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Adult Learners’ Week (19 – 25 June 2017)

18:00, Monday, 19 June 2017

Tewkesbury

Adult Learners’ Week (19 – 25 June 2017) is an annual campaign which celebrates and promotes adult learning opportunities. Now in over 55 countries worldwide, its intention in Wales is to signpost the huge variety of courses available to the adult learner, and to prompt adults across the country into returning to learning. Each year, over 10,000 adults in Wales participate in Adult Learners’ Week activities. This is achieved by working with a host of private and public organisations on the promotion of free taster events, local outreach activities and short courses.

Are you organising an event for Adult Learners’ Week? You can upload your event here, please contact nisha.patel@learningandwork.org.uk if you have any queries.

There will be plenty of ways you can get involved and we hope you’re already thinking about the inspirational learners, employers and projects you could nominate for an Inspire! Award, or different have a go events you could organise. Thank you for your incredible support for Adult Learners’ Week 2016!  We enjoyed a fantastic campaign and as a result:

There were a total of 300 have-a-go events with 10,300 participants
61% agreed that “as a result of Adult Learners’ Week/Festival of Learning I feel excited about learning”
51% of people agreed that “Adult Learners’ Week/Festival of Learning has given me more confidence”
58% of people agreed that “Parents who engage in leraning find that their children perform better at school”
59% intend on taking up learning in the next three years

Basepoint are committed to developing their staff and Centre Manager Claire Vagges has recently completed her ILM 5. We would like to hear from you about how your business develops staff. We would like to share your news on our website. We are therefore running a  competition for all of our licensees. Please submit a 'learning at work' success story to us and the best ones will be published on our website. We will also choose one clear winner who will receive a bottle of champagne. All entries to tewkesbury@basepoint.co.uk. Deadline is 25th June 2017 to coincide with the end of Adult Learners Week. Word limit on entries is 500 words. Please also supply a photo you are happy for us to publish.