England

Organisation

Title and summary of project

Amount awarded

Period of funding

African Women's Welfare Group

“African Women: Raising our Voices (for Security and Development)”: this project will provide a forum for refugee women in London and Milton Keynes to promote awareness of global development issues, and build sustainable networks with other women’s movements to disseminate this understanding. Using seminars, workshops, cultural events and work of trained volunteers over 3 years.

£10,000

3 years (1st year funding)

Bridges Development Education Centre

“The 16 Challenge: Can Shropshire primary schools turn debate into action?”: working with KS2 children from local and contrasting primary schools to explore and develop their knowledge of development issues. Developing support of teachers and volunteers, and using summits held at civic location to draw schools together over this 3 year project.

£9,647

3 years (1st year funding)

Centre for Global Education, York

“Every Year Better? An international project to plot progress towards and obstacles to achieving the UN MDGs”: embedding an in-depth study of the MDGs for KS3 school students in York and N.Yorkshire. Ensuring Southern voices will be heard, and using peer learning and support to teachers to help young people to connect their own environment and lifestyle with the wider world. Over 3 years.

£10,000

3 years (1st year funding)

Development Education in Dorset

“ Skills for Life - Shared Learning and Practice to embed Active Global Citizenship in Higher Education”: in partnership with Bournemouth University, the project will increase the visibility, profile and accessibility of development education with staff and students through a virtual “hub” of learning. Impacting 6 schools of the University and 80 teaching staff over 3 years.

£10,000

3 years (1st year funding)

Girlguiding Sussex East

“Global Citizenship Project for Girlguiding Sussex East”: enabling girls and young women in Sussex East to think global and act local through research and preparation for active citizenship activities. These will be shared through the creation of a global development village within an International Camp and use of the resources after the event. 1 year project.

£2,000

1 year

Lancashire Global Education Centre

“ Beyond Citizenship – introducing a global dimension to curriculum focus events in schools”: developing innovative ways of supporting primary schools in Lancashire to embed a global dimension into the curriculum, and to engage and provide in-depth support to 8 schools not previously reached. 3 year project.

£10,000

3 years (1st year funding)

Liverpool World Centre

“ Kensington Window on the World”: working to embed the global dimension within diversity education in schools in the Kensington area of Liverpool. Increasing the capacity of southern providers and BME groups to use their global experience as a resource, providing workshops and action planning and disseminating the learning over 2 years.

£10,000

2 years (1st year funding)

Manchester Development Education Project

“Fairer Enterprise: A Social Enterprise (SE) Network for Greater Manchester”: forming a network of social enterprises to build their capacity in delivering enterprise learning and global citizenship. Running training events and promoting member support for schools to then implement 2 pupil-run projects working with SEs. 2 year project will culminate in a SE Trade Fair for schools.

£8,424

2 years (1st year funding)

Marlborough Brandt Group

“ ACTIVE8 – Beyond the White Band”: working with Citizenship and subject co-ordinators in 24 primary and special schools in Wiltshire to increase knowledge of UN MDGs and build on the success of MPH by promoting active global citizenship. Teachers and pupils will be motivated to take positive action during this 3 year project.

£8,000

3 years (1st year funding)

Norfolk Education and Action for Development

“Students 4 Global Action”: working to enthuse and empower large numbers of year 8 and 9 pupils in Norfolk and Secondary to make their schools more globally aware and active and ultimately to embed the global dimension into these secondary schools. Using students’ conferences, action planning and teacher support to implement change over 3 years.

£10,000

3 years (1st year funding)

Stevenage-Kadoma Link Assocation

“Encouraging Partnership between schools in Stevenage and Kadoma in Zimbabwe”: working within the framework of the national curriculum to develop understanding of development issues reaching new primary schools and two secondary schools in Stevenage and building on existing links with Kadoma. 3 year project.

£9,100

3 years (1st year funding)

White Rabbit Theatre

“Climate Change: A Shared Future”: using performance and drama workshop focusing on climate change to explore and engage schools in Devon, Plymouth and Torbay in the need to positively respond to such an issue of global interdependence. Developing pupils understanding and teachers’ capacity over 1 year.

£10,000

1 year

Y Care International

“Mainstreaming global youth work into the YMCA’s programmes for young residents”: piloting with Kingston and Wimbledon YMCA the integration of development issues into existing youth work structures and activities. Building the capacity of staff through training and making global youth work elements, courses and project work available to young residents over 3 years.

£9,642

3 years (1st year funding)

Cheshire DEC

“Get Global at University College Chester: Supporting the global dimension in ITE”: working with ITE students, tutors and school based mentors in University College Chester over 3 years to embed the global dimension across its B.Ed, PGCE Primary and Secondary course curricula.

£10,000

3 years (2nd year funding)

Chichester Inter-Diocesan West Africa Link/Chicester Diocesan Board of Education

“Global citizenship teacher training programme for Church Schools in the Diocese of Chichester”: programme of global citizenship and development awareness training for teachers in Sussex Church of England schools, extending to community schools. To take place over two years building on existing links with Sierra Leone.

£9,500

2 years (2nd year funding)

Envolve Partnerships for Sustainability

“Our Farms, Our Futures”: working with 8 primary and 2 secondary schools in Bath and North East Somerset to develop awareness of global connections in farming and food issues 2years. The project will add global dimensions (including links to farming communities in Uganda, Rwanda and Lesotho) to an existing Farm-Link scheme.

£9,981

2 years (2nd year funding)

Leeds University Centre for African Studies

“The Leeds University Centre for African Studies (LUCAS) Schools Project on Global Citizenship”: focus on a number of National Curriculum areas from the Southern perspective of African PhD students to raising awareness of the global dimension. Promoting positive attitudes and encouraging positive action in 4 secondary and their feeder primary schools in Leeds over 2 years.

£9,570

2 years (2nd year funding)

Liverpool World Centre

“Liverpool Schools in One World”: working with Liverpool Schools’ Parliaments and 8 school councils per term over 3 years to raise awareness of global interdependence, with a focus on fair trade action-planning and peer learning by creating a network of young people as “Fairtrade Ambassadors”.

£9,958.40

3 years (2nd year funding)

Manchester Environmental Education Network

“Sustainable Schools in East Manchester”: to intensively support two inner-city primary schools in Manchester over two years to develop links and tie global dimension to the geography, literacy and ICT curricula using chosen themes.

£5,894

2 years (2nd year funding)

Pan African Development and Advocacy Programme

“Thinking globally and acting locally for Africa’s development”: promoting awareness and understanding of the linkages between development in Africa and globally, working with Africans in the Diaspora and others in North London and beyond over 3 years. The project will popularise a broader understanding of the challenges of development and will raise awareness of key strategic issues (NEPAD, the AU).

£10,000

3 years (2nd year funding)

Trade Injustice and Debt Action Leeds (TIDAL)

“TIDALSurge, a project of Trade Injustice and Debt Action, Leeds”: to raise awareness of issues around global poverty with a diverse and inclusive range of Leeds community groups. Using a rolling programme of events over 3 years.

£9,500

3 years (2nd year funding)

Akademi

“Parallel Spaces”: using South Asian dance and art forms to bring development issues to life in primary and secondary schools in London, supported by INSET and support for artists.

£9,000

3 years (3rd year funding)

Cumbria DEC

“Keeping diversity on track”: to explore interdependence and cultural diversity in 6 schools and communities along Carlisle and Settle railway, and share its potential to sustain school and community development.

£6,525

3 years (3rd year funding)

DEC South Yorkshire

“Foundations for Global Learning”: developing the global dimension working with the Cultural Mentoring Team in Foundation stage settings in Sheffield and South Yorkshire, and feeding into regional EES strategy - Y and HGSA.

£9,992

3 years (3rd year funding)

Development Education in Dorset

“Thinking Outside the Box”: working with theatre and arts to provide pupils and teachers in Bournemouth, Poole and Dorset with training, resources and advice, to creatively embed the global dimension in schools.

£9,994

3 years (3rd year funding)

Generator X

“The Local Energy in Education Programme for Tower Hamlets”: working in secondary schools in Tower Hamlets to build 11-12 year olds’ understanding of 2 way connections between environmental sustainability and international development through multi-media workshops linked into the science curriculum.

£10,000

3 years (3rd year funding)

Global Education Derby

“Globalising Environmental Education in Derby and Derbyshire”: working with Eco-Schools network to develop the capacity of schools to use environmental issues and activities to introduce and explain development topics. Also to increase the capacity of environmental education agencies in schools.

£7,370

3 years (3rd year funding)

Humanities Education Centre

“Lines in the sand”: working in partnership with Eastside Arts to show how literacy and the arts can demonstrate a greater understanding of development and combating poverty through the plight of the Saharawi people. Targeting secondary students in Tower Hamlets, and neighbouring boroughs.

£10,000

3 years (3rd year funding)

Kent Youth

“Kent and the Global Picture”: using Peer Education principles to equip young people aged 15 to 21 with knowledge about a broad range of international issues, chosen (with support) by the young people.

£10,000

3 years (3rd year funding)

Leicester Masaya Link Group

“Food for Thought – Exploring tropical ecosystems to raise global awareness”: educational programme for students and teachers in Leicestershire, using partnership with University of Leicester Botanic Garden to explore issues such as resources, food production, globalisation and global inequality.

£8,971

3 years (3rd year funding)

Teesside One World Centre

“Go Global!”: working with young people and providers / staff in 9 after school clubs in Redcar and Cleveland over 3 years to raise awareness of global consequences of local actions, and encourage young people to act as responsible citizens. Building on involvement of BME community.

£9,994

3 years (3rd year funding)

Total amount awarded

£283,062.40

Northern Ireland

Organisation

Title and summary of project

Amount awarded

Period of funding

Children in Crossfire

8 Good Reasons: a formal sector project designed to raise awareness of the Millennium Development Goals through research, resource provision and continuing professional development.

£6,117.20

1 year

Development Media Workshop

Global Experiences of Childhood: the delivery of film-based training with teachers focusing on the lives of poverty-affected children in Nepal, Kenya and migrant workers in Northern Ireland.

£10,000

1 year

Old Museum Arts Centre

We’re in it together: to engage young people aged 14-18 yrs in development issues through arts-based activities including live performance.

£10,000

1 year

Children's Express

Global Eye: a peer education programme for young people focusing on the development of media skills.

£10,000

2 years (2nd year funding)

Total amount awarded

£36,117.20

Scotland

Organisation

Title and summary of project

Amount awarded

Period of funding

VETAID

Farming futures: North and South: To raise awareness amongst primary school pupils in the Highland areas of parallels between the livestock-dependant lifestyles of Scottish crofters and the East African Maasai, actively promoting dynamic global citizenship for sustainable development.

£7,359

1 year

ALTERnativity

A Global Christmas: Working Together to make a difference: uses the season as a way into global and development awareness through providing training for church and community leaders across Scotland.

£3,700

1 year

ScotDEC

Global Clusters: To embed the global dimension in school development plans.

£5,184

1 year

Highland One World Group

Know your own patch and theirs: this project will be the local focus of the EES initiative and increase knowledge of the Millennium Development Goals. To encourage individuals to take action for change by supporting schools to include a global dimension in their approach to sustainable development education and enterprise.

£4,940

2 years (1st year funding)

Interact Worldwide

Action and Ideas: Training Series for Lifelong Learning Educations: for educations and community workers based on issues explored in a cross-section of Development Education resources.

£7,100

2 years (2nd year funding)

One World Centre Dundee

Discovering and Shaping our World: To ensure a programme of active global citizenship within voluntary youth organisations in Dundee and the surrounding area.

£10,000

3 years (2nd year funding)

Total amount awarded

£38,283

Wales

Organisation

Title and summary of project

Amount awarded

Period of funding

Centre for Alternative Technology

Designing for People: Global Education in Design and Technology KS 3 and 4

This project aims to embed development education into Design and Technology teaching in Wales at Key Stage 3 and 4. The key objectives are to equip a significant number of teachers with the knowledge and skills to incorporate a global perspective into their D&T teaching and to feel able to develop their knowledge to support their teaching.

£10,000

3 years (1st year funding)

Gwerin y Coed (Woodcraft Folk in Wales)

Empowering a Generation with Global Changes

The main aim of this project is to support young people who want to promote global citizenship with other young people in an informal setting. The project will run training workshops for young people to develop their skills as facilitators, so that they, in turn, can run workshops on global topics with their chosen target group. The workshops will raise awareness of the links between global poverty, aids and conflict and enable young people to respond effectively.

£10,000

1 year

PEDEC

Broadcasting Support for International Development in Wales

The project will work with future journalist and broadcasters at Aberystwyth University to raise awareness of the Millennium Development Goals and facilitate high quality communications (such as radio programmes, articles, pod casts etc.) on development issues, which will be delivered through local and regional media to raise public awareness of international development issues.

£7,776

1 year

Small World Theatre

Wales and the World - Sex and Poverty

The project will use participatory drama and other participatory development methods to consult teachers, health professionals, young people, education advisors, teacher trainees and other stakeholders on their perceptions, knowledge and current understanding of issues surrounding sexual health locally and in the context of the impact of STDs such as HIV and AIDs on global poverty.

£5,000

1 year

World Education Centre

Teachers as Peer Educators

The project will build capacity for Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship amongst teachers in primary and secondary schools in North West Wales by using teachers as continuing professional development peer educators. In each project year teachers from four schools requiring help to develop ESDGC will be paired with four experienced teachers with appropriate expertise. Half the teachers will de drawn from primary and half from secondary schools.

£8,000

3 years (1st year funding)

Somali Integration Society

Somalis in Wales: A Rich Contribution Year 2

The project aims to promote a positive and informed image of Somali culture to those living in Wales and to promote cultural diversity and counter racism in Wales. The project will work with schools and other audiences to recognise the economic links between Somali-speaking countries and Wales and the ongoing economic contributions of the Diaspora community to development in Somaliland and elsewhere.

£9,793

2 years (2nd year funding)

Swansea City Council Sustainable Development Unit

In Focus – Investigating Human Rights through Media Studies Year 3

This is the third year of a project which aims to develop a teaching framework within the Media Studies curriculum that will enable young people in Swansea to develop a critical and personalized understanding of global interdependence and humane rights. The project will work with seven secondary schools within the City and County of Swansea.

£8,410

3 years (3rd year funding)

Total amount awarded

£58,979