South West

The overall aim of Nature@SunDown is to provide informal adult learning opportunities by creating a dynamic, energized and inspirational environment in which people can directly engage with wildlife at dusk thereby beginning a personal learning journey. Further support via face-to-face and distance learning will focus on the learner's wildlife specie.

The Inspire Project will offer people who are struggling with the stresses and strains of working life or getting back to work an integrated programme of coaching, learning and community broadcasting that invites learners to explore and develop the domains of mind, body, spirit and personal development.

The projects aim is to provide an exciting programme of informal learning to engage our hard to reach and socially isolated residents.

Through the new activities provided, we would like to achieve higher levels of community involvement. There will also be benefits in the areas of health, education and employment.

The project aims to reconnect a hard to reach group (unemployed parents) with the coast and sea using this as a basis for skills training in media and arts. It will also enable a new partnership between CoastNet and the Pembroke Street Management Board to broaden and promote the infrastructure for learning in a regeneration area of Devonport.

Family and local history sources are a fascinating resource for informal learning, and have proven popular appeal. This project aims to use archives, local studies and library collections to inspire people's sense of place and identity by creating new learning opportunities in Cornwall for people who do not traditionally engage with family or local history'.

This project promotes extended communication between staff, volunteers and visitors. Visitors can choose to be sent an interactive email written by volunteers and staff on topics in the museum. The emails encourage visitors to realise the impact the motor car had on our past and is having on our future.

The Water Works project will create an online video based tool kit to make water sports more accessible for deaf people. Core signs will be identified for swimming, scuba diving, canoeing, surfing and sailing environments. Deaf students will take part in the project and inform the development of the website.

To increase the contact between the Learning Champions and the community by providing access to local information using our own website to gather and signpost learners to local activities in informal and formal learning.

To hold a series of events, or join with local events, to make contact with people in the Westgate, Barton and Tredworth Community.

The Aspire to Grow Project - a scheme to engage our Older Generation through an accessible outdoor environment with activities to include fun and inspirational Bushcraft, Survival & Habitat to bring experiences ‘alive', enhance overall health and wellbeing.

GROW@CPP Ltd and Age Concern Somerset are working in partnership to increase access to outdoor spaces, raise awareness of unique learning opportunities and develop cohesive communities to prevent isolation.

This innovative and inclusive project is a collaboration between Leonard Cheshire Disability and Wiltshire College. It aims to provide a varied programme of semi-structured learning for the physically impaired, in a secure and caring environment. It will enable students to improve their independence and self-confidence, to work with others, develop their learning and take their place in the community.

By bringing together the cultural sector (museums, coast and countryside services, record office & theatres) and support services (NHS mental health services, children's centres) our aim is to create an vibrant and accessible culture of informal learning in Northern Devon.

The Creative Links project will establish a Well-being Consortium to deliver creative informal learning projects with vulnerable adults to increase and widen participation, increase opportunities for participants to have fun, gain personal development and new skills and will develop clear pathways of progression to new training and development opportunities.

Inspired by the linguistic diversity of the areas around Junction 3 in inner-city Bristol, ‘More Than Words...' explores the theme of language through workshops and short courses leading up to a celebration event and exhibition. The project will be delivered and devised in partnership with community groups offering learning opportunities to local residents.

Project partners: Single Parent Action Network (SPAN), 2QAB, Bristol Library Services and Amana Education Trust.

‘Transforming Lives' is designed to improve the health and well-being of participants.
Learners monitor their personal achievements using an ‘Actiped'.

Across 14 centres, including Hestercombe Gardens, Somerset Leisure operates three innovative programmes for:

• Strawberry Clubs for adults with learning difficulties and disabilities,
• Family Learning
• Health and Well-Being.

This project will create a unique learning community across South Gloucestershire. By breaking down barriers and bringing people together to share their interests, skills and experience.  The project co-ordinators will develop a strong team of Community Learning Champions and trained volunteer co-ordinators.  Along the way, local people will get the chance to take part in informal learning classes on subjects such as gardening, arts, crafts and local history.

The Learning Transformation Fund means Stroud FM can step up its training in all aspects of radio. We will have a brand new studio and we'll also be able to get out more into the community at large, teaching more and more people how to broadcast on our station.

Our project will establish a network of 'Look Groups' across Cornwall targeting disadvantaged and isolated communities. Convened by volunteer learning champions, each group will explore and document new ways to experience and enjoy the rich resources of the Tate Collection and Tate St Ives exhibition programme through looking, questioning and creating.