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Are you thinking of starting or have you just started your own business? Do you need a food safety and hygiene certificate? Then G2G Communities CIC could provide the following free of charge. Food safety & hygiene level 2 for catering (including city and guilds certification) HOW MUCH DOES IT COST? If you are unemployed and thinking of starting, or …

On Thursday 20th and Friday 21st G2G Communities CIC in partnership with Min Y Ddol School in Wrexham delivered two days of LEGO Education around Wind/Solar energy and the WeDo Education kits. The Family learning sessions received some great feedback from the parents, children, staff and Head Teacher. Over 35 pupils and parents took part over the two days and …

G2G Communities CIC has been working in close collaboration with Wrexham Communities First to deliver a range of exciting and innovative learning opportunities to people of all ages and family learning sessions. On Monday 17th February G2G Communities CIC was pleased to be asked to take part in the ‘New Year New You’ NIACE Learning Festival at Rhosymedre School. It was …

Due to the funding of the LEGO Community Education Innovation project from Cyfenter/Menter Mon G2G Communities CIC has so far been able to reach over 250 families/children/adults in some of the highest areas of deprivation in North Wales. G2G Communities CIC has also been able extended its partnerships to Wrexham; Conwy and Flintshire Communities First teams and County/Borough Councils. Links …

On Friday 31 January parents and children finished their scenery and produced stop/start animations using the I pad to celebrate Chinese New Year. Lots of fun and well done to you all. Look out for the video next week. Thanks for the support from Conwy County Borough Council, Ysgol Y Foryd, Parents, Children, staff and volunteers at G2G Communities CIC. …

A few weeks ago at the Family Learning session parents and pupils at Ysgol Y Foryd built LEGO clocks for the countdown to Chinese New Year. They then started to build the scenery to do some stop/start animation using the School I pads using the Chinese New Year as their theme.   You can view the full gallery here.

Some of the learners at the very successful Jewellery making course run at Urban Villages Communities First in Wrexham. Thanks to the Communities First Urban Village Team, G2G Staff Sarah and Janette and of course the learners for making this event such a success.

On Monday 13 January G2G Communities CIC worked with pupils from Cornist Park School in Flint to develop their programming skills. They used the LEGO kits to build various models. They then programmed the Lego models on laptops to make different movements and sounds. Take a look at the videos below!

To celebrate the New Year G2G Communities CIC is offering not only free course and qualifications to people in Conwy and Denbighshire starting (or just started) their own business but also the opportunity of a free Web site and Social networking page. We can also train you to update and manage these yourself thus considerably reducing the cost. See the …

The ‘Hour of Code’ initiative reached over 10 million people http://codeorg.tumblr.com/post/69791914096/10million and G2G Communities CIC staff joined in the celebration by programming the Raspery Pi and other devices including LEGO robots. Nadine, Michelle and Sarah really got into the swing of things by having a ‘dress as a geek week’ and pushing their skills to the limit. Well done to you …