CP Learning Trust

🌱 We have a a fantastic heritage at risk craft coming to the Orchard. 🍎 Open for expressions of interest. We are looking for people who can commit to all the dates details below..

INTERESTED? PLEASE EMAIL TO BE ADDED TO THE REGISTER.

email Andrew at [email protected] to register your interest. Limited places available and if oversubscribed a draw will me made to allocate spaces.
Please only register if you can make all the dates:
9th July
13th August
10th September
8th October
12th November
10th December

🚜 Project Jack Update

🛠️ What’s coming soon?
In the new workshop, people will be able to get involved in:
• Vehicle restoration and light mechanics
• Tool skills and safe workshop practice
• Photography and project storytelling
• Teamwork, confidence‑building and community volunteering

No experience needed — just enthusiasm.

👉 Get involved
If you’d like to volunteer, learn or support the project, email Darren Barnes Project Co-ordinator at [email protected]

Land Rover Restoration- 'Project Jack' - C P Learning Trust at The Secret Garden Wisbech. Welle Film Productions have produced an information video for C P L...

The Wild Hub are looking for volunteers this Thursday 18th June 10am to help install the new pollinator pathway signs Fenland Orchards Project. If you can spare a few hours they'd be really grateful and it will make for a more engaging environment at the Orchard.

We need your help, on Thursday we will be setting in some new signs for our pollinator pathway, as well building benches and setting plants.

Fenland Orchard is a beautiful site and if you love being in nature please come and give us a hand.

Head to our website to find out more about the project.

https://f.mtr.cool/ztxljsdoae

🚜 Project Jack Update — A Big Step Forward!
Great progress today on Project Jack as the cement base for our new workshop was poured. The space is really taking shape, and we’re getting closer to opening up hands‑on learning opportunities for the community.

🛠️ What’s coming soon?
In the new workshop, people will be able to get involved in:
• Vehicle restoration and light mechanics
• Tool skills and safe workshop practice
• Photography and project storytelling
• Teamwork, confidence‑building and community volunteering

No experience needed — just enthusiasm.

🙌 Thank you
Huge thanks to Dig It Plant It PruneIt for giving up their time today, and to Mick George Group for the brilliant service and a delivery driver with very useful top tips. Your support is helping us build something special for Fenland. The Secret Garden for allowing us this opportunity to create a community restoration workshop. Shedders and Fixers for the tea and bacon roll making facilites. Barnes Barnes for all the hard work helping with the pour and of course our Project Coordinator.

👉 Get involved
If you’d like to volunteer, learn or support the project, email Darren Barnes at [email protected]

🎥📸 Videos and photos from today’s pour are below — Jack’s new home is on the way.

“You told us…” — celebrating your voices from our recent workshops
🌿 Over the past few months, we’ve been delivering Community Confidence Crafts & Green Skills workshops across Fenland and Peterborough — and you have told us just how much these sessions have meant.

Here’s just some of what you shared with us:

💬 “I loved meeting new people and learning new skills.”
💬 “Being here got me out of the house. I met new people, learnt new skills and feel part of something again.”
💬 “It was wonderful learning alongside different ages — we encouraged each other and it made me feel proud.”
💬 “I find it hard to mix with other people sometimes, but this was a great group… it made me feel good.”
💬 “History, heritage and how to weave — brilliant!”
💬 “I learnt a lot about soil, plants and seeds — thank you.”
💬 “I never thought I could do this… now I feel confident enough to learn more and even volunteer.”
💬 “Meeting new people… normally I’m at home alone, so it’s great to get out of the house.”
💬 “A real sense of success — that I can achieve things.”
💬 “Really good to get outside.”

Your words mean everything.
They help us understand what works, what matters, and how trusted, place‑based learning can change confidence, connection and wellbeing.

Thank you to every learner who shared their voice, their story and their courage.
You shape our programmes. You help us grow. And you remind us why community learning matters.

Watch this space for future workshop opportunities and updates.

🌿 **Celebrating Community Confidence Crafts & Green Skills across Fenland & Peterborough!** 🌿

We’re delighted to share the impact of our Community Confidence Crafts & Green Skills programme as we return our outcomes to funders. This work was made possible through **Adult Learning and Skills funding from Cambridgeshire Community Foundation and the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority**, and delivered in partnership with Housing, Cambridgeshire Libraries, Peterborough CVS Volunteering Page and The Oasis Community Centre, Wisbech .

Together, we brought learning right into the heart of communities*— places where people already feel safe, welcome and connected. Across Fenland and Peterborough, 57 adult learners, families, young people, carers and older residents took part in hands‑on craft, heritage and green‑skills sessions.

💬 “It was wonderful learning alongside different ages — we encouraged each other and it made me feel proud.”

Our trusted tutors offered gentle, individualised support that helped people grow confidence, reduce anxiety, build new skills and take meaningful next steps. Intergenerational learning was a real highlight — children, parents, older adults and carers learning side‑by‑side, creating, growing and reconnecting.

And we want to say a huge thank you to every participant who shared their experiences, reflections and honest feedback. Your voices shaped this programme, strengthened our understanding of what works, and helped us show funders the real human impact behind the numbers.

💬 “Being here got me out of the house. I met new people, learnt new skills and feel part of something again.”

From this programme, residents have already progressed into:

🎓 Further learning
🤝 Volunteering
💼 Work experience and employment pathways
🏡 Community involvement

Your courage, curiosity and commitment made these outcomes possible — and your feedback will help us continue to grow opportunities across Fenland and Peterborough.

This is why CP Learning Trust is so effective at supporting confidence building, Connect to Work and work experience opportunities — we work where people live, we understand their barriers, and we build trust that opens doors.

🌱 Together, we’re growing confidence, connection and community.

If you’d like to work with us, get in touch: **[email protected]**

We have:
🍏 A 3‑acre Heritage Orchard near Wisbech
🚗 A Land Rover Restoration Project in Fenland
🌿 A Community Garden
🏛️ Access to venues across Peterborough & Cambridgeshire

💚 A huge thank you.... and if you're interested in finding out more about the many volunteering opportunities available why not visit Volunteer Cambs or reach out to us to find out what's on offer @ Fenland Orchards Project and Project Jack Land Rover Restoration Project. It a great way to gain transferable skills and experience.

Great to have some more of 20TwentyProductions CIC Junior Naturalist at the Fenland Orchards Project with The Wild Hub today making the most of the sunshine ☀️

If you are planning on being outdoors over the bank holiday 🌞🕶️🚰