RELEVANT ORGANISATIONS AND PROJECTS

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Acland Burghley Anti-Bullying Programme Creates the opportunity for a broad spectrum of students to learn about dealing with conflict in a safe and positive environment. Counsellors participating in the programme show significantly increased articulacy, social skills and confidence with peers. They also benefit from a sense of real achievement and responsibility.
Burghley Road, Londong NW5 1UJ 		The Advisory Centre for Education (ACE) An independent national advice centre for parents, which believes that all children should benefit from the opportunities coming from greater oppenness and accountability in education. ACE Works to encourage all parents to be confident partners in their children's education, and to help those with problems.
1b Aberdeen Studios, 22 Highbury Grove, London N5 2DQ
Tel : 0171 354 8318 Fax : 0171-3549069
Centre for Citizenship Studies in Education
Provides information on all aspects of citizenship education and training.
Tel : 01604 37712 or 36369 Fax : 01604 29735



The Circle Works
Supports primary schools as they struggle with problems caused by emotional illiteracy.
2 Medway Buildings, Medway Road, London E3 5DR 		Community Education Development Centre
Promotes and supports the development of community education in the UK, through involvement in various projects, e.g. training for teachers, community workers, parents and health professionals.
Tel: 01203 638660 Fax: 01203 681161
Community Service Volunteers (CSV)
Creates opportunities for people to play an active part in their community through education, volunteering and training. Currently enables more than 13,000 students to give around 300,000 hours of their skill and time to benefit others.
237 Pentonville Road, London N1 9NJ
Tel : 0171-278 6601 Fax : 0171-278 1020 		Development Education Centre
Offers various initiatives to support creative work towards a curriculum providing tools for participation in an increasingly global society. Also runs a resource shop with materials to support development education in the classroom.
Gillet Centre, 998 Bristol Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham, B 29 6LE
Tel : 0121-4723255
Education Now
Concerned to develop an education system that will be flexible enough to provide alternatives for everybody, all the time. It believes that the present education system, based on a factory model of mass schooling, is now increasingly obsolete; and that, in a rapidly changing world with its information-rich environment and new communication technologies, the case for an education that will give people resourcefulness, flexibility, confidence in lifelong learning, readiness to unlearn redundant ideas, grows ever stronger. It seeks to foster new initiatives and developments in educational practice which actively involve learners in developing and defining their own curriculum in partnership with others.
113 Arundel Drive, Bramcote Hills, Nottingham NG9 3FQ
Tel/Fax 0115 925 7261



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Family Links
Runs a nurturing programme for schools that aims to create a calm, disciplined, respectful school community through working to enhance communication between teachers and children, and among the children themselves.
The Office, The Old Rectory, Waterstock, Oxon OX33 1JT
Tel/Fax : 01865 338409
 Forum for the Advancement of Educational Therapy and Therapeutic Teaching (FAETT)
Aims to develop the theory of educational therapy, to encourage professional standards in its practice and to disseminate knowledge and understanding of the method. Promotes the insights of teachers into emotional factors in learning and failure to learn, and provides a forum for members to discuss their work and seek advice.
3 Templewood, London W13 8BA
Hackney Well-Being in Schools Project
A multi-agency pilot project for the promotion of mental health in Hackney secondary schools. The aims are : to promote positive strategies for responding to stress and conflict; to enable schools to be effective in responding to distress in pupils and staff. This is likely to involve; whole school planning; staff development and support; pupil support; parental involvement.
St. Leonard's, Nuttall Street, London N1 5LZ
 Human Scale Education
Aims to promote human scale values in secondary education. Believes that the child should be at the centre of the educational process, and that schools need to be more like a family than a factory; with teachers who are both friends and mentors to students; parents involved as partners in the process of education and a curriculum tailored to the individual child. Campaigns for state funding to new educational initiatives, and supports mini-schools as well as other schemes that allow large schools to restructure into smaller units.
96 Carlingcott, Nr. Bath, BA28AW
International Council for Self-Esteem
Promotes Circle Time as a way of enhancing pupils feelings of self worth and creating harmony in the classroom by :

Helping children learn to understand and express themselves better;
Showing the benefits of cooperation and sharing;
Looking at problem-solving and alternative solutions;
Encouraging children to take control of their lives;
Giving support for coping with change and difficulty.
Self-Esteem Workshops, 5 Ferry Path, Cambridge
CB4 1HB, Tel : 01223 65351 		Jenny Mosley Consultancies
The Model for All Round Success introduces the whole school community to a range of measures designed to encourage emotional and physical safety, consistency, motivation, positive relationships and openness. It works through a forum which has at the heart of it, a commitment to building children's sense of self-worth and helping them to care more about the feelings of those around them.
8 Westbourne Road, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, BA14 OAJ
Tel : 01225 767157 Fax : 01225 755631
The Marshmallow Project
An emotional support mechanisms, that draws on the individual's natural ability to listen and to give non-judgemental understanding to his or her peers. A reservoir of shared understanding is achieved by implementing. The Marshmallow Project in Schools, offices, surgeries.
416 New Cross Road, London SE14 7TY Tel : 0181-333 7306



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National Coalition Building Institute :
Does anti-bullying work in schools and runs peer training programmes for young people and adults. Also organises 'Welcoming Diversity' programmes.
Tel and Fax : 0116 260 3232
E-mail : ncbieng.demon.co.uk







 NSPCC Counselling in Schools Service
A self-referral, individual counselling service for young people located in schools. Aims to promote the welfare of young people by :
Providing individual counselling for pupils to support their personal development and strengthen their ability to take advantage of educational opportunities;
Helping develop skills needed in a variety of social situations;
Increasing self-esteem by exploring and expressing feelings;
Helping mobilise resources to deal with a particular difficulties;
Giving young people who need it direct access to protective or therapeutic services.
83 North Street, Bedminster, Bristol BS3 1ES
National Pyramid trust
Implementing a pilot programme in 45 schools of the Pyramid System of mental health promotion, which consists of screening and multi-agency follow up and short activity groups to promote self esteem in young children.
204 Church Rd, Hanwell, London W7 3BP
Tel : 0181 579 5108 Fax : 0181 579 5409 		The Parenting Forum
Promotes and develops parenting education and support. Publishes an interesting and informative newsletter with articles on a wide range of issues relating to families and parenting.
8 Wakley Street, London EC1V7QE
Tel : 0171-843 6099
The Place to Be
Enables therapeutic and emotional support to be provided for children in schools. Goes into schools to listen to children who speak through art, play, drama, music, movement and language. Committed to enhancing communication skills.
5th & 6th Floors, Livingstone House, 11 Carteret Street, London SW1H 9DL
Tel : 0171-233 0906 Fax : 0171-233 0907 		Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility (PCSR)
Set up to take into the public domain what psychotherapists and counsellors knowabout the effects of the changes that have come about in British society. Runs study groups and aims to expand the political process so that emotional and psychological factors receive greater attention. Has a group devoted to educational issues, organises conferences and publishes a newsletter, Transformations.
26 Eaton Rise, London W5 2ER
Relate in Schools
Runs a course which aims to equip teachers with the confidence and classroom techniques demanded by the issues dealt with in relationship education, as well as separate workshops on : Managing Conflict, Raising Self-esteem, Children's Experience of Divorce, Talking about Sex and Managing Stress.
Herbert Gray College, Little Church Street, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV 21 3AP


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Re : membering Education
A network of teachers from across the educational spectrum who believe that :
There is a need to widen and deepen the current educational debate;
All children's faculties need to be developed and nurtured;
The moral and spiritual dimensions need to find expression in a curriculum which encourages responsibility, questioning, creativity and empathy.
66 Beaconsfield Villas, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 6HE e-mail:remember@mcmail.com.
 Schools Councils UK
Helps schools who want elected classroom councils by giving support and training to pupils and teachers on how to set up councils, and help when they are actually running.
Tel : 0181-349-2459
Schools Mediation Project
Teaches mediation in schools, in order to improve the social atmosphere by promoting the values of mutual respect, self-discipline and social responsibility, and to enable pupils to learn new social and inter-personal skills in dealing with conflict, as well as resolving individual disputes between pupils using trained peer mediators.
Southwark Mediation Centre, 92 Camberwell Road, London SE5 OEG
 Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship
The 26 Steiner schools in the UK are committed to the principle that a child's emotional and social skills' should be at the centre of all educational practices. The aim is to equip pupils to respond with initiative, flexibility and responsibility in a fast changing world.
Kidbrooke Park, Forest Row, Sussex, RH18 5JA
Tel : 01342 822115 Fax : 01342 826004
The Study Centre, Ealing
Works to help children - mainly those who have been excluded from school - to develop the skills necessary to access the curriculum, forming a bridge from their emotional learning to other academic learning.
Tel : 0181 571 1164 Fax : 0181 571 1180
Society for Effective Affective Learning - SEAL
A Worldwide network of teachers, trainers, business and professional people joining together to promote practical innovation in learning. The Society holds conferences on a diverse range of learning-related topics, and aims to improve the quality and effectiveness of learning.
PO Box 26, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 2QG 		Third Ear Education
Aim is to make the art of listening a central focus of education and vocational training - not just the training of teachers, counsellors and psychotherapists but also that of managers, health workers and professionals in all fields. Offers seminars, group training and individual or team mentoring in vocational listening.
44 Stanley Road, Whitstable, Kent, CT5 4NQ
Tel : 01227 771 289 Fax : 01227 710 321



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The University of the First Age
A new concept in urban schooling being piloted in Birmingham. The idea is that all young people on transfer to secondary school, will belong to two institutions, their mainstream school and the University of the First Age. Through their enrolment as undergraduates of the UFA, students will have the opportunity to take part in vacation and distance learning experiences. UFA is aiming to target pupils in early adolescence, this being the time when a significant number of young people begin to experience disaffection and disenchantment with learning.
Education Offices, Margaret Street, Birmingham, B3 3BU

Values Education Council (VEC)
Aims to promote dialogue about, and awareness of, values and their application in education and society.
49 Gilmour Road, Edinburgh EH16 5NU
Young Minds
Works to raise awareness of issues like depression, suicide, conduct disorders, hyperactivity, eating disorders, and of how they affect both children and teenagers. Also draws attention to the demands placed on teachers that relate to mental health issues for children.
102-108 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1M 5SA
Tel : 0171-336 8445

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