RecoverED and WARM have been invited to present on their work at Maynooth University, Dublin on December the 7th 2018. This is really exciting not only because this is another opportunity to explore the opportunities WARM/RecoverED offers. This is also exciting because this invite is a result of the recognition of all the hard work…
The past few months have just been frenetic – so much going on we haven’t had time to blink – let alone anything else. So it’s a pleasure to offer an update on our delivery of the MHFA to the Pobl group at both the Newport and Swansea sites (last week and this week). We…
Hi all – just finished three days of training for the Most Significant Change (MSC), monitoring and evaluation methodology. The training was delivered by internationally recognised practitoner Fiona Kotvojs at the Butetown Community Centre Cardiff. I have long been a fan of qualitative data collection and the MSC does not disappoint. The training offered by…
WARM and RecoverED have been, once again, recognised for their work in SE Wales (and beyond) in both education and mental health. The annual UALL Awards have shortlisted the Co-CREATE framework as an approach for good practice in engagement. Using a widening participation framework, Co-CREATE fuses many different ideas and approaches into a single process…
RecoverED and WARM are now working with an exciting project in Brighton. Beyond the School Gates is concerned with supporting pupils excluded from school who also face systemic and social barriers to re-engagement in learning. This weekend sees the first in what will be a series of visits to the project where RecoverED and WARM…
The Electronic Platform for Adult Learning in European (EPALE) recently interviewed Mark RIchardson and the work he does both in education and in mental health. The video which is now available on Youtube discusses RecoverED’s views on adult learning in mental health, barriers to engagement, the need for bespoke, person centred progression routes for personal…
Well, the Cardiff Half-Marathon was just a belter – and the Three Peaks Challenge (completed yesterday, October the 7th) was just as good. Me and the intrepid explorer Owain Jones had a great time scaling the Welsh Peaks (logistics stopped us completing the Nationals – this has been arranged for the…
Well, the Cardiff Half Marathon has been completed by Mark – http://tdleventservices.co.uk/race-results.php and it must be said, in a time which was really pleasing. It was a great event, the people of Cardiff were so supportive around the various streets along which the Half Marathon weaved and this now just leaves the Three Peaks challenge for…
Here is a report – visit-to-the-bevy – written by one of the WARM students. This not only capturies some of the great experiences WARM had at the Bevy – there’s also some great pictures, too. Happy reading.
WARM was invited to present on its work at the Bevy, Brighton on Friday, the 8th of September. 5 WARM members attended and wow – did we have a welcome and a good time. The Bevy is just a great example of how a community can use it’s space in new and exciting ways. The…