Transforming communities

and widening access

WELCOME

Unions – using open learn resources

Asda – community capacity building

Self directed support project- engaging communities

PROJECTS

project outcomes

UnionsIncreased awareness and use of

OER materials

Asda - dementia

awareness

Community capacity building

Inform champions

Foundations of

self directed

support

Use free course

Increased awareness of SDS Act

Improve knowledge and give practical

ideas to use it in workplace/community

What difference does it all

make?

BUILDS CONFIDENCE- with

materials, with ability to study,

with putting ideas into

practice

INCREASES ACCESS to relevent

information and to the

possibility of further study

BUILDS COMMUNITY- people

feel less alone with issues

Shared outcomes

Gain knowledge of specific area but also of further

opportunities

Engagement of communities and/or workplaces

Widening access

Findings

Important to have shared objectives in the partnership

Willingness to work together and to go at the pace of the

partner/community

To use ordinary language and demystify idea of ‘university

study’