North East

"Wor Tyneside" is a collaboration between "Better Days" (led by adults with learning disabilities), Newcastle City Library and the Sage Gateshead. It is a chance to learn more about local history, experience guided tours and put impressions about our heritage into words, pictures and songs, culminating in 2 public displays/performances.

Making County Durham's mining heritage accessible to adult learners, including the disadvantaged, by exploiting an archive of international significance. Volunteers will develop skills and meet like-minded people, while helping to create online indexes focusing on the working lives of miners rather than mining disasters. Exhibitions will celebrate their work and encourage sustainability.

This project will support 10-15 disabled people and carers to explore new experiences in Gateshead. Comparing access in historic buildings versus contempory buildings, also exploring the learning opportunities provided by the different facets of culture. Participants will then become learning ambassadors encouraging others to learn, through reflective learning.

Helix Arts is delivering high quality participatory arts activities for parents in County Durham who use the Sacriston Children's Centre Cluster.

Working with Audio Visual artists, and also exploring other artforms, the project will seek to make links with festivals and colleges to promote progression routes for participants.

An open, web-based blog and forum. Faith communities and any interested in inter-faith heritage present ‘a spiritual Voice of the North East' on ethical issues from a variety of viewpoints. Participants may go beyond the informal blog and forum, and join learning groups to follow on the threads of discussion.

Mad Alice Theatre Company, based in Blackhill, Consett, Co.Durham, hope to increase access to and encourage participation in the arts for the residents of Derwentside who up until now have found such activities difficult to engage with due to lack of opportunity and /or financial constraints. Free drama/music/art/digital art & writing workshops will be delivered to the 0ver 60's and young people 19-25yrs ( currently not in education/employment ). The over 60's will create a memory book " The Swinging 60's in Derwentside" and the young people will produce their own cabaret performance "How we want to be remembered' The groups will share their outcomes.

The aim of the project is to develop a strong infrastructure for informal adult learning and showcase innovative practice across Northumberland. By involving partners who have not previously worked together we will open access to resources, explore new delivery mechanisms and find new ways of getting people learning and connecting to different learning experiences.

Showcase in partnership with Redcar and Cleveland Adult Learning Service, the Voluntary Development Agency, Spotlight and Village Arts, using existing learning centres and 3 new learning venues i.e. unused retail premises bringing shop front learning to the High Street.

Creative and Performance Arts workshops incorporating New Media and Technology.

This project will provide opportunities for adult learners across the Tees Valley, Northeast England, to learn to play Caribbean steel pan. Through the programme of workshops and activities participants will explore the culture and music of the Caribbean. They will develop individual steel pan skills and create a new adult steel band. The project will encourage informal learning and celebrate this through showcase community sharing .

Community Music Spark Training Programme is a two tier programme enabling adults with learning disabilities to develop music leadership skills. Advanced Trainees will help to train newly recruited Trainees and each group is supported by professional music leaders to design and deliver music workshops to invited groups of their peers.

Transforming Tyneside opens its doors for people to take advantage of new spaces, resources and facilities. There will be opportunities on offer for a range of people, from practical workshops exploring creative technologies, to talks, events and new programmes. We are also developing Tyneside online as a space for people to engage, learn and share.

This project will use informal adult learning to explore the changing identity of Newcastle upon Tyne's East End, a traditional industrial area undergoing profound social change. It will enable residents to learn more about the heritage of their part of the City, utilising new communications media and under-used venues.

The project aims to use Informal Adult Learning to develop and then trial a learning programme and web resource that enhances awareness of the historical and natural heritage of Hadrian's Wall, boosting both the local economy and productive networking within the tourism sector.