Learner Challenge Wokingham Awards presentation
The awards, held at Wokingham Borough Council’s Shute End offices on Friday, May 25, honoured both individual learners and groups who organise educational courses and were presented by new Wokingham Borough Mayor Cllr Annette Drake.
Awards were given to 21 individuals who had excelled on courses delivered in the Wokingham borough and to three community projects, each of which collected £250 for educational projects. The award winners were the Earley CResCent Centre, which organises adult learner courses, for its contribution to the voluntary sector, the Gorse Ride Learner Project, which introduced the seven residents who took part to the skills needed to set up and run a nail care and beauty businesses and the My Family Matters courses, which help families identified by the Wokingham borough’s primary schools as needing additional support.
Wokingham borough council also presented four overall learner awards, which were:
The E-Learner of the Year was Lucy Page, who has completed a LearnDirect BA Hons degree in social work. She received a voucher from LearnDirect to attend further courses.
The award for Outstanding Personal Achievement was won by Douglas Brennan, who took part in a course at the CResCent Resource Centre to retrain after an accident left him unable to do his previous job. He received a voucher from Bracknell and Wokingham College.
The award for Perseverance in Learning was won by Sarah Wellings, who took part in the My Family Matters course and is now undertaking an access course for midwifery. She won £40 donated by the Children’s Centre Programme Board.
The Overall Learner of the Year was Pat Regan, who undertook a crafts course as part of Bracknell and Wokingham College’s Take a Break carers project and subsequently set up a craft group of carers which meets once a month to make cards that are sold for charity. Her prize was dinner, bed and breakfast donated by the Cantley House Hotel in Wokingham.
Those attending the Wokingham awards also heard presentations from two learning projects; the Gorse ride Learning Project and the My Family Matters courses. Carol Endersby, community development manager at Bracknell and Wokingham College and Clare Denham, community development worker on the Gorse Ride estate, spoke about the Gorse Ride project. And Maureen Murzell and Anne Taplin spoke about the My Family Matters course. They also heard presentations from people who had taken part in courses.
Wokingham Mayor Cllr Annette Drake said: “It was a privilege to meet so many people who were obviously so dedicated to learning. Many of them had overcome great obstacles in their path to greater education and their awards are all thoroughly deserved. It was also lovely to meet many of the people who work hard to organise adult learner courses in the Wokingham borough and to be able to show my appreciation for their efforts.”
The Learner Challenge Awards were part of Adult Learners Week, a nationwide series of events organised by the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education to promote adult education.
Wokingham Borough Council
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