Ron Davis Centre Expansion

The expansion of the Sandwell Adult and Family Learning Service (SAFL) Ron Davis Centre, providing two additional specialised digital classrooms.

This scheme is complete!

The Ron Davis Centre Expansion project is part of the Smethwick Towns Fund Programme and delivered an extension providing two new classrooms, completed in August 2023. The construction of the expansion was completed by local company, E Manton Building Contractors, who are based in Birmingham.

The expansion of the Ron Davis Centre will increase capacity, provide a wider range of services and activities, often into the evenings and weekends, to help meet the needs of Smethwick families and the wider community. In creating a vibrant community hub through the provision of additional multipurpose space, closer working with partner organisations is realised, with a wider and more inclusive age range of users.

In creating a vibrant community hub through the provision of additional multipurpose spaces, the Ron Davis Centre will be able to work more closely with partner organisations to access the facilities and enable work with a wider and more inclusive age range. SAFL will provide:

• Adult Learning activities
• Family learning inter-generational activities
• Access to the site for school pupils at all ages and levels
• Access to the site for Youth Services
• Comprehensive Information, Advice and Guidance to all ages
• Active targeting of careers advice to groups at risk / less represented in opportunities; those in alternative provision; BAME; care leavers; offenders; home educated and at risk of becoming NEET 

For more information, visit www.learnsafl.ac.uk.

Key deliverables

• 21 temporary Full Time jobs supported during project delivery
• 1 Full Time Equivalent permanent job created as a result of the project
• 2 new classrooms constructed
• Target of assisting 1,100 learners over 5 academic years