Yorkshire and the Humber

Artlink West Yorkshire and Arts and Minds shall work in partnership to raise the profile of individual experiences of mental health service users through multi-media opportunities. Participants will use creative writing and radio technology to articulate and broadcast their experiences and to challenge stigma.

SkillSwap creates the opportunity to bring together businesses, communities and education to exchange skills and learn more about one other and the skills that are available in workplaces and communities. Everybody has a skill. Come together to share and learn something new with Business in the Community.

This project aims to offer informal learning opportunities to adults with a learning disability who currently find it difficult to access adult learning. The learning will take place in familiar surroundings and will be supported by team members who are known to the individuals. This will encourage participation and satisfaction levels. The tutors will be provided by Community Adult Learning. These tutors will offer their knowledge and experience of facilitating learning.

This project will enable us to develop both capacity and an infrastructure for the provision of community media adult learning opportunities within the City of York. It will provide a more sustained and strategic approach than exists currently and enable us to deliver the objectives of the Learning Revolution

Let Rip is a project to create a band which includes people with learning difficulties. It will prepare 10 people with learning difficulties for work in the music industry. 10 musicians will develop their skills as musicians, record a CD and organise a short tour.

The Federation for Community Development Learning (FCDL) are leading a partnership programme, which aims to highlight and promote the value of informal Community Development Learning. In delivering this programme we will be working in partnership with Maan, a mental health project in South Yorkshire, Manchester Refugee Support Network, the South West Foundation and the Yorkshire and Humberside Community Development Network. Each partner brings unique experience, knowledge and community contacts.

Groundwork Leeds Live Wire is a unique project that enables disadvantaged offenders to access quality music tuition. Over six months, 15 offenders will take part in weekly one-to-one guitar lessons, honing their musical skills as well as increasing their confidence and self-discipline.

Just 4 Tenants is a series of 10 informal and fun sessions exploring how to make the most of your tenancy and enjoy being in your own home. Ideas covered include basic gardening, D.I.Y and decorating, healthy eating, living in a community, budgeting, home safety and how to save fuel.

Our project aims to strengthen strategic links with partner organizations to achieve a cohesive offer of informal adult learning across Hull in order to increase access and participation for those least likely to engage in adult learning. The project will offer a series of tasters in a variety of venues together with the creation of a learner and provider facing website for learners and an Open Space database of resources and venues.

Kala Milan where 'Kala' means 'Arts' and 'Milan' means 'coming together' is a unique project contributing positively to the informal learning infrastructure by encouraging people to participate, enjoy and learn through an artistic medium. The project will deliver learning activities to promote and provide greater understanding and appreciation of arts and cultural traditions from south Asia.

• Bringing in non-traditional learners - 'Yortime' community-based events & tasters promoting learning, volunteering and community groups.
• Embracing new technologies - web 2.0 technologies toolkit supporting sustainability of self-directed learning networks and community groups 
• Establishing sustainable community connectivity - 'Yortime' website developments; 'Yortime / Learning4Life' brochure; networking celebration between 'Yortime' organisations and learning providers.

An excellent Yorkshire based project using sports stadia to take learning into the heart of the community. The target audience is those who are unemployed and/or disengaged with education. The project aims to not only provide a bite size introduction to the subjects but highlight progression routes for adults.

A partnership project between Lippy People CIC and HMPYOI New Hall working collaboratively with 12 women prisoners and prison staff to produce 6 short films. The films will explore issues relating to imprisonment and resettlement, with contributors involved at every stage of the production process.

The Local Champions Learning Club project establishes the local shopkeeper as a key enabling point for local community learning action clubs. The project will develop 30 neighbourhood sites with the newsagent as the focal point around the following themes:

• Better Cooking Clubs
• Local Community History
• Reducing Local Crime

We will engage adult learners in creative learning opportunities, exploring music technology and community media. The learners will also help to create learning resources such as podcasts and videos, documenting their learning and these resources will then be distributed digitally as peer to peer learning tools to support future learners.

"Medicine at the Movies" will open up medical museum collections to adult learners in an exciting and innovative film-making project. Six groups of learners will explore their local museums' resources and work with experts to create their own films, developing their skills and creating new interpretations for others to enjoy.

The Northern College is targeting potential learners who traditionally make little use of heritage sites, such as BME groups and learners from postcodes of high social depravation, and designing a programme of day visits to a grade 1 listed site. The day visits will link to a programme of short residential courses that will enable learners to progress. In addition a virtual tour to the house and gardens will be produced to engage with potential learners from a distance or enable visitors to reinforce their experience.

The S Factor aims to stimulate participation in and debate of science issues and learning through a series of exciting discussions, events and shows. Highlighting the work of women scientists, stereotypical views will be challenged, bringing science to community, museum and festival settings and via community radio and social networks.

A WEA led project to develop new active citizenship courses, to engage council staff in learning about Parliament and the new local government duties, to develop a regional active citizenship alliance and to share practice at a national event on the 18th March, 2010. 12 partners in all.

'DIY Your Future' supports women from two communities in Sheffield to develop their confidence and self-advocacy skills. Building on popular interest in 'home make-overs', the project focuses on maintenance, saving energy and DIY. Through developing practical skills in an informal setting, the women will be encouraged to re-engage with learning.