Science Alive, a learning provider, worked with a range of partners to offer a series of hands-on, practical, informal learning workshops to convey the excitement of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and their relevance to everyday life. It offered adult learners (including disadvantaged families, parents and carers and learners with low self-esteem and/or few qualifications including unemployed people) a range of science-based informal learning activities, including ICT skills for older learners; an introduction to STEM in everyday life; storytelling; an accessible introduction to the National Curriculum and science in schools; and developing presentation skills through performing arts. They aimed to build confidence and basic skills and help people move onto further opportunities including further learning and career redirection.