Fife Adult Learners' Awards a Huge Success

Fife Adult Learners Awards 2007 was Held in Rothes Halls on Wednesday 30th May. Despite a few glitches (there always are!!) the evening was a huge success. The importance of this kind of event for learners cannot be overstated, the self esteem levels in the hall increased by 200% at least and learners went home feeling that their hard work and effort was worthwhile.

2007 is the 10^th year the evening has been organised and we celebrated this landmark by ensuring the event was bigger and brighter then ever.  

The event presents an opportunity for learners, their families, mentors and tutors from throughout Fife to come together to celebrate the personal achievement made through learning.

This year there were 40 individuals and 11 groups nominated for awards including 6 individuals and one group automatically entered having won awards at the Fife Literacies event in February. The nominations came from a total of 20 organisations and learning centres throughout Fife. These were : Digital Fife; Cosmos Learning Centre; Careers Scotland; East Neuk Learning Centre; Templehall Learning Centre; Auchmuty Learning Centre; Cowdenbeath Library; Bowhill  Learning Centre; High Valleyfield  Learning Centre; Tryst Learning Centre; Parkgate Learning Centre; BRAG; Matrix; Buckhaven Learning Centre; Kirkcaldy YMCA; Elmwood College; Fife Woman's Technology Centre; Gingerbread; West Fife Enterprises; Kennoway Youth Café.

THE WINNERS

• Out The Box - for someone who is involved in a non-traditional area and was won by Joanne Thomson from Dalgety Bay.
• Mature Learner - as the title suggests this award is for someone over 55 years old. This years recipient was Nina Nobile from Inverkeithing.
• Workplace Learner - this award goes to someone learning in a workplace setting. Mary Stenhouse who works at Remploy in Cowdenbeath is our winner.
• IT - the award for achievement in the field of information and communication technology went to Robert Hunter from Lochgelly.
• Community - this award recognises achievement within the context of learning locally and in particular using newly learned skills to help their local community. Pauline Warsop from Gauldry collected this award.
• Individual - this is a general category for individual learners and was won by paula Dowie from Dunfermline. 
• Young Learner - for learners aged between 16 and 21 years. Michael Allan from Methil was chosen to receive this award.
• Group - the Group Award went to Glenrothes Gingerbread.