WEA Approach to Learning

Our provision is designed to support learning which can continue throughout a person's life, in order to assist and enable students achieve their potential.
Learning Journeys, holiday workshops and Adult Learning week or Bite size workshops have successfully introduced families to a wealth of learning opportunities.

We try to overcome barriers to learning through providing:

• a strong base in local communities in neighbourhoods, inner cities, towns and villages
• effective partnerships with other community-based organisations
• effective links with statutory bodies (education, health, social services, local government, LSCs)
• provision taken to the learner- everything the WEA does is on an outreach basis
• flexible and innovative approaches to learning
• effective involvement of the learners in planning and decision making about their learning - what they learn, how they learn and where they learn
• recognition and valuing learning of all kinds and at all levels.

We have actively and successfully sought community funds to support this work, through European Social Fund or European Regeneration Development Funds; through local Single Regeneration Budget funding; through applications to local and national trusts.