North Glasgow Talent Unleashed

Thousands of people, of all ages, have made dramatic progress in their lives thanks to 12 years of hard work by staff and students at the Rosemount Lifelong Learning Centre. The rewards have been numerous for those who have stepped into our centres:

• New friends
• New skills
• New-found self-confidence and belief
• Improved health and wellbeing
• Entry to further education or a job
• Increased chance of promotion

Add the impact of involving children in their early years and we achieve something even more far-reaching - happier, healthier, active citizens, more confident, more communicative, more likely to succeed at school and in later life – the impact of that investment is lifelong and life-changing.

Don’t Just Take Our Word

This is not only the voice of Rosemount, but the view of outside researchers who have evaluated what we do here.

• Evaluation of Rosemount Lifelong Learning, D Coyne and J Abel, 2006
• Making A Difference programme (MAD evaluation)
• (Breaking Barriers) – three year study with the Scottish Poverty Unit, looking at the barriers mothers face when they want to take up a job – childcare, health and poverty
• Glasgow University is examining the impact of community based learning on the lives and employability of our learners, and the relevance if social networks. Published in autumn 2010