You can see an interview with Hayley and classes in action at Learn for Life Enterprise in the English My Way video below. English My Way is a community-based English language project, developed by Good Things Foundation in partnership with the BBC and the British Council, to support adults with no or low levels of English language skills.

We had a small party to celebrate all the great things about learning English and English My Way last Friday at Learn for Life. Below are a few of the photos. More can be seen on our Facebook page by clicking here.

Thank you to Tickets For Good for donating X Factor Live Tour tickets to Learn for Life Enterprise last Friday. Everyone had a great time!

We have a new buddy, Kinyambu Library, in Kenya

We are now twinned with Kinyambu Library in Kenya through the Online Centre Network with the Good Things Foundation. We are all very excited about our new buddy Library and look forward to getting to know them. Yesterday our Creative Writing class wrote a poem for the Library which will be taken to Nairobi on Friday this week:

Postcard from Sheffield

Today when the sun is shining in Kinyambu,

all the people in Sheffield are shivering,

snow is coating the pavements, the roofs like cotton fields,

and snowflakes are playing with our hair and settling on the bare branches of the trees.

Meanwhile we are sitting together in Learn for Life,

wrapped up against the cold in the warmth of our shared goal,

of boosting our friendship into the future,

by creating this poem for you.

By Babiker, Don, Fatima, Gamal, Gill, Xiu  (from the Learn for Life Enterprise creative writing class)

You can see Kinyambu Library on a map of Kenya by clicking here.

Below is some information from Good Things Foundation about Kinyambu Library:

Gill and Hayley have each been selected to receive a Civic Award by the Lord Mayor of Sheffield. The Award letter states it is in recognition for their “valuable service to the community”. The Civic Award is to acknowledge the outstanding work carried out by the citizens of Sheffield to help other members of the community. They have both been invited to attend an awards ceremony in the Lord Mayor’s Parlour in April.

Every fortnight we are running a CV drop in session at Learn for Life from 12:30 – 2:30 on a Monday. The sessions are one to one with a CV writing specialist. from Prospects. If you would like to book a 20 minute appointment slot please email info@learnforlifeenterprise.com, drop into Learn for Life or phone us on 01142559080. 

The dates of the next 5 sessions are:

26th February
12th March
26th March
9th April
23rd April

They will continue running every 2 weeks after this date.

We will be starting our new Childcare course on 12th April. If you would like to join please send us an email to: info@learnforlifeenterprise.com 

The New Beginnings team from the Volunteer Centre will be at Learn for Life every 2 weeks starting Friday 2nd February at 12.30pm. They specialise in helping refugees and asylum seekers to find volunteer work to improve their employability skills in the UK.

We are very pleased to announce that Gill and Hayley have been awarded British Empire Medals on the New Year’s Honour List. They are featured on the front page of the Sheffield Star today and the article can be read online here.

Gill and Hayley will be awarded their medals by the Lord Lieutenant later in the year and then will be attending a Royal Garden Party at Buckingham Palace.

They were on BBC Radio Sheffield Breakfast this morning, Hayley is also on Hallam FM on their hourly news bulletin. They will also be on national BBC Radio 4’s PM between 5 – 5:30 this evening.