Lizard Outreach Trust

Lizard Outreach Trust is a registered charity (no.1069238) dedicated to providing Study Support and Out-of-School-Hours learning opportunities to young people on the Lizard Peninsula in the far south of Cornwall in the U.K.

Lizard Outreach Trust

Stable Cottage

Polcoverack Farm

Coverack

Cornwall

TR12 6SP

(t): : +44 (0) 1326 280407

(e): info@lizardoutreachtrust.org

(w): www.lizardoutreachtrust.org

Contacts: Maggie Roberts (manager)

A Youth or Adult? Project 2007-2012 [JRT]

The Trust's purpose is to improve young people's motivation, build their self-esteem and help them to become more effective learners. Above all it aims to raise achievement employability.

The participation of older people as volunteers or as students provides an invaluable inspiration by raising awareness of the value and potential of life-long learning.

Lizard Outreach Trust provides transport and learning activities which are relevant to the local community and which also provide social opportunities for meeting and making friends, free of charge. Activities are open to all, but some are highlighted to individuals whose need and interest may be served by them. There are ten schools on the Lizard, nine small village primaries and one small comprehensive. Settlements are scattered and population density is low. Opportunities for out-of-school hours learning are limited due to lack of facilities on the peninsula e.g. no swimming pool, sports hall, theatre, and infrequent public transport.

The Lizard Peninsula, lying in the extreme south-west of the United Kingdom is an isolated, rural area. With the sea on three sides and the Helford River to the north the Lizard Peninsula is almost an island - a high plateau surrounded by sea and studded with numerous coves and beaches.

There are no towns, just a collection of scattered coastal and inland villages. Most of the peninsula has been declared as a site of special scientific interest or is owned by the National Trust and as a result it has remained mostly unchanged and unspoilt.

Joseph Rank Trust

The Lizard Outreach Trust with the support of the Joseph Rank Trust was able to appoint new youth worker. They will assist the trustees in creating and new, exciting and innovative projects and activities in the future. The worker will be working with young people on the Lizard to empower them to organise activities that will be open to all.