Partners

The following organisations are partners to the Suffolk Learning Consortium and support our objective of providing Workforce Development to Third Sector organisations in Suffolk:

Key Partners

	The Institute for Learning is the professional body for teachers, tutors, trainers and assessors across the Learning and Skills sector. IfL was created by teachers for teachers and is led by its Members’ Council, the majority of which is elected from the membership.
	The LSC East of England covers Bedfordshire and Luton, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Herts., Norfolk and Suffolk. Working together, we aim to develop a responsive system of learning and skills provision that will meet the needs of learners, businesses and communities throughout the East of England, supporting the long term prosperity of our region.
	The LEAP Project is unique to Suffolk,  delivers free and impartial, high quality information, advice and guidance to everyone seeking education or training opportunities, through Centres and Points across the county. LEAP Centres have expert advisors who can provide up-to-date information on all aspects of education, and can also help with CV writing and offer tips on interview and presentation skills.
	The Learning Champions project is a fantastic free opportunity for organisations to nominate an individual within their company to become the in house source of training and funding, and is fully funded and open to small and medium sized organisations with up to 250 employees. We offer a variety of training programmes depending on your organisation's requirements.
	Suffolk County Council, through its Education and Learning departments, actively supports partnership working with the Third Sector in a number of areas, including NLDC funding, teacher training, and the Apprenticeship Scheme.
	Suffolk TAP provides a free comprehensive source of information about learning opportunities for adults in Suffolk. We do not carry out training, but can offer you information on full and part-time learning opportunities, short courses, supported open learning packages, training schemes for young people, training for adults, higher education, and community education in Suffolk.
	The Suffolk Learning Consortium is a member of the Third Sector National Learning Alliance which is a growing, national alliance of Third Sector organisations involved in learning and skills. It aims to provide a coherent national ‘voice’ from and for Third Sector providers across government departments and other important bodies, and a forum for developing Third Sector ideas and proposals. Latest News ...
	West Suffolk College is a rural further education college with its main campus located in Bury St Edmunds and Local Learning Centres in Stowmarket, Thurston, Haverhill, Newmarket, Sudbury and Mildenhall. We use over a hundred different venues around the county to deliver our programmes and in January 2008 we opened a new centre in IP-City in Ipswich.
	The Workers’ Educational Association is the UK’s largest voluntary provider of adult education, and supports the educational needs of working men and women. The WEA has maintained its commitment to provide access to education and learning for adults from all backgrounds, and in particular those who have previously missed out on education.

East Region Learning Consortia

learn EAST is a network of six county-based learning consortia, including the Suffolk Learning Consortium, covering the East of England. The Network is completed by COVER, the Community and Voluntary Sector Forum for the Eastern Region.
The Learning Partnership was established to promote provider collaboration in support of lifelong learning and to maximise the contribution of learning to local regeneration. The aim is to make Bedfordshire and Luton, a better place to live and work by helping to widen participation to learning for all, regardless of when, where or how people choose to learn.
Norfolk Unites - is not a physical learning consortium but it is development work leading towards a potential Norfolk Third Sector learning consortium. Norfolk Unites is facilitated by Community Connections, a Great Yarmouth organisation involved in community engagement and training.
Herts. Training Consortium To support and develop the provision of training by and for the Voluntary and Community Sector in Hertfordshire.
Learning Set - a consortium of Third Sector organisations based in the unitary authorities of Southend and Thurrock and the county of Essex. The members provide, or plan to provide, learning opportunities for their staff, partners and service users - individually and in partnership.
Cambridge GET Group is an umbrella infrastructure support group for member organisations in the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) who offer guidance, employment and training (hence ‘GET’) to unemployed or otherwise disadvantaged people.
East of England (COVER East) Supporting regional consortium development.

Members

The following organisations are members (A denotes Associate Member) of the Suffolk Learning Consortium: