Links to organisations that provide learning inspiration

Learning Promotion & Development
cmlg - Campaign for Learning through Museums & Galleries
Niace - National Institute for Adult Continuing Education
Film Education - Organises National Schools' Film Week
National Literacy Trust - Independent charity dedicated to building a literate nation.
Education Extra - This charity encourages schools to run out-of-school hours activities
Learning through Landscapes
The Royal Society - The Committee for the Public Understanding of Science (COPUS) promotes a broader understanding of science and technology in the UK. COPUS grants funds projects that aim to improve the public understanding of science and technology.
re:source - the council for libraries, museums and archives. They help organisations develop accessible and inclusive collections and services that provide learning, inspiration and enjoyment for everyone.
Opening the Doors - Programme to encourage young people to visit museums and galleries outside of formal education.
GEM - Group for Education in Museums promotes formal and informal learning in museums and galleries through advocacy, publications and training.
engage - organisation that promotes greater understanding and enjoyment of the visual arts by working with the public, artists, galleries, schools and educators
Accessart - This new site presents innovative ways of learning about art through a series of engaging and interactive on-line workshops.
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Sites for Family Learning
CCI - Centres for Curiosity and Imagination - community-based discovery centres which bring children, families and others together to learn about the world through fun, first-hand experiences
Fundango - Where learning is always fun (Kid's site) with email bingo for kids all over the world.
Domestos/The Bug Stops Here - The education section of this website is designed for teachers with classroom activities and worksheets on hegira information.
AppuKids.com - Fun learning site for children aged 6-14
Casting and Construction - an online workshop for children
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Family Safety
The new Sun Safe Website includes activity/work sheets to help teachers and parents explain the risks to children and an interactive tool that identifies your skin profile and explains how each skin type behaves in the sun.
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The Environment
The Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens exists to promote, support and represent groups engaged in community-led development of open space through locally managed farming and gardening. Find out from their website if there is a project near you.
Doing your bit - a really useful website by the DETR. Includes a leaflet giving practicable tips and ideas on 'doing your bit' at home, when you travel, while shopping and at work.
Global Action Plan - runs a range of practical action-based prgrammes for households, schools and businesses.
Create - coordinates and promotes energy education. Includes pages designed for primary school-aged children, as well as adults.
Tree Council - Working through and on behalf of its member organisations, the Tree Council aims to create an awareness of the value of trees and of the need for more trees and their better management. It uses every opportunity to inform people about trees, to alert them to national tree problems and to seek solutions.
Nature Grid - a website of online environmental education centre, with features including interactive, online pond-dipping.
The National Trust Education Website - News of education events and activities in Britain’s largest conservation charity
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Healthy Living
Walking your way to health - Initiative by the British Heart Foundation and the Countryside Agency for inspiration to run your own walking activity.
Healthy Action Zones - Includes links to all the HAZ's in the country.
Healthy Living Centres - NOF managed project with an emphasis on community involvement from dietary advice to arts programmes.
Wired for Health - A DfES/DoH initiative giving engaging and interactive information on health issues aimed at the teacher and the learner. Many good activity ideas.
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Parenting
Encouraging Better Behaviour: a practical guide to positive parenting
NSPCC.The booklet is available on the NSPCC website.
http://www.nspcc.org.uk/html/news/hittingchildrenmuststop.htm
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Dads 'n' Lads
YMCA's Dads & Lads Project - It seeks to bring fathers together with their sons or boys, through a shared love of sport
Fathers Direct is the UK's national information centre for fatherhood.
Working with Men - an NFP supports the development of work with men through resources, publications, training, consultancy and advice.
Family Support Grant Programme - funds activities that support families in their parenting role.
DfES Dads and Sons - an initiative to support fathers in getting involved with their sons' 11-14 education.
Families Need Fathers is a registered UK charity which provides information and support to parents, including unmarried parents, of either sex
The National Fatherhood Initiative was created in 1994 to counter the growing problem of fatherlessness by stimulating a broad-based social movement to restore responsible fatherhood as a national priority (US site)
Fathering Magazine - a US site full of interesting articles
Bootcamp for New Dads - a US site for first-time fathers
The Single and Custodial Fathers Network - US site
Slowlane.com - Support for stay at-home dads, primary caregiving fathers, men and their families (US site)
DadsDivorce.com is made possible by the Law Firm of Cordell & Cordell. Cordell & Cordell is dedicated to helping divorced and divorcing fathers maximize their role in their children's lives. (US site)
Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education is an interest group whose members are convinced that family breakdown can be reduced through education and information.
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Sites for Learning at Work
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Adult Learning Sites
WEA - Workers Educational Association - an independent adult education and training organisation
LSC - Learning and Skills Council - The Councils are responsible for planning and funding training for over 16s in England. (You can find a list of all regional contacts on the What’s New pages of this site).
DfES Lifelong Learning site - web site for the encouragement, promotion and development of lifelong learning
Niace - National Institute for Adult Continuing Education
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Sites with Information About Learning
The Wider Benefits of Learning Research Centre - This centre has been established by the Department for Education and Skills to investigate the non-economic benefits that learning brings to the individual learner and to society as a whole.
The Centre for the Economics of Education - This centre is dedicated to combining the fields of economics education, and statistics in an interdisciplinary approach to research.
Learn to learn - a site that explains and celebrates how we learn in different ways.
ALPS - advice for teachers in the classroom to know how to put the theory of brain-based learning into practice
Thinking Classrooms - This website offers some ideas intended to help a thinking teacher establish their very own thinking classroom.
Eurydice - an education information network in Europe that produces information on national education systems. This link takes you to their survey on implementing Lifelong Learning in Europe.
Libraries online - Links to on-line libraries, University libraries, research facilities and educational sites
The National Grid for Learning - collection of resources brought together by Government to help raise standards in education.
SEAL - The Society for Effective Affective Learning is an international association (UK based) of individual and institutional members who are passionate about learning. They are interested in how the brain works, how people learn and how they can help people learn better.
Harvard Medical School's Brain Atlas
The Lifelong Learning Foundation - The Foundation's purpose is to help lay the foundations for the development of the UK as a learning society by 2020. Funding research and development is their core activity.
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Advice on Courses and Formal Learning Opportunities
DFES - The Department for Education and Skills
London Colleges - A simple, easy to understand listing of courses in London.
Channel 4's Brilliant Careers - Channel 4's career development site with ideas, tips and inspiration.
Open Learning Academy - Internet based tutorial system with GCSE and A-Level course materials.
Stepstone - Information on over 2500 courses of many different subjects.
The Army - Education and Training Services. Information on education and training services offered to the army.
The RAF - Link to the Learning Forces site for the Royal Air Force
QCA - Qualifications and Curriculum Authority - Public body responsible for promoting quality and coherence in education and training – from early years to higher level vocational qualifications. The website has schemes of work for all national curriculum subjects.
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Professional Associations for practitioners
The Museums Association - With over 5,000 members, the MA is the largest association representing museums, galleries and their staff and collections in Great Britain. It helps develop knowledge and skills, provides opportunities to make contact with other museum people and encourages members to contribute to the development of the profession as a whole.
CILIP - (formerly the Libraries Association and Institute of Information Scientists)
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