Annual Report 1998: Civil College Foundation Hungary

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Cím:	Annual Report 1998: Civil College Foundation Hungary
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Ország:	Magyarország
A kiadás helye:	Budapest
A kiadás éve:	1999
Kiadó:	Civil Kollégium Alapítvány
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Nyelv:	angol
Tárgyszavak:	éves jelentés, Civil Kollégium Alapítvány
Állomány:	Civil Kollégium Alapítvány alapdokumentumok, Éves jelentések
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Budapest, 1011 Corvin tér 8. * Telefon/Fax: 201-5728 * E-mail:civkol@kkapcsolat.hu

CIVIL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
HUNGARY
Annual Report 1998

Our mission
For our organisation, which was established in 1994, the year 1998 was the period of strengthening the organisation as well as creating the basis for its future operation in the long-term.
When analysing and evaluating the earlier activities of the organisation, a three-fold reference of the Civil College’s long-term mission was outlined.
· national training organisation and people’s academy for the actors of local action (who work in community development projects);
· the development of the skills of initiation and action among the inhabitants of the Felső-Kiskunság small region, the area surrounding the Training Centre in Kunbábony, and, building on this, the fulfilment of the function of a local people’s academy;
· the institution of professional community development training.

Our strategic plan
In close co-operation with the Association for Community Development, our organisation has elaborated a 3-year strategic plan which concerns its operation and sustainability.
Central to this plan is the so-called ”Small Grants Programme” which is intended to support organisation and local action through small grants, training, and the supervision of projects.
A further strategic element of this programme is the professional accreditation of community development, and the launching of its training in secondary and higher-educational institutions. We are trying to build-up a more secure system of long-term funding instead of our past practice of working from project to project.

Partnership-building
National relations
1998 has also been the year of laying the foundation of our strategic plan. Partnership-building and the presentation of the efforts and practice of the Civil College in Hungary and abroad played an important role during our work. Important new co-operations were born or outlined on both the regional level (in the county of Bács-Kiskun) and the national level with voluntary, training, and grantor organisations, and professional unions. We have been much more active in terms of providing expertise in organising EU and Hungarian national as well as regional programmes.

International relations
We carried on with and strengthened our international relations, particularly with the Northern College in UK, the ICEA International Community Education Association, and the CEBSD Combined European Bureau for Social Development.

Training courses
Naturally, our main activity has been training, and we therefore provide a detailed list of our courses in 1998. Please note that most of our civil training courses are week-end courses, and that training a group may take several week-ends. Our courses on community enterprising usually take 2x5 days. The field works of the professional community development training courses take 4-5 days, which can be prolonged if desired. The number of participants attending our courses is usually somewhere between 14 and 32.

The Civil College has prepared curricula and study plans:
For non-profit organisations:
local and small regional community development and partnership-building, the establishment and running of civil organisations, the techniques of local action; the organisation and running of independent local media; enterprise development.
For professionals:
· the secondary and higher-educational syllabus of community development, and its professional as well as examination criteria. We have initiated the accreditation of the community development profession as well as its inclusion in the National Training Register.
· the syllabus of post-gradual training for youth referrals.

Our courses have been characterised by collective planning and the treatment and sharing of experiences in the community. The participants of the courses usually come from the local projects of our nation-wide organisation. They co-operate with the organisation, or with the nearest community development worker or organisation, both before and after training.

Development work in the Felső-Kiskunság
The Civil College performs development work in the Felső-Kiskunság in co-operation with the Association for Community Development, since community development activities reveal training needs, and the training courses result in further community action.

1. The mobilisation of citizens
In 1998 the Civil College carried on with its small-regional development programme in the Felső-Kiskunság.
In the framework of the regional development work performed in Felső-Kiskunság we mobilised approximately 200 citizens from 5 villages together with 40 university students in May 1998 in order to launch the extensive local community appraisal movement.
Local civic movement has started as a result of interviews and community discussions. In the village of Kunpeszér: the organisation of events; the renovation of the nursery’s garden; the meeting of the Kiskunság National Park and local farmers; the establishment of a local association which organises cultural programmes, charity events, and the establishment of a playground, and which runs a part of the Cultural Centre according to a contract with the local government. Long-term projects are being planned at the moment.
Local newspapers were established and launched (Kunbábony, Szalkszentmárton, Tass); the organisation of the meeting of local employers in order to develop the local economy, and the launching of a youth café project (Kunszentmiklós); the organisation of meetings for those dealing with village tourism, and the launching of summer programmes for young people (Kunadacs). The Kitchen Garden ’98 programme, which was organised by the local association in Kunbábony and sponsored by the Autonómia Foundation, has provided 30 (mostly disadvantaged) families with the opportunity to produce the vegetables they need. The members of the establishing sales co-operative came partly from among the participants of this programme, and partly from the participants of earlier enterprise development programmes.
We are now preparing for the ”Family Child-Care Programme” which is designed to provide day-care facilities for children. Unemployed women have been trained to become entrepreneurs in the programme. Our university/college students have been involved in our small regional projects on a regular basis.

2. The development of infrastructure for civil action
· the establishment of a network of community workers, their training, and the provision of consultations

In Tass, Kunpeszér, Szalkszentmárton, Kunbábony, and Kunszentmiklós we employ 5 community workers in the framework of a National Employment Found project. Their training and introduction to work was started in September and is still in progress.

the launching of the Community Enterprise Development Agency
We have elaborated the business plan for this project, and we presented it to the actors of small regional economic life on 22nd February, while encouraging them to become founders of the agency. The organisation of the foundation running the agency is in progress at the moment.

All this suggests that the local people’s academy programme builds on civic movement and needs. It provides the opportunity to learn for people who need it, and when they need it.

TRAINING COURSES IN 1998

JANUARY
19-23.	Community enterprise course for the people of Felső-Kiskunság 1.	Kunbábony
23.	Staff development - Hegyháti Jóléti Szolgálat Alapítvány	Győrvár
26-27.	Community enterprise course for the people of Felső-Kiskunság 2.	Kunbábony
30-01.	Independent Local Media 3. Pilot training course	Kunbábony
FEBRUARY
03-05.	University of Budapest, 3rd year students - practical work for Felső Kiskunság	Kunbábony
06-08.	Elected Members for Local Councils 1.	Kunbábony
13.	Training about the method of "community appraisal"	Nádasd
20-22.	Elected Members for Local Councils 2.	Kunbábony
25-28.	Staff Development, Családi Szolgálatok Ligája, Budapest	Kunbábony
27.	Staff development, Hegyháti Jóléti Szolgálat Alapitvány	Vasvár
MARCH
01.	Independent Local Media	Csepreg
13.	Staff development, Hegyháti Jóléti Szolgálat Alapitvány	Győrvár
13-15.	Training COURSE ON associations - Budapest, XV. Szilasparki Association	Kunbábony
15-17.	Dzsumbuj Family Centre - training about community development	Kunbábony

21-22.	Youth workers' training for local communities along the river Principális	Bánya

20-22.	Union of Independent Community Radios	Kunbábony
22-26.	University of the city of Pécs - IV-V. years community social work students, field work
27-29.	Elected Members for Local Councils 3.	Kunbábony
APRIL
5.	Partnership in the Small Region of Felső-Kiskunság	Kunbábony
6-10.	Community enterprise course for the people of Felső Kiskunság	Kunbábony
17.	Staff development, Hegyháti Jóléti Szolgálat Alapitvány	Vasvár
17-19.	Training COURSE ON the method of "community appraisal" - Community School, Visonta	Kunbábony
21.	Training for civil organisationS	Izsák
27-01.	Community enterprise course for the people of Felső Kiskunság	Kunbábony
MAY
01-03.	Joint field-work BY STUDENTS FROM 5 differenT higher education institutions,: mobilising about 200 people of 5 local communities	Kunbábony
08.-10.	Molnár Szilárd	Kunbábony
11-15.	Community enterprise course for the people of Felső Kiskunság	Kunbábony
15-17.	Civil Radio - Staff development	Kunbábony
18-20.	"One school - one village" - partnership training course	Kunbábony
JUNE
03-5.
05-07.	"Forest School" - environmenTAL training in Felső Kiskunság	Kunbábony
26-28.	Training for community workers of Felső-Kiskunság	Kunbábony
JULY
01-04.	Parents' Association of Kőbánya, Budapest X. district	Kunbábony
8-12.	Training for the community workers of Felső-Kiskunság	Kunbábony
14-15.	"One school - one village" - partnership training course	Seregélyes

AUGUST
10.-14.	Basic COMPUTER SKILLS FOR VOLUNTEERS	Kunbábony
21-23.	Youth Newspaper for local communities along the river Principális	Budapest-Csillebérc
SEPTEMBER
04-06.	Staff development of the local newspaper "Láncszem"	Siófok
18-20.	Training for the community workers of Felső-Kiskunság	Kunbábony
29.	Training for "village wardens"	Egervár
29-től kéthetente	DevelopING the knowledge about enterprising - for secondary school students in Felső Kiskunság	Kunszentmiklós
OCTOBER
03-04.	Sharing experiences - local newspaper' makers, Csongrád- and Vas counties	Kunbábony
08-11.	Parents' Association of Kőbánya, Budapest X. district - civil training	Kunbábony
13-14.	Staff development for RECIPROK offices, NIOK	Pécs
16-18.	"Csepregi Promenád" - local media training	Csepreg
23-25.	"Hétdombi Hirek" - local media training	Nádasd
31.	Civil training for the Association of Kunbábony	Kunbábony
NOVEMBER
6-8.	"Vasalja" - local media training	Vasalja
14.	Local media training	Velem
17.	TRAINING ON co-operative development - for agriculturaAL PROFESSIONALS	Mosonmagyaróvár
18.	Community enterprise training	Sopron
20-22.	Staff development, Civil Radio	Kunbábony
26.	TRAINING ON co-operative development - for farmers	Püspökladány
27-29.	Training for co-operative development workers	Kunbábony
DECEMBER
01-04.	Training for new co-operative members	Kunbábony
2.	Staff development for RECIPROK offices, NIOK	Kaposvár
10.	Training for THE community workers of Felső-Kiskunság	Kunbábony
11-13.	BASIC COMPUTER SKILLS for the Parents' Association of Kőbánya, X. district of Budapest	Kunbábony
18-20.	Starting point at the Association "Alapzaj" - civil training	Kunbábony

SEMINARS IN 1998

APRIL
24-26.	Community Development and Community Economy	Kunbábony
JUNE
17-21.	ICEA Youth Coalition - "Who is knocking at my door?"	Kunbábony
NOVEMBER
13-14.	Community Development and Training	Kunbábony
26-27.	Seminar about Community Radios	Debrecen

Financial Report 1998

Rates: 1 USD = 205,18 HUF (01.01.1998)
1 USD = 219,03 HUF (31.12.1998)

EXPENDITURES	in 1000 HUF
1. Salaries + employers’ taxes	7 185
From which: monthly wages	4 222
occasional fees	231
honorarium	592
social insurance	1 968
employers’ taxes	172
II. Operational costs:
Altogether:	7 140
From which: office supplies	1 150
service costs	5 990
from which: gas, electricity, water	706
- rent	579
- travel and transport	830
- postage, telephon, fax	599
Other costs:	0
Purchasing equipment	10 902
Total expenditure:	25 227

INCOME	in 1000 HUF
Operational incomes from basic activities:	2 523
Income from enterprising:	194
Membership fees	0
Funding from grant applications	25 259
1% contribution from income tax for civil orgs.	0
	1 022

Total income:	28 998

Itemised income list

Grants from Hungary	In 1000 HUF
USAID DemNet Hungary	300
Soros Foundation	240
Grants from foreign sponsors
Katholieke Noden	3 015
Westminster Foundation	7 235
Northern College	239
privat donation	14 230
Total:	25 259

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