Educational and developmental projects offering social workers from all sectors the opportunity to obtain new skills and work with the Foundation.
We are currently working on a number of projects that will be supported by funding bids to offer new opportunities to BASW members and all social workers that want to get involved with the BASW Foundation. Volunteer opportunities as well as student training programmes and cultural heritage projects are part of the workplan for 2024/25.
The BASW Student Development Programme
Launching on March 16th, 2024 – The BASW Student Development Programme
The BASW Charitable Foundation for Social Work is delighted to have launched a learning programme for students – ‘The Art of Social Work’. This exciting initiative offers students free access to webinar style training sessions, covering topics that augment the University syllabus. Suitable for delegates nationwide, the BASW Foundation is passionate about making learning accessible to students, who are the future of our profession.
With a rich variety of topics hosted by knowledgeable and experienced trainers, sessions take place monthly in the evening to assist students fit around their university and placement commitments.
Upcoming topics areas follows – please follow the links for more information and to book your place. Please note booking links for sessions August 2024 onwards will go live in July.
The BASW Heritage Archives Project
In 2019 to 2021 we embarked on a large scale BASW Heritage project to support the celebration in 2020 of 50 years of the association and 100 years of social work. The project had an immense impact on the association bringing BASW members, stakeholders, volunteers, external social workers and those with a passion for social work issues together from around the UK and the world. We produced an oral histories archive, many multi-media projects, webinars and an ebook .
We have collated hundreds of archives from physical collections of social work history to books, textbooks, and magazines. These were gifted and donated from members sharing their own experiences of social work past, present and into the future.
This is a large undertaking however we will be spending this year cataloguing the archives and collections that will hopefully provide a digital and physical resource for members into the future, to learn about the history of social work. It will be the first social work based cultural and educational archive to support education for social workers.
