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Thinking Spaces

ROWA!’s bid to the Transformation Fund was successful.  Funded by the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, this project will use the money to kick start a “revolution” in informal learning, by opening up new learning spaces to more learners and encourage informal, self-organised learning.

The aim of our project, Thinking Spaces, will be to inspire and develop self-organised workplace and community learning by creating resourced spaces for groups to explore and expand their interests through reading.

Based in Erewash, the project partners will include Erewash Partnership Ltd, Erewash CVS and WashArts, and together we will plan a timetable and community approach for delivery.  Think—a film club in a chippy … poetry reading in the front of a shop … researching local history in the back of a church … learning about child development, or cloud-spotting, or art, or politics or almost anything.

The Thinking Space projects will be supported by ROWA! and its partners until 31st March 2010, by which time we hope that they will be self-sustaining.