Workers' Educational Association (West Midlands Region )
Key Facts
Location
Project Criteria
Contact
Howard Croft
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Project funding
£100,218
Funding round
WEA West Midlands SPACE Project Summary
The Workers' Educational Association (WEA) is the largest voluntary provider of adult education in the UK. The WEA operates at local, regional and national levels to widen participation and enable people to realise their full potential through learning. The aims of the Association are to involve learners, volunteers, members and partners in:
- Removing barriers to learning
- Changing and enriching lives through learning – at individual and community levels
- Being responsive in the heart of communities
- Promoting learning for life.
Within West Midlands region this is achieved by designing and delivering formal and non-formal lifelong learning opportunities to educationally, socially and economically disadvantaged adults.
The Supporting Parenting through Adult and Community Education (SPACE) project will develop existing provision to deliver free, flexible and accessible community based parenting skills programmes within an adult education context in less well served communities in Birmingham. This will be achieved through outreach work with partners committed to engaging parents who do not currently participate in structured learning. Target parent groups include members of settled Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) and new migrant communities, 'offenders' and those at risk of homelessness. We expect to develop 5 new partnerships with statutory/voluntary organisations, engage 450 parents who are not currently participating in parenting education/skills programmes and recruit and support 10 volunteer learning champions to mentor new learners.