Government invites bids for a share of £20 million to fund adult learning

Organisations can bid for a share of £20 million in Government cash from today (13 May) to open up and promote informal learning for adults and young people across the country. In a speech to NIACE’s Annual Policy Conference, Skills Secretary John Denham kicked off the bidding process, publishing a prospectus designed to show how a wide range of groups and partnerships of all sizes can win funding. The deadline for bids is July 12 this year but an “early bird” funding pot of £1 million is available for ideas submitted by June 12.

Comment: Now, you can call me an old cynic if you want to, but when I clicked on the link in the email alert to download this press release, I kept getting ‘Internet Explorer cannot display this page’. A quick Google search using the title of the release only threw up one link – which turned out to be no good. I eventually found a copy of it on E-Gov Monitor. Do you think the government doesn’t actually want anyone to apply for this cash? Dawn