Awards
13th Walsall Lifelong Learning Awards
Wildlife TV presenter, Steve Backshall, was the guest speaker at The 13th Walsall Lifelong Learning Awards on Wednesday 16 March 2011 at Banks's Stadium.
Its fair to say that Steve had the audience feeding out of his hand as he delivered a talk prior to the presentations that was interesting, informative, amusing and very much about challenging and
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overcoming learning barriers placed in front of you.
Over 80 nominations were received from learning providers across Walsall with so many wonderful stories of barriers being challenged and overcome in people's quest to achieve their learning goals. It really was an amazing evening that highlighted some fabulous examples of learning achievement!
The audience evaluation confirms this was one of our most successful evenings ever and the WLLA Awards continue to go from strength to strength!
WLLA takes pride in being able to provide such high profile speakers in recent years such as Steve, Austin Healey, Jo Brand, Ruby Wax and Ben Fogle. However, this would not be possible without the ongoing sponsorship support of many local organisations and particularly our main sponsors:






