infed (the informal education homepage) was established in 1995 as an open, independent and not-for-profit site.
Put together by a small group of educators, it is now accessed around 5 million times a year.
Our aim is to provide a space for people to explore the theory and practice of informal education and social action learning. We want to encourage educators and animateurs to develop ways of working and being that foster association, conversation and relationship.
The site is run on a not-for-profit basis. Access to our pages is free and open to all. We are part of pdru, independent and funded by individual contributions. We carry no advertising, nor do any of our links to other sites involve sponsorship or payment to us.
We are endorsed by various sites and have won commendations from organizations like Encyclopaedia Britannica, Adult Learning Australia, the Study Web and Schoolzone. We are part of the new British Library archiving project and a number of the pages are included on the UNESCO/NCVER voced database and on SOSIG (the Social Science Information Gateway). Over 1100 sites link to us (including the BBC, Channel 4, The Guardian and various educational institutions - for example: Harvard, MIT, and the Open University).
The homepage is edited by Mark K. Smith. Michele Erina Doyle and Tony Jeffs also help to compile the archives and encyclopaedia.
We can be contacted at infed.org/pdru, c/o 39 Monnow Road, Bermondsey, London SE1 5RP (e) info@infed.org; (t) 44 020 7540 4929
