About Enable

Enable is the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Voluntary and Community Sector Learning and Skills Consortium.

There is increasing recognition that the voluntary and community sector has an important role to play within a range
of social and economic policy areas and in particular that it can potentially make a significant contribution to the
national and local learning and skills targets for adults and young people. In response, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire
Voluntary and Community Sector Learning and Skills Consortium was established to enable voluntary organisations and
community groups to effectively engage in the development and delivery of the local learning and skills agenda.

 European Social Fund

Consortium

The aims of the Consortium are to:

  • Ensure the voluntary sector is able to make an effective contribution to national and local targets for learning and skills.
  • Develop the capacity of the sector as providers of learning.
  • Facilitate collaboration, within the sector and with other sectors, to widen participation in learning and increase achievement.
  • Establish a recognised formal channel for involvement and consultation.
  • Provide the infrastructure to enable voluntary organisations and community groups to deliver learning programmes that meet the needs of learners, the community and national frameworks.

To achieve this we aim to establish an organisation that has a dual role:

  • A Managing Agency for the delivery of learning by voluntary and community organisations unable to contract independently.
  • A development agency for voluntary sector learning providers.

Development Plan

Development Plan - For 2005 - 2008.

Northamptonshire Skills & Learning Consortium Launch

On 1st October 2008 we launched the Northamptonshire Skills and Learning Consortium. We shared the event with Northants Council for Ethnic Minority Communities who we are developing a particularly strong relationship with.

After an introduction from Colette Byrne, Enable Regional Partnership Manager, Liz Searle the Area Director of the LSC opened the event, presenting an overview of developments within the learning and skills sector and speaking positively about Enable coming to the county. After a presentation by Don Hayes and questions from the floor, Enable handed over to CEMC who presented variuos aspects of their work.
It was a very very successful event.

www.northantsconsortium.co.uk

 Northamptonshire Skills and Learning Consortium Launch

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Investors in People

Enable has achieved the Investors in People Standard.

Matrix

Enable has recently been awarded the Matrix quality standard for the information and advice it offers to its
member organisations about learning and work.

The matrix Standard is the national quality standard for any organisation that delivers information, advice and/or
guidance on learning and work. See: http://www.matrixstandard.com