Education For All

Furniture Reuse Network Conference - 14th - 17th January 2010

Education for All wil be holding two workshops at the Furniture Reuse Network annual conference 14th - 16th January 2010.
The aim of the workshops is to engage local reuse organisations t get involved in supporting Education for All in local collections of educational resources.

(Posted: Thursday 14 January, 2010)

Education for All join Facebook

Education for All now have a group page on Facebook, join us HERE and invite your friends to show tell the work we do.

(Posted: Friday 04 December, 2009)

Rutland Schools learn about sustainability at an Education for All workshop, 3rd Dec 2009

Schools from across the county of Rutland attended the Rutland Sustainable Schools Showcase where Education for All had a stand and delivered a workshop on Education, Development and Sustainablity.

The workshop highlighted Eucation for All's work in its 3 key aeas of development,environment and education, showing how we manage our organisation to cheive its aims and to encourage pupils and teachers to get involved in what we do.

(Posted: Friday 04 December, 2009)

Education for All attended the REalliance conference on "Revaluing Resources", London 1-2 Dec 2009

The REalliance event brought together various organisaions and councils inolved in reuse, recycling and environmental protection.The event was a great success with key speakers Sophi Tranchell, Cheif Executive, Divine Chocolate, Dan Norris MP, Nick Herbert MP, Martin Horwood and epresentatives from CRN, Bioregional and Emerge.

The conference discussed the need to take a different approach to waste and look at particulary third sector organistions can be involved in bringing about environmenta rotection throuugh social enterprise and innovation.

(Posted: Friday 04 December, 2009)

Education for All attend the International Institute of Educational Planning meeting on using ICT in Education in Emergencies and Fragile states, Paris, 24-25 Nov 2009.

Simon Devine was invited to partcipate and form a new group with the UNESCO institute to look at using ICT to teach children in areas where teachers cannot or will not go....countries currently being looked at by this group are Somalia, Gaza & Palestine and Afganistan.

Simon highlighted the benefits Education for All can bring in relation to logistics planning, educational resources and school partnering.

(Posted: Friday 04 December, 2009)

EfA welcome Waddesdon Secondary School

Pupils from the school council and environment group, Waddesdon Secondary School, visited the Education for All warehoue for a presentation on environment and development.

The pupils from the Buckinghamshire school braved the cold warehouse for a talk from Simon Devine on how Education for All positiviy engages with environmental and development issues, from recycling and waste management to resource redistribution and fundrising.

Waddesdon school has agreed to support Education for All and hold a fundraising event in oreder to send a shipment of rsources to a school of their choice....many thanks to Bonita Bridges for making this partnership and visit possible!!

(Posted: Thursday 12 November, 2009)

Education for All school web linking moves a step closer

Education for All's vision of real-time teaching online between schools in the UK and their Partner schools moved step closer to reality today with the trial of link up between Education for All office and the Holy Rosmary School in Kumasi Ghana.

After a 25 minute conversation between Education for All and various Teachers and students at the school, it was concluded that this shoud be taken to the next phase, link school to school.

Interested schools in Lincolnshire and SchoolAid Network have come o board as the UK support to this vision, with trials starting by the end of November, and a "go live" date of January for full roll out. Other countries to have expressed an interest in this are Tanzania, Cameroon and South Africa.

(Posted: Friday 06 November, 2009)

De Montford University pays us a visit

Students from the school of business visited the Education for All warehouse for an introduction to the charity and a different perspective on business, charities and not-for-profit organisations.

Simon Devine, International Development Manager for Education for All, talked about Education for All's links with business and how both the finacial donor and the receiving school overseas both win from the redistribution of resources, along with the charities expansion into online realtime teaching between the UK and Overseas schools.

Many thanks for all the students for coming along and their course tutor Nicki Theokritoff for making it happen.

(Posted: Friday 06 November, 2009)

Education for All at 40....not in years old, but in containers overseas in the last 2 1/2 years.

Numbers 39 and 40 were despatched to Swaziland and South Africa.

The Swaziland container was fundd by the Rotary Club of Mbabane to the Vusumnotfo Community Organisation for schools in Ngonini, Swaziland.

The South Africa container was funded and received by the South African Youth Festival (SAYF)for the Ntolwana Primary school and Nxamalala clinic in Kwazulu Natal, eastern South Africa. The SAYF have already decorated the schools and clinicprior to the arrival of the resources....visit their website to see their hard work www.sayf.co.za/

(Posted: Thursday 05 November, 2009)

Kingsbridge College, Devon, raises money through recycled materials fashion show.

Here are the photographs from the project Kingsbridge College in Devon ran on recycled fashion. It was open to the whole school, and students were encouraged to work in design teams,  the finished outfits were photographed at a fashion shoot; students did the hair, makeup; adjusted the lighting and took the photographs. At the end of the year we had a catwalk show.

A big thankyou to Kingsbridge from Education for All.

(Posted: Monday 12 October, 2009)

Nigeria at 49...Education for All invited to the High Commission to celebrate 49 years of Independence.

The celebrations were hosted by The Nigerian High Commissioner to the Court of St. James, His Excellency Dr Sarki Tafida.

(Posted: Monday 05 October, 2009)

Education for All help launch The Priory City Academies of Lincoln's Social Enterprise event.

Education for All help launch The Priory City Academies of Lincoln's Social Enterprise event along with SchoolAid Network. The Priory Academy's Business Studies course has set itself a challege to create a social enterprise to gain profit for others and not itself. Simon Devine, International Development Manager, Education for All, and Alan Dennis, Trustee, SchoolAid Network, gave presentations on their organisations and gave examples of social enterprise projects which could be supported by the year 8 students undertaking this course.

Education for All will be providing ongoing support to the Academy as it progresses along its journey to create its social enterprise.

(Posted: Tuesday 29 September, 2009)

Devon Design and Technology teachers workshop hosted by Education for All and Thorpe - 17th and 18th September 2009.

The workshop focused on issues of sustainability, with Education for All's Red Chair film as a focus for thoughts. The outcome of the meeting was to produce D&T curriculum material based upoin developmental and sustainable issues, highlighting Education for All's work as case studies.

Speakers included Neil Louge (Managing Director, Thorpe & Trustee of Education for All), Simon Devine (International Development Manager, Education for All), Nick Baldwin (Education Advisor), Gilly Browning (Education Advisor).

(Posted: Tuesday 29 September, 2009)

Education for All working with Tools with a mission help send our first resources into Kenya.

Furniture for 50 children was collected today from our warehouse by Tools with a Mission who intend to send it on their next container to Niarobi, Kenya.

Please have a look at Tools with a Mission's website at www.twam.co.uk

(Posted: Monday 14 September, 2009)

Education for All's International Development Manager, Simon Devine, takes on the Pennine Way with his brother Anthony to raise money for EfA.

(Posted: Wednesday 19 August, 2009)

Education for All and Greenworks support container to Sierra Leone.

Education for All financially supported a container, along with Greenworks, to Sierra Leone. The container went to Waterloo, the second largest city in the western area of Sierra Leone and a suburb of Freetown, the capital city.

Education for All was contacted to help through a publicity campaign headed by the Guardian Newspaper.

(Posted: Tuesday 18 August, 2009)

Former President of Zambia, Dr Kenneth Kaunda visits Education for All in July 2009.

In July 2009, the former President of Zambia, Dr Kenneth Kaunda, the first president of Zambia, visited the Education for All facility with the Youth Foundation to see exactly how the operation works. 

Dr Kenneth Kaunda was impressed with the work EfA does and said “the changes possible through Education for All’s work can have many benefits in Zambia and other countries in the developing world”.

(Posted: Tuesday 18 August, 2009)

Education for All supports the U Foundation by donating 50 desks and 100 chairs.

In July 2009, Education for All supported the U Foundation (www.theufoundation.org) by donating 50 desks and 100 chairs to a container they sent to Zambia. The container was loaded at UF’s site in Leicester and was headed for schools in Mumbwa, west of the capital city, Lusaka. They have been donated to Honourable Boyd Hamousonde, MP for the constituency of Nangoma. The U Foundation met with him recently whilst in Lusaka.

(Posted: Tuesday 18 August, 2009)

Container Update....

Education for All continues to send out containers to Africa with funding from various organisations:

• Tanzania - back in June 2009 two containers sponsored by the Tanzanian High Commission and the Tanzanian UK Association containing tables and chairs were sent to schools in Dar Es Salaam and onto the island of Zanzibar. The containers were loaded on the EfA site by Thorpe Kilworth staff.
• Kumas, Ghana - two containers sponsored by Friends of Keith Douglas and Newfield School, Sheffield were sent to Kumasi in Ghana back in June 2009.  The containers were loaded with classroom furniture, books and computers. There was a follow-up assembly at Newfield in July where Simon Devine, Education for All’s International Development Manager, and Keith Douglas talked about the process of what EfA does and showed the kids images of their container arriving in Kumasi.

(Posted: Thursday 30 July, 2009)

Optimus Education Foundation fund two containers to Cameroon.

During June 2009, the Optimus Education Foundation, a UK and Cameroon based charity, (www.opef.org.uk) funded two containers to Cameroon. Both containers were loaded here in Corby on the Education for All site by Thorpe Kilworth employees and consisted of classroom furniture, books and computers.  The containers were shipped to Doula in Cameroon, to schools in the area and also to set up a computer training facility.

(Posted: Tuesday 28 July, 2009)

Director Magazine Interview Neil Logue, Founder and Trustee of Education for All

(Posted: Friday 24 July, 2009)

Donations made to local organisations etc

(Posted: Saturday 30 May, 2009)

Communities First benefit from Education for All donation

Education for All provided Communities First with office and training room resources. Communities First, mangaed by Nigerian Gabriel Anugwah, provide training, consulting and mentoring for young adults from deprived backgrounds in London.

(Posted: Tuesday 27 January, 2009)

Winter Newsletter is out now!!!

(Posted: Sunday 04 January, 2009)

Over 7,000 educational aids dontated by Pictorial Charts

These resources cover many subjects including , maths, literacy, poetry, art, history, geography and science. They range from primary to secondary level, are are in an interactive format creating an engaging learning experience.

Many thanks to Carol at Pictorial Charts for the kind donation, and to Don at A Ray of Hope who put us in contact with Pictorial Charts - a big thank you to you both!!

(Posted: Wednesday 17 December, 2008)

SchoolAid Network praise EfA in their latest Annual report, this is what they had to say about us....

EDUCATION FOR ALL (SAN Registered Charity Member March, 2008)

We visited the headquarters of Education for All and saw the wonderful range and amount of educational furniture and equipment they are re-cycling from School Improvement Programmes.   They are helping us to transport the medical equipment to Bangladesh and also giving us Educational equipment and furniture to send.   If we can keep raising funds for transporting  40ft. Containers, they will fill them and they can go to many other parts of the world.   On average, such a container provides Educational facilities for 500 children.   Simon Devine, their International Programme Manager, has been so helpful and really encouraged us to develop further.

(Posted: Friday 21 November, 2008)

Education for All help Balfour Beatty win Green Apple award 2008

Balfour Beatty Construction Northern has won a Green Apple Award for environmental best practice for using Education for All at the Bassetlaw Schools in Nottinghamshire. The Green Organisation is an independent environment group dedicated to promoting the positive side of environmental endeavour. It is an independent, non-political, non-activist, non-profit environment group dedicated to recognising, rewarding and promoting environmental best practice around the world. The Awards recognize companies who demonstrate best environmental practice within their particular industry. Congratulations to Balfour Beatty on winning this award!

(Posted: Friday 21 November, 2008)

Today, on the anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, winners of the Nobel Peace Prize around the world are calling for quality education to reduce conflict and peace.

An open letter signed by dignitaries such as Wangari Maathai, The 14th Dalai Lama, Irene Khan (on behalf of Amnesty International) and Bishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu, calls on governments and other parties to armed conflict to respect and promote schools as places of peace and safety:

• Ensure all children have access to quality education despite ethnicity, religion or language
• Ensure all children can learn free from fear of recruitment into armed forces, violence or intimidation.
• Ensure all children receive an inclusive and relevant education that promotes an openness of thought and is accountable to children's families and communities. 
• Ensure that quality education is made an integral part of every peace process.
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(Posted: Friday 21 November, 2008)

EfA supply resources to Malawi with the Matema Education Trust.

Education for All, working with the Matema Education Trust have just sent a container of resources destined for Matema College in Karonga, in the Northern Region of Malawi.

(Posted: Monday 17 November, 2008)

Education for All become a member of the Education Cluster Working Group headed by UNICEF & Save the Children.

This group comprising of UN agencies and Humanitarian NGO's specialise in providing education in disaster and conflict environments. Education for All is a member of the sub-group Field Operations advising on educational supplies.

(Posted: Wednesday 12 November, 2008)

Education for All attend seminar on Skills for Work, Growth and Poverty Reduction: Challenges and Opportunities hosted by UNESCO and the British Council

(Posted: Wednesday 12 November, 2008)

Education for All attend the Tanzanian High Commission presentation on Development & Education.

(Posted: Thursday 30 October, 2008)

Education for All is now supplying educational resources to Bangladesh with the help of SchoolAid Network.

(Posted: Monday 20 October, 2008)

Education for All attend the Launch of Furniture for Education Worldwide - 8th October 2008

Furniture for Education Worldwide take school resources from schools is East Lancashire and redistribute them to schools in Pakistan.

(Posted: Friday 10 October, 2008)

The Education for All summer newsletter is out now!!

(Posted: Monday 29 September, 2008)

All for Education features in the lastest copy of "Building Futures" magazine.

(Posted: Friday 20 June, 2008)

As the New Year brings a busy time for All for Education (the operating arm of Educaiton for All), it's good to know that all the people on site have passed their Construction Skill Certification Scheme, ensuring that they are in the vanguard of employers supporting the construction industry.

They are all also "appointed" persons for first aid and have undertaken manual handling training.

(Posted: Thursday 03 January, 2008)

Building Futures, the specialist journal of school environments does a special feature on Education for All and it's operating arm, All for Education, in it's November issue.

(Posted: Wednesday 05 December, 2007)

Hertfordshire County Council has acknowledged the benefit of using the services of Education for All on day to day school disposal prior even to their BSF programme in 2009/10.

(Posted: Monday 19 November, 2007)

We are delighted and privileged to announce that the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Dr John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, has agreed to become the patron of Education for All.

(Posted: Thursday 02 August, 2007)

Northamptonshire County Council (NCC) selected Education for All to clear their schools in 2007 during their move from a middle school to a two tiered schooling system.

(Posted: Wednesday 25 July, 2007)

Education for All was officially launched at the British Council for School Environments (BCSE) 'Building Better Schools' Conference at St Francis of Assisi Academy in Liverpool on 26 June 2007.

In attendance were:

• The Bishop of Liverpool - James Jones

• Jim Knight MP, Minister of State for Schools and 14-19 Learners

• Mukund Patel, Deputy Director School Capital (Assets) of the Department for Children, Schools and Families

(Posted: Sunday 03 June, 2007)

Kicking off in style, Education for All's inaugural commission came with the trust being invited to work on a massive PFI contract to upgrade education provision in the Nottinghamshire district of Bassetlaw. Comprising a two-phase programme to transform local education facilities, including the rebuilding of eight schools, Bassetlaw presented EfA with a great opportunity to demonstrate to the full its efficient systems, capability and vision for change.

(Posted: Tuesday 15 May, 2007)

All for Education in Building Futures Magazine

(Posted: Thursday 03 May, 2007)

Less than a month after being cleared from UK schools, serviceable furniture and equipment once earmarked for landfill is set for use in schools located in the deprived areas of the Eastern Cape in South Africa.

(Posted: Wednesday 25 April, 2007)

When excited pupils and staff at Tuxford School in Nottinghamshire packed up their classrooms ready to move into new school buildings in February this year, they relished the prospect of the state-of-the-art facilities awaiting them.

(Posted: Monday 09 April, 2007)