East Midlands

The project aims to work with local people on a themed topic which will culminate in a community exhibition. Local people, as part of new or established groups will have the opportunity to work in different media to produce a wide-range of art work based on the history of Braunstone, a community on the outskirts of Leicester City. Braunstone has a high level of deprivation, but is also rich in history, both physical and social, and there is a great deal of interest in the history from its residents.

Access to Arts, a partnership between Double Impact, Framework and City Arts, is a programme of visits to arts venues, supported by creative art workshops, designed to increase the independent use of these venues by vulnerable and socially excluded groups and to increase participants' knowledge, skills and sense of well-being.

The Horti'cultural' Festival is a great way for adults to explore the cultural side of horticulture. The eighteen Festival events will be free to attend, with childcare support, and will include a variety of talks, demonstrations and hands on activities from Art and Garden Design to Flower Arranging and Poetry.

Facing Up is a victim awareness programme to be designed and piloted at HMP Lincoln. It will be an 8-session programme that will introduce sentenced prisoners to victim awareness skills and will give victims and offenders an opportunity to meet and learn from each other

"Learning Leicestershire" aspires to develop a whole systems approach to the infrastructure of informal adult learning (including collaborative structures, accessible spaces, innovative technology and content, people trained to support engagement) in order to enable adults across the county, particularly those rurally isolated or housebound by illness/disability, to benefit.

This project will recruit volunteers to be trained as sighted guides by Northamptonshire Association for the Blind. They will then accompany learners with visual impairments on two short pilot courses delivered in local country parks with the aim of enhancing their sensory experience of the outdoors.

The Harpenden Partnership Players will use theatre, drama, music and art, creating a wide range of informal learning opportunities whilst addressing the issues and effects of bullying to produce and perform a piece of contemporary theatre in March 2010 to raise public awareness and promote a greater understanding of bullying.

We aim to teach local residents how to grow their own fruit & vegetables using a polytunnel and a plot of land on the local allotment site. Learners will then take some of their seedlings home to plant in their own back yard. We also intend to encourage healthy eating by teaching how to prepare and cook the produce. An additional integrated aim is to introduce the concepts of sustainability and environmental awareness, including practical re-cycling such as growing strawberries in old wellington boots.

The project will establish a basis of trust between Ollerton and District Adult Education Providers and the newly established and growing Traveller Communities in the locality. It will pave the way for a sequence of programmes to engage Travellers in Adult Learning and encourage involvement with the wider community.