England

Organisation

Title and summary of project

Amount awarded

Period of funding

Action Force Africa

“Going Global Programme (Youth Development Awareness)”: working over three years to reach a new audience of disengaged youths in Liverpool using the Millennium Development Goals and case studies from West Africa to examine and understand a range of development issues

£9,065

3 years (1st year funding)

Aduna

“Creating a training network to deliver DE to young people from primarily BME communities via the performing and visual arts from Africa”: 3 year project to create a network of organisations in Lambeth to convey development education messages via performing & visual arts from Africa. Working primarily with youth groups and also schools and communities.

£9,900

3 years (1st year funding)

Banana Link

“Building Solidarity along the Banana Supply Chain”: a two-year project to equip trade unionists in the East of England with the knowledge and understanding required to build solidarity along the banana supply chain.

£9,618

2 years (1st year funding)

British Red Cross

A two-year project facilitated by young people in Devon and utilising peer education to raise awareness amongst other young people about local and global HIV/AIDs issues.

£9,725

2 years (1st year funding)

Devon Development Education

“Model UN Assemblies: the challenge of Climate Change in achieving the MDGs”: a one-year project that uses model UN Assemblies with KS3 & 4 pupils in 3 areas of Devon to increase understanding of the impact of climate change on the world's poorest communities, linked to MDGs.

£5,200

1 year

Envolve

“The Climate Change Connection – A global citizenship and sustainable development project based in Bath & North East Somerset”: over three years, motivating KS 3 & 4 students in Bath & NE Somerset to include a global dimension focused on climate change in their Sustainable Schools agenda, and take forward practical action.

£9,933

3 years (1st year funding)

Firth Park Community Arts College Extended Schools Team

“From Awareness to Action”: one-year project working with Yr 9 students, their parents & wider community in Sheffield to develop understanding of the global economy and global interdependence, via a study of the fashion industry.

£1,595

1 year

Global Education Derby

“Regenerating Hearts and Minds”: three-year project providing support to local teachers to increase understanding of globalisation and interdependence amongst young people in disadvantaged communities in the East Midlands.

£10,000

3 years (1st year funding)

Great Lakes African Women’s Network

Working over three years towards organising a series of inter-connected activities in the communities of Lambeth & Southwark to promote African women and other's awareness and understanding of global development issues.

£9,850

3 years (1st year funding)

Humanities Education Centre

“Banking on the world”: a three-year project integrating a multi-media teaching resource into the curriculum of schools in Tower Hamlets to enable children to learn about the role of micro-finance, co-operatives and social enterprise in global development.

£10,000

3 years (1st year funding)

London Borough of Enfield

“Development Education in Adult and Community Learning”: working over two years developing a partnership between tutors in community based adult education in Enfield to debate globalisation, and develop skills to integrate the global perspective in family learning they provide.

£10,000

2 years (1st year funding)

Manchester Development Education Project

“Schools based social enterprise projects”: two-year project using a variety of social enterprise pathfinder projects to raise the level of global citizenship in secondary schools in Greater Manchester and inspire students to bring about change.

£10,000

2 years (1st year funding)

Rotherham Young People’s Services, South Area Team

“Young People’s Global Peer Education Project”: a one-year project enabling young people in Rotherham to learn about global inequalities through close links with Tanzania and using peer education programmes to extend the learning process.

£2,912

1 year

The Faith Works Trust

“The Cactus Project – making the connection”: working over three years with primary pupils in Herts & Bucks to deepen their understanding of development issues locally and globally related to water, enabling them to learn from Malawi.

£9,000

3 years (1st year funding)

Torbay Coast & Countryside Trust

“EAT : CONNECT”: working over two years with primary schools in South Devon to develop awareness of farming and food issues through classroom sessions and activities in a local organic farm.

£7,361

2 years (1st year funding)

WEA West Midlands Region

“Development Education in Adult Learning (DEAL)”: a two-year project developing and implementing a pilot learning programme across a range of curriculum areas to raise awareness of development and combating poverty amongst adults in Birmingham.

£10,000

2 years (1st year 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 (2nd 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.

£10,000

3 years (2nd 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 & lifestyle with the wider world. Over 3 years.

£10,000

3 years (2nd 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

£10,000

3 years (2nd year funding)

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.

£10,000

3 years (2nd 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.

£9,320

2 years (2nd 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.

£8,954

2 years (2nd 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 project

£8,000

3 years (2nd year funding)

Norfolk Education and Action for Development

“Students 4 Global Action”: working to enthuse and empower large numbers of year 8 & 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

£10,000

3 years (2nd year funding)

Stevenage-Kadoma Link Association

“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.

£9,900

3 years (2nd year funding)

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

£9,780

3 years (2nd 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 (3rd 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”.

£9,989.03

3 years (3rd 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 (3rd 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 (3rd year funding)

Total amount awarded

£279,602.03

Northern Ireland

Organisation

Title and summary of project

Amount awarded

Period of funding

Belfast YMCA –a youth sector organisation

Live local Act Global: A non formal peer education Global Youth Work Programme for 12-16 year olds.

To deliver a peer education programme that will create youth understanding and awareness of the link between young people’s personal experiences in Northern Ireland and the developing world. The programme will involve recruiting 15 participants from across Belfast to engage in a three-tiered Global Youth Work programme including an induction residential, a four day experiential learning residential and a 10 week training module to prepare young people for peer education.

£9,918

1 year

Centre for Global Education – a development education centre.

Promoting Development Education in the Tertiary Sector:

To deliver two global issues seminar series to students from a range of disciplines at Queen’s University Belfast. The series will comprise 8 seminars covering key international development issues with the aim of providing a solid foundation course for students interested in a vocational or academic path in the development sector. The project will be delivered in partnership with Suas, a youth and education organization based in Dublin, and will include the publication of a course reader on development.

£9,233

1 year

Latinoamerica Unida – a black and minority ethnic group which provides support, help and information to members of the Latin American Community in Northern Ireland. It also promotes good relations between the Latin American and wider communities.

Global Awareness Training for Rural Women: To deliver a development education programme (five workshops per programme) to 6 rural women’s networks to engage local and Latin American women in a process of mutual learning. The programme content will contrast the political, cultural, social and economic lifestyles of women from rural areas locally and in Latin America. Project activities will include research by learners whereby they apply an international development issue to a specific country in Latin America. Course material will be displayed at an exhibition on International Women’s Day in March 2008.

£10,000

2 years (1st year funding))

War On Want NI – independent development agency

Building Capacity to Delivery Development Education: To increase the awareness and understanding of development issues among the staff and volunteers of War On Want to enable the organization to expand its capacity as a development education provider. Seven members of War One Want’s staff will be trained in key development issues – globalization, aid and trade – to equip them to confidently deliver training to 100 WOW volunteers (women aged over 45). The training will be supported and shadowed by two external professional trainers.

£10,000

1 year

Total amount awarded

£39,151

Scotland

Organisation

Title and summary of project

Amount awarded

Period of funding

Highland One World Group, Dingwall, Ross-shire

Highland Global Teacher Network: building capacity to deliver development education in schools

£1,520

1 year

West of Scotland DEC, Glasgow

The Curriculum for Excellence and Development Education: to develop learning & teaching which will enable every child to be educated on development issues in order that they may understand the key global considerations that will shape their lives.

£3,379

3 years (1st year funding)

Working Together for Change, Glasgow

Development of women in South Africa & Scotland: connecting local experience with global injustice

£4,455

1 year

Scottish Scouts GAPP Year

Global Awareness Partnership Project: One World, One Promise

£1,822

3 years (1st year funding)

Highland One World Group, Dingwall, Ross-shire

Know your own patch and theirs

£7,590

2 years (2nd year funding)

ALTERnativity, Glasgow

A Global Christmas: Working Together to make a difference - using the season of Christmas to raise global and development awareness. Encourage people to think about their lifestyle choices and challenge them to see the role they can play to reduce global poverty.

£2,910

3 years (2nd year funding)

Dundee One World Centre

Discovering and Shaping our World: training youth leaders to develop the global dimension in their existing programme; working directly with groups of young people alongside leaders to demonstrate how this might be done.

£10,000

3 years (3rd year funding)

Total amount awarded

£53,821

Wales

Organisation

Title and summary of project

Amount awarded

Period of funding

Blaenllechau Community Regeneration

Kids Across Continents

This project is a partnership between a community development organisation and a youth project. It will seek to recognise and explore the links between communities in Wales and Zambia, raising awareness of global citizenship and sustainable development issues. The project includes practical workshops and the development of an eco-garden.

£6,101

1 year

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 (2nd year funding)

Edwardsville Primary School

Sustainable Housing, Slums and Food Production

This project aims to raise awareness of and engagement with current global poverty and environmental issues through a programme of study of informal and rural housing in Southern countries, combined with practical earth-building and gardening activities. The project will be disseminated through the development of resources and presentations to other schools and local authorities,

£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

UNA Exchange

Developing Global Perspectives in Cardiff This project will bring together youth workers and international project workers to run a programme of activities raising awareness of global issues with young people in Cardiff. It will involve training and supporting a team made up of youth workers from Cardiff and two project workers from Kenya and Mayotte.

£9,720

1 years

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 (2nd year funding)

Total amount awarded

£53,821