Membership Development
AONTAS Membership
AONTAS currently has over 550 members across the country, including, Vocational Education Committees (V.E.C.s), Third Level Providers, community groups, women's and men's groups, family support agencies, second level schools, training organisations, tutors, learners and interested individuals. This broad range of membership reflects the variety of education and training opportunities that exist for adult learners as well as the multiplicity of subjects and specialities on offer.
Membership development involves facilitating members to actively contribute to the organisation and assisting them to fully gain the maximum benefit from their subscription.
In keeping with the AONTAS strategic Plan membership development work is based on the following four areas:
Policy - All interaction and work with members will feed directly into policy work. Specific projects will be carried out to assist members to contribute and take ownership of the policy work of the organisation. The projects include: Learner Networks, Member meetings and the community education platform.
Promotion - Work with members will provide information for media and promotional work that will aid raising the profile of adult and community, the achievements of learners and AONTAS.
Practice - Various areas of best practice will be gathered from the membership and the sharing of such information will be made possible through the AONTAS magazine, website and ebulletin.
Partnership - We will continually strive to work with our members, other NGOs and statutory bodies with the aim to improve the adult and community education service in Ireland.
If you have any comments or questions regarding membership please contact Niamh O'Reilly noreilly@aontas.com
Regional Meetings:
Last year AONTAS organised a series of regional meetings across the country. The aim of the meetings was to support the sector, strengthen its capacity to organise and lobby, and demonstrate the importance, value and innovation of the work done by adult and community education providers. Since our VEC members are key providers, AONTAS asked them to partner it in hosting the meetings which served as a platform for highlighting the excellent collaborative work delivered across the country and created a space for discussion on current challenges facing the sector.
AONTAS has documented the outcomes of these meetings and will use them to make a case for support of the sector. The outcomes of the meetings were presented at the AONTAS General Meeting in Dublin on Wednesday 18th November 2009.
Please find below the list of meetings and agendas.
Please download the Agenda for your meeting and click on venue location for directions and maps:
- Carlow, Venue Location
- Cavan, Venue Location
- Cork, Venue Location
- Donegal, Venue Location
- Dublin, Venue Location
- Galway, Venue Location
