GFTU Educational Trust

16/10/2026

📲 Sometimes the difference between "I should do that" and "I’m going" is simply knowing the opportunity exists.

We’ve created a simple way to stay in the loop with our courses, join our WhatsApp group.

🗝️ Your phone can open a door.

15/10/2026

📺 🔁 Watch and share tonight's with Jaz Brisack.

Join our next session in the series with Angela Davis on 4 February 2027.

Link to register in the comments below.

15/10/2026

LIVE NOW 🔴 : Lessons from SALTING in the USA, how to organise Starbucks.

, join now via link in comments.

15/10/2026

NEW 🚨| Join our exclusive author meet & book signing at our upcoming Educational Trust Gala Dinner fundraiser

📚 Get your signed copy of Reindustrialise Britain: A Strategy for Wealth Creation.

🎟️ Book your tickets now via the link in comments.

14/10/2026

A dinner can be a meal, or it can be a moment to stop, look around and recognise what we’re building together. 🎈

✊ We're celebrating the people who make independent trade union education possible, and the learners, activists and representatives who take that education back into their workplaces and communities.

The Friends of GFTUET Gala Dinner takes place in November 2026 🎉

Be part of much more than just a meal ✨👇

13/10/2026

➡ One person learns something new
➡ they take it back to their workplace
➡ they share it with a colleague
➡ that colleague gets involved
➡ a new rep finds their voice
➡ a team becomes more confident
➡ a workplace starts to organise differently

🌊 That’s the ripple effect of trade union education.

🚪 Our Education Fund is about creating more opportunities for that ripple to begin, opening our education programme to non-GFTU-affiliated union branches, regions and local Trades Councils.

The value of education doesn’t stop when the course ends, it travels 🛫

12/10/2026

👇 Is neurodiversity on your union’s agenda?

Our Bargaining and Organising for Neurodiversity Part 1 course looks at:

🔴 what neurodiversity means in the workplace
🔴 the barriers neurodivergent workers can face
🔴 how union reps can play a meaningful role in supporting members and putting neurodiversity on the workplace agenda.

🎤 Led by experienced trade union trainer Janine Booth, the course brings together practical trade union experience, professional knowledge and lived experience.

🔥 No one does trade union education quite like us.

09/10/2026

💚 Education is one of the best investments a trade union can make.

❌ Not because a course simply gives someone another qualification, but because:
learning can:

📣 Give a workplace rep the confidence to speak up
🚩 Give an activist a new way of organising
🧠 Help someone understand the forces shaping their workplace, their community and the wider economy.
💬 Turn a question into a conversation, and a conversation into action.

The Education Fund makes our independent education programme accessible to non-affiliated union branches, regions and local Trades Councils.

🔥 Not paying for places on courses, but investing in people.

08/10/2026

🚨 📢 UPDATE

👀 We've moved our course to March 2027.

🔥 Book your place now

The challenges facing trade unions today demand confident, innovative leaders who can organise, inspire and build a strong union movement.

🥁 That's where TULIP comes in 🥁

The Trade Union Leadership & Innovation Programme (TULIP) is designed to develop the skills, knowledge and confidence needed to lead effectively in a changing world.

💭 Thinking About Leadership
🔥 Transforming Individuals
🚀 Developing People
💡 Creating Conditions for Change
✊ Leading Innovation and Change

Secure your place now, limited availability 🔗👇

08/10/2026

📺 Catch up on the first session of the and working-class series 2026-2027, featuring Ben Stevenson & Roger Seifert.

Delivered in partnership with Marx Memorial Library, Working Class Movement Library & People's History Museum.

National Unemployed Workers' Movement (NUWM) 👇

📺Catch up on the first session of the and working-class...