Archive - Rural Learning Seminar

Date(s)

This conference was held on the following date(s)
11/07/2004

Supplemental Material:

Programme:

9.00 am Registration of delegates

Coffee and Tea

9.30 am Welcome and Introductions
Dr. Paul Olver
Educational Centres Association

9.40 am Keynote speaker: Prof. Vanessa Burholt
Centre for Social Policy Research and Development, University of Wales, Bangor

RuralWIDe in Action

How older people can contribute to sustainable community development.

10.10 am The Teddy Bear Project (2004 -2007)
Dr. Paul Olver – Project Co-ordinator
Robert Short – Intergenerational Learning Tutor

The story of a rural intergenerational project and its future sustainability

11.00 am Coffee and Displays

11.25 am “Switch on Shropshire”
Paul Nash – Project Manager

How learners have benefited from this 3 year project to promote broadband access to businesses and communities in rural Shropshire.

12 noon Lunch and Displays
A chance to visit to our Teddy Bears’ Picnic

2.00 pm Workshops
Choices:

1. “My Time” Project - Amra Mekic
Michael Lilley
Self-esteem and confidence building of hard-to-reach learners and learners from new communities (BME and Central /Eastern Europe)

2. “Extra Time” Project – Judy Crabb
With roots in the “Teddy Bear” project this programme brings older and younger generations together through local reminiscence activities in individual football clubs, in particular Port Vale, Shrewsbury Town and AFC Telford.

3. “Factor Red” Project – Tina Jefferies
A new Herefordshire pilot project engaging young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) providing them with an unusual coaching and mentoring programme in personal motivation and development.

4. Rural WIDe Project
Learn from the Age Concern Volunteers themselves how they were trained in social research methodology, how they designed their questionnaires and how they undertook fieldwork in rural North Wales.

3.00 pm Seminar Closes

Contributors included:

Paul Olver

Paul Olver Is a member of the ECA and the project co-ordinator for the Teddybear project