About the Community Learning Champions Programme
North East Lincolnshire Community Champions Support Programme
The North East Lincolnshire Community Champions Support Programme will be operating in the Grimsby, Cleethorpes, Immingham and surrounding areas, where there are significant areas of low educational achievement. The programme aims to raise awareness of the value of learning towards the personal development of individuals, by encouraging people who experience disadvantage to access informal learning opportunities.
A team of Community Learning Champions will be created, who will be ambassadors and advocates for learning and will promote the value of learning to community members, colleagues, friends, family and work mates, in fact anyone within their communities. Whilst all communities of North East Lincolnshire will benefit specific wards of highest deprivation and rural areas will be targeted. Again whilst all residents of North East Lincolnshire will benefit the specific disadvantaged groups targeted will be those with a disability, those within social housing or currently homeless and the elderly.
The programme is managed by Voluntary Action North East Lincolnshire who will ensure the widest possible impact through its well established community and strategic networks. Importantly the Learning Champions will be based in and become embedded within public, private and voluntary and community sectors rather than be seen as external advisors. Therefore many of the Learning Champions will be volunteers recruited from within groups such as neighbourhood forums, the local forum for the over 50s, and the main local charities delivering to the blind, partially sighted, disabled and homeless. Other champions will be people currently working with or within the targeted groups and communities such as area development workers and regeneration officers.
Therefore Learning Champions may be volunteers, workers or community members who see value of learning, or someone for whom learning has made a positive impact. A team of over 30 champions will be developed, trained and supported to be able to encourage over 900 new individuals in their communities to undertake some informal learning within the first year of the programme.
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