The project has been very successful in terms of achieving its outputs and milestones, and contributing to LDA cross-cutting themes, in particular those around equalities and health. The project has been more successful than envisioned at adding value to other campaigns such as Adult Learners' Week, Learning at Work Day and Silver Surfers' Day, and its focus on sports and fitness has led to a huge increase in the number of adults being recognised for turning their lives around through this type of learning. The project has also been very successful at increasing the involvement of unions, libraries and the voluntary sector in Adult Learners' Week, with consequent increases in all areas of a range of learning taster courses on offer. This change appears to be a permanent one, that will be sustainable while the annual campaign continues to run.

The project has also worked outside its immediate remit to deliver training and advice, developing resources for the voluntary sector and organisations unused to delivering learning opportunities and raising the profile of adult learning across London. The project successfully helped small community groups to not only support their clients and add to the range of their offer, but also in facilitating a growth in capacity of many of these organisations. Several very small groups are now more sustainable due to the influx of beneficiaries staying on to become volunteers, and many have reported an increase in confidence at applying for other types of funding due to the flexibility offered by this project, and the recognition given to their work by such a large funder as the LDA. Other groups have started to offer learning for the first time alongside other support to their clients, and many used the opportunity to pilot new types of provision either better addressing their client's needs, or to attract totally different types of adult. Overall, this has been a considerable "added value" success of the project's work.

The production of an online toolkit to help organisations to build their own capacity to plan and deliver vocational taster courses has also been of lasting added value. It is available free of charge to download from the London Adult Learners' Week website, and has been widely promoted. It is hoped that the materials and training sponsored by the project through Greater London Volunteering will also be available on the site soon, to support those wishing to volunteer in the London 2021 Olympics.

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