Linking – Global Schools Partnerships
Contacts
The YHGSA is working with a number of Local Authorities in the region to support school linking partnerships and there may be a local authority officer who has responsibility for supporting partnerships in your local area, check with your Local Council. For details of which Local Authorities are involved in the YHGSA’s North South Partnerships Scheme see the contacts below.
North-South School Partnerships Service
YHGSA North South Linking Coordinator
Chrissie Dell
Centre for Global Education York
York St John University
Lord Mayor’s Walk
York YO31 7EX
Telephone 01904 876755
Email c.dell@yorksj.ac.uk
Liz Roodhouse
Craven DEC
Email:liz@croodhouse.freeserve.co.uk
Alison Huntley
Leeds DEC
Telephone: 0113 380 5655
Email: alison@leedsdec.co.uk
Rob Unwin
DEC South Yorkshire
Telephone: 0114 241 2754
Email: rob.unwin@decsy.org.uk
Local Authority and Education Authority contacts
These people are managing the North-South School Partnerships Service in their LEA or Local Authority, or can offer support on Linking.
East Riding
Yvette Fox
Curriculum Project Manager for Multicultural Education and Global Citizenship
School Improvement Service Skirlaugh Council Offices, Main Road, Skirlaugh,
East Riding of Yorkshire, HU11 5HN
Tel: 01482 392436
E -mail: yvette.fox@eastriding.gov.uk
Hull
Jo Harding
Children and Young People Services,
Essex House, Manor Street,
Hull, HU1 1YD
Tel 01482 613781
schoolslinking@dechull.karoo.co.uk
Kirklees
Dick Palfrey
Kirklees School Effectiveness Service
Deighton Centre
Deighton Rd
Huddersfield
HD2 1JP
Email dick.palfrey@kirklees.gov.uk
Leeds
Jenny Hill
International Relations,
Leeds Civic Hall
Leeds
Tel 0113 247 5325
Email jenny.hill@leeds.gov.uk
North Yorkshire
Rebecca Mason
Senior Adviser (Inclusion & Equalities)
County Hall, Northallerton, DL7 8AE
Tel 01609 532654
Email rebecca.mason@northyorks.gov.uk
Wakefield
Jonathon Cooper
Wakefield INSET Centre
Woolley Hall
Wakefield
Tel 01226 392330
Email jcooper@wakefield.gov.uk
Other Useful Contacts
UKOWLA
UKOWLA is a charity which encourages communities in the UK to develop
links with communities in the ‘South’ (e.g. Africa, Asia,
Latin America, the Caribbean). UKOWLA supports those communities in the
UK that have such links through national and regional meetings, workshops,
training programmes and the production of a newsletter "One World
Linking".
UK One World Linking Association
UKOWLA, The GLADE Centre,
Frog Lane,
Ilminster,
Somerset TA19 0AP
Tel: 01460 55449
E -mail: info@ukowla.org.uk
Cambridge Education
Demeter House, Station Road
Cambridge, CB1 2RS
Website: www.camb-ed.com/cef.htm
