Leeds Development Education Centre is a small educational NGO, set up by Oxfam in 1978 to promote a greater understanding of global development issues to young people and adults.

It employs around 8 people and has a strong tradition of volunteer workers. Though based in Leeds the DEC seeks to support teachers and youth workers across West Yorkshire to bring the global dimension to their work.

The Centre has gained a reputation for publishing innovative learning resources in partnership with local educators, national development agencies and social justice organisations in the South.

What we do:

Leeds DEC has a Resource Centre comprising a bookshop, library, and mail order services, providing a wide range of books, photopacks, activity packs, posters, handbooks, CD-ROMS, videos, games and simulations. The library also includes a set of artefact boxes containing everyday objects from different cultures, and a set of primary topics for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2.

We provide INSET on Citizenship and the Global Dimension, Race Equality, PSHCE and Sustainable Development.

Leeds DEC works with local educators to devise and publish new learning materials for teachers and youth workers. The Centre also publishes Guidance Documents for teachers that identify the good practice that schools could use to bring a Global Dimension to their educational provision

Contact Us

Tel: 0113 380 5655
Fax: 0113 380 5656

or by email at: resources@leedsdec.org.uk

For more information please see: www.leedsdec.org.uk