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A Brighter Future |
A Brighter Future is a youth design and manufacturing enterprise that provides skills training to equip young people with skills and tools to take control of their own lives and create their own incomes. It delivers opportunities for young people to develop their creative and enterprise skills, and confidence through establishing and running supported micro enterprises. |
ActionAid |
ActionAid is one of the UK's largest development agencies and works directly with over five million of the world's poorest people in more than 30 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. ActionAid's development education department works to increase young people's understanding of, and active engagement with, development issues. It produces a wide range of educational resources and services for schools and young people. |
Aduna |
Aduna is a new educational organisation that works with school children on issues relating to African culture and the arts. It brings African musicians into schools to hold workshops on tradition/modernity, mind and body and migration and identity. There are plans to run festivals and on linking UK pupils to those in Africa via the internet. |
AFFORD (African Foundation for Development) |
AFFORD's mission is to expand and enhance the contribution that Africans in the diaspora make to Africa's development. They have three work programmes: 1) to support UK-based African organisations in their quest to support development in their regions of origin, 2) to support African input into mainstream development policy and practice, 3) to facilitate direct developmental linkages between Africans in the UK and counterparts in Africa. |
African Heritage Education Centre (AHEC) |
AHEC aims to promote African culture through informal education and activities that provide young people (8-25 years), mainly but not exclusively of African descent, with a voice to build their self-esteem, confidence and to celebrate their African identity and African Heritage. AHEC runs a number of activities that help children, young people and their families to tackle the difficulties they experience (inter-generational issues), and at school. The impact of these initiatives is to help promote achievement, reduce school exclusions and their career development and contribution to society. AHEC also work in partnership with schools to run workshops that contribute to the delivery of the National Curriculum about African history and culture in schools. |
African Initiatives |
African Initiatives is a social justice organisation that promotes the rights of all people to fully participate in the decision-making processes that affect their lives. Its education programmes are dedicated to raising awareness of development issues, interdependence, sustainability and promoting positive images of the developing world. |
African Women's Culture Arts and Development International Network (AWAD) |
The African Women's Culture, Arts and Development International Network is the sole promoter and advocator for use of grassroots African women's arts and culture in health-care, social and economic concerns. AWAD acts as the agent that provides long-term culturally appropriate management and administrative support on behalf of mainstream agencies to grassroots African community groups. AWAD provides awareness education for sustainable development in schools and in the community. |
Age Concern |
Age Concern is the UK’s largest organisation working for and with older people, with a mission to promote their well-being and help make life a fulfilling and enjoyable experience. Age Concern is a federation of over 350 Age Concerns, each independent charities, with a strong local presence in communities across the UK, delivering local services and ensuring that older people have a direct influence on decision making at national, regional and local level.
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Amnesty International-UK |
Amnesty International is a non-political, independent, worldwide voluntary movement with over a million members working towards a world where everyone enjoys all the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other human rights standards. In the UK, there are 570 Amnesty youth groups and a network of over 150 voluntary speakers who go into schools to give talks and workshops. Amnesty provides teaching resources and training for teachers/educators on human rights education. |
Angus Willson |
Angus Willson is a sole-trader consultancy - a geographer and educator - engaging with organisations and their projects with a special focus on the global dimension in the school curriculum and management. |
Asian Action Group |
Asian Action Group is a youth and community group providing a service to residents living within areas of low economic and educational achievement. It offers qualifications in levels 1 & 2; provides capacity building initiatives in areas of health, welfare rights, advice and guidance, and also youth and community development. |
Asian Foundation for Philanthropy |
Asian Foundation for Philanthropy (AFP) is a UK based registered charity which was established in November 2004 to link British Asians with exciting, innovative social change initiatives in Asia. AFP's three programmes are: |
Attaining the Peak, Oxford |
Attaining the Peak is an educational enrichment programme for young students. Its objectives are to encourage students to develop their thinking and understanding of local and global influences on lives of socities; to increase awareness of poverty and injustice in the world and the structures that cause them; to identify how our lifestyles contribute to injustice and can be changed. Overall, Attaining the Peak is lifting a young person's hope and vision to higher sights; raising his/her performance to a higher standard and building young personality beyond limitations. |
Aylesbury Development Education Centre (ADEC) |
Aylesbury Development Education Centre is a library, training, facilitating and project co-ordinating centre, working to encourage global justice, peace and sustainability within Buckinghamshire. ADEC offers information, support , training and resources to schools, youth and community groups. Resources include teaching packs, videos, posters and local facilitators for a wide range of topics and activities. Projects focus on issues around global citizenship, trade justice, anti-racism, values education, Agenda 21, rights and responsibilities of the child and case studies from around the world. |