North Glasgow Learns is a unique partnership between Glasgow North Regeneration Agency (GNRA), Culture and Sport Glasgow, Rosemount Lifelong Learning, Queens Cross Housing Association, Anniesland, North Glasgow and Stow Colleges and The Disability Community helps local people to access more literacy and numeracy support than ever before.

The partnership projects targets services at both adults and young people for whom literacy and numeracy problems are preventing them from accessing a job or new learning opportunities.

Outreach work features strongly with learning support taken directly into communities where no literacy and numeracy programmes currently exist. The programme also delivers English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) to help refugees and asylum seekers with little or no language skills to better access information, health, education and employment services in their community. The lack of childcare, particularly for lone parents, can also be a barrier so this has been built into the programme so that more people can access the services on offer.

This programme is not about replicating what’s already there – it’s more about filling gaps and reaching out to people to offer new ways to access services which can help improve their basic reading, writing and number skills. Once these basic skills are in place people are much better placed to access learning, training and employment opportunities further down the road.