The Centre for Self Managed Learning has always operated in a non-profit charitable mode. However it has not, until now, felt the need to register as an official charity. With the growth of the Centre’s work with young people (via the South Downs Learning Centre) has come the need to raise funds and so registering as a charity became important. On July 5 2005 the Centre received confirmation that its application for charitable status had been approved. The Board of the Centre have become official trustees of the charity and they are committed to continuing the work of the Centre in its...

Drawing on his experience of changing jobs, CSML Board member, Rob Shorrick, reflects on what he has learnt from the process, and how he has learnt to approach it....

As regular readers of the newsletter will know, a number of CSML Board members are actively involved in the attempt to introduce SML modes of learning into the educational system. The following is one expression of this long-term strategy....