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Mission Statement

• Slate Valleys Skills Initiative (SVSI) Limited is
  a non-profit co-operative, working mainly in the
  field of adult education and project development.
• We are generating a network of trainers and
  artists from a variety of backgrounds to create,
  develop, promote, and carry out innovative
  community based training with a holistic approach
  to learning.
• Our objective is to develop an independent
  training association which allows us to deliver
  high performance and quality assured training for
  professional and personal development

To inform To research To communicate To act as
a mediator To give technical and organisational
support
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What we do

• SVSI organises events, courses, workshops, and
  seminars.
• We intend to work together with related
  organisations, developing community involved
  projects.
• S.V.S.I. Ltd. provides a social auditing service
  for its members and member organisations.

To inform To research To communicate To act as
a mediator To give technical and organisational
support
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Background

• SVSI Ltd has been in existence since 2000,
  working in the field of organising events,
  seminars and training projects such as Its our
  Childrens Future, sustainable living
  exhibition Dewiswch Chwi substance misuse/film
  education, Sound of Slate sustainable creativity
  projects, Tai Chi for Therapy, GigArt and
  Intercultural Skills Link (ISL)
• We initially set up to be a support network for
  people, who are unemployed and underemployed and
  want to work as self-employed trainers and
  community developers. We lost members and
  creative workers, because they set up on their
  own or found jobs.
• We are very proud of this!
• We lost as many and more, who left North Wales,
  because they didnt have a future.
• These are our failures!
• We are working for the local community - engaging
  people on a variety of projects.

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Structure and Organisation

• Registered Business Address
• The Slate Valleys Skills Initiative (S.V.S.I.
  Ltd.
• Hen Tafarn Menai
• Llannerch-Y-Medd
• LL71 8EU
• T/F 0845 3733609
• email contact_at_svsi.org.uk
• The company is a non-profit making limited
  company, organised as a co-operative. Members
  are trainers in adult education from various
  backgrounds and different fields of expertise
  they also provide other services such as
  translations or consultancies through S.V.S.I.
  LTD. Ltd. The members sign a membership
  agreement. Members are working freelance, 10 of
  the invoice of their provided services will go to
  S.V.S.I. LTD.
• Members are also community organisations, which
  are working on educational projects.
• If members are not training in one year, they
  pay an administration fee of 25 per annum,
  payable at the 31st of December. The members
  elect a board of directors at their AGM. The
  board decides the responsibilities of the
  Executive Management. At current, all work is
  done voluntarily. Members of S.V.S.I. Ltd. are
  obliged to participate on training. The company
  advises and encourages members to improve and
  update their knowledge in their field of
  expertise and learn new skills. Each member is
  responsible for his or her training development
  at least with 30 hours per annum certified by the
  company Board of Directors this includes
  autodidactic learning.

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OUR STRENGTH
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Member Requirements
Quality
Value
Marketing promotional support for
trainers Potential for personal development to
assist career advancement
Member Satisfaction
Support
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Service Provision

• S.V.S.I. offers a specially tailored training and
  skills programme outside mainstream education,
  specifically directed towards local community
  needs and involvement.
• We also offer courses to those outside Wales so
  that they can enjoy this beautiful environment
  and benefit the local economy.
• All courses aim to take into account the needs of
  the individual participants.
• We can provide technical and organisational
  support within the public, private and voluntary
  sectors.
• We are actively exploring the gaps in the
  training market with a view to providing any
  shortfalls that we discover.
• Our focus is to become a networking hub for the
  public, private and voluntary sector, which
  informs, designs and provides.
• Courses, Seminars and Workshops
• The majority of courses do not have any specific
  requirements for participation, just an eagerness
  to learn.
• Courses are designed to take into account the
  needs of the individual.
• Any specific requirements for a course will be
  clearly stated on the booking form.
• We are open to organising tailor-made training
  for groups and organisations according to needs
  and requirements.
• Special rates are available for group bookings.
• Community projects
• We are actively developing community engaged
  projects.
• Our main objective is to create projects of
  sustainability, with a long-term usefulness for
  our clients and participants.
• Mentoring
• We are not only mentoring and supporting our
  embers and member organisations. We support also
  your organisation and guide you to a project
  development process

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Training Provision

• Bespoke training and training design to meet your
  needs and the needs of your staff and clients
• Communication and Presentation Training
• Development and Life Skills Training
• Business Training
• IT In-house training and workshops on a budget
• Film seminars
• Health and Safety Awareness for Migrant Workers
  and Ethnic Minorities
• Social Inclusion
• Intercultural Communication Training
• Arts and Crafts
• Tai chi and Taichi for Arthritis
• Bespoke training and training needs assessments
• General office procedures
• Job application strategies
• Digital photos and digital story telling
• Environmental building (bike shed, bird hide
  etc.)

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Sustainable Integration Project

• Members of SVSI Ltd. are working self-employed
  and receiving support to develop their projects.
• But working as a cooperative implies to get
  involved. We are supporting each other and using
  the skills, experience and the expertise to
  create.
• For the future we are involved in some exiting
  projects and development.
• May we introduce
• The Slate Valleys Skills Initiatives

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Arts Craft - Tourism
Space for Artists Space for the
Community Space for the Environment

• To promote sustainability through the medium of
  art
• To give artists an affordable place to work and
  exhibit
• To develop and promote environmentally friendly
  use of artistic materials
• To support artists with marketing and business
  advice and the promotion of their work through
  agencies
• To enable artists to gain recognition on
  regional, national and international levels
• To give children and young people the opportunity
  to explore and develop creativity
• To raise social awareness and environmental
  consciousness in children and young people
• To integrate people of different abilities, age
  groups and ethnic backgrounds
• To integrate people marginalized in society
• To create a structure to monitor the
  effectiveness of the arts as a viable source of
  employment
• To generate a sustainable income
• To use the creative arts as a focus for the
  tourist industry
• To establish links with international artists
  (within the new European Countries in particular)
• To use art as a means for raising issues of
  social awareness
• For further information contact Iola Smart

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ASSET

• Aid Small and Social Enterprise to their Target

• To increase implementation of sustainability
  development in SE and SME
• To develop a network of ethical lead enterprises
• To be a focus point for entrepreneur development
  in rural and semi-rural areas
• To support innovative development
• To increase local and regional competitiveness
• To promote community lead businesses
• To develop an incubation point for a sustainable
  for SME and SE
• To encourage employment integration
• To develop skills and knowledge based employment
  opportunities
• To link business and encourage business-to
  business support and trade
• To develop economic sustainability for SME and
  SE
• To establish a community lead incubation centre
• To support local regeneration
• For further information contact Lester
  Bath/Helga Uckermann

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Intercultural Skills Link (ISL)

• ISL is a member organisation of SVSI ltd.
• The organisations aims to work on active
  integration of ethnic minorities

• ISL establishes a learning and information
  network for and from ethnic minority individuals
  and existing and emerging ethnic communities and
  sub-communities
• Social integration
• Cultural integration
• Economic integration
• Infra structural integration
• For further information contact Adrian
  Thomas/Helga Uckermann

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Tandem

• The project aim is to develop a network of straw
  bale bike sheds for hostels on the outskirts and
  in Snowdonia Nationalpark.

• To increase the awareness of sustainability and
  environment
• To raise awareness about sustainable travel
• To be a focus point for sustainable tourism
• To raise awareness about resourceful renewable
  energy use
• To have an impact on carbon footprint reduction
• To support sustainable tourism
• To promote community lead tourist provision
• To initiate sustainable income leads for
  community projects
• To encourage health awareness an wellbeing trough
  sustainable activities
• To encourage the use of the cycle path networks
  in SNP
• .To develop an incubation point for a sustainable
  building
• To promote the beauty and cultural heritage of
  North Wales
• To develop a tourist attraction in North Wales
• To link tourism, sustainable building and the use
  of alternative ways of access to SNP
• To develop economic sustainability for community
  related tourist business
• To create a sustainable link between art-craft
  and tourism
• For further information contact Peter Moore/
  Helga Uckermann

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Interested in becoming a member?

• We are a cooperative, our members are working
  closely together and supporting each other with
  creative and practical input.
• To join us we expect an active input into our
  developments.
• We do not have a membership fee as a percentage
  of your invoice will be the contribution to the
  cooperative. However, if you are not working in
  any one year. We ask for an administration fee of
  25.
• Contact us on contact_at_svsi.org.uk for an informal
  meeting