National programme gets over 100,000 adults learning

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From NIACE Community Learning Champions

In less than 18 months 2,000 registered Community Learning Champions have encouraged over 100,000 people - of whom over two-thirds (70 per cent) were unemployed - to take up learning in some of the country's most disadvantaged communities.

These are the headline figures, published in a report on Tuesday 29 March, to mark the end of the Community Learning Champions Support Programme - funded by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and delivered by NIACE, unionlearn, the Workers' Educational Association and Martin Yarnit Associates.

Since its launch in October 2009 the Community Learning Champions Support Programme has funded 50 projects across the country to give volunteers the necessary skills and support to promote learning in their homes, workplaces and communities. Community Learning Champions have been instrumental in helping to transform individual lives and whole communities.

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Article first appeared at  http://www.niace.org.uk/news/national-programme-gets-over-100000-adults-learning