# Scottish Wider Access Programme - East(Swap East)

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC026180
- **Known as:** SWAP East
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Unincorporated association
- **Registered:** Feb. 19, 1997
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC026180


## Contact

- **Address:** 5 Roxburgh Street, Edinburgh
- **Postcode:** EH8 9TA
- **Website:** www.swap-east.ed.ac.uk



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of education&#x27;

**What the charity does:** SWAP East is a partnership of fourteen colleges and twelve universities in the East of Scotland. Our function is “to promote the advancement of adults into education, with a particular focus on those from widening access backgrounds&#x27;. We use tailored, quality-approved, access programmes delivered by college partners across a broad curriculum to support the progression of adults with few or no qualifications into higher education. We promote and facilitate access to higher education for adult learners, providing quality-assured programmes, tailored to the needs of adult learners that deliver dedicated pathways into higher education. We develop the abilities of our students through the provision of tailored information, advice and guidance (IAG) before, during and after their time as a SWAP student and advocate for adult learners within the Scottish Education sector, promoting their success to highlight related social justice, equality and diversity issues.

**Objectives:** The aim of the group will be to promote the advancement of adults into education, with a focus on adults from widening access backgrounds, by means of access programmes specifically tailored to enable them to progress onto higher education. In furtherance of this aim we may/shall:  2.1 Continue to work as a partnership of colleges and universities to promote the education of adults and to work with and alongside other organisations committed to adult education.     2.2 Provide accessibility of educational opportunities for adults to move in to higher education by means of coherent, effective pathways and quality programmes.  2.3 Promote the success of SWAP students and develop their talents to help SWAP’s work in widening access to education.  2.4 Highlight social justice and work with wider initiatives to promote equality and diversity within further and higher education.





## Areas of operation

- **Main operating location:** City of Edinburgh
- **Geographical spread:** More than one local authority area in Scotland






