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33.26 A meeting to consider joint working was
held.
33.27 Dr Stephen French made a contribution
to the Union Building Conference on
Performance management and attended a
meeting with one union to consider training
for senior managers.
33.28
Birmingham University
33.29 The General Secretary participated as a
speaker in three different seminars at the
University. One concerning an international
study by Dr Andy Hodder on trade union
strategies to engage young people, a
second on the use of popular education in
trade union education and the third on key
issues in arguing for an alternative education
strategy.
33.30 The Trust has support work to build cultural
and educational links internationally with Latin
America, China, Vietnam, Venezuela, Bolivia, and
the Kurdish community in Britain,
33.31 The Trustees have reviewed the application
and relevance of the Trust deed and made no
amendments. Induction training has been given
to new Trustees and consideration has been
given to expanding the Trustees’ group and areas
of expertise.
33.32 Developments in legislation and guidance
from the Charity Commissioners have been
considered.
33.33 The Trust gratefully received a donation from
the Rowe Leventon Trust when it was wound
up. It has agreed to allocate sums from this
donation to the making of a film about the trade
unionists who supported the Anti Apartheid
struggle, to commission some new artwork from
the Artists Union of England and the Scottish
Artists Union for Quorn Grange Hotel and our
general education programme. The Rowe
Leventon Trust was named after two pioneering
trade unionists from Manchester in the youth
and community sector. Sandar Leventon who
may well have been the first woman General
Secretary when she was elected to that role in
the Community and Youth Service Association.
Stanley Rowe was a youth worker and pioneer of
collective bargaining in the sector. Together with
Sandra he brought the disparate professional
associations and unions in youth work and
community work together and led a 13 year
struggle to establish collective bargaining in
the sector, the JNC for youth and community
workers. It was pleasing therefore that also in
2016 the GFTU could lend support to the unions’
successful struggle to break up this bargaining
committee, one of the best in the public sector.