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		<title>COLLINGWOOD LEARNING ON BBC BREAKFAST</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Simes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Collingwood Learning’s founder and lead consultant John Simes was on the sofa on Saturday morning with BBC Breakfast presenters Lousise Minchin and Charlie Stayt. With his specialist knowledge of the government’s Free Schools programme the BBC called John in to debate progress with David Simmonds, Chair of the Local Government Association.
The discussion arose because of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Collingwood Supports Greenwich Free School Team To DfE Success!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Simes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GREENWICH FREE SCHOOL APPROVED BY DFE
Brilliant team supported by Collingwood Learning to make a difference for London students
Collingwood Learning is working with a small group of Free School projects. We are delighted to say that the first of these, Greenwich Free School, has been approved by the Department for Education and will open in September [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Knife Crime Project up for Youth Innovation Award!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Simes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been a great start to our academic year! Collingwood have launched our new Knife Crime theatre in education programme in schools in Wigan, working with Wigan Council. The tour went brilliantly, with some  of the best reactions we’ve ever had from students, teachers, and clients on a project. The result is that Graham from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Work for the Autumn</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 09:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Pulleyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it’s suddenly the summer term, and exams are kicking in. This is the time of year when the acting teams start returning from their UK travels, with glazed looks in their eyes! We have completed yet another fantastic ‘Smashed’ Responsible Drinking Project which visited 90 schools and reached 18,000 young people. No wonder they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Despots Tremble! John Runs For Amnesty International</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 11:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Simes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despots Tremble! Bald Fat Bloke Runs For Amnesty International
I doubt very much if Challaborough is an everyday topic of conversation in the despotic bunkers of regimes in Tehran, Damascus, Tripoli or Andijan (OK, it’s the capital of Uzbekistan ). In the light of what has been happening recently in Bahrain – far from being the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Smashed&#8217; Responsible Drinking Programme features on ITV Meridian Tonight</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Pulleyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As our &#8216;Smashed&#8217; programme has been touring around the South East, ITV Regional News rogramme &#8216;Meridian Tonight&#8217; broadcast a report about on the problems of underage drinking in the UK, and Collingwood&#8217;s efforts to educate young people with our &#8216;Smashed&#8217; Responsible Drinking Performance and workshop. The report gives a great overview of the whole project, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MP Enjoys ‘Smashed’</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Simes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well I am beginning to feel like this could be the start of a dazzling political career, after meeting my second MP in a month! We were delighted to welcome Mark Spencer, Member of Parliament for Sherwood to Holgate School, Hucknall, to see the ‘Smashed’ Responsible Drinking Education Programme.
Mark really enjoyed the performance and was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Award Winning Actors working for Collingwood!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Simes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just to further embarrass him I have to mention that Alex Moran, an actor on tour with Collingwood has just won a prestigious award! Alex won ‘Best Performance in a Studio Production’ for his performance in Tales from the Black Jack at the Lowry Studio. This is a great achievement for Alex, who certainly wowed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our &#8216;Smashed&#8217; Responsible Drinking Tour is back on the road!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Simes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a pleasure to welcome Jonathon Reynolds MP to Hyde Technology School, Tameside. Jonathon came to view Collingwood’s ‘Smashed’ responsible drinking programme, which is currently touring the area as part of an 88 school tour, across the UK. It was a brilliant session, delivered by Caroline, our Team Leader, along with Graeme Atkin, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Positive reactions to our Surrey Yr11 Road Safety Play</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Pulleyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, only two days into our Road Safety tour for Yr 11 students around Surrey, and we&#8217;ve already received some brilliant responses about the play and workshop.
An email from a teacher at the first school we visited:

I just wanted to thank you and your young actors for today’s performance- it was so powerful that after [...]]]></description>
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