The ADC centre is the venue for sewing workshops
run by Cynthia Payman, Dip Art & Design (CRB checked) and Barbara
Smith, a teacher from the Piggot school who has been sewing since she
was seven. They will introduce the joys of sewing using a large variety
of fabrics and show how to make pincushions, simple bags, more glam
bags, cushion covers etc. 6 sewing machines will be available.
Please call 07768 030 582
to reserve space (limited places - all ages welcome).
£10 per session.
New
Wednesday Daytime Class
Moving
on in Education and Employment (the MEE project - funded by the Learning Skills
Council from Sept. 2009)
Class
runs every Wednesday in term time. Restarts
September 9th, 10am - 12 noon
The Adult Dyslexia
Centre (Thames Valley) has been awarded a grant of £10,900 from
the Learning Skills
Council (LSC) to provide intensive group teaching and 1 to 1 tuition
to 12 disadvantaged unemployed clients who have considerable barriers
to progressing in employment or education. The project will start in
September 2009 and run for one year. The clients will be drawn from
the Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead, Bracknell, Wokingham and Reading
area.
The Adult Dyslexia Centre
(ADC) is based in Maidenhead but operates throughout Berkshire and encompasses
the whole Thames Valley. They have recently been delivering a series
of dyslexia awareness training sessions, sponsored by the BNLCP,
for neighbourhood learning centre and community learning staff. This
is the third bid submitted by the ADC with the support of Bruce Wright,
the BNLCP funding
consultant and it was third time lucky. But as we know, the better you
prepare, the luckier you become.
Awards
for ADC!
Adult Dyslexia Centre
has also been successful with its own bid for Awards
for All funding. We have been given £2,700 to extend our mentoring
programme over the coming year.
Well done to all
those involved in the bid writing.
Matrix
Standard, January 2009
The
Adult Dyslexia centre was awarded the Matrix Standard again when the
centre was reassessed. This is the national quality standard for the
information, advice and guidance on learning and work that our centre
offers.
Click
here
to see our details on the Matrix website.
Louis
Baylis Trust
We are extremely pleased to receive support from the Baylis Trust. This
year's donation will support free initial screening for unemployed clients.
www.maidenhead-advertiser.com
Thanks
to Waitrose
Our charity, the Adult
Dyslexia Centre was chosen as one of 3 charities that Waitrose supported
for the month of January.
We thank Waitrose for giving
us £250 for taking part in their Community Matters programme.
Also a BIG thank you to all the people who put their token in
our box.
Dyslexia
(Untied) United
Our successful 30 minute
film "Dyslexia (Untied) United' was produced by members using Arts
Council money in summer 2007 and can be viewed below or downloaded as
a podcast. See also 'Arts Project 2007' below.
Due to a bursary from Social
Enterprise Berkshire, we have been able to purchase assessment materials
and now have a team of 4 qualified tutors to carry out full dyslexia assessments
from Easter 2007.
Talklets
from Textic installed on our website
We are very pleased to be
using the latest text-to-speech technology on our website. Go to www.textit.com
to find out more about this product.
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