The LAB Project

The LAB Project 2010

MANCHESTER:

Induction: 21st Jan; Course: 25th Jan - 5th Feb
Parkway Green house, 460 Palatine Road

Induction: 18th Feb; Course: 22nd Feb - 5th March
Benchill community center, Benchill, Wythenshaw

Induction: 11th Mar; Course: 15th - 26th March
Benchill community center, Benchill, Wythenshaw

Induction: 7th April: Course: 12th - 23rd April
Benchill community center, Benchill, Wythenshaw

HUDDERSFIELD:

Induction: 18th Jan; Course: 25th Jan - 5th Feb
48a Byram Arcade, Huddersfield

Induction: 18th Feb; Course: 22nd Feb - 5th March
48a Byram Arcade, Huddersfield

For more information or to register your place, contact Naomi Whitman at naomi@properjob.org.uk
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The LAB Project

Proper Job continues to run its successful community engagement project The LAB Project. Working at Benchill Community Centre, Wythenshawe for the third year in a row, The LAB continues to equip workless adults with the skills and confidence to progress into further training and employment. We are now also delivering the project at Parkway Green House in, Manchester and also from our base in Byram Arcade, Huddersfield.

Working on the premise that a community is made up of individuals, and through individual change we can build learning communities, the LAB project is an innovative personal development programme that focuses on disaffected adults. The course is also accredited through the Open College Network and offers credits towards NVQ levels 1 & 2.

The Lab Project is a two-week intensive course in community arts training that uses drama as a means to access creativity and build self-esteem. Participants then get a chance to put their skills into practice by running a participative workshop in a local primary school.

Thanks to grants from the Community Learning Chest, the Lankelly Chase Foundation and the NLDC fund, we have been running the LAB Project in Manchester for over 3 years with continuation for the next year thanks to NLDC funds. We are now able to return to Kirklees thanks to an Access to Employment fund through post 16 adult learning.

The LAB Project (finalist for the totally inspired category of ART 07) has engaged with over 400 people on incapacity benefit, lone parents and those on Job Seekers Allowance with startling results for progression onto work and/or education. In May 2007 the MP for Wythenshawe, Paul Goggins, was invited to take part and observe the project. His feedback after seeing the project was:

'The LAB project is a very effective way of reconnecting people to the wider community and underlining the important message that everyone has the skills and the talent to make a difference' - Paul Goggins - May 2007 - under secretary of state for Northern Ireland. Secretary of all party parliamentary group on poverty.

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