2005 AND WE'RE CELEBRATING TEN YEARS!

Tower Hamlets Summer University is Celebrating 10 Years

Since its pilot in '95, Tower Hamlets Summer University (THSU) has gone from strength to strength and has always kept young people at its heart. Over 9000 unique individuals have attended our activities since 1996. We have attracted over £3.5m of non local authority funding into the borough. We have inspired over 16 London boroughs and many local authorities around Britain, both urban and rural, to run their own Summer Uni programmes. Each year THSU has achieved so much and we are looking forward to the next ten years as we know we can achieve so much more.

In the past ten...

• 1996
  THSU won the Commission for Racial Equality Award for excellence and innovation in promoting racial equality and for their delivery of services to culturally diverse communities. It was the first such award Tower Hamlets won in this area of community relations.
• 1997
  THSU and 'A' Team Arts represent Tower Hamlets in the London Weekend Television Talent Challenge, sponsored by Deloitte & Touche
• 1998
  THSU takes part in the Thames Festival for the first time
• 1999
  THSU partners with 'A' Team Arts, representing the borough in the Millennium Dome celebration event McDonalds Our Town Story, culminating in 2000
• 2000
  THSU receive one of the first three year grants from the New Opportunities Fund, launching the Junior Summer Uni programme and new partnerships with schools across the borough
• 2001
  THSU successfully completes two great projects, the Millennium Awards Scheme which ran from 1997, starting in Tower Hamlets and expanding across London and the country; and Skillswork, a three year out of school cultural industries project benefiting young people in Tower Hamlets, Lewisham, Greenwich, Newham and Bexley. Dizzee Rascal was one of these young people.
• 2002
  THSU achieves Quality in Study Support recognition as an Established Centre for Out of School Hours Learning
• 2003
  THSU won a Marks & Spencer British Community Safety Award, run in conjunction with Crime Concern
• 2004
  Three short films made by THSU students were joint winners of the Guy Ritchie Film Making Competition
• 2005
  THSU project Unboxed wins a Wavemakers Award

To find out more about our acheivements and other things taking place at THSU check out the
What's happening section.