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Direct linkStanistreet, Paul – Adults Learning, 2012
While her background leading a variety of public, private and voluntary sector organisations was not an obvious preparation for her new role as General Secretary of the Workers' Educational Association, the WEA is, nevertheless, in Ruth Spellman's blood. Her grandfather, who left school at 12, became fully numerate and literate through WEA courses…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Lifelong Learning, Voluntary Agencies, Volunteers
Simpson, Robin – Adults Learning, 2011
While people might not be familiar with the term "voluntary arts", they are probably either involved with some voluntary arts activity themselves or they know someone who is. They use "voluntary arts" to mean any situation in which someone is voluntarily participating in an art form for pleasure, social reasons, skills…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Art Activities, Adult Learning, Foreign Countries
Stanistreet, Paul – Adults Learning, 2011
Open Stages is Britain's biggest amateur theatre project, a hugely ambitious scheme to bring the professional and amateur theatre worlds together. It is a learning project but, as the Royal Shakespeare Company's Ian Wainwright tells this author, it is not only the amateurs who are learning. Wainwright states that the amateur and professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Voluntary Agencies, Volunteers, Theaters
Stanistreet, Paul – Adults Learning, 2011
In this article, the author talks about Up for Arts, a Liverpool-based radio project aimed at promoting engagement in the arts. Up for Arts is a unique social action project which uses radio as a means of increasing public engagement in the voluntary arts and crafts. Its success has depended not only on the commitment of its partner organisations…
Descriptors: Social Action, Citizen Participation, Community Involvement, Voluntary Agencies
Low, John – Adults Learning, 2011
Hardly anyone can have failed to pick up on the recent flurry of stories in the national press about the Big Society, sparked off by Dame Elisabeth Hoodless's remarks that funds for volunteers are disappearing at an alarming rate, and that this is undermining the very idea of a "Big Society". At the same time, under the government's…
Descriptors: Community Services, Voluntary Agencies, Volunteers, Community Development
Cooper, Deborah – Adults Learning, 2008
It is rare that an initiative with no significant financial support catches the imagination of local services, but the National Year of Reading has certainly provided a welcome platform for those who are passionate about reading. The National Year of Reading has provided an opportunity for a wide range of groups to share their goals and work…
Descriptors: Voluntary Agencies, Agency Cooperation, Reading Motivation, Story Telling
