• Learning Works for All Fund: Phase Two
• Where can I get more information?
• Can we still apply for funding support?
• Find out more about the work of the first phase of LWfA

Learning Works for All Fund: Phase Two

The Learning Works for All (LWfA) project was set up in 2003 to increase the productivity, performance and confidence of individuals and organisations in the South West. It supports trade unions, working with partners, to develop and deliver sustainable projects that increase access to learning and promote greater employee involvement in decisions. The project supports initiatives to provide lifelong learning and workforce development opportunities, to undertake skills analysis work, to support workers facing redundancy and those that seek to improve the work/life balance of the region’s workers.

The project is supported by the South West of England Regional Development Agency (SWRDA) and has a budget for both phases of £2,276,350.
LWfA Phase One helped thousands of workers across the south west of England to improve their skills by supporting 31 union-led partnership projects across the region. It also supported workers to improve their work/life balance and has helped more than 400 people retrain and find alternative employment following redundancy.

LWfA Phase Two started in 2006 and has sponsored 26 new projects, which are providing further learning opportunities to workers across the South West of England. Projects have bid into one of four funding streams for project support:

• Lifelong Learning and Workforce Development: projects that increase participation rates in learning and raise the confidence and skill levels of adults in the workplace.
• Work/Life Balance: projects seeking to achieve a better balance between the need to provide high quality production and services and the aspirations of employees to have more control over their working lives.
• Skills for the Future: projects undertaking skills audits during restructuring or in preparation for major change in the workplace.
• Response to Redundancy: projects helping workers access skills and advice to help them avert redundancy or equip them for new work when redundancy is unavoidable.

For a summary of current projects go to:
LWfA Supported Projects (September 2006 - October 2008)

An interim evaluation report on LWfA Phase Two is now available. This independent report has been produced by the Institute of Business and Law, University of Bournemouth who are evaluating the LWfA Phase Two project. Learning Works for All – Phase 2 Project Evaluation (PDF)

Where can I get more information?

For further information please refer to the publications below or order copies from unionlearn* regional office (contact details below): -
e(general enquiries): learningworksforallfund@tuc.org.uk

Maggie Fellows
Project Manager - Learning Works for All
Tel: 0117 947 0521
Mob: 07766 250 843
mfellows@tuc.org.uk

Andy Moss and Cathy Linden
Project Assistants
Tel: 0117 947 0521
amoss@tuc.org.uk; clinden@tuc.org.uk
South West TUC, Church House,
Church Road, Filton, Bristol, BS34 7BD

Can we still apply for funding support?

The LWfA fund has now closed and sponsorship for current projects will complete on 31st October 2008.

Find out more about the work of the first phase of LWfA

• LWfA Project Evaluation, Final Evaluation Report (PDF, 512 kb) produced by The Centre for Organisational Effectiveness, Bournemouth University (March 2006).
• LWfA Supported Projects (September 2006 - October 2008)
• LWfA Sponsored Projects Case Studies (PDF, 522kb)
  

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