Yorkshire and the Humber

(Projects are listed alphabetically)

A Mind Apart Theatre Company Ltd - Be Inspired

Using performing arts learners will participate in creating a showcase/celebration of a chosen issue affecting them and their community. Over a period of four weeks they will work with professional teaching artists to devise a showcase to be presented in the final session. The project will be repeated three times between now and March.

Art in the Park - Arts Bites

We are delivering 18 weeks of arts and crafts activities to 8 groups in Sheffield. We aim to provide new and innovative arts techniques. The groups will go on two Arts Walk and will create step by step learning resources so people can learn the new art techniques at home.

Artlink West Yorkshire

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.

Bilton Grange Community Association - Studio Nord

The aim of this project is to create new opportunities for local people in East Hull to develop their self-directed learning in music and music technology, broadcasting and digital media through use of a community recording studio, an internet radio station and a rehearsal and performance space.

Business in the Community – SkillSwap

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.

Calderdale Bond Guarantee - SmartSearch

SmartSearch will enable homeless people to pursue individual and group learning towards building a Calderdale wide resource booklet and web site for adult learning opportunities. This collaborative project establishes a unique partnership between a homelessness charity and Local Authority Adult Learning Services.

Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, Halifax Support Services - Live and Learn

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.

Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of York

The project's aim is to engage a range of learners in the appreciation of York's heritage via the unique approach of ekphrasis. Offering a mix of class-room based activities and visits to local cultural sites, learners will have the opportunity to produce stories, poetry, dramatic re-enactments or photo studies.

City of York Council

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

Communication and Computing Research Centre - Community Reporters Programme

The project engages members from the Burmese community to build confidence and increase digital communication skills using technologies such as blogs, wikis and forums to share audio, pictures and moving images to share their voice and communicate their needs. Members can take part in a community reporter's programme, to communicate issues that are important to them.

Connect in the North - Let Rip

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.

Doncaster Sound Archive: Learning through Heritage

We will be offering free informal learning opportunities to adults in a wide range of creative activities, including digital video, photography, and sound recording. Participants can work on supervised projects such as oral-history recordings, documentaries or writing for a new magazine. Tuition will be in our new town-centre premises.

Federation for Community Development Learning

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.

Financial Inclusion Team Project Summary

The project aims to deliver innovative and responsive informal learning opportunities to the people of Rotherham who for a variety of reasons find it difficult and challenging to engage in the type of training opportunities that are usually made available in their community. This will be done through activities including rock climbing and white water rafting.

Groundwork Leeds – Live Wire

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.

HCMF - Piano Phasing

Piano Phasing is a project about learning to play the keyboard, linked to a high-profile performance of 'Piano Phasing' for massed pianists by composer Kristoffer Zegers. HCMF is offering a range of activities including beginners' workshops, piano surgeries for adults who have played previously and on-line resources to support learning.

Healthy Living Network Leeds - Just 4 Tenants

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.

HMP Youth Offenders Institute Askham Grange - The Buzz Word

The Buzz Word Project will generate a buzz about words, in writing, reading and theatre. By engaging with both professional practitioners and formal creative writing classes within the prison education curriculum, the project will aim to celebrate the work of our learners as writers, in publication and performance.

Hull City Skills and Employability

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.

Humber Learning Consortium – Humber E-Skills

Working with five organizations and their learners, many from marginalized and disadvantaged groups, Humber E-Skills will design and develop a tailored suite of informal learning and support tools to suit the needs of those partners and their clients. The platform will improve access to informal adult learning in the area.

Kala Sangam - Kala Milan

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.

Kimberworth Park Community Partnership - Get Kimberworth Park Singing

Encouraging a range of residents on a Rotherham estate to get singing, in pubs, nurseries, family centres, and sheltered housing. Mixing musical ideas from a Karaoke King and Queen to action songs for children. Building fun, creative, links across local projects with everyone working towards a community music celebration finale.

Learning City York - York's LLL Partnership - ‘Yortime’: make the most of it!

  • 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.

Learning, Skills & Employment

The project will recruit and deploy volunteer informal learning advocates, across Sheffield. The advocates will work with those already on the ground, to recruit new learners and develop new opportunities. Project partners are the Workers Educational Association, OFFER (the community empowerment agency) and the local authority's Lifelong Learning & Skills Service.

Leeds Metropolitan University

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.

Leeds Museums & Galleries

Community groups will create information for interactive digital screens and ipods at three Leeds Museums & Galleries' sites. Run by a project manager, two members of the Learning and Access Team will manage the project, employ digital designers and an evaluator. Lessons learned will inform the Service Adult Learning Strategy.

Lippy People Community Interest Company

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.

Mind the Gap

Mind the Gap (Bradford) and Yorkshire Dance (Leeds) are joining forces to deliver a new and innovative programme that encourages disabled and older people to get active - in both body and mind - and support them to become more creative, fit and healthy, whilst learning new skills and meeting new people.

Retail Academy - Local Champions Learning Club

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

RSPB - Take a Peak at Dove Stone

A programme of informal adult learning activities at countryside sites including Dove Stone nature reserve will be developed by March 2010 in consultation with community groups. The community engagement officer funded by the transformation fund will identify community groups, engage with them and tailor learning packages to their needs. The package will be delivered beyond March 2010 by existing partnership staff.

Sine FM Community Radio Station (Higher Rhythm Ltd.)

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.

Stretch

Stretch, a charity dedicated to widening participation in museum education, has created a partnership with Leeds Museum Service. We are taking over an empty unit in a busy shopping mall in east Leeds. We will host museum education activities on a rolling programme engaging the public with the collections

Thackray Museum - Medicine at the Movies

"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.

Thackray Museum - Thackray Remembered

‘Thackray Remembered' is a project involving employees of DePuy International in an appreciation of the heritage of their workplace, by empowering them to explore and enjoy new ways of telling the story of their company. They will learn ways to interpret their stories and share them with visitors to the Thackray Museum.

The Northern College

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.

Ufi Ltd - Seaside Roadshow

The Seaside Roadshow project will bring new learning opportunities to the residents of four seaside towns by introducing them to a range of digital media which they will use to capture reminiscences, ideas and images about their place. Expert support will be provided via their local UK online centre

UK Resource Centre for Women - The S Factor: Where Science Meets You

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.

Unite the Union - UnitEd in Learning

The project will develop both face to face and e-learning resources and teaching programmes to increase learners understanding and take up of e-learning opportunities amongst non traditional learners. A key focus will be to adopt a blended approach to the learning to increase student retention, achievement and progression.

WEA Yorkshire and Humber Region - Active Citizenship Education Project (ACEP)

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.

West Yorkshire Learning Consortium - Challenge Learning Project

The Challenge Learning Project will deliver a number of locally based initiatives providing activity-based learning which will add real value to the opportunities for homeless people. It will act as a catalyst for motivating their interest in learning, better equipping them to participate in, and contribute to, society.

Women in SET - DIY Your Future

'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.

WomenCentre Ltd - WomenCentre and Northern College

Our project intends to recruit marginalised and disadvantaged women onto engagement courses running in Calderdale and Kirklees. The courses will be of the women's choosing and so far requests have included Nail Art, Beauty Workshops, Stress Management, arts and crafts, Money Matters, a Job Club and Confidence Building. We intend to respond to what women want and need.

Yorkshire and Humber Region Local Authority Adult Learning Network

A one day regional conference with workshops in February 2010 attracting 80 participants to share innovative Learning Revolution project developments and use it as a launchpad to :-

  • address sustainability of informal adult learning,
  • increase partners' awareness of existing collaborative infrastructures
  • and share understanding of the actual process of working together.
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