Life Education Centre

The object of Life Education Centres is:

"To provide young people with an awareness of themselves and the workings of the human body so that they may gain the skills, knowledge and the self confidence to enable them to make healthy choices about their future, especially in relation to drug abuse."

Life Education Centres (LEC) is a registered charity that has grown rapidly to become one of the leading national voluntary sector providers of primary health and drug prevention programmes in the UK. Specially equipped mobile classrooms are used to educate more than 750 000 children each year in their own communities. Programmes are presented by specially trained Educators and conform to the National Curriculum for pupils aged 5 to 14, adopting a child-centred holistic approach.

LECs were first established in Australia in 1979 and introduced to Great Britain in 1986 by HRH Prince of Wales.

In Shepway, the four Rotary Clubs (Channel, Folkestone, Hythe and Romney Marsh) are aiming to raise around £90 000 to purchase a Life Education mobile classroom for the district, which would enable all the primary schools in the area to benefit from this vital resource. The cost of the Educator for the first year would be funded by the Rotary Clubs, after which it is hoped that the annual running expenses would be taken on by the schools themselves.

For more information about this local initiative, please contact the Chairman of the Community Service Committee by clicking here.

For more information about Life Education Centres in general, please visit the organisation's website, www.lifeeducation.org.uk