North East
(Projects are listed alphabetically)
Art for Art's Sake
Community Music Spark Training Programme
Digital Champions (Shaw Trust)
East End People’s Story
Gateshead Adult Learning and Skills
Informal Adult Learning in Northumberland
Know your Hadrian’s Wall Country
Lindisfarne Religion and Ethics forum
MHNE Concordia
Featured Mining Durham's Hidden Depths View more...
The Mining Durham's Hidden Depths project aimed to make County Durham's mining heritage accessible to adult learners, including the disadvantaged, by exploiting an archive of international significance.
The project recruited, trained and supported adult learners to compile an index to names in the Durham Miners' Association archives. It is possible either to search the catalogue by the name of a particular individual or to browse all the entries.
The project produced a detailed, structured catalogue of the Durham Miners' Association archives and has made the catalogue available online. During the project:
- over 50,000 names were indexed in 6 months;
- 106 Learners acquired new skills in literacy, numeracy, information technology (IT), research, and indexing;
- learners were signposted to new learning opportunities; and
- a successful celebration event and project exhibition took place.
Durham County Record Office was awarded 'Archive Pace Setter Status' in March 2010 by the National Council on Archives for this project, an award for innovation and excellent project management.
Two main lessons arose from this project:
- it is important to have a full time project manager to oversee project activities;
- try to offer learning opportunities in a flexible manner; home-based learning was extremely popular with learners who, for example, might have a few hours in the evening when there was nothing on the television, and who wanted something fulfilling and worthwhile to do. This flexibility is also a major contributing factor to the continuing success and sustainability of the project.
Durham County Record Office
County Hall
Durham
DH1 5UL
North East
Projects in the North East
Open Spaces Open Minds
Pass it On County Durham
Sacriston Children’s Centre Cluster
Showcase
South West Durham Inclusive Learning Partnership
St Hild’s Jewels
Steel Foundation
The Allotment Gardening Club
The Rhythm of Life
The West Northumberland Learning Consortium
Three Towns Local Learning Partnership
Transforming Lives Through Learning
Transforming Tyneside
Tuned In!
Tyneside Cyrenians Book Club
Up for Arts-A team
Wor Tyneside
Young people “Now & Then” in Derwentside.
