Gill and Hayley both received British Empire Medals for Learn for Life Enterprise in the New Year’s Honours List and were invited by the Queen to attend a Buckingham Palace Garden Party last week. Below are a few photos from the day.

We are delighted to announce that we are finalists in the Digital Leaders 100 list. You can vote for Learn for Life Enterprise in the “Digital Skills or Inclusion Initiative of the Year” category. Simply by clicking here,  enter your email address, scroll down for “Learn for Life Enterprise” and click on the tick. Thank you for your support! 

On Friday evening Gill and Hayley were presented with Civic Awards at Sheffield Town Hall by the Lord Mayor. A few volunteers from Learn for Life came along to the event at the Lord Mayor’s Parlour. where we all had tea and cake. Gill and Hayley both received certificates and a small gift. Below is a photo from the evening. More can be seen on our Facebook page by clicking here.

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.