 Supporting
Third
Sector
Learning
and
Skills
in the
Eastern
Region
COVER is
pleased
to
announce
that it
has been
successful
in a bid
to ESF
Technical
Assistance
to
further
develop
its
capacity
building
activities
in the
area of
Learning
and
Skills.
The new
project
called
“Engage
and
Enable”
will
further
progress
the work
of the
previous,
highly
successful,
“Working
Together
Capacity
Building
Project”
which
was
funded
by the
LSC from
2007-2009.
Engage
and
Enable
will
support
the role
of the
Regional
Skills
Strategy
Manager
who will
be
responsible
for the
management
and
delivery
of the
project.
There
are two
key
elements
to the
project
which is
designed
to
engage
as many
third
sector
organisations
in the
skills
agenda
via the
local
partnerships/consortia
established
under
the
previous
project
and to
support
their
capacity
building
needs to
enable
them to
be fit
for
purpose
as
learning
providers
in a sub
contracting
or prime
contract
holding
role.
The
project
will run
for two
years
and will
also
engage,
at a
strategic
level,
with all
the new
and
emerging
regional
and
national
learning
and
skills
structures
and
bodies
including
the
Skills
Funding
Agency,
Skills
Third
Sector
and the
Third
Sector
National
Learning
Alliance.
Engage
and
Enable
will
build on
previous
work to
support
and
further
develop
sub
regional
and
regional
communication
structures
via
Learn
East, a
partnership
of the
six
county
learning
consortia/partnerships
and
COVER,
to
ensure
that
frontline
learning
organisations
are kept
informed
and
aware of
the
impact
of the
impending
changes
in the
learning
landscape
The
project
will
provide
workforce
development
activities
including
a
bursary
scheme
for
sector
staff
wishing
to
develop
their
learner
support,
mentoring
or
advice
giving
skills
as well
as local
and
regional
events
designed
to bring
organisations
together
to
address
the key
learning
and
skills
issues
emerging
over the
next two
years.
A
regional
advisory
group of
strategic
stakeholders
and
organisations
representing
the
sector,
both
geographic
and
thematic,
will be
overseeing
the
project
and
working
to align
its
activities
with the
sector’s
“Working
Together
in
Transition
Action
Plan”
for
which it
currently
has
responsibility.
For
further
information
regarding
the
project,
which
will run
until
October
2011, or
to sign
up to
the
regular
email
circulation
list for
news,
information
and
opportunities
to be
involved
please
contact:
Nikki
Bennett,
Strategic
Skills
Manager
–
nikki.bennett@cover-east.org
Tel:
01799 532888
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