Assynt Community Education - Supporting Adult Learning

ASSYNT COMMUNITY EDUCATION – SUPPORTING ADULT LEARNING

This voluntary committee exists to encourage and support learning opportunities for people over the age of sixteen in the parish of Assynt.
Supported by the Community Education Section of Highland Council, the committee is operating as a COBALT group (sponsoring COmmunity BAsed Learning and Training) and for a number of years has funded local courses and workshops.
Mostly run over the winter months, these have included Art, Gaelic, German, Singing, computing, beginner’s wildlife and beginner’s geology, among others. Mostly non-certificated, the informal courses aim to bring pleasure and achievement through the acquisition of new skills and knowledge. Participants have found them enjoyable as well as challenging.

It works like this:
ACE would like to hear from you if you would like to learn a new skill, craft, language or subject. The volunteer committee will endeavour to find tutors willing to come to Assynt and share their gifts and knowledge with a group of three or more people. A range of appropriate local venues is used, e.g. the Leisure Centre or the Community Room in the Village Hall. Efforts are continually made to find out what courses are required in Assynt and to discover tutors within a reasonable travelling distance. So please do let us know what you’d like to study this winter as soon as possible.

Also, if you would like to share your skills as a tutor, educational mentor or trainer, please do contact ACE. Contact Julie 844740, Irene (at the Village Green), Peter 833288, Vanessa, Robin, Jane 844420, Anne 844570 or Candide with ideas, suggestions or to join the group.

Membership of ACE is open to all over-sixteens, in the parish, who are interested in study groups or educational sessions, and the committee are really keen to have more volunteers on board.