Are you a teacher or LEA advisor? Do you have a Tolkien-based e-learning, programme or other project that you'd like to develop? Would you like to develop your skills – particularly consultation and partnership skills, and resource production.

Funding of up to £1,000 is available for you to spend 3 days or more working with the Tolkien Society Archive to make it more accessible, in or out of school hours!

Learning Links is a teacher and museum/archive professional placement scheme funded by the Department for Education & Skills, Department for Culture, Media & Sport, and Museum, Library & Archive Council and run by SEMLAC. It is one of a number of activities to be undertaken to develop an entitlement for teachers and children to high quality museum/archive education. It seeks to support the South East Hub's strategic priority to develop a comprehensive service to schools.

The placement must take place before February 2006. Priority will be to schools developing an 'extended school' profile. For more information on extended schools see:

www.teachernet.gov.uk/wholeschool/extendedschools. If interested, there are further details at www.semlac.org.uk, and you can contact the archivist, Pat Reynolds who can also help with preparing the application to SEMLAC: archives@tolkiensociety.org.

Other funding streams may be identified to support placements for teachers, exending beyond the current financial year.