About
The UFA is a national education charity. Since 1996 we have worked with over 750,000 young people and 6,000 adults in 50 regions, to create inspiring learning for all. UFA has also worked with teachers and young people in Jamaica and Australia. Founded in Birmingham by Professor Tim Brighouse we work with young people aged 5 to 25.
The UFA network unlocks the potential of young people.
We raise aspirations across schools, homes and communities by creating transformational learning experiences.
We inspire and equip young people and the adults that support them to become confident individuals, successful learners and responsibile leaders.
The UFA explores imaginative approaches to training in order to engage teachers and other professionals, parents, carers, community organisations and businesses in transforming their own learning practice. From this training we create learning teams of the adults and young people with whom we work.
UFA means
- I take charge of my own learning
- I value learning with others
- I am curious and enjoy learning for its own sake
- I can transfer learning to different contexts
- I can be comfortable with complexity and subtlety
- I can thrive on challenge and seek creative solutions
- I am resilient and resourceful
- I am open and generous
- I am reflective
- I act ethically
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Donations
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I Belong to the UFA
I belong to a learning community called the UFA; I am able to take part in a range of learning opportunities and training. I know where I see the UFA logo it means that people will believe in me and help me to develop my potential as a learner and as a leader. I can learn in different places; at home, in and out of school and in my community. I can be part of a trained learning team where I can teach and learn from other people who bring a wide range of experience. The UFA helps me to have a greater understanding of how I learn and how I can be more creative, confident, resilient, curious and enterprising, so that I can face and reflect upon new challenges in my life. The UFA recognises and celebrates my learning.
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Visiting Us?
Are you coming to see us? If you want to download a map or get detailed instructions on how to find us, you can do so here.
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Contact Us
If what you have read on our website has whetted your appetite and you want to talk your ideas over with a member of our team, get in touch with us here.
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Meet the team
At the UFA we are extremly lucky to have a group of highly skilled, creative and dedicated indivduals working for us. Find out more about who they are, what their role is in the UFA and which one of them has an unswerving passion for biscuits.
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