All education sectors

• The Community Languages Bulletin from CILT goes out in hard copy to around 4000 colleagues in all sectors of education, highlighting new resources, local and national initiatives and opportunities. Register to receive the Bulletin free of charge.
• CILT also hosts the Community languages forum, a free email-based service across educational sectors to keep colleagues in very regular contact with the latest news and opportunities.
• CILT’s Community Languages National Show and exhibition brings together teachers, managers and policymakers from across the education sectors for a day of strategic discussion, networking and professional development.
• The CILT enquiry service welcomes individual queries, including on community languages issues.
• The Association for Language Learning provides an independent voice for teachers of all languages in all sectors and brings colleagues together through an e-newsletter, the Languages Today magazine, the annual Language World conference and local branch activities. The London branch holds an annual community languages focused event.
• The Links into Languages project keeps colleagues teaching languages in mainstream education in touch through an e-newsletter, events and regional centres.

Schools and colleges

• The termly Primary Languages and Secondary Languages Direct ezines from CILT contain the latest news in the sector, links to good practice examples, information and advice.
• The Primary languages forum and Linguanet forum (all sectors, including secondary and 14-19) keep colleagues in very regular contact by email and facilitate the sharing of ideas and information, including on global dimension and community and lesser taught languages issues.  
• CILT additionally keeps in touch with colleagues in the supplementary sector through a regular feature on community languages in the termly Bulletin of the National Resource Centre for Supplementary Education (NRC).
• The SSAT offers online networks for teachers of Arabic, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese and Russian, with a focus towards foreign language teaching in mainstream schools, as well as a Community languages network. The web pages offer information and resources and language-specific email fora.
• The Our Languages website offers a searchable database of mainstream and supplementary schools across England teaching community languages, enabling local schools to make contact with one another. The Working together section provides case studies and an extensive toolkit, available free-of-charge from CILT, on Partnerships in Language and Culture, to support the creation and maintenance of successful partnerships between mainstream and supplementary schools.
• The 80 Local Support Groups for colleagues teaching languages at primary and 150 Strategic Learning Networks at Key Stage 3 coordinated by CILT offer face-to-face opportunities for teachers to share expertise.
• The Links into languages project also offers face-to-face support, including professional development events at the nine regional centres and funding opportunities for networks through the LinkedUp Award Scheme.

Adult and higher education

• Tutors in adult, further and continuing education can sign up free of charge to receive the Netword Direct ezine or join the Netword Email Forum from CILT.
• The National Association for Teaching English and Community Languages to Adults (NATECLA) supports members through local branches and events, as well as an annual conference and the NATECLA News magazine. 
• The Languages of the Wider World Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, from the School of Oriental and Asian Studies and University College London, offers training courses, seminars and resources for colleagues involved in teaching community and lesser-taught languages in higher education.
• CILT is a partner in the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS) which supports colleagues teaching languages in higher education through regular events, the Liaison magazine, projects, resources and a monthly e-bulletin.

Workplace

• CILT publishes the Business of Languages to keep employers, language trainers and other stakeholders in languages and intercultural skills in the workplace up-to-date with the latest news.
• The Alliance of Sector Skills Councils brings together organisations which represent UK employers on skills issues, such as CILT, the National Centre for Languages which is the Sector Skills Body for languages and intercultural skills.
• Regional Language Networks also offer advice, information on service providers, cultural briefings, events and lots more to employers and language professionals. They also coordinate the Business Language Champions initiative, bringing the workplace and schools closer together.