Sponsors and Partners

The Family Learning Festival is a national campaign that aims to raise its profile through the media and with opinion formers as well as by reaching organisers and families. One of the ways in which we do this is by linking in with key partners that run similar campaigns or that have related aims and objectives. This helps us to provide a wider range of resources as well as reaching more organisations that might be interested in getting involved.

Please find more information about our partners below. In order to make the most of your event you can use resources and ideas from both our partners and the Campaign for Learning. Remember to ensure that you register your event with the Family Learning Festival and other relevant partners to ensure that you get maximum publicity and promotion for your event.

	Learning and Skills Council The Learning and Skills Council exists to make England better skilled and more competitive. The Learning and Skills Council have a single goal: to improve the skills of England’s young people and adults to ensure we have a workforce of world-class standard.The LSC is responsible for planning and funding high quality education and training for everyone in England other than those in universities.
	Get On The Get On campaign encourages the millions of people in England who experience difficulties with literacy, language and numeracy, or would benefit from 'brushing up' on these skills, to enrol on a free course. The campaign aims to help create a society where adults have the basic skills that they need to find and keep work and participate fully in society. There are thousands of free courses available for anyone interested in improving their maths and English skills. For more information visit: www.dfes.gov.uk/get-on
	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills The department's work on further and higher education, science, technology and supporting evidence based policy making across government is essential to national prosperity.
	The Learning Revolution Festival October marks your chance to join the Learning Revolution Festival when hundreds of events taking place across England will highlight the variety of learning that everyone can get involved in. Whether it's car maintenance or learning from a website, the Festival aims to showcase the opportunities for enjoyment and community development and highlight the real benefits that informal learning brings. To find your nearest Learning Revolution Festival event or find out how you can encourage others to get involved, go to our new website www.direct.gov.uk/learningrevolution
	learndirect Learn new skills with learndirect. learndirect offer online courses in IT, business and management and more. learndirect also offer careers advice and guidance and have a database of over 600000 courses so you can choose the right one for you.
	Action for Prisoners' Families Action for Prisoners’ Families (AfPF) was established in 1990 (under the name of the Federation of Prisoners’ Families Support Groups) to act as the voice for, and to support the development of, organisations working with families of prisoners.
	UK online centres UK online centres provide people - whoever or wherever they are - with free or low-cost access to computers and the internet, together with help and advice on how to use them.