Projects Page
Part of the activity of Learning Together Cheshire and Warrington relates to the delivery of contracts that benefit the Third Sector in the sub-region. These take the form of time limited projects. This also provides a significant amount of funding which can be matched and enables us to provide high quality core services to support the membership.
Further details of the various projects that we have delivered over the years can be found from the various links below
Current Projects
Completed Projects
(Most recently completed listed at top)
Project Name |
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Duration |
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| Third Sector opportunities access programme |
Funding from the Cheshire Enterprise and Skills Development Board has enabled our core work to continue, namely
A report on the activity carried out during the funding period can be downloaded here |
April to March 2012 |
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| Workforce Development Project |
Funded by Cheshire LRN to support the creation or updating of Workforce Development Plans within Social Care organisations operating in Cheshire East or Cheshire West and Chester Local Authority areas. Supporting Social Care organisations |
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The delivery of Community Grants to eligible Third Sector projects in the Cheshire, Halton and Warrington Areas. £249,500 has been allocated to a total of 33 projects delivered by 29 voluntary organisations oerating in the project area. A report on the Community Grants Programme in Cheshire and Warrington is available. Follow this link. A video showing sucessful Community Grants Projects across the North West can be seen from this link |
March to December 2010 |
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| LRN Training Project | The facilitation and delivery of a series oftraining opportunities for Third Sector organisation. including Health and Safety Level 4 and Level 2 courses, Certificate in Mentoring, Personal Safety Training. |
August to December |
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| Train to Gain promotion |
LTCW was commissioned to publicise the Train to Gain Programme across Cheshire and Warrington and encourage Third sector Organisations to sign up to the Skills Pledge and access 'Train to Gain' support |
September to April |
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| Voice of the Learner (1) Project |
This LSC funded project called Talking Heads captured the voice of individuals with mental ill health, finding out what their experiences of learning are. The issues for this group are often invisible but a real barrier to many areas of everyday life including learning. A short DVD capturing the individual’s thoughts and feelings about their learner journey and the impact of that on their lives was produced. More..... |
January to April
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| Voice of the Learner (2) Project | This LSC funded project focussed on the gathering of the experiences of young white male disadvantaged male learners.
The project worked with a small group of around forty young men, discovering their thoughts, feelings and experiences of the current education system. A report was produced documenting the experiences.
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January to May |
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| Resilence Project |
Funding from Capacity Builders enbabled LTCW to facilitate a specific conference on how to survive the recesssion. Engagement with ACAS started a positive relationship which led to further sessions attended by 94 individuals. A series of other resources were also provided, including Adobe Acrobat software and training on how to use it. |
February to March |
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| Peer Review and Development Project |
LTCW began working on Skills for Excellence (SfE) Programme in October 2007, and saw it as an ideal opportunity to develop the existing informal Trainers’ Network into a more formal Peer Review and Development Group. Members of the network had already identified the desire to work towards driving the quality of their learning and training forwards through sharing best practice. LTCW saw SfE as an opportunity to not only provide additional capacity to our existing programme but also to support providers to explore new ways of working.
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October to July |
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| Building Our Sector's Skills (BOSS) Project |
The overall aim of the project was to tackle inequalities in Skills for Life provision by putting the learner at the heart of the learning provision. The project built on established client relationships by consulting with learners, enabling them to overcome barriers to learning and training, responding directly to their needs to equip them with skills for employability. The project aimed to raise the aspirations of learners, considering their needs to determine opportunities. Partners/members worked to turn negative attitudes towards learning into positive ones, encouraging clients to take part in ‘Lifelong Learning’. There was a lot of work around overcoming the issues, which prevent the disadvantaged groups accessing mainstream learning.
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| Management and Leadership Traning |
Through funding provided through CapacityBuilders an accredited level 4 BTEC Course on Voluntary sector Management was offered to candidates drawn from Third Sector organisations across Cheshire and Warrington The course increased the skill levels of employees and a number of promotions and career changes occured as a result. It led to a further cohort funded by Cheshire LRN (see above) |
February to September |
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| Skills for Life Project |
The primary aim of the Skills for Life Capacity Building Project was to improve the literacy, language and numeracy skills of the clients that voluntary and community organisations come into contact with. It was felt that this would be best achieved by raising the awareness of staff and volunteers of the issues associated with poor literacy, language and numeracy skills so that they could advise and guide clients appropriately. A second aim of the project was for trained staff and volunteers to embed literacy, language and
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January to December |
