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Hello All,

Just to let you know that we are in the process of providing a new look and feel to GOAL. Once we have made the changes we would welcome your feedback.

We hope to have the new look site up and running before the end of January 2008.

We will be working hard over the coming year to develop the GOAL site. We would very much appreciate your input. Please do get in touch with any comments or questions you have on the site. Your feedback would be greatly appreciated.

The official launch of GOAL was carried out by MSP Bristow Muldoon on Monday 15 January. GOAL is a brand new Community Grid for Learning, or learning website for the people of West Lothian. It is supported by the Big Lottery Fund and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

The idea of GOAL is to provide a "one-stop shop" for learners. They can find out about learning ava...

The Community Learning and Development Service  (CLD) of West Lothian Council obtained funding to host a conference on the National Standards for Community Engagement. 

The conference aim was to promote an improved approach to National Standards for Community Engagement involving all partner agencies across West Lothian.&...

The Community Based Adult Learning (CBAL) team of Community Learning and Development (CLD) held an evening to celebrate the learning of the participants who had taken part in courses over the previous six months. The evening served several purposes as well as celebrating learning: Two learners gave inputs on their experiences of learning from the CBAL team and the benefits they have taken from ...

In West Lothian Community Learning and Development (CLD) run conferences for sessional youth workers three times a year. The last conference covered the Child Protection Guidelines update. This was a subject that a lot of sessional youth work staff and full time CLD staff had been requesting for some time. Frances Anderson from CLD delivered the session based on the input she has developed for ...