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This is something Bunny, Christine and Eliz have discovered in their journeys to community cohesion, cameradership and collaboration amongs their learners. As Delightful Dawn (Psycho-therapis) said, it creates a habit of ritual and therefore glues those bonds tighter ;-)

Thanks, Will. Some really useful language and phrases to nick! I like social inclusion through ICT... waiting to hear back from CVS if Reaching Communities is the fund for our project.

The materials link to Every Child Matters outcomes and focus on four areas: * community cohesion (including neighbourhood participation, community safety (especially issues around guns), gangs and knives) * health and wellbeing (including sport, healthy eating) * arts and culture (including encouraging reading, museum work) * sustainable development (including global trade, sustainable living).

There is a scheme of work for a scrap booking course that looks like a good place to start - thinking Paula

Not sure if we've already bookmarked this - but it's amazing, and very useful!

This white paper can be linked to the "informal adult learning agenda" - becasue if learners are empowered to make a choice and create a fun fab learning environment, then this buzz will carry them through to a habit of learning. Check the forum topic here, where other stuff has been posted

competition with mtve to help your neighbourhood ;-D check it out.