INSPIRE! ADULT LEARNING AWARD WINNERS
Meet the 2025 Inspire! Adult Learning Award Winners
The Inspire! Awards are an annual celebration honouring the transformative power of education. This year’s winners have overcome challenges, seized opportunities, and achieved remarkable milestones through adult learning.
Discover their inspiring journeys as they share how education has changed their lives, boosted their confidence, and opened doors to new opportunities.
Osian Lloyd – Young Adult Learner Award Winner 2025
Having lost his mother at the age of six, Osian dropped out of school at 13 and went into the care system a year later,…
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Gina Powell – Learner Voice Award Winner 2025
When Gina Powell volunteered as a teaching assistant in 2004, she didn’t imagine how pivotal Pencaerau Primary School, in Cardiff would become to her life.…
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Michael Cook – Life Change Award Winner 2025
Having worked as a baker and pastry chef in Cardiff, Michael Cook decided to return to education to move his career forward. Initially obtaining formal…
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Ida Aldred – Life Change Award Winner 2025
When Ida Aldred first set foot into Job Club at Chepstow Community Learning in March 2024, she was at a low point in her life.…
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Hamdi Abdalkareem Abdalla Abdalrhman – Shared Futures Award Winner 2025
Growing up in a region of Sudan with limited healthcare and educational resources, Hamdi Abdalrhman developed a deep understanding of the transformative power of education.…
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Mandy Price- Learning for Better Health Award Winner 2025
Mandy Price’s motto “Rise up and show up” could not be more apt. The day after being removed from a ventilator on her first hospital…
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Janine Price – Essential Skills for Life Award Winner 2025
Having left school with few qualifications and becoming a mum at a young age, Janine Price didn’t think she could find a way into a…
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Parent Learning Group – Winner of the Hywel Francis Award for Community Impact 2025
Parents attending the muti-cultural Learning Group at Cathays High School in Cardiff achieve an average of 120 qualifications annually which have helped nearly half of…
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Will Hougham – Skills for Work Award Winner 2025
Will Hougham had just started his career in the screen industry when the global lockdown started as a result of the COVID 19 pandemic, creating…
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Gloria Beynon – Ageing Well Award Winner 2025
Retirement has opened a whole new world of adult learning and community volunteering for Gloria Beynon. A retired teaching assistant she has devoted her life…
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Foo Seng Thean -New Welsh Speaker Award Winner 2025
Foo Seng Thean arrived in Swansea with his family to start a new life in 2015. Despite being a confident English speaker, he soon became…
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Find out more about the awards by visiting Learning and Work Institute website.
The Inspire! Adult Learning Awards are coordinated by Learning and Work Institute and sponsored by the Welsh Government, ACT, Adult Learning Wales, Agored Cymru, AIM Qualifications and Assessment Group, the National Centre for Learning Welsh and The Open University in Wales.
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