AHERITAGEPROJECT FROMTHE VIVAARTSAND COMMUNITYGROUP onlineNEW courses Adult Learning and Skills Courses Updated January 2021 For most of us in Cambridgeshire, village Cambourne Comberton colleges are part of everyday life. We go there & Melbourn Village to learn by day and in the evening, or to make Colleges use of the facilities. All enquiries: 01223 264721 email:
[email protected] www.combertonadulted.org F facebook.com/adultedcomberton T @CombAdultEd But did you know that these village colleges were a thoroughly Cambridgeshire invention inspired by poverty and need almost a century ago? And that they inspired educators across the country, and around the world? This heritage project from the Viva Arts and Community Group, generously supported by the National Lott ery Heritage Fund, has looked at how Cambridgeshire’s Village Colleges, truly groundbreaking institutions, have, for decades, touched tens of thousands of lives to become central features of our communities. The project focused on eleven village colleges ADULT LEARNING & SKILLS SPRING 2020 COURSES established between the 1930s to the 1960s. COTTENHAM & SWAVESEY VILLAGE COLLEGES NORTHSTOWE SECONDARY COLLEGE Swavesey VILLAGE COLLEGE High Street, Cottenham Gibraltar Lane, Swavesey C/O Swavesey Village College Cambridge CB24 8UA Cambridge CB24 4RS Gibraltar Lane, Swavesey Tel: 01954 288751 Tel : 01954 234488 Cambridge CB24 4RS
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[email protected] www.swaveseyvc.co.uk In the 1920s, apart from Cambridge University, the provision of education in Cambridgeshire was among the poorest in the country. This was due in part to relatively high levels of deprivation in the largely rural county, and how spread out the population was at the time.