High Trees have finished another term of weekly one 2 one coaching sessions with girls from St Martin-in-the-Fields High School which finished with a group session on the nature of leadership. It was great to see the girls’ confidence grow week by week, and their feedback shows that the programme has made a tangible difference […]
Our ESOL learners visited the Horniman Museum and Gardens for the first time, with our teacher Elly. Thank you so much to Laura from the Horniman Community Engagement team, for the warm welcome and the free tickets to the Aquarium and the temporary exhibitions.
This week we bought together leaners from across our courses for our High Trees Learner Forum. Our learners explored themes such as self care and wellbeing, created a poster of tips on how to be healthier and happier and had a great food and music celebration for the end of our academic year. One of our learners who attended […]
Last Friday our Education and Training team took part to the End of year conference for Lambeth Adult Learning! Our tutor Wayne received a nomination for E-Learning , our tutor Dorota won the most the Inspirational Tutor Award and our Service Admin Mohammed won the best the Customer Service Award. Our learners worked together on a well-being mosaic, reflecting on the importance […]
Between the 26th and 27th of June CO Ltd hosted their 6th annual national gathering of Community Organisers at Yarnfield park, a conference center based near Stoke on Trent. High Trees were able to take three local people, Dennis, Gloria and Nicholas, who have done some amazing work in the community along to spend two […]
Last weekend High Trees held a relaunch of our Adventure Playground, welcoming families – both new and existing users – and giving details of our upcoming summer programme. Over 100 people visited throughout the day, enjoying the free activities on offer and trying out the new facilities. For more information about our youth and family […]
To build on the foundational knowledge of Community Organising provided in our introduction to CO course IRMO asked us to deliver our Listening Skills for Community Organising workshop on Saturday the 30th of June. Some thoughts from the learners and pictures of the day are below: “I have learnt more about Community Organising and I […]
High Trees are very pleased to be able to offer employment support to an even wider selection of people. In addition to our current programmes, Power 50 which helps job seekers or those looking to improve their employment position in Lambeth and Wandsworth and Step-Up which works with those earning less than London Living Wage […]
High Trees were delighted to attend a Job Fair in the Lambeth Town Hall last week. It was a great chance to engage with job seekers from Lambeth and other agencies and advertise our activities, particularly our training courses and our Employment and Career service. We signed up 37 people to our Employment support programmes […]