'Your Guide to Adult Learning in Three Rivers'
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Three Rivers Learning Partnership Promoting Learning Summer 2012 in the Community ‘Your Guide to Adult Learning in Three Rivers’ with FREE learning opportunities all year! Plus FREE Taster Sessions for Learning Festivals across Three Rivers in : Organised by: Three Rivers Learning Partnership For Learning Festivals & FREE learning activities all year: www.3riverslearningptnrs.btck.co.uk Scan with your QR Code reader For FREE learning throughout the year, see our website: www.3riverslearningptnrs.btck.co.uk THREE RIVERS LEARNING PARTNERSHIP: YOUR GUIDE TO ADULT LEARNING IN THREE RIVERS Summer 2012 CONTENTS: PAGE: Contents & Introduction 2 WHERE TO GET HELP & SUPPORT: § Skills for Life: ♦♦♦ Speaking English ♦♦♦ Play & Language with Your Child 3 ♦♦♦ Reading, Writing & Numbers ♦♦♦ Using Computers § Information, Advice & Guidance and Job Search 4 § A-Z of Local Learning Opportunities 5-6 § Course Costs 6 WHERE TO GET FREE LEARNING: § FREE Courses of Learning – Coming Soon 7-8 § FREE Learning Opportunities throughout the year 9-12 § FREE Adult Learners’ Week Taster Sessions: Saturday 12 - Friday 18 May 2012 13-15 § Contact Directory for: Three Rivers Organisations & Venues offering Learning Information, Opportunities & Tasters 16-19 INTRODUCTION Use ‘Your Guide to Adult Learning in Three Rivers’ to help you to find local organisations that provide learning activities, support and FREE learning opportunities. See the A-Z of Local Learning Opportunities for a wide range of organisations that offer courses and classes. Not all are free, but many offer free Tasters for the learning festivals and during the year. § If you want help with Learning English or improving reading, writing or numbers see pages 3 & 7. § Please help or encourage someone you know to sign up. You are invited to join in Adult Learners’ Week 2012: § Three Rivers Learning Partnership with its Partners offers you FREE Tasters of Learning to celebrate the Adult Learners’ Week festival providing a great opportunity to try something new . § Most Tasters need to be booked but some are just turn up. § We hope you get along to some Tasters but if you miss something of interest, do contact the provider, there’s probably something similar on offer – just not necessarily free. § We hope that you enjoy learning in Three Rivers. Get the latest Festival information at: www.3riverslearningptnrs.btck.co.uk Three Rivers Learning Partnership – Promoting Learning in the Community Venue addresses pages 16-19 Page 2 For FREE learning throughout the year, see our website: www.3riverslearningptnrs.btck.co.uk YOUR GUIDE TO ADULT LEARNING IN THREE RIVERS Summer 2012 WHERE TO GET HELP & SUPPORT: SKILLS FOR LIFE Speaking English Play & Language ESOL (English for Speakers of Other with Your Child (under 5): Languages): o o ASCEND Community Learning Partnership o o West Herts College Mill End Community Centre o o Jobcentre Plus (refer people on benefits for free tuition) Some Children’s Centres Reading, Writing Using Computers & Numbers (ICT: Information & Computing Technology): o Abbots Langley Children’s Centre (Maths & English): o Abbots Langley Library o ASCEND: run at ASCEND & Step Up’ o ASCEND o Chorleywood Library o Community Learning Partnership o Community Learning Partnership o Maple Cross JMI o Croxley Green Library o South Oxhey Children's Centre o Maple Cross JMI o West Herts College o 9 Lives for people with mental health or learning disability Book Groups & Literature: o Oxhey Library o ASCEND (Write Start – o Parmiter’s School Creative Writing) o Rickmansworth Library o Oxhey Library Reading Group o St Joan of Arc School o Three Rivers Learning Partnership, ASCEND & o U3A Chorleywood Oxhey Library (South Oxhey Quick Reads Book o U3A Sarratt group) o WEA o Three Rivers Learning o Wenta (Website Design only) Partnership, Mill End o West Herts College Community Centre Plus Three Rivers District Council Rickmansworth Library FREE computer courses (see page 8) (Mill End Quick Reads Free PC & Internet access (no tuition) Book group) o Ebury Children's Centre o U3A Chorleywood o Mill End Community Centre o U3A Croxley Green o Watford Mencap in Rickmansworth o U3A Rickmansworth o Watersmeet o U3A Sarratt ONLINE: § BBC raw provides materials & activities for adults who want to improve their reading, writing numeracy at BBC raw , the place where you can develop your skills for everyday life: www.bbc.co.uk/raw/ § Three Rivers Quick Reads Book groups latest information: www.3riverslearningptnrs.btck.co.uk LOCAL: RaW Friends at ASCEND see page 7 and ℡ 0208 420 1364 Three Rivers Learning Partnership – Promoting Learning in the Community Venue addresses pages 16-19 Page 3 For FREE learning throughout the year, see our website: www.3riverslearningptnrs.btck.co.uk INFORMATION, ADVICE & GUIDANCE & JOB SEARCH IAG (Information, Advice & Guidance): Job Search, CVs, etc.: o Abbots Langley Children’s Centre o Abbots Langley Children’s Centre o ASCEND: run at ASCEND & Step Up o ASCEND o Careers Advice Service: o Connexions (help & support for all 13-19s) www.careersadvice.direct.gov.uk o Guideposts Trust ( support for people with mental o Connexions (help & support for all 13-19s) health issues) o HCS Careers o HCS Careers o National Careers Service o Jobcentre Plus (people 19 & over) o National Careers Service (people 19 & over) o Rickmansworth Children’s o Rickmansworth Children’s Centre Centre o South Oxhey Children's Centre o TCHC o TCHC o Watford Mencap (people o Watford Observer with learning disabilities) o West Herts College o West Herts College o Work Solutions (people with disabilities) o Work Solutions (people with disabilities) Apprenticeships (16-65s): Skills training for those facing redundancy or newly o National Careers Service (people 19 & over) out of work: o TCHC o National Careers Service o West Herts College (people 19 & over) o YMCA Woodlands o TCHC Training For Work / Workplace Learning: Women Returners / Women Entrepreneurs o ASCEND o TCHC o 9 Lives (people with mental health or learning o Wenta disability) o HCS Careers Pre-Retirement: o National Careers Service (people 19 & over) o HCS Careers o TCHC o National Careers Service (people 19 & over) o West Herts College o TCHC Training For Volunteering / Volunteers: Executive Coaching: o Abbots Langley Children’s Centre o HCS Careers o ASCEND o National Careers Service (people 19 & over) o CVS in Three Rivers o TCHC o Home-Start (Watford & Three Rivers) o Financial Advice TCHC o o CAB (budgeting advice to school leavers) WEA o National Careers Service (people 19 & over) Gas Safe Re-assessment Centre Courses at West Herts College’s Construction & Engineering Centre, Kings Langley. Work towards your official Gas Safe licence (formerly Corgi). Details of local Job Club on page 9 Three Rivers Learning Partnership – Promoting Learning in the Community Venue addresses pages 16-19 Page 4 For FREE learning throughout the year, see our website: www.3riverslearningptnrs.btck.co.uk WHERE TO GET FREE LEARNING: A-Z OF LOCAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES: A-F Arts & Crafts: Community Learning Champions: o ASCEND – run at Step Up (Embellishment, o Community Learning Partnership (CLP Angels) Needlecraft, Cushion Making, Advent Calendars, Gifts, Bags, Cards, Beads etc.) Cookery: o ASCEND - run at The Centre (Oil Painting & o Community Learning Partnership Introduction to Drawing & Painting classes) o West Herts College o Community Learning Partnership (Artist Trading Cards, Felt-Making, Fabric Books, Canvas Computing / ICT - see page 3 Stitch & Making Jewellery) o Ebury Children's Centre (Knitting & Crocheting) Mill End Community Centre (Flower Arranging & Dance: Oil Painting) o Mill End Community Centre (Ballet/Ballroom/Tap ) o Parmiter’s School (Art /Pottery) o West Herts College o Three Rivers District Council - Everyday Active o U3A Chorleywood Discussion Group: o U3A Croxley Green o U3A Sarratt (Philosophy) o U3A Rickmansworth o U3A Sarratt Environment & Science: o Watford Rural Parish Council (Pottery ) o ASCEND – Dig Deep Allotment o West Herts College o U3A Sarratt Boat Handling: o Rickmansworth Waterways Trust, Family Learning: Batchworth Lock Canal Centre o Abbots Langley Children’s Centre o Community Learning Partnership o Ebury Children's Centre Book Groups & Literature - see page 3 o Rickmansworth Children’s Centre For courses funded by Hertfordshire Adult & Family Learning Service check with local school or HAFLS Business: ℡ 01992 588 756 e: [email protected] o Wenta o West Herts College First Aid & Home Safety: o ASCEND (Emergency First Aid & Pediatric First Aid classes) Childcare & Parenting: o Abbots Langley Children’s Centre o Abbots Langley Children’s Centre o Ebury Children's Centre o Ebury Children's Centre o Rickmansworth Children’s Centre Financial Literacy: o West Herts College o West Herts College Furniture Restoration: Citizenship: o 9 Lives for people with Mental health or learning o Abbots Langley Children’s Centre (volunteering) disability o Centre for Voluntary Service in Three Rivers Three Rivers Learning Partnership – Promoting Learning in the Community Venue addresses pages 16-19 Page 5 For FREE learning throughout the year, see our website: www.3riverslearningptnrs.btck.co.uk A-Z OF LOCAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES: G-Z Health & Fitness: Music: o Abbots Langley Children’s Centre Fitness (Baby o St Joan of Arc School Massage, Child Health Clinics, activities for o U3A Chorleywood children under 5) o U3A Rickmansworth o Countryside Management Service (Walking) o WEA o Ebury Children's Centre (Family Fit camp) o West