Learning, skills, and workforce development
Involve Yorkshire & Humber plays a leading role as a source of communication, policy consultation and development, and support for voluntary organisations in the learning and skills field.
We are running a seminar: Who's who in learning and skills (Leeds, Tuesday 17 January 2012) - one of our series of Landscape seminars.
Learning and Skills VCS Network (LSVN)
This Network is specifically for voluntary organisations with an interest in learning and skills - whether as a deliverer, user, or promoter of education and skills training for adults in the FE context, Adult and Community Learning, or for organisations where learning is just part of their whole service offer.
You can see minutes and presentations from previous Network meetings.
The Network is facilitated by Involve Yorkshire & Humber.
Adult Learners’ Week
Adult Learners’ Week is a national initiative from the National Institute for Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) which promotes and celebrates the value of formal and informal learning opportunities for adults, an area in which the VCS has a strong tradition.
Involve Yorkshire & Humber co-ordinated Yorkshire and Humber Adult Learners’ Week in 2010, and 2011.
Big Sing Yorkshire
As part of Adult Learners' Week 2011, Involve Yorkshire & Humber organised Big Sing Yorkshire.
Overseen by a statue of Harold Wilson outside Huddersfield station, large numbers of enthusiastic singers learnt and performed Yorkshire bard Ian McMillan's new Yorkshire Anthem. This event celebrated the achievements of adult learners and the central importance of the voluntary sector to community learning. See photos of Big Sing Yorkshire.
Tackling worklessness through volunteering
Involve Yorkshire & Humber ran a six month project to investigate the value of volunteering to the issue of Tackling Worklessness.
The project's well-structured volunteering opportunities showed that local authorities with areas of entrenched worklessness can efficiently use voluntary sector infrastructure as a fisrt step to help people become work-ready.
The project was funded through the Regional Improvement and Efficency Partnership (RIEP), which was set up to harness the expertise of local authorities to accelerate the drive for greater efficency.
See the Tackling Worklessness project presentation. For more information on the project, including the full evaluation report, please contact Amanda Vickers.
Information
Involve Yorkshire & Humber has published a briefing 'Learning and skills in a changing world' (April 2011) that highlighs the opportunities and challenges for the voluntary and community sector learning and skills interests.
We also keep up to date information about key learning and skills agencies, VCS learning and skills providers, and current issues in VCS learning and skills provision.
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Related events
Working in Community Development Today
22 May 2012
Wheeler Hall, St Anne's Cathedral, Leeds
