England

Organisation

Title and summary of project

Amount awarded

Period of funding

Bradford Study Support Network

"The Global Village": a project to enable young people from South Asian and Caribbean communities in Bradford to share their experiences of the difficulties faced by their communities ‘back home’ with others; and to link these experiences into the context of global poverty and development issues. The project will also look at the role of the media in forming opinions of the developing world.

£8,737

1 year

Bridges

"Picturing Our World": a project to raise awareness and facilitate debate on the development themes highlighted by the Millennium Development Goals among Shropshire communities and beyond by using a participatory photography methodology

£10,000

3 years (1st year funding)

Centre for Community Development Initiatives

"Diaspora Partnership for Change": a project to promote awareness, understanding and support for global development amongst Diaspora communities in London and empower them to take action at local levels through a variety of local events and activities centred around major development issues and themes.

£10,000

3 years (1st year funding)

Centre for Global Education

"9x9x9 Building Global Connections": a project to enable pupils in 5 primary schools in Yorkshire and Humberside to understand their place in the world by exploring an “extended present”, as they engage with peers in a developing country and learn lessons from the past, and to empower pupils to actively participate in creating a sustainable world for tomorrow

£9,075

3 years (1st year funding)

Centre for Inter-African Relations

"Khat, Poverty and Development Awareness": a project to educate the public and pupils in two secondary schools in south London through the story of the drug khat. They will understand how global development, and the poverty and wealth surrounding the trade and consumption of khat can affect people in Stockwell and Streatham in south London. The project will trace khat’s route from among poor women farmers in the Ethiopian Highlands, and look at trade controls and the activities of warlords in Somalia, and will culminate in an exhibition in Lambeth, involving schools, local agencies, dignitaries and community organisations.

£9,750

2 years (1st year funding)

DECSY

"Global Playwork": a project to promote the global dimension in after school clubs and holiday play schemes in Sheffield, Rotherham and other parts of South Yorkshire, building capacity of playworkers to broaden children’s horizons and understanding of international issues.

£9,990

3 years (1st year funding)

Devon DE

“Global Citizenship for All!” : a project to ensure that pupils with special educational needs in mainstream schools in Devon, Plymouth and Torbay have their entitlement to global citizenship met, so enabling these pupils to make a contribution to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

£10,000

3 years (1st year funding)

Ethical Fashion Forum

"Fashion Plus - Fashioning Development": a project to reduce poverty and create sustainable livelihoods in the supply chains to the UK fashion industry, through increasing understanding of development issues amongst fashion professionals.

£10,000

3 years (1st year funding)

GLADE

"It’s My World Too": a collaborative project between three DECs in the south west EES region to engage teaching assistants with global and development issues in their professional practice.

£10,000

3 years (1st year funding)

Muslim Aid

"Education really matters": a project which aims to raise awareness among young people of south and east London about the challenges faced by orphans, destitute and disabled children in accessing education in developing countries.

£10,000

3 years (1st year funding)

Action Force Africa

“Going Global Programme (Youth Development Awareness)”: working 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

£9,337

3 years (2nd 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”: a 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.

£9,500

3 years (2nd year funding)

Banana Link

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

£9,390

2 years (2nd year funding)

British Red Cross

"Dynamic Approach to Awareness (DATA)": a 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.

£9,995

2 years (2nd year funding)

Envolve Partnership for Sustainability

“The Climate Change Connection – A global citizenship and sustainable development project based in Bath & North East Somerset”: 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 (2nd year funding)

Global Education Derby

“Regenerating Hearts and Minds”: a 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 (2nd year funding)

Great Lakes African Women's Network

"Development Education": working 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.

£9,660

3 years (2nd year funding)

Humanities Education Centre

“Banking on the world”: a 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 (2nd year funding)

London Borough of Enfield, Lifelong and Community Learning Service

“Development Education in Adult and Community Learning”: 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 (2nd year funding)

Manchester DEP

“Schools based social enterprise projects”: a 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 (2nd year funding)

The Faiths Works Trust

“The Cactus Project – making the connection”: working 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.

£9,200

3 years (2nd year funding)

Torbay Coast and Countryside Trust

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

£7,520

2 years (2nd year funding)

WEA West Midlands Region

“Development Education in Adult Learning (DEAL)”: a 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.

£8,000

2 years (2nd 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.

£9,000

3 years (3rd 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 project.

£7,361

3 years (3rd 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

£10,000

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

Stevenage-Kadoma Link Associatio

“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 (3rd 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 (3rd year funding)

Total amount awarded

£304,128

Northern Ireland

Organisation

Title and summary of project

Amount awarded

Period of funding

Centre for Global Education – a development education centre.

Promoting a Global Dimension in Youth Work Training:

To work in partnership with the Community Youth Work Team at the University of Ulster (Jordanstown) to undertake a practice-based research project. The research with map existing training and research opportunities in development education for trainee youth workers in tertiary education. It will also involve qualitative research with trainee youth workers and academics on the global dimension in youth work to assess the need for, their knowledge of, and interest in, international development issues.

£ 9,980

1 year

Beyond Skin – a youth organization that addresses racism and sectarianism by using the arts and music to promote multiculturalism.

Exploring Global Issues through Music

To engage students in development education activities to increase their awareness and knowledge of the Millennium Development Goals under the principle ‘thinking globally and acting locally’. World music will be used to introduce development issues in the classroom with a total of six programmes (4 hour sessions per programme) delivered to six schools. The musicians will explore development issues in their wider social, economic, political and cultural contexts to complement the training work of an experienced development education trainer.

£10,000

1 year

Children in Crossfire – a development non-government organisation

Capacity for Change:

To build the capacity, confidence and voices of the African and Caribbean Communities living in Derry through a bi-lateral learning arrangement that encourages mutual dialogue, reflection and campaigning for change. This will be done by engaging the African and Caribbean Association of Foyle (ACAF) in the development of a training course that meets the needs recognised by the communities themselves. The course will integrate development education into the activities of ACAF.

£10,000

1 year

Inside Out – a youth organisation

Network Earth – Global Citizens:

To engage young people from rural areas (Claudy) in activities that promote the importance of development education as a means of fulfilling their potential as global citizens. Activities will include a 30 hour Global Citizens Training Programme accredited to Open College Network Level 2 delivered to young people aged 12-15 yrs. Course participants will then deliver peer education programmes to other young people. The project will also build the capacity of Inside Out to deliver development education programmes in the future.

£ 9,994.62

1 year

Latinoamerica Unida – a black and minority ethnic group.

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.

£10,000

2 years (2nd year funding)

Total amount awarded

£49,974.62

Scotland

Organisation

Title and summary of project

Amount awarded

Period of funding

British Red Cross

Friendship for HIV Prevention / HIV Roktham Ko Lagi Hatemalo

£8,810

1 year

Highland One World Group

Supporting the global dimension in the Eco Schools programme in the Highlands

£3,450

2 years (1st year funding)

One World Centre Dundee

From Dhaka to Dundee - learning from the past, acting for the future

£10,000

3 years (1st year funding)

Scottish Youth Parliament

Vision 2015: Keeping the Promise

£8,067

2 years (1st year funding)

Stop Climate Chaos Scotland

"Cut it Out!" - Climate Change and Poverty Machinima Project

£9,000

1 year

VETAID

City Farm: Global Farm

£7,847

2 years (1st year funding)

Working Together for Change

Millennium Development Goals: connecting local experience in Scotland with global injustice

£6,380

2 years (1st year funding)

West of Scotland DEC

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 (2nd year funding)

Scottish Scouts GAPP Year

Global Awareness Partnership Project: One World, One Promise

£4,369

3 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.

£4,150

3 years (3rd year funding)

Total amount awarded

£65,452

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 (3rd year funding)

Dolen Cymru

Engaging people with a learning disability in the MDGs

This project aims to raise awareness amongst people with learning disabilities and their careers, supporters and peers in Wales of the Millennium Development Goals and the role they can play in the poverty reduction agenda.

£10,000

1 year

Down to Earth

Developing informal and innovative approaches to ESDGC

The main aim of the project is to build the capacity in Wales of the informal sector to deliver Education for Sustainable Development and global Citizenship. This will be achieved through delivering training programmes in ESDGC, specifically in using informal and innovative approaches to exploring ESDGC.

£10,000

3 years (1st 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 (2nd 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

Rhondda Cynon Taf

Partners in Progress

This project aims to develop Global Citizenship education within the youth and community sectors of RCT. This will be achieved by engaging with young people and adults, working with youth and community leaders and creating a toolkit which will enable others to take a lead in global citizenship education.

£10,000

2 years (1st year funding)

Sazani Associates

ERLAFS Transition in Wales

This project aims to develop shared learning opportunities between secondary and primary schools to understand the importance of education for rural livelihoods and food sovereignty.

£10,000

3 years (1st year funding)

UNA Exchange

“Sharing Experiences of Development”

This project will enable young people to become volunteer “peer educators” supporting the delivery of Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship in South Wales. UNA Exchange will recruit, train and support teams of volunteers who will first take part in a community development project overseas and on their return deliver a programme of global activities with young people in their communities.

£9,765

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.

£2,666

3 years (3rd year funding)

World Education Centre

Living and Working in a Globalised World

This project aims to raise awareness of development issues, global interdependence, the poverty reduction agenda, sustainable development, climate change and other areas addressed by the Millennium Development goals among trade union members and local communities in North Wales to enable them to see the intersection of these issues with their daily lives.

£9,967

2 years (1st year funding)

Total amount awarded

£91,898