Projects and Collaborations: S-Z
Safe Partnership Ltd
Safe Partnership Ltd is a national charity that provides advice to vulnerable victims or potential victims of domestic violence, burglary and hate crime. The Safe DATE Workshop Toolkit has been designed to help schools raise awareness of the issues around violence and abuse in relationships experienced by the 11-18 age group.
Link: Safe Partnership
Say Yes
Say Yes UK designs and delivers bespoke projects to captivate young people, some of whom are disengaged or disaffected. Through the projects, the young people gain valuable life skills and enterprise learning while being stimulated and encouraged to use imaginative thinking and creativity.
Link: Say Yes
Seed International
Seed International offer skills-based learning, student conferences and international educational programmes specialising in China, Europe, North America. Students can earn CoPE Level 3, Universities Award, Short Courses and AoPE Level 3. Seed can also register schools in China to become ASDAN centres.
Link: Seed International
Skill Force
Skill Force delivers ASDAN programmes and qualifications nationwide.
Link: Skill Force
Sports Leaders UK
As part of this partnership, any candidate who has completed a Sports Leaders UK qualification can claim 3 credits towards an ASDAN qualification. Sports Leaders UK also promotes the Community Volunteering Qualifications and Disability and Sports Awareness (DaSA) Short Course as excellent pathways for candidates to follow. Candidates only require their Sports Leaders certificate in their ASDAN portfolio to transfer credits.
Link: Sports Leaders UK
Stand Against Violence
Stand Against Violence is a national charity focused on violence prevention/reduction through youth education and awareness raising. The SAVed Project workshop day counts as one credit into ASDAN programmes or qualifications.
Link: Stand Against Violence
St John Ambulance
Young people can follow the St John Ambulance Young First Aider Award and develop their life-saving skills, while working towards the Wider Key Skills of Improving own Learning and Performance or CoPE qualification. It can also be used as a way of accrediting Personal Learning and Thinking Skills (PLTS).
Download: acess details of St John Ambulance School liaison officers across the UK.
Link: St John Ambulance
Step:up
Step:up is a charitable organisation with the aim of ensuring a full range of educational opportunities is available to all school students. Using a grant from ASDAN, Step:up staff were able to contact various organisations to investigate their accreditation needs, including new areas where ASDAN could be introduced.
TFL Education
The TFL Education Key Skills for Leadership programme provides young people with a range of leadership activities allowing them to demonstrate evidence towards achieving Wider Key Skills qualifications and accrediting Personal, Learning and Thinking Skills.
Link: TFL Education
Track Academy
Route Consultancy has teamed up with the Track Academy, a third sector sport and mentoring organisation in west London, to develop a mentoring training programme. The programme is aimed at Level 3 learners and provides knowledge and competence in mentoring. Achievement gains three credits into CoPE.
Link: Route Consultancy
True Adventure
True Adventure offers a choice of school expeditions to contrasting destinations with opportunities for project work, trekking and adventure.
Link: True Adventure
UK Youth
The Youth Achievement Awards were developed with ASDAN and are offered in collaboration with UK Youth. The YAA take a peer education approach to recognising and accrediting young people's achievements. They are designed to encourage young people to take a more active role in youth work activities that interest them.
Link: Youth Achievement Awards
Waitrose
Waitrose are piloting two Prince’s Trust ‘Get into’ work experience programmes, which are available for unemployed 16-25 year olds. Get into Logistics and Get into Retail provide skill training and experience of an operational working environment, and both programmes are certificated by ASDAN.
Whole Education
Whole Education is a collaboration between leading non-profit organisations in education that share a common set of beliefs about education and actively support schools, colleges and youth organisations in helping to provide young people with a “whole education”.
Link: Whole Education
Wilderness Expertise
Wilderness Expertise offers students the opportunity to take part in an overseas, personal development expedition. Students plan, develop and run their expedition, developing transferable skills essential for Further Education or employment. Wilderness Expertise expeditions provide the opportunity to complete the Universities Award.
Link: Wilderness Expertise
World Challenge
World Challenge's overseas expeditions teach life skills, stretch comfort zones and expand minds outside the classroom. The bespoke 1 to 6-week itineraries to more than 50 destinations foster team and leadership skills. Students taking part have the opportunity to achieve the ASDAN Universities Award or CoPE Level 3.
Link: World Challenge