Resources
We have lots of unique materials and hundreds of authentic items and artefacts that can bring global learning to life, all available to borrow or download for free. GLADE’s very wide range of hands-on resource collections and boxes to borrow, bring topics and themes to life. Materials are available for all-ages, with advice and suggestions for selecting best options for your education setting, workplace, interest group or social hub.
Global Bites to CONNECT-CHALLENGE-CHANGE
Global Resource Loans - "Borrow a Box"
Our resource library includes books, posters, leaflets, artefacts and photo-packs, curated for your convenience into boxes and collections. There are activity suggestions, notes on content and context, guidance and top tips, making it possible to use the collections and boxes with little knowledge of the country they focus on, heritage context, or interfaith themes. Use them as a global resource for curiousity, start new conversations and for building skills for all-age learning; skills for reflection, analysis, observation, presentation, discussion, sharing, in an imaginative and creative way. Deepening their knowledge and understanding and gaining multiple perspectives of the world and their place in it.
Costs for borrowing any of the Themed Collections, Country Collections and Heritage Boxes are:
1 week loan £10 – borrower collects
1 month loan £30
2 month loan £45
Climate Action Resources and Campaign
The GLADE Centre (CODEC) has been collaborating with Reboot the Future on teaching guides to accompany a series of short films – following the lives of five young people who, over the next five years, each play a role in rebooting the future. The guides suggest activity to support discussion with teenagers, to ignite a sense of optimism, tap into their imagination and creativity, and inspire them with positive and personal ways of engaging in climate action. View resources and short films
Speak Out for Climate Action - SDG 13
The GLADE Centre has put together this Climate Change challenge to encourage people to Speak Out about the climate crises. We help CONNECT, CHALLENGE & CHANGE with a series of resources and activities for use with teenagers, families and community groups. The idea came about after being a partner in a funded project with colleagues at Leeds DEC (CODEC).
Global Youth Action case study
Global-focused youth work encourages young people to have a critical understanding of the links and connections between “personal, local & global” issues, events and priorities. It seeks their active involvement, ownership and helps them recognise they have a voice to bring about change for greater equity, justice and a more sustainable future.
We provide workshops and materials to help youth work practitioners:
CONNECT young people to the global issues that matter to them. We support them to make the links between the personal, local and global, and to connect with peers who share their passions and concerns.
Encourage young people to CHALLENGE themselves, to gain a more critical understanding of the world around them, and to challenge inequality and injustice and recognise they have agency.
Support young people to plan, have ownership and take action to bring about positive CHANGE towards a more just and sustainable world, for People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace, Partnership.
Top Tips for Educational School Partnerships - updated 2026
To help teachers with school partnerships, The GLADE Centre has drawn together some of our top tips around how to keep a school partnership active. Booklet download:
