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WHO WE ARE

TIILC is a charity promoting intercultural learning and communication, connecting people of different cultures in local and global learning communities and by so doing enhancing understanding of people's diverse cultural identities.

TIILC BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Made up from various members of the community

TIILC ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Members of the Advisory Committee are representatives of board of Trustees, mainstream public, voluntary and private sectors.

TIILC BACKGROUND

TIILC emerged from a project of the charity AWAD [African Women's Arts, Culture, Heritage and Development - International Network]. AWAD, since it was formally constituted in April 2000, has achieved the status of the leading UK based grassroots African women's organisation promoting their arts, culture and development. AWAD's own origins lie in the inaugural African Women's Arts International Conference in 1994 - a collaborative initiative between The Calabash - Arts of Africa and the British Council. It attracted people of influence from across the world and the exhibition was opened by Baroness Chalker of the Department of Overseas Development.

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STRATEGIC PLAN 2008-2012

TIILC's Strategic Plan has been prepared following wide consultations and include: people drawn from many communities across the world, the voluntary, stautory, non-governmental and private sectors in education, culture, health-care and museum, galleries, libraries and archives. This plan was drawn up by the first Chair and Sectetary of the charity and approved at the first meeting of the Board (The Trustees meeting) in 2008. This plan draws on the pioneering and successful work carried out by AWAD from which TIILC emerged. The vision is to establish TIILC as a leading organisation promoting intercultural learning and communication from local and global perspectives.

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WHAT WE DO

TIILC is unique placed as an organisation with knowledge and experience in working across Europe and internationally with diverse organisations in the voluntary, statutory and private sectors including: Education, Museums, Galleries, Libraries and Archives, NGO's, and Health related services. TIILC has developed as a strong advocate of linking people of southern and northern origins at regional, national and international levels.

The major focus of our current work is across the following inter-related areas

Policy, Practice, Theory and Advocacy
Research and Publication
Education, Learning and Training
Media and Public Relations

VISION VALUES AND MISSION

These are based on the belief that by promoting intercultural learning and communication (from practice, policy, theoretical and advocacy perspectives) we can help to build a better world - drawing on our rich and diverse cultural inheritances by:

Promoting intercultural learning and communication.
Connecting people of different cultures in local and global learning communities.
Enhancing understandings of different cultures and identities.
Campaigning for recognition and promotion of intercultural learning and communication to promote people's sense of belonging and identity to the places where they live or have their roots.
Working together for the reduction of poverty, care of the environment and preservation of peoples' diverse cultural inheritances.
Creating better understandings of the need to help preserve cultures and traditions that are declining as those with the knowledge grow old and die – set in the context of a changing world where people are increasingly mobile migrating from where they have their cultural roots.