Adult Learners Week is turning 30 this year so there is even more reason to host an event or events in 2025! 
Here is a great chance for you to promote the personal, social and professional benefits of adult learning through a celebration, activity or event.
Any organisation involved in adult education and training can get involved – neighbourhood houses, community centres, libraries, local governments, training organisations, employers, not for profit organisations, TAFE colleges and universities.
This year’s theme, Celebrate learning together, was chosen because it speaks to the way adult learning brings people together, opens new possibilities, and helps us grow.
Promote the breadth of opportunities available and how learning helps people to discover hidden talents, learn new skills and imagine a new and different future by running an ALW 2025 event.
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Use the ALW Event Checklist to help plan your event.
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Run and event and you could win great prizes
Get your ALW 2025 events registered before 4 August for the chance to win 1 of 20 $200 grants. This money can be used to help you run an awesome event during Adult Learners Week.
And, then after ALW 2025, we will award 3 x $1,000 cash prizes to the best ALW events chosen from around Australia.
What can you do?
If your organisation offers any form of adult learning such as courses, classes, lectures, exhibitions, tours, training programs, tutoring, discussion groups, then Adult Learners Week is an opportunity to celebrate and promote what you do.
You could, for example:
- Offer a taster session and invite others to come along and get an insight into the classes you offer
- Invite a former learner or other speaker to talk about the impact of learning in their lives
- Promote a short course you’ve got starting soon
- Run an ALW event that encourages individuals and groups to have a go at learning
- Run an ALW event that celebrates the learning achievements of your staff/volunteers
- Announce or launch a new course or new initiative
- Badge open days and events with the Adult Learners Week branding
Add your events for maximum promotion
Adult Learning Australia is co-ordinating a national radio, newspaper and social media campaign to promote ALW 2025 and direct people to the ALW 2025 website so they find events in their local area.
By adding your event to the ALW2025 directory, you will promote your organisation’s work to a larger audience.
Promote your events through your social media
Promote your events in the lead up to Adult Learners Week through your regular communication channels – social media, e-news and the like.
Remember to use this year’s hashtags – #CelebrateLearning Together and #ALW2025 – on your social media.
Encourage participants at your event to share their experience of learning through their own networks.