Make Learning Irresistible
The WEA is facing an uncertain future as government has decided to end its funding relationship with us.
Since 1910 we have been providing community based education which is recognised for the friendliness of its classes, the quality of the teaching and the support that every learner receives. This is not just our opinion it is what the Education Inspectorate found during our last inspection.
The WEA provides around 6,000 learners every year with qualifications and a learning experience that fills a real need. Our courses are regulated to ensure they fit with the needs of the Northern Ireland economy, reach all our most disadvantaged communities and provide people who had a poor experience of education at school a route back into learning.
We need your support to help continue this work.
Here's what you can do.
1. Send our campaign postcard by email to Sir Reg Empey, Minister for Employment and Learning. Feel free to personalise your email - outlining why learning is important to you and your community and why education funding spending should be maintained. Make sure to add your name to the bottom of the email. (NB. The email will be cc'd to the WEA for the campaign's records). Anyone can get involved with this campaign and you do not need to be a current or past WEA learner to get involved in the campaign - after all this affects everyone.
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2. Contact your local paper and let them know you are concerned about the future of lifelong learning.
3. Contact your local MLA and let them know how important the work of the WEA. You can also email them by clicking on their name in the table further down this page
4. Or you can write to your MLAs at:
Northern Ireland Assembly
Parliament Buildings
Belfast
BT4 3XX
For further information on any of the above or to find out who your local MLAs are contact: campaigns@wea-ni.com
or call Stevie Johnston, Director WEA, 028 9032 9718
or Colin Neilands, Assistant Director WEA, 028 9032 9718
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email message.
Remember to send your message
to enquiries@eastbelfastuup.plus.com, and CC (copy) it
to barbara.roberts@uup.org and BCC (Blind Copy) it to campaigns@wea-ni.com
(for the campaign records). The message subject is Make Learning Irresistible.
Don't forget to
add your name and town when finishing the message. Then hit send.
Simple!
To: enquiries@eastbelfastuup.plus.com
CC: barbara.roberts@uup.org
BCC: campaigns@wea-ni.com
Subject: Make Learning
Irresistible
Dear Sir Reg Empey,
WEA classes have made a big
difference to my life.
Free local learning helps me and my community
develop and prosper.
I am writing to you to ask you to please protect
this opportunity for future learners.
Yours
sincerely,
[Insert your name and town
here]
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