Winner of the 2012 BT Community Connections Plus Award

G2G communities CIC has been informed that it is the all Wales winner of the 2012 BT Community Connections Plus Award. Out of 160 centres 40 from across the UK were selected to go into the final award. G2G Communities CIC was awarded the outright winner for Wales and will receive a small sum of funding which it will use to purchase equipment and resources that can be taken out into rural areas for ICT/Digital Photography and a range of other courses. Well done to Moira (CEO), Jenny (Learner support) and all the learners that provided case studies for the award.

One of our learners said ‘I really enjoy the time I spend at the unit in the cause of completing LearnDirect courses. I look forward to doing other courses at G2G and would certainly recommend this style of adult learning in Rhyl to one and all!’ View more case studies from our learners.

G2G COMMUNITIES CIC, RHYL, WALES The Office for National Statistics announced that unemployment figures in the UK are at their highest in 17 years . This is evident in Rhyl in Wales, which was named the ‘unemployment capital of Wales’ by the Daily Post in 2011 . The issue of mass unemployment in Rhyl is being directly addressed by community organisation, G2G Communities. G2G is attempting to tackle unemployment by offering tailored ICT training to help get individuals back into jobs or even to start their own businesses.

Spring has sprung and congratulations to our digital photography learners Andy, Ann, Dion, Elliot, Helen, Howard, Janette, Jillian, Reece, Rob & Simon who attended and passed our OCN Accredited Digital Photography Course.

Below are montages highlighting photographs and work learners undertook from the 4 lessons. For more information go to the accredited digital photography course page, to view the range of courses G2G have on offer visit our course dates page.

You can watch these and more by visiting videos on the right hand menu. A selection of photographs will be uploaded to our photo album shortly.

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Thank you to everyone that attended our introduction to animation course - everyone had a great time, brilliant animations were made in such a short space of time.

We used stop motion which is an animation technique to make objects appear to move by themselves. Objects are moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence.

• Watch the video of what our learners produced - Introduction to Animation, March 2012
• Find out information about the course - Introduction to Animation
• Check out our course dates - Our Courses

We ran our opening First Aid and CPR course on the 27th February delivered by our Registered Practicing Nurse and Tutor Emily Rushton. Despite being a serious subject everyone had a good time and really got into the swing of things while learning the fundamentals of First Aid and CPR. Some feedback provided was:

Janette "A very informal, fun day." Dion "Emily was fantastic. Getting to her points very well." Alison "G2G have helped me to gain confidence, meet new friends, gain qualifications and to achieve things I hadn’t even thought about doing."

We would like to say a BIG THANK YOU to St John Ambulance for their kind donation of an adult resuscitation dummy which helped to make our Introduction to First Aid and CPR course possible.
For more information about the St John Ambulance you can visit their website www.sja.org.uk.

You can find other Introduction to First Aid and CPR courses we're running or for information about other G2G Courses available visit Our Courses page.