Amongst the 54 successful bids for Camel 2 are 13 of London’s Adult and Community Learning providers:

Barnet College
Bexley Adult Education College
Bromley Adult Education College
Ealing Adult Learning Service
Greenwich Council ACL
Harrow Adult, Community and Family Learning
Islington ACLS
Kensington and Chelsea
Lambeth Adult Learning
Lewisham Community Education
Merton Adult Education
Redbridge Institute of Adult Education
Southwark Adult Learning

NIACE has announced the launch of a new LSC and shared cost funding programme for e-learning for adults called “Capital Motivating e-Learning 2” (Camel 2).

Who can apply?

To be eligible to bid for this funding, your organisation must be in one of the following categories. It must be an English:

• local authority delivering LSC-funded adult learning
• region of the Workers Educational Association (WEA) that delivers adult learning
• voluntary and community sector organisation that holds a direct contract with the LSC for the delivery of adult learning, or
• voluntary and community sector organisation sub-contracted to deliver LSC-funded adult learning.

Full details are now available from the website:
www.niace.org.uk/camel.

Here you will find the bidding form and other guidance documents to download.  You will also find the “Harnessing Technology” Survey that you will need to complete and submit with your bid this year.  The deadline for submissions is 11th September 2009.

Following a quiet few months in terms of announcements of funding for e-Learning, some ‘green shoots’ have started to appear with a third phase of MoLeNET available to English FE colleges (including sixth form colleges and Independent Specialist Colleges) and over £50 million made available for interest-free loans to fund public sector energy saving projects; opening up opportunities for some innovative Green IT ideas to be get started.

More recently we have received notice that there will be a second funding round of Capital Motivating e-Learning 2 (Camel 2), that can support capital projects for e-learning in adult and community learning. Work-based learning providers can also expect details towards the end of August about a further phase of Learning Innovation Grant (LIG5).

With more and more providers chasing fewer funds, the art of writing a successful funding grant application has not been more critical. To help increase the success rate of applications from the ACL and WBL sectors, RSC London is to repeat last year’s popular Bid Writing Workshop to coincide with this year’s funding rounds. It will be an all day event on the 22^nd May at a prime location in central London.

This workshop will be of particular interest to all Directors, Managers or other staff responsible for writing bid application. Delegates will be shown how to devise and express innovative project ideas, understand the sort of things funders expect to read in a successful funding bid and avoid common mistakes in completing applications forms.

The workshop will be led by Terry Loane, a presenter with the background and years of experience that places him in an ideal position to help guide providers make that all important successful bid application.