Useful links
Listed below are useful links for websites and free resources regarding family learning. Click on the link to take you to the relevant site.
Academy of Culinary Arts: Programme of cookery workshops which are delivered to primary and secondary schools by chefs who are members of the Academy of Culinary Arts and leading members of the food industry. The sessions are suitable for ages 5 to 18.
B&Q: Schools, community groups and charitable organisations can apply to their local B&Q store for funding to support a local project.
BBC BackPage: Sharing video tips about how to help kids with their homework.
Breakfast Club Plus: Breakfast Club Plus is a UK-wide network that supports breakfast clubs by providing guidance for new clubs and information and best practice for established clubs.
British Food Fortnight: A free resource pack for schools, focussing on learning about the diverse and range of food, benefits of healthy eating and the pleasures of eating quality, seasonal and regionally distinct produce.
Campaign for learning: Are you working with families to promote learning? Join the Campaign for Learning which has over 6,000 members, working with an estimated 5 million families each year.
CC4g: The new-look CC4G provides materials mapped to the National Curriculum at Key Stages 2 and 3 for all students – boys and girls.
Flour and Grain Education Programme: a free resource sponsored by Britains leading producers and millers of cereals including wheat, barley and oats. Materials include activity pack for Early Years, KS2, KS2, KS3 and sample for the milling process.
Fox's Boxes: fun mathematical activities for parents, teachers and children to purchase, showing that mathematics can be enjoyable.
National Family Learning Network: This is a partnership venture between Campaign for Learning, ContinYou and NIACE. It was set up in 2001, and aims to provide free information and support to family learning practitioners, facilitate the sharing of good practice, and promote family learning regionally, nationally and internationally.
National Open College Network (NOCN): This link will take you to the contact details of OCN's.
National Resource Centre for Supplementary Education: This is the only website dedicated to providing information, advice and resources to supplementary schools across England.
NIACE: NIACE, the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, supports more and different learning through advocacy, conferences and courses, campaigns, research and development.
Pyramid: Pyramid clubs offer a safe haven for children amid the hustle and bustle of the busy school environment.
Road Safety Academy: Offers free half-day training session to parents and parents-to-be on road safety. Delegates get information and resources enabling them to delivery hour-long awareness-raising presentations to other parents.
Tesco: The Tesco Charity Trust Community Awards are targeted towards communities where stores are based. Local organisations whose core work supports children's education and welfare can benefit from one-off donations rangeing from £1,500 to £5,000.
What's cooking!: Cookery clubs are an enjoyable way of enabling young people and their families to recognise how the food they prepare for themselves can help to make them healthier. This guide offers guidance and support to those wishing to set up out-of-school-hours cookery clubs.
YoungMinds: providing information and advice on mental health issues. Topics covered include parenting, homelessness, eating problems, bullying, divorce and separation, beareavement, abuse as well as education, government funding, legislation and a number of other topics. Information is aimed at parents, children and professionals.