ADAB Community Champions Programme

The ADAB’s Community Champions  approach will represent a highly effective way of promoting formal and informal learning, rooted in communities, driven by volunteers, and supported by ADAB.  Significantly, the project reflects the understanding that real change happens when the people themselves are the key deliverers; not the professionals, policy-makers, or the politicians.  ADAB’s Community Champions Programme (ACCP) is part of a bottom-up movement that can reshape and democratise local services.  This fits with the Government’s ambition to build the Big Society; where individuals are empowered to improve their own lives and the communities they live in.

The programme funded through the Tackling Race and Inequality Fund (TRIF) concentrates on the work of volunteers, training and supporting Community Champions effectively which is fundamental to their impact.  They have a valuable role to play in engaging people who have proved hard to reach for traditional providers, sign posting them and supporting them through learning but also helping to develop new formal and informal learning opportunities for them.

v      Engaging and motivating potential learners in disadvantaged communities;

v      Helping learners to progress into further and higher education;

v      Strengthening the reach and suitability of information, advice and guidance;

v      helping to set up and support self-organising groups and learning circles.

Promoting Volunteering and Learning:

v      Meeting people to motivate and encourage them to take up learning, either for leisure or to update their skills.

v      Giving information about learning opportunities and finding out what sorts of learning people want and need.

v      Designing and delivering new learning opportunities.

v      Designing leaflets or posters to attract people in to learning. Identifying gaps in the learning opportunities available and giving feedback.

You will be playing a valuable role in your community by:

v      Organising and running events and learning opportunities for local people;

v      Making contact with local groups, schools, community and voluntary organisation to find out what is available locally and sharing this information with others; researching community needs.

v      Health surgeries in co-ordination with health bodies.

To register your interest to become an ADAB Community Champion please fill out the form below and email to admin@adab.org.uk or alternatively please fill in and hand in to our Head Office at 14 Heywood Street, Bury, BL9 7EA.

ACCP Form