News - Adult Learners Week - Grants Available

ADULT LEARNERS WEEK (15th – 21st May 2010)

If you are organising an event for Adult Learners Week could you please complete and submit an Event Publicity Form so that the maximum publicity can be made of events.

Grants of up to £500 (from a total funding “pot” of £4,000) are available to providers of informal adult learning activities such as colleges, Third Sector organisations, and others, for events and promotional activities that celebrate or promote adult learning during this year’s Adult Learners Week. Applicants are encouraged to work with partners to maximise the impact of activities and funding.

The grant can be used for:

1. Events that take place during Adult Learners Week to celebrate learners and their achievements e.g. this could be a conference, presentation of learner awards or certificates etc.
2. Events that promote informal adult learning during the week – this could include open days, half days and evenings which might include taster sessions etc. We cannot however fund the running of one particular course – it should be attached to a more open event
3. Conferences and events that bring providers and learners together
4. Promotional materials for informal learning events in Adult Learners Week including displays, posters, brochures, particularly those materials that might attract new learners. It should not however be used for promoting events that would be covered by your normal publicity i.e. you could not use the money for your general Autumn brochure.
5. Promotional and other materials that might attract particular groups of new learners e.g. people with visual impairments, brochures in other languages etc.

The Application Form is very straightforward and less than 3 complete pages, so it does not take long to fill in. It should be sent (preferably by e-mail) to robin.hodgkinson@savo.co.uk or if necessary by post to Robin Hodgkinson, Suffolk PCDL Partnership, SAVO, Dickson House, 43a Woodbridge Rd East, Ipswich IP4 5QN.

The closing date / time is 12 noon Monday 1st March. Decisions on the applications will be reached within 10 days.

NB It is a condition of the grant that a short report on the activities etc that have been funded should be submitted by the end of June 2010.