Help - Community based learning guides
Your introduction to the Learning Guide initiative.
What does a Volunteer Learning Guide Do?
Learning Guides are volunteers that provide that friendly point of information for the less confident potential adult learner. A Volunteer Learning Guide is the person who can help them overcome those initial obstacles so they can take the first steps to being an adult learner. Volunteer Learning Guides are a friendly (but informed) face in the community.
Most Volunteer Learning Guides help people in their own communities - whether it's people near to where they live or people who have similar experiences. For example; a Learning Guide who lives in Leasowe working with potential adult learners in Leasowe or a Learning Guide who is a lone parent advising potential learners who are also lone parents.
The important thing is that Volunteer Learning Guides can use their own experience and enthusiasm to help others take that first step.
Being a Volunteer Learning Guide
Volunteer Learning Guides come from all over the borough. They don't have to have any particular qualifications just an interest in doing the work. They get help and support, including free training, from Wirral CVS Volunteer Centre.
The added bonus is that Volunteer Learning Guides can use this experience to develop their own skills - its part of the circle of adult learning. Volunteer Learning Guides will have special relationships with community and voluntary groups who provide them with on the spot support and a place to work from.
Learning Guides can be flexible in the amount of time they give and when they give it. The idea is that they work out, with their support worker, what suits them and what suits the community they are working in.
How to make contact
If you would like to talk to a learning guide in your community or are interested in becoming a learning guide please contact the learning guide support officer by telephoning 0151 647 5432 or send an email to sandra@wirralcvs.org.uk.
