Activate Learning is a very large general further education group located across the counties of Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Surrey. It is made up of seven colleges: Banbury and Bicester College, Bracknell and Wokingham College, City of Oxford College, Farnham College, Guildford College, Merrist Wood College and Reading College. There is also a technical centre at Blackbird Leys in Oxford. Most college campuses offer courses across a very broad range of subject areas. Merrist Wood College offers specialist land-based courses for young people, adults and apprentices. Farnham College offers A levels and a small vocational provision. The college has learners of all ages studying on courses from entry level up to level 5. The largest subject area in the college is preparation for life and work. Other very large subject areas include health, public services and care; arts, media, and publishing; business, administration and law; and science and mathematics. At the time of the inspection, there were 7,678 learners on study programmes, 4,196 learners on adult learning programmes and 1,832 apprentices. There were 830 learners in receipt of high needs funding. Activate Learning works with five subcontractors.