Each year in October, several thousand older people take part in Age-friendly Belfast’s Positive Ageing Month, now in its 5th year. The month-long festival of events and activities celebrates the contribution that older people make to our city and provides opportunities for older people to have some new learning experiences. Some are taster sessions for...
Ballybeen Women’s Centre
For over thirty years Ballybeen Women’s Centre (BWC) has been developing and delivering quality services in an area of low and weak community infrastructure. Health Promotion and Education is a key priority of work and the centre has grown to become a valuable and well-known provider of a range of health services within the Ballybeen...
esc films
esc films is a Belfast-based arts education charity working with people on the margins. They specialise in mental health and believe in the power of education to create change, to challenge thinking and to transform lives. They build trust with participants in order to turn their stories into powerful, compelling films. The 2020 Baring Foundation...
Network of Adult Learning Across Borders (NALAB)
As part of the AONTAS-led events for the 2021 AONTAS Adult Learners’ Festival, this policy event will bring the members of the Network for Adult Learning Across Borders (NALAB), Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales, together to discuss our shared vision for educational equality and explore the variety of approaches taken by each in...
Levelling up Adult Community Education
A new report out on provision in England looking at the data available and making recommendations for government, local government and adult community education providers. Very interesting set of recommendations, including – Establish a branded adult education centre in everytown. Planning rules should promote multi-usecommunity centres which can be used as outreachposts for adult education....
Launch of Learn Well, Live Well Report
The Learn Well, Live Well: adult learning and health and wellbeing report has been produced over the past few months as part of the UK programme for the European Agenda on Adult Learning (managed by the Learning and Work Institute). It has been compiled and edited by the NI Impact Forum on Adult Learning and...
Two Belfast nominations for STAR Awards
Belfast Metropolitan College – shortlisted for Social Inclusion (large organisations) The Centre for Childhood Studies at Belfast Metropolitan College, alongside the Ashton Centre and numerous other partners within the wider LEMUS project, aimed at bringing unemployed adult community learners of all ages together, from a range of religious and cultural backgrounds, across all four corners...
SPRING Social Prescribing
SPRING Social Prescribing helps people address their health and wellbeing by connecting them to sources of support within their community and embark on a journey of learning to support their own mental and physical wellbeing through a greater understanding of support available and risk factors to prevent further ill health. The initiative is funded by...
South Belfast Health Literacy Project
The BME health literacy project arose from a need for improved inclusivity. In South Belfast there is a large BME population, as well as an asylum seekers community. When supporting these communities to access healthcare and wellbeing support, Connected Community Care endorses the model of self-empowerment. However, the tools initially used around health literacy were...
Higher skills ambition needed for Northern Ireland
Yesterday saw the launch of a new report from the Learning and Work Institute, commissioned by the Open College Network NI – A higher skills ambition for Northern Ireland: Skills for growth and social inclusion. Stephen Evans, Chief Executive of the Learning and Work Institute, said: “The importance of learning and skills have been heightened...