Who can register to become a member

Membership is open to CLD practitioners, including volunteers, who deliver community learning and development outcomes in part or all of their job description, or are students studying for a CLD qualification.

What is a CLD practitioner

CLD practitioners include people in voluntary, public sector and corporate and commercial 
organisations who:

• are employed to deliver community learning and development outcomes in a full time, parttime, sessional basis or as part of their job description
• volunteering in a community learning and development context
• supporting or managing CLD staff or CLD volunteers
• operating at a strategic or senior management level within organisations that are delivering community learning and development services
• on management boards of voluntary sector organisations
• delivering professional level CLD training

CLD practitioners may be working or volunteering - 

• in public sector or voluntary sector or community based organisations,
• in community / public health, housing, arts or social enterprise situations where there is a commitment to working according to community learning and development practices,
• in the corporate and commercial sector in community initiatives or engagement or social 
  responsibility roles 

CLD practice delivers community learning and development outcomes through, for example:

• community development (building the capacity of communities to meet their own needs, engaging with and influencing decision makers)
• youth work with children and young people
• family learning
• community based adult learning and support, including adult literacies and English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) and working with disadvantaged groups
• volunteer development
• learning, support or guidance in the community