FLN Community Needs Assessment:
English for All (EFA):
Towards the end of the financial year FLN began a process of undertaking a community needs assessment to better understand and plan
for meeting the needs of clients, students and the broader community. During the next year we will be concluding this exercise and will
work with, a Masters student of Community Development to establish an internship to complete the project . Focus groups and semistructured interviews will be conducted throughout the duration of
the project. Thanks to intern Esther Sadek for all her hard work.
The EFA class is a free class for people seeking asylum (including people on a humanitarian/protection visa), who don’t have access to
government Support for learning English. EFA is offered 3 times per
week.
Living History project:
During the year we provided an exciting series of jewelry making
workshops for migrant, refugee and asylum seekers. Local jeweler
Claire Taylor, who is also part of our teaching team taught basic jewelry techniques, enabling students to learn beading, casing, filing, and
textile and silver skills.
The living history project is an ambitious attempt to document FLN’s
history since its inception more than 30 years ago. As well as capturing experiences, stories from current and previous FLN service users,
volunteers and other stakeholders. the will be used to assist the organisation as it considers and plans for the future. Practically, the
project involves undertaking a literature review, conducting one-toone interviews, running focus groups and documenting the inspiring
stories of those involve in FLN’s past and present.
Thank you to our volunteers Barbara Russell, Kristina Ellis, Esther
Sadek, Anasha Flintoff, Sarah Midford and Chris Womersley who will
all be integral to telling the FLN story in the year ahead.
Thank you to our current