Transform

Space East
TRANSFORM offered informal adult learning to adults living in or accessing supported housing services in Norfolk (social housing tenants), as a route to transforming their lifestyles. The majority of learners were unemployed people. This project incorporated high levels of service user involvement: the project explored with service users what informal adult learning meant to them, and based activities upon this. In this way, TRANSFORM aimed to motivate and encourage marginalised individuals and socially excluded groups to design creative and imaginative learning activities. Service users were also included in the project steering group. The project also aimed to develop the county’s learning infrastructure by joining together partners to develop gateways for people in receipt of social housing services to enter education and training, through informal adult learning. The project engaged 26 supported housing organizations and 714 individual learners.