Resources
Our project involved 25 partner organisations and we ran 39 courses of 9 hours or more and 24 courses of under 9 hours. The project ran for 8 months.
The following resources will be needed to complete a project similar to ours:
Project management of around 100 hours, tasks including:
- setting up and sustaining partnerships
- organising partner meetings, in groups and individually
- agreeing appropriate courses with partners and programming and timetabling these
- managing tutors and administrative staff
- Arranging celebration event
- Ensuring appropriate publicity materials are available
Tutor costs of around 550 hours, their work including
- Helping to agree and develop appropriate courses
- Compiling course outlines and designing learning materials
- Teaching courses
Administration of around 100 hours with tasks including
- Compiling registers
- Logging learner data
- Logging feedback and evaluation data
Materials and equipment
- Sufficient materials for all projects, such as art materials, ingredients for cookery classes
- Computers for ICT classes were provided by the partner organisation in question
Publicity
- We designed publicity materials to promote the classes and partners were responsible for displaying and disseminating these (see publicity section)
- We designed and printed publicity in-house to promote the celebration event throughout our community network
The Learning
- Course descriptions were devised by our tutors and given to learners in the first session of each course
- Please view our ‘course outlines’ section for examples of these
- Other learning resources and handouts, specific to each class, were also made available
Evaluations
- Students were asked to fill out evaluation forms at the end of each course
- Discussion-led group evaluations were also completed
- Partners also were asked to complete evaluations, at group meeting and one-to-one with a representative from our organisation (the project coordinator)
- Tutors completed evaluations of each class they led
- Examples and templates for these can be found in the ‘evaluations’ section