Community Learning Trust

Luton Adult Learning, with the support of local Partners through the Tailored Learning Fund Luton, aims to provide learning opportunities across the town, in local communities. We use a range of formal and informal methods of delivery to help meet all needs.

Luton Council receives direct funding from the Education & Skills Funding Agency (ESFA), UKSPF and various other funding bodies, which Luton Adult Learning manages. This is made available to local organisations and groups who can bid for this funding to enable them to offer informal tailored learning.
 
The Tailored Learning Fund is designed to specifically support and encourage VCS and other third sector and not for profit organisations in delivering innovative learning that supports disadvantaged adults and addresses the key local priorities of Luton 2040, South East Midlands Local Economic Partnership (SEMLEP) and the overarching purpose of Government Tailored Learning which is to support learners into employment and to progress to further learning, in line with the overall purpose of the ASF:

• To target the engagement of seldom heard residents and disadvantaged groups of potential adult learners from deprived communities and those least likely to participate in mainstream learning

• Maximise access to tailored learning for adults, bringing new opportunities and improving lives, whatever people’s circumstances

• Promote social renewal by bringing local communities together to experience the joy of learning and the pride that comes with achievement

• Maximise the impact of community learning on the social and economic well-being of individuals, families and communities

The fund supports project activities that widen participation and transform people’s destinies by supporting progression relevant to personal circumstances, for example learning designed to:

• Engage and/or build confidence

• Prepare for further learning

• Prepare for employment

• Improve essential skills (English, Maths and digital provision)

• Improve health and wellbeing

The fund helps develop strong communities by:

• Increasing volunteering, community engagement and/or social integration

• Bringing together people of different backgrounds, communities and cultures

• Training or retraining local people to develop roles in community leadership or as 'community champions'

Luton Adult Learning expects subcontractors to encourage and support all learners to progress onto new or more stretching provision to help them move into more formal learning or employment. In order to support residents who are most deprived and furthest away from education or employment, we would like to see provision being delivered in the nine wards of multiple deprivation in Luton. 

Successful candidates are awarded a contract to deliver learning programmes over the course of the academic year. This year we are working with:

• Diverse FM

• Impactful Governance

• Jobs 22

• Qualified Training Solutions - No website

• Training Code T/A Skills pad

• Reactiv8 (for Multiply funding)

If you are interested in applying for future funding opportunities, email clf@lutonacl.ac.uk