East of England

Practical training in workshops at Frogmore Mill, a historic working papermill. Courses will include bookbinding, handmade paper, printmaking and letterpress printing, IT and digital printing skills, calligraphy, and making greetings cards. We will encourage and support groups to continue meeting to enjoy working and learning together after their initial courses.

Museum clubs for adults with learning disabilities will run in Suffolk museums - Moyse's Hall, Bury St Edmunds and Gainsborough's House, Sudbury. Participants will explore their local heritage, gain skills and become more involved in their local community. Project partners will work together to make the clubs sustainable.

This project will train 100 people who are affected by drug and alcohol use in basic first aid. In addition we will develop partnerships with 3 agencies who specialise in this field and recruit staff, volunteers and service users from these organisations as volunteer trainers. These individuals will then act as first aid ‘peer educators' within their agencies. We will develop a specialised first aid course which meets the needs of participants and scope some ‘open access' first aid learning materials for drug and alcohol affected people.

Pathways to the Future will create a ‘CAN Do' space to encourage informal learning for the wider community, embracing the Learning Revolution ethos of looking, discovering, engaging, becoming inspired, exploring and gaining skills, confidence and practical abilities. The project will utilise the New Media Resource Centre at the City Academy Norwich, underpinning all activities with IAG and progression opportunities.

The project will provide a rolling programme of learning tasters for adults in an empty shop in Hemel Hempstead town centre: local residents will be encouraged to try anything from music to jewellery making, IT for beginners to DIY. Comprehensive information and advice on local learning opportunities will be available.

Accelerating Green Informal LEarning (AGILE) is about promoting environmental awareness through informal learning. It is an opportunity for people to discover valuable facts about the environment, using self-help mechanisms. It will be locally-based, but the model should be nationally applicable. AGILE will enable hard-to-reach groups discover new ways of learning.

This project is piloting the development and delivery of a sustainable cost-effective network of learning centres within Residential Care Homes in Barking and Dagenham. It is equipping 100 housebound elderly (over 60) residents with the information, communication and technology skills to support their re-engagement with family, friends and learning.

‘Fusion Ambitions' project will promote informal adult learning for adults to access lifelong learning in the local communities of Stevenage, Mid & North Hertfordshire through drama by developing a local ‘Learning Revolution' partnership, delivering exciting, innovative & creative learning opportunities for adults who are furthest away from learning opportunities.

To explore the needs of unemployed BME men; report publication and distribution to partners and stakeholders.

Twice-weekly workshop sessions with informal learning activities, training consultation, employment and learning sessions: to build the confidence of 40 participants.

Monthly Radio programmes, video diary and group website development.

A Norfolk based project, with an innovative delivery of starting out in Family History research. We offer supported sessions for employees of Norse Commercial Services and Royal Mail, their friends and family, at flexible times & locations. Our commitment to developing partnerships will offer a motivational experience.

This project will use hands-on learning to convey the excitement of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and their relevance to our everyday lives. It will offer adult learners aged 19-99 a range of science-based informal learning activities, including Silver Surfers: everyday computer skills for older learners; Blinded with Science: an introduction to STEM in everyday life; Storyteller: how to make a meal out of a simple idea; Kids Stuff: an accessible introduction to the National Curriculum and Presenting Me: developing presentation skills through drama.

Transform is a unique and exciting project for adults aged 19 + who are living in or accessing supported housing services in Norfolk. It will give people, often overlooked by mainstream education, an opportunity to take part in the Learning Revolution.

Shifting-Paradigms will create the framework for an informal learning movement in Bedfordshire and Luton. It will allow providers to explore an innovative approach to the development and delivery of self-organised learning. It will support a shift away from providers deciding what's best for learners to learners deciding that for themselves.

By taking learning into the community we hope to nurture learning for interest's sake amongst isolated people with mental health problems and others. Initially supported and based in community venues, the informal atmosphere will foster community integration and reduce isolation. A lasting outcome would be that the clubs become self-sustaining.