A BUS equipped with eight computers is to bring internet access to the residents of Bromley after getting £90,000 of funds.

The money, awarded by the London South Learning and Skills Council, will pay for computers, IT trainers and drivers.

The bus is one of three projects run by the Bromley Lifelong Learning Partnership to get money from the London South LSC.

Ros Malcolm, in charge of the project, said: "The bus is aimed at children through to adults and will initially travel to some of the housing estates in Penge, Anerley, Mottingham, The Crays and Biggin Hill.

"Its purpose is to stimulate people's learning in their own localities."

The bus is one of three projects run by the Bromley Lifelong Learning Partnership to benefit from money from the London South LSC.

The other two projects are the Mottingham Learning Centre, awarded £28,500 for a one-stop neighbourhood learning shop, and REAL Opportunities, which was given £68,000 to help integrate refugee communities in Penge and Anerley.

Broomleigh Housing Assocation, in Orpington High Street, gets £81,000 for its Learners in Sheltered Housing project, which will set up IT facilities in the communal rooms of 10 sheltered housing schemes, introducing IT to the over-50s.

Studio Beckenham, in Beckenham Road, Beckenham, receives £50,000 for its Studio Landscape project, giving unemployed people in Anerley and Penge the chance to gain skills in landscape design and take part in the development of community gardens.

August 7, 2001 10:28