ContinYou

ContinYou is one of the UK’s leading community learning organisations.
We aim to offer opportunities to people who have gained the least from formal education and training. We work with a range of professional people, organisations and agencies to enhance what they do to change lives through learning.

ContinYou’s work demonstrates the links between all the areas in which learning can make a difference to people’s lives. Our work focuses on:

• extended and integrated services;
• parental support and family learning; 
• healthy, active learning communities. 

ContinYou work with a wide range of individuals and organisations – for example, schools (eg teachers, governors, parents and carers), local authority officers, government departments, other voluntary organisations, local community groups, supplementary school workers, adult education staff, family/parental support staff, NHS staff, early years workforce and children’s centres.

The Every Child Matters (ECM) agenda is central to ContinYou’s work and our philosophy. We have been campaigning for a broader, more holistic approach to meeting those needs for more than twenty years, and our success in doing so is evidenced by the breadth of our expertise and of our delivery programmes – all of which are underpinned by ECM.

ECM is the thread tying everything we do together – be it through our partnership work delivering children’s centres, helping young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) access training and employment, our breakfast clubs and health literacy projects, our sports- and music-focused study support, or our volunteering and community leadership work.

We are the lead delivery agency for the Department of Health for health literacy and education. Specific examples of the cross-cutting approach we can take include:

Be safe – our parent support work on personal safety and Pyramid projects. See the website 

Be healthy – Skilled for Health and support on healthy schools; our sports development partnership with the Youth Sport Trust.

Enjoy and achieve – supporting youth services and working with providers of Connexions services; maintaining a strong emphasis on school improvement and targeting those at most risk of failure.

Make a positive contribution – active citizenship, highlighting the importance of pupils’ voice in planning and evaluating services or activities; establishment of the Princess Diana Memorial Awards to celebrate contribution to communities. 

Economic well-being – Young Leaders in the Community project  to recruit young NEET people and reengage them in learning as a route to employment, building community capacity, and supporting regeneration; we also have a range of community regeneration projects and consultancies. 

Our main areas of work

• Children and young people:       
• Parents and family learning:   
• Healthy, active learning communities: