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Labour Behind the Label |
Labour Behind the Label brings together pressure groups, trade unions and individuals in support of garment workers' efforts to improve their working conditions and wages. It works to facilitate information exchange and international solidarity between workers and consumers. As part of its campaigns it produces resources and materials on issues affecting or companies involved in the garment industry, runs workshops and organise actions, meetings and events. It is the UK platform of the European Clean Clothes Campaign. |
Lancashire Development Education Group Ltd |
Lancashire Development Education Group Ltd works with communities and schools in Lancashire to promote learning and action for a fair and sustainable world. Its activities include: sustainable community development work, facilitating local groups in improving skills and developing projects, to create sustainable communities; work with teachers adding a global perspective to the curriculum, enabling children to understand the links between their lives and those of people around the world. It uses international partnerships to raise awareness of the links between local and global issues. The resource centre is open Mondays and Thursdays from 9.30am to 5pm. |
Leeds Development Education Centre |
Leeds DEC is an educational charity aimed at raising awareness on international
development issues on personal, local and global levels through providing
resources and training for teachers and youth workers in the West Yorkshire
region. Leeds DEC was established by Oxfam in 1978 and has been independently
grant funded since 1995. Activities include: |
Leeds University Centre for African Studies (LUCAS) |
Leeds University Centre for African Studies is an inter-disciplinary centre bringing together Africans and Africanists at Leeds University, in the city of Leeds and regionally. LUCAS runs an MA in African studies, seminar, lecture and conference programmes, a library, networking facilities, and social programmes. |
Leicester Masaya Link Group |
Leicester Masaya Link Group (LMLG) is a charity with a dual function which aims to: 1) work towards the relief of poverty in the Masaya region of Nicaragua by supporting partnerships and projects on the ground 2) raise awareness around global issues in both Leicester and Masaya. The LMLG contributes to the provision of development education in schools and in the community by organising exchange visits, cultural activities, speaker meetings and other public events. |
Leicester University Botanic Garden |
The education programme of the University of Leicester Botanic Garden, known as SEED (Support for Education in Environment and Development), was set up in 1993 to develop and promote the garden and the satellite Attenborough Arboretum as an educational resource, with an emphasis on bringing a global perspective to the National Curriculum. Programmes for schools and youth groups include nature trails, plant hunts, and a role-playing game. Other activities and topics may be arranged, as well as inset courses and workshops for teachers and youth workers. |
Lincolnshire Youth Service- E2E project |
Lincolnshire County Council strives to embed Global Youth Work practice in the work of part and full time youth workers in the area. As a part of the LEA's Youth Service, it is actively developing the work through initiatives such as Transforming Youth Work and accrediting young people's involvement and achievements where possible. The youth service were contracted by the Learning and Skills Council to deliver an entry to employment (E2E) programme and to work directly with socially excluded young people. |
Link Community Development |
Link Community Development is a group of partner NGOs based in the UK, South Africa, Malawi, Ghana and Uganda. LCD's education projects in Africa focus on school management and leadership as well as teaching and learning issues. The Link Schools Programme links UK and African schools. LCD's Global Teachers Programme focuses on a five week placement for UK teachers in South Africa, Ghana, Malawi or Uganda, and Global Teachers return to the UK to use their experiences to inform curriculum enrichment and school policy in their own and other UK schools. |
Liverpool World Centre |
Liverpool World Centre (LWC) was established in September 2000, and works across Merseyside to raise awareness of the interdependence of communities locally and globally through, for example, trade, food, culture and environmental impacts, and to foster solidarity between diverse communities. Current projects involve participatory work with schools councils (Global Conscious Schools) and with local Black and minority ethnic groups, and the development of a Global Education Resource Hub. In its role as sub-regional co-ordinator for the North West Global Education Network, LWC is responsible for promoting the inclusion of the global dimension in education across Merseyside. |
London Borough of Enfield |
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London Development Education Centre |
London Development Education Centre (Londec) is an educational centre with an anti-racist and anti-sexist programme of action. It works towards raising discussion on policy and issues affecting young people in schools and produce materials highlighting the experiences of marginalised groups in society (eg Asian women, refugees). Londec organises events to publicise the inequality and inhumanity inflicted on people of the South living in the South and in the North. |