Our projects
The NRC works with a range of partners to deliver projects that make a real difference to communities, families children and young people on the ground.
Current projects
We are currently working in:
- Coventry – we provide the city wide supplementary schools service. Read more about our work in Coventry.
- Lewisham – we are delivering a Connecting Communities Plus funded project to provide supplementary schools coordination and support, and to facilitate partnership between mainstream and supplementary schools. Read more about our work in Lewisham.
- Barnet – we are researching the profile and needs of the supplementary school sector in the London Borough of Barnet with funding from the local Children’s Fund. Read more about our work in Barnet.
- Ealing – as partners in an Neighbourhood Renewal Fund (NRF) funded programme to tackle educational underachievement and low attainment on two housing estates in the north of the borough. Read more about our work in Ealing.
- 12 London Boroughs – as delivery partner for the Local Network Fund, we will support supplementary schools applying to the Fund in Enfield, Hackney, Islington, Camden, Tower Hamlets, Westminster, Haringey, Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington & Chelsea, Wandsworth, Merton, and Sutton.
- Newly arrived communities
- Community languages teaching and learning – The NRC, along with CILT (the National Centre for Languages), the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) and the School Development and Support Agency (SDSA) in Leicester are now embarking on a second phase of the 'Our Languages' DCSF-funded project, aimed at supporting the teaching and learning of community languages within both supplementary schools and the mainstream school sector.
- London - ‘The London 12’ supports supplementary schools applying to the Local Network Fund (LNF) in 12 London boroughs.
Who does what
- Our campaigns - Remi Gonthier
- The Bullet!n - Tom Sheppard
- 2007 National Conferences – tbc
- Our Training programme – Eleonora Catalli
- The Quality Framework – Nikesh Shukla
- Funding advice – Maria Topffer
- Coventry – Rémi Gonthier
- Lewisham – Carole Berry
- The Start Up Guide – tbc
- Publication and good practice guides – Nikesh Shukla
- The National Awards – Nikesh Shukla
- Newly Arrived Communities – Laurence Chester
Recent projects
Our previous projects have included work in:
- Lambeth – a review of language teaching and supplementary schools
- Hackney – we worked on a quality inspection framework for local supplementary schools in partnership with The Learning Trust
- Barnet – we researched the profile and needs of the supplementary school sector in the London Borough of Barnet with funding from the local Children’s Fund. Read more about our work in Barnet.
- Ealing – as partners in an Neighbourhood Renewal Fund (NRF) funded programme to tackle educational underachievement and low attainment on two housing estates in the north of the borough. Read more about our work in Ealing.
- 12 London Boroughs – as delivery partner for the Local Network Fund, we will support supplementary schools applying to the Fund in Enfield, Hackney, Islington, Camden, Tower Hamlets, Westminster, Haringey, Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington & Chelsea, Wandsworth, Merton, and Sutton.
Our campaigns
Over the course of the year we will be running a number of campaigns around supplementary education and schooling, and we’d love to hear from you if there are issues you think we should be taking up.
We intend as a matter of course to campaign for:
- Better Funding
- Free access to mainstream schools for supplementary schools
- Designated supplementary schools coordinators in every local authority area with more than 10 supplementary schools
If you can help with these campaigns, please get in touch.
