Uplift!

The Uplift! project brought together Jump! training, ECVET, the MoU assessment, and networking.

Project Lead:

Rebecca Reid, Becky Little

Assessment: Barbara Jones

Facilitation support: Emily Workman

2021-2022, Todmorden and online

Outdoor play activities…

Social Impact trainers that are using earth as a material are all working independently in the UK without obvious access to a strong network or appropriate peer support.

Uplift had an in-person train-the-trainers events in Todmorden, aiming to for a peer support group for social impact trainers.

The group is now self organisaing, having monthly zoom meetings to share their work with each other, and have also finalised the MoU for implementation of ECVET training through EBUKI.

Clay plaster mix workshop

Meditative dorodango-making

Assessment process…

• MoU Documents

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Many more images are on the Uplift drive.

For more information including the latest exciting news and developments see:

• The EBUKI facebook page

• The European hypotheses ECVET page
  

This project content overlaps with the PIRATE project, JUMP Project, TT Social Impact, ERASMUS+

• Need & Challenge - why it's needed

  Social Impact trainers using earth as a material are all working independently, without obvious access to appropriate peer support

• Aim - what to achieve

  The forming of an earth building social impact trainers peer support group.

  Share some Jump approaches with a wider group of social impact trainers.

  Finalise the MoU for the implementation of ECVET training through EBUKI.

• Inputs - what resources are utilised

  12 participants, an assessor, funding from Prince's Foundation and Tudor Trust

• Activities - what happens

  One in-person train-the-trainers event in Todmorden, plus a series of 6 monthly follow-ups on zoom

  Monthly Zoom meetings now ongoing, group is self-organising

• Outputs - what gets produced

  Understanding of what is needed to offer appropriate support to this group

  Rejuvenated energy amongst the group to support their ability to keep giving to social impact trainings

• Outcomes - what change happens

  The group participants to feel more supported and connected

  EBUKI to have sign-off to be able to issue ECVET qualifications

• How the change is measured

  MoU signed

  Feedback form completed by the group describing the difference it has made

  The legacy of the activity in how well the group self-organises once finished