Council
Funding: Youth and lifelong learning
Lifelong Learning, Mother Tongue and Study Support funding
To provide assistance with running costs of projects that meet identified needs in the borough.
Who can apply
Not for profit organisation's providing services in Tower Hamlets, who meet our general eligibility conditions for grant aid.
Priorities for funding
We will give priority to:
- areas in the borough where there is a need for lifelong learning, mother tongue (first language) and study support services;
- organisations that can show they will benefit and involve the local community in delivering and managing services;
- organisations whose activities help communities to live together and improve understanding between the communities in the borough;
- organisations that work with disadvantaged groups, specifically in the areas of community education, mother tongue and study support, for example, work that aims to raise the achievement of young people, that involves elderly people in lifelong learning and that focuses on people with disabilities;
- creative educational projects that put clear equal opportunities aims into practice;
- organisations that are providing quality services and value for money;
- organisations that are using, or are willing to use, the Tower Hamlets curriculum framework for teaching mother tongue;
- study support services that are using or are willing to use the Department for Education and Skills and National Youth Agency codes of practice for study support; and
- organisations that are working with other agencies to promote learning and achievement.
Service providers will need to show that they are providing cost-effective services that benefit the local community and meet the needs of the area.
Youth work funding
We will give priority to organisations that:
- are registered through the Tower Hamlets Youth Service Register;
- are working towards putting into practice the Youth Work Curriculum Framework;
- have an understanding of and commitment to achieving learning outcomes for young people and can prove their progress;
- provide well-planned services that increase the work skills of young people and provide access to accredited learning opportunities;
- involve young people and the local community in designing, delivering and managing services;
- target girls and young women, young people with special education needs, disabled young people, lesbian, gay and bisexual young people, young asylum seekers and refugees, as well as those at risk of:
- social exclusion;
- antisocial behaviour;
- substance misuse;
- being involved in gangs;
- racial abuse;
- being excluded from school; and
- homelessness; - provide cost-effective services that meet the needs of local communities;
- work with other organisations; and
- have secured funding for the proposal from other agencies.
Types of funding
Subject to the directorate's financial budget allocation, reviewed annually at the beginning of each financial year.
Contact
Angela Lewis
Community Resources
Education
Mulberry Place
5 Clove Crescent
London E14 2BG
Tel: 020 7364 3163
Fax: 020 7364 4816
E-mail: childrensservices@towerhamlets.gov.uk
Study support
This funding helps raise achievement in Tower Hamlets through out of school hours learning. The out of school hours learning (OOSHL) team supports, monitors and evaluates all out of school hours learning that goes on in the borough's 90 mainstream schools and 30 community/voluntary schools.
Who can apply
Currently, additional and further funding is only available for out of hours school learning at mainstream schools.
Types of funding
For mainstream schools: SRB funding (round 1) until 31 March 2002 ; New Opportunities Funding (NOF)/Standards Fund.
How to apply
If voluntary schools want to run out of school hours learning, we are able to support and advise them - and direct them towards funding possibilities.
Contact
Stephen Yipp/Claire Hatton
Voluntary Sector Officer
Professional Design Centre
English Street
Mile End
London
E3 4TA
Tel: 020 7364 6403/6344
Fax: 020 7364 6404
