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last updated: 1 Feb 05 about ToucanSummary of past activities - 2004 Toucan Group held an event on December 10th in Manchester to celebrate the projects and partners we have worked with throughout 2004. The ECUBE project started in December. We ran a number of activities to raise money for Children In Need, including members of staff being sponsored to dress as the opposite sex. Dave Ellis visited Rome is October for a meeting of partner organisations involved with the Again-st Abandon Project, which had just moved into the data analysis phase. GMY Network ran an EU Youth Programme Study Visit that addressed the issues of management and sustainability of small to medium sized voluntary sector youth organisations that support and deliver youth work initiatives. The participants were from voluntary youth services in Jordan, Israel, Egypt, Palestine and Italy. We started to offer ECDL automated tests in August and by the end of the year we had put our ECDL learners through more than one hundred tests with an eighty percent pass rate. In May 96% of our learners who sat the NCFE external assessment towards the Level 1 Certificate for IT Users were successful in passing the assessment. In April Toucan attended the TIE3 Conference - Bridging Pathways, in Setubal, Portugal. Members of Toucan's EDEN project attended the conference and disseminated information about TIE activities and products with partners from across Europe. We secured funding from GONW for a three month research project to map and evaluate the specialist support currently available to voluntary and community organisations in Greater Manchester. A team of researchers from GMCVO, CTAC, MCIN and Toucan carried out the work. Speakers from Latvia, Spain, France and Italy attended a workshop in Manchester to share their experiences of working with and supporting young people excluded from mainstream education provision. The workshop was part of the Again-st Abandon Project. The GMYN MV celebration event at URBIS, supported by Galaxy 102's breakfast team, was attended by one hundred and fifty people. Sixty out of the seventy-five volunteers who were at the event were awarded for having completed 100 or 200 hours of voluntary work. The teleCem project aimed at creating a European network of telecentres for people with mental illness and other groups in social disadvantage started in January. The beneficiaries were given the chance to design their own websites. Toucan in partnership with ASPIRE and other Manchester organisations working with the homeless, were successful in applying to Jobcentreplus for funding to provide longer term pathways to stability and thereby employment for the homeless. We offered ICT training to the beneficiaries. |
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Toucan Group, Tanzaro House, Ardwick Green North, Manchester, M12 6FZ
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