolution seminar incorporating RWF AGM will be at Wortley Hall near Sheffield (S35 7DB) 4pm Wed 9th May - 2pm Friday 11th May. RWF AGM will take place on the Thu 10 May from 2.00pm to 3.00pm. For details click. For Booking Form click. Filling fast! - early booking advised... .

SAVE WEDGWOOD MEMORIAL COLLEGE!
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RWF in touch with 'occupy', St Pauls, Finsbury Square and today (10 Nov, www.occupynashville.org ) click...

See the report from Nepal on how RWF has helped rural women gain a meaningful education click

Two Wortley Hall residential seminars have taken place in Oct and Nov click here to access the programme and email discussion with "Occupy" St Paul's London

Residential library project.. Grant of £5000 received from the Westham House Fund for our Residential Library - Reading Retreat scheme click.
First applications received and approved early July...  for leaflet/application form. . click

RWF goes international...... applications from Nepal, India and Africa (click Grants….) and contacts from Australia, for example (click…..)


23rd annual  RW wend  on 'The Spirit Level', with joint author Richard Wilkinson giving the key-note lecture, took place 6-8th May 2011.  46 people filled the College for this.   For report and lecture notes click
. Tristan Hunt's lecture notes are now available.

Forthcoming events – include day conferences and residentials in the autumn… click

Pub discussion groups. Read more about Discussion Circles www.discussioncircles.org.uk

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raymond Williams

Taking  as  our  guide the ideas of Raymond Williams which he developed in his many and varied writings we are a Charity whose trustees aim to continue his 'Long Revolution'.

The Raymond Williams Foundation (RWF) commitments are specifically within the sphere of Adult Education.
Williams spent many years teaching adult students who came to him through the WEA and his extensive range of essays and lectures on education, published by NIACE in 1993,* offer a seaching analysis of the conditions for a genuine learning society.
In a time when the liberal adult education which Williams knew and respected (summarised in his statement “I’ve often defined my own social purpose as the creation of an educated and participating democracy”) is needed as much as ever, we will help sustain and extend that tradition supporting courses and disadvantaged studentsthrough grants and bursaries

*click Raymond Williams, for reference to this and other books


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