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Listed below are the Literacy and Numeracy projects which are currently being funded as part of the national Scottish Literacy Initiative with the monies allocated to Highland by the Scottish Government. If you click here you can also access a full list of all projects completed since this initiative began in 2002.
In addition, in 2007, we were a European Social Fund grant which, together with match funding from HIE, has enabled us to support projects specifically for ESOL Learners. More recently, we have been awarded funding for ESOL by the Scottish Government. With this, we have set up a Challenge Fund for Special Target Groups for projects to bid into. You may click here to access details of ESOL projects funded by this initiative to date.
Please contact us if you would like to receive more information about any of these projects.
Projects Index
Adult Basic EducationApex Scotland
Calman Trust
Deaf Communication Project
Highland Council - Digital Art and Text
Lairg Local Learning Centre Association
Lead Scotland
Prison Literacy Liaison Officer
Skye & Lochalsh Learning Centre Network
TAG Highland - Rag, Tag & Textile
TAG Highland - Windows on Ross & Cromarty
Workers' Educational Association - Group Work
Workers' Educational Association - Workplace Literacy
Youth Highland
Adult Basic Education
April 2007 to March 2009
Lead - Highland Council - Adult Basic Education
Contact - Julie Simmons on 01463 251278
email julie.simmons@highland.gov.uk
To maintain the increase in ABE Co-ordinator hours and to recruit further part-time staff in order to further expand and improve the service to adult literacy and ESOL learners. ABE is also currently involved in providing literacy and numeracy classes to the Army at Fort George.
Apex Scotland
April 2008 - March 2009
Lead - Apex Scotland (Highland)
Contact - Alistair McDonald on 01463 717033
email: - alistairm@apexscotland.org.uk
Partners - Prison Literacies Liaison Officer, Adult Basic Education
Apex Scotland is providing a community based support service, working with other agencies to identify individuals as requiring literacies support to help them maintain motivation to change and gain and sustain employment, traing or further education opportunities.
Calman Trust
April 2007 to March 2009
Lead - Calman Trust
Contact - Isobel Grigor on 01463 811680 email isobel@calman.org
To employ a young person in the role of Literacy Engagement Worker to provide literacies support to young people referred to Calman as at risk of homelessness and who are lacking basic skills.
Deaf Communication Project
January to March 2008
Lead - Highland Council - Deaf Communication Project
Contact - Jenny Liddell on 01463 248100
email jenny.liddell@highland.gov.uk
To pilot a course of 10 two-hour language and literacies sessions, working with 6 deaf sign language users. The approach will be learner centred and will evolve in response to the issues identified by the pilot group.
Highland Council - Digital Art and Text
June 2007 - March 2008
Lead - Highland Council
Contact - Ann-Marie Donoghue on 01397 707371
email: ann-marie.donoghue@highland.gov.uk
Partners - Careers Scotland, Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, Key Housing
Using art as a method of focusing on text. Aimed at engaging young people and people with disabilities, it also offers additional provision in a group setting for any learner currently engaged in one to one.
Lairg Local Learning Centre Association
November 2007 to June 2008
Lead - Lairg Local Learning Partnership
Contact - Barbara Watson on 01549 402050
email barbara_123@btconnect.com
Partners - Brora Community Learning Centre, Adult Basic Education
To continue to employ an ICT Literacy Tutor for Lairg and Brora Learning Centres to support learners in ICT, communication and numeracy and to develop the project into different areas such as creating films and the use of animation techniques. They also plan to help young people who lack formal qualifications and need upskilling to get into training or employment.
Lead Scotland
April 2007 to March 2008
Lead - Lead Scotland
Contact - Sue Mitchell on 01343 576324, email smitchell@lead.org.uk
Following its feasibility study, "Sustainable Literacies", Lead Scotland has been awarded funding to build a sustainable approach to literacy delivery to disabled learners in the Highlands and to raise awareness of cross-sectoral involvement in supporting these learners.
Prison Literacy Liaison Officer
April 2007 to March 2009
Lead - Adult Basic Education
Contact - Norman Ross on 01463 251279
email norman.ross2@highland.gov.uk
Partner - Scottish Prison Service
The employment of a part time liaison officer to work specifically with prisoners with low literacy levels and with their families, and also to organise the continuation of learning after exit through matching with ABE tutors.
Skye & Lochalsh Learning Centre Network
September 2007 to June 2008
Lead - Skye & Lochalsh Learning Centre Network
Contact - Andrea Matheson on 01599 544496
email andrea@learningcentres.org
Partner - ABE
To work with ABE to provide a unique learning programme in each of its 5 learning centres. Divided into two 6-week phases, ‘Getting Started’ and ‘Moving On’, the programme is flexible and can develop to suit the needs of the individual learner.
TAG Highland - Rag, Tag & Textile
January 2007 to March 2009
Lead - Training and Guidance Unit, NHS
Contact - Vicki Samuels, email vickisamuels@yahoo.co.uk
Based in Kyle of Lochalsh, Rag, Tag and Textile is a research and development project, which involves creating and selling quality fashion items and soft furnishings from recycled textiles. Because many of its clients have literacy and numeracy difficulties and others have lost literacy because of the nature of their illness, the aim is to embed literacy and numeracy into every aspect of the project.
TAG Highland - Windows on Ross & Cromarty
August 2007 to June 2008
Lead - TAG Highland
Contact - Alan Crombie on 01349 884178
email alan.crombie@taghighland.org.uk
Providing literacy and numeracy learning, integrated with and supporting training in creative arts including digital photography and creative writing. One of the aims of the project is to produce a video on people and places in Easter Ross.
Workers' Educational Association - Group Work
March 2006 to March 2008
Lead - Workers Educational Association
Contact - Hilary Lawson on 01463 710577
email inverness@weascotland.org.uk
A series of courses in Inverness with integrated literacy to encourage group work and boost self confidence. A course has been developed, aimed specifically at ESOL students, including cultural information as well as literacy tuition.
Workers' Educational Association - Workplace Literacy
April 2007 to March 2009
Lead - Workers Educational Association
Contact - Sheila Maher on 01463 710577
email s.maher@weascotland.org.uk
To continue the work of the Workplace Literacy Organiser to continue to target employers in all business sectors and offer suitable literacies provision for their staff.
Youth Highland
February 2008 to February 2009
Lead - Youth Highland
Contact - Marianne Ross on 01349 865186
email youthlit@youthhighland.org.uk
Partner - Adult Basic Education
To employ a Youth Literacies Worker to work with the Highland Youth Network to develop a co-ordinated approach to youth literacies across Highland.
