Kirklees Adult Learners' Awards 2024
The Kirklees Adult Learners' Awards celebrate the achievements of exceptional individuals who have shown outstanding passion, commitment and drive to improve themselves, their community or workplace through learning, often in the face of difficult circumstances.
The awards ceremony will take place on 10th October 2024 at the University of Huddersfield.
About our awards
We are looking for nominations for people whose learning achievements will inspire others to return to or take up learning, people who have improved their lives and/or the lives of others and gained a positive or life changing experience from adult learning.
Eligibility criteria
- Adult learners must be over 19 years old.
- They must live in Kirklees.
- Any learning activity must have taken place within the last 12-18 months.
Nomination categories
- Outstanding learner of the year
- New directions/Career change
- Apprentice of the year
- Learning for work/employment
- Volunteer of the year
- Most significant contribution to the community
- Overcoming barriers
- English language learner
- Return to learning
- Numeracy learner
- Other
Informing the nominee
It is recommended that you inform the learner that you have nominated them for an award. We will contact all nominees via email once winners have been selected. Winners will be invited to attend the ceremony in October. We would like to share some information about the learner's journey at the awards ceremony and in promotional material. Learner consent will be collected once winners have been selected.
Nominating learners
Anyone can nominate a learner providing they are not a family member.
Deadline for nominations is 12 noon Monday 24th June 2024.
Submit a person for nomination
To submit a person for a nomination for an award, please complete our online form below.
Submit a nomination
Clock Submitting a nomination takes around 15 minutes
- Entries are free and open to individuals and organisations living/based in Kirklees.
- Learning can be accredited or non-accredited and take place in any setting, from workplace to classroom, in the home or in the community.
- Anyone aged 19 or over can nominate/be nominated for a Kirklees Adult Learners' Award.
- Entrants must be nominated by another person - this could be a friend, mentor, colleague or employer who is well known to the individual nominated.
- Your application will only be judged on the information you provide in your entry.
- Learning must have taken place during the last 12-18 months.
- We would encourage nominations from underrepresented areas.
Ensure that you have received permission from the nominee to nominate them
The nomination closing date is Monday 24th June at 12 noon.
Nominate a learnerAfter you've applied
All nominees and nominators will be contacted by email in July.
All winners and winning nominators will be invited to the awards event.
Adult Learning Kirklees will contact all winners to check eligibility and accuracy of information supplied on the nomination forms.
Adult Learning Kirklees will contact all winners to review consent for sharing information.
Selection process
- A panel of judges will select the final category of awards and winners.
- All winners will be notified by the Adult Learning Team of Kirklees Council during July.