History of Moving On With Life & Learning Ltd.
Ideas in Motion - 1998-2000
Liverpool University’s ‘Widening Participation’ hosted a charity named “Ideas in Motion”, an organisation run by disabled people for disabled people.
Ideas in Motion were awarded a pot of money through the European Social Fund to run a 20 week programme – The Day Centre IT Network Project. The purpose of the project was to link day service users with each other using email. An advocate and tutor were employed on a part time basis to coordinate the sessions.
During the first session it was evident that the service users did not have the level of literacy or indeed the communication skills to either use email or articulate messages to have typed out for them.
The remaining sessions were used to get to know the service users and find out from them what they wanted out of life.
Further small pockets of funding were identified through Ideas in Motion to continue with the programme and extend the number of day centres. Also during this time it was suggested the programme run from the University of Liverpool.
The Barrow Cadbury Trust in 1999 provided funding and continued to do so for ten years.
Throughout 1998 -2003 funding sources came from ESF, Barrow Cadbury Trust and Liverpool City Council Community Chest.
Moving On With Learning - 2000-2007
In 2000 the programme took on a new identity as Moving On With Learning (MOWL), .
In 2003 MOWL became independent of Ideas in Motion and formed itself as a charitable organisation. The Learning and Skills Council funded MOWL to deliver basic skills as part of their in-house programme and to deliver an outreach motivational guidance programme to service users in day centres across Merseyside. This was hugely successful and in 2005 the LSC allowed MOWL to keep the under-spend, which has been used to fund the project during the transition of MOWL to Moving On With Life & Learning (MOWLL) and its independence from the University of Liverpool.
MOWLL today
MOWLL was registered with the Charity Commission in January 2007 and although it continues to be based within Liverpool University, it is solely an independent charitable organisation. MOWLL also became a company limited by guarantee in 2009.
MOWLL 2010 Awards Ceremony
Today MOWLL delivers innovative person-centred learning and development programmes to adults and young people with learning disabilities, mental health conditions or brain injury from the Merseyside area.
MOWLL's current main funding is through the Big Lottery Fund for the Jigsaw project.
We are also in receipt of small grants from LCVS, Cobalt Housing, Awards for All, Hemby Trust, Riverside Housing and Merseyside Police Property Fund.
© MOWLL Ltd., 2011. Registered Charity No. 1129772.
