London

This partnership between Action for Prisoners' Families, Children's Links and NOMS/the Prison Service has two main aims: to give prison staff and volunteers training in offering informal family learning through play in prisons, and to give prisoners and their families attending family visits the opportunity to learn and develop, through fun activities.

Southside Partnership, NHS Surrey and Media for Development will promote informal learning via focus groups, volunteering and humour to offenders. A show-like humour DVD on mental health and race equalities will be produced inside, and broadcast to other prisons, potentially to 83,000 prisoners nationally.

Camden's Inspiration Market will use vacant shops and community centres to bring together local colleges, museums and libraries with new learners. The shared activities will inspire and encourage local residents to engage with the national and international resources on their doorstep, break down barriers and bring the community together.

Our project, called Leading Informal Learning, supports the current initiative to create an online toolkit to support the establishment of self-organised learning groups. The project will develop an innovative online course in teaching/facilitation skills to support the leaders of such groups, making training more widely available and suiting individuals from a wide spectrum.

Taking Off is a new initiative: two distinct yet interrelated projects culminating in a sharing to be held in spring 2010. Designed and led by Clean Break, it aims to build on the company's expertise in theatre and education, and to experiment with different ways of learning in new settings.

What's Your Story? enables disadvantaged people to acquire video production skills, and produce living history films for public exhibition and the projects website. The Documentary Filmmakers Group will partner with carers in Redbridge, Panjabis in Southall , African women in Westminster and older people in Hackney.

The aim is to establish a sustainable framework to support the creation and ongoing development of learning clubs and to pilot 3 Learning Clubs with specific target groups. This will enable such groups to participate in a variety of curriculum areas and to help manage their own learning.

Hinwick Hall in Northamptonshire is a specialist college working with young people who have physical and learning disabilities.
Hinwick Hall will be opening its door to other disabled people in the community to come and take part in informal learning. Workshops will include art, drama, ICT, cookery and crafts.

This project will take the map of Lambeth as a starting point to create a reminiscence quilt working with the diverse community of Lambeth telling the story of Lambeth - place and people. This inter-generational project will use quilting as a tool to enable the over 60s to impart knowledge to younger people in a practical way that encourages sharing of stories and practical knowledge, skills and expertise.

The ‘Spread your Wings' project aims to inspire, entertain and educate participants from one of the most deprived areas in England to a new awareness of what makes a healthy lifestyle. It brings together a partnership of providers, which will act as a model for community development work in Bexley.

The aim of this project is to support adult learners through 3 new community centres and progress them to other opportunities by creating pathways to the learning and support opportunities across the borough, as well as disseminating best practice and informing Ealing's Adult Development Strategy.

The project aims to enable people with long term health conditions to engage in informal adult learning opportunities. A key feature of the project is the recruitment of learning facilitators from existing Expert Patient, Expert Carers and local service user networks in the London Borough of Lambeth who will be trained and supported to become learning facilitators.

Our project will engage at-risk residents living in the Barbican's council estates with the Museum, provide opprotunities for these local residents and individuals from the University of the Third Age to gain new skills, and provide all visitors to the Museum with a unique mobile walking tour of London's Square mile created by participants in this project. 

In the Sister Hood Project is a Women and their Daughters Learning Together through Art & Culture. The initiative is designed to meet the needs of 150 women from BAME communities in Tower Hamlets and New Ham. The project will enable women aged of (18+) to participate in cultural dance, literacy and ICT, Food Cooperative, sewing. Circle activities to better themselves. Learning champions will sustain the "In the Sister Hood Project after the project ends in March 2010 .

Our Kingston, Our future: an exciting intergenerational learning experience using the creative arts. People Brands in partnership with Transition Town Kingston will run a series of Art Gym ^TM events with elders and young adults to co-create a vision of a sustainable future for Kingston. 300 people will share stories and produce a variety of creative content for their vision, including a documentary to be showcased to the wider community.

Over six months, award-winning college Point Blank will deliver free creative and media activities including Radio Broadcasting, Music Production, Acting and Film-making. Using famous London clubs as the venues, activities will conclude with celebrity-led Masterclasses and an innovative informal learning website where people can share their new skills.

To provide initial learning to learners from vulnerable BME groups on a variety of topics whilst simultaneously developing volunteers' teaching skills to deliver learning to underrepresented groups on a long term basis. To build the capacity of the voluntary and community sector to deliver informal adult learning.

‘Animate' - a history and art project to inspire disabled people to engage with culture and to explore the living history of the Disability Arts Movement.
Disabled people will explore key events and art pieces from the Movement through art workshops, contributing their own experiences to populate an interactive website.

"Coverage of Africa is dismissive"
Joaquim Chissano, former Mozambican President

One world media will collect positive stories of countries that are often dismissed. Architecture in Afghanistan, human-interest stories from Iran, recipes from Zimbabwe and sports in Eritrea to give but a few examples. One world media seeks to redress the balance.

This project seeks to involve the private sector in supporting ex - offenders in employment through informal coaching and role modelling while giving the ex -offenders the opportunity to demonstrate the fallacy of many of the assumptions that prevent them from them gaining employment across all sectors.

This project aims to develop information tools for Lambeth residents and professionals through technology. The 3 project partners - the Authority, the City Learning Centre and the voluntary sector are working with groups of fathers to enhance their own understanding of the impact of their positive engagement with their families by producing presentations, films and photographic portfolios around the importance of fathers, and the impact of domestic violence on families.

Street League's Transformation fund is a series of courses offered to NEET & disadvantaged adults aged 19 and above. Courses will be combined with a nationally accredited OCN to provide a programme focusing on confidence & self - esteem, employability and communication skills. The course will offer participants a great opportunity to make positive changes in their lives.

To create opportunities for dads and significant father figures from BME backgrounds to participate in developing innovative learning activities with their children, based on new media and technology. The activities will be used to provide a new learning infrastructure that promotes and supports fathers' learning across England.

Get Crafty! The Urban Crafts Club in Holloway will provide an opportunity for local adults to come together, learn and share craft skills and make new friends. Meeting in local venues such as libraries, the group will work towards displaying the fruits of their labour at various public events!

DAPA is a partnership between the Tower Hamlets' mental health occupational therapy service of East London NHS Foundation Trust and Lifelong Learning Services. DAPA will provide drumming and photography workshops, exhibitions and performances as a bridge to further learning opportunities for service users.

UXL's "Open Access for Carers" programme will provide flexible, informal interactive home and blended learning centres to 60 Carers who are restricted, therefore cannot commit to regular classroom attendance. A network of 3 learning groups will be established through partnership with the public and voluntary sector.

SOUL is a cross-sector partnership, led by Wandsworth Council, created to establish a network of choirs across London. It will offer 900 people vocal, composition and performance training culminating in a performance at the London adult choirs event ‘Sing Inspiration 10!' at the Royal Festival Hall in 2010.

The Learning Revolutionaries project seeks to create informal, self defined and self controlled learning circles which will promote learning for learning's sake. It will build an effective model of very informal, free to all, adult learning, defined and controlled by learning communities themselves and facilitated by ‘Learning Revolutionaries' (volunteers).