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18 Glasgow Life Annual Review 2011/12 Glasgow Libraries’ commitment to digital learning further supports the City’s employability agenda with 39% of learners signing up for courses to improve their job prospects in 2011/12. Half of the learners were registered unemployed and 41% of learners wanted to learn a new skill. There were more than 11,000 attendances at computer classes. 11,000+ ATTENDANCES Business @ The Mitchell provides support to the self-employed, those looking to establish new ventures and open workshops teaching businesses to use databases to conduct research, or improve sales. This provides an environment where enterprise, work and skills development is encouraged. One database, ProQuest, which provides online information resources has been accessed more than 1.5 million times in the last year. The Mitchell offers a commercial Editorial Library service for media organisations. Tim Blott, the Managing Director of the Herald and Times Group commended the service, saying: “Information is the lifeblood of media companies and we are delighted with the service we receive from The Mitchell. The quality and speed of response to inquiries and the depth of expertise on everything from information architecture to metadata satisfy our most demanding requirements and deadlines.” Glasgow Museums is one of five partner institutions collaborating with the British Museum on the Future Curators programme. The scheme gives curatorial trainees the opportunity to spend 18 months working in two museums to develop curatorial skills and undertake a diploma in curatorship. After a month placement at the British Museum, trainees work with Glasgow Museums for a year. During the first phase of the programme one trainee joined us to work on the World Cultures collection, focusing on the collection’s Australasian material. The Museums Association’s Monument Trust Fellowship scheme provides an opportunity for retiring museum professionals to work with colleagues and successors to share their specialist collections knowledge. During 2011/12 Glasgow Museums secured a grant of £4,500 to enable a recently retired Curator of Ancient Civilisations to work part-time and fund knowledge transfer and outreach activities such as a networking day for Scottish Egyptologists. Glasgow Sport supported, trained and developed over 180 students through volunteering opportunities. The students were trained to deliver sport in local communities, schools, clubs or within their own college or university. Glasgow Sport has recruited over 170 Glasgow Ambassadors to support the London 2012 Olympic Games events in Glasgow. The Ambassadors will benefit through learning in a voluntary capacity that will give them the skills to be involved in any world class event. The key areas of their volunteering experience will include the Olympic Torch Relay, the cultural festival and football at Hampden. The Participative Democracy course is a partnership project between Lourdes Secondary School and Glasgow Communities in the south offering pupils the opportunity to undertake leadership skills training and obtain a recognised qualification. Glasgow Life was the first organisation to develop and offer the course which supports young people to get involved in the democratic process and to become leaders in their schools and communities. There were 22 pupils from S6 engaged in the programme. Glasgow Sport’s Development team has been involved in a variety of volunteering programmes in the City. Rugby Development created a partnership with the University of Strathclyde, which enabled 11 third-year sports students to deliver 1,100 hours of voluntary coaching within the rugby community programme as part of a
Glasgow Life Annual Review 2011/12 19 skills for work placement programme. At the same time 475 participants undertook Coach Education courses delivered by the Football Development team and various levels of candidates from complete beginners to exinternationalists participated in the courses. The Toryglen Youth Project in the south east engages young people aged 16 – 25 who are not in education, employment or training, to offer support, information and signposting opportunities to relevant agencies. During 2011/12 participants signed up for a six week employability programme jointly delivered by Glasgow Communities and Street League and as a result, four young people undertook training with the Action for Children Youth Build Programme, with several others actively involved in volunteering. Glasgow Communities in the north west celebrated National Youth Work Week in November 2011 where the positive contribution young people have made to their communities was recognised. A group of 30 young people were formally rewarded with certificates from the Dynamic Youth Awards, Stars of the West and Youth Achievement Awards. Glasgow Communities in the north east facilitated a young volunteers training course where participants were referred from partner youth agencies across in the east end. Glasgow Life applied for Cashback for Communities funding for the project which became known as the East / West Peer Education Programme. In the east end 16 young people participated in an eight-week committee skills programme and in the west end eight young people participated in an eight-week music programme facilitated by Creation Studios. As a result of the project all the young people continue to volunteer within their local organisations. One young person, who had disengaged from education, has now gone to college to study childcare and three young people have now become active young representatives in their organisation’s board of directors. Another young person has used this experience to contribute towards completion of her Platinum Youth Achievement Award. Case Study The Glasgow Sport Young Leaders (GSYL) course provides leadership training for 45 young volunteers who have demonstrated a commitment to sport around leadership, officiating and volunteering in their school or community. GSYL became the first sport project in Scotland to be awarded the prestigious Inspire Mark accreditation by London 2012 and participants of the programme were shortlisted for the annual Sunday Mail Young Scot Awards. The Inspire programmes seek to bring the benefits of the 2012 Games to every part of the UK. Fourteen young leaders were part of a media event at Hampden Park where Lord Coe was promoting Glasgow as an official host city for the London 2012 Olympics. The young leaders took part in a Q&A session with Lord Coe and were supported in taking part in media interviews for the national press and television. When the Zambian Olympic squad were in Glasgow for a training camp, three of the young leaders made a presentation about their experience of visiting the Olympic sites in London and demonstrated the skills they had learned by leading a team building session for the athletes. Lisa Loughlin described the programme as: “A great experience that helped me improve my presentation skills and increased my confidence.” Salim Ben Boudinar said: “It was an amazing experience to meet Olympic athletes and was a great opportunity.”
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