Charity Learning Award winners 2013

Nov. 29, 2013 - PRLog -- The Charity Learning Awards are designed not only to recognise and celebrate the achievements of L&D professionals working in the third sector, but also their journeys. They’re often faced with multiple challenges: using a variety of hardware and software at different locations; trying to engage with care staff who may not even have a desk, or shop workers with limited access to the internet; and of course, making budgets stretch. Despite these difficulties, along with increased pressure on services and resources and greater job insecurity, engagement levels amongst staff in the third sector have risen, whilst they have crashed in private and public organisations. This evening, the Charity Learning Awards celebrate the great work that L&D professionals do to support hundreds of thousands of staff and volunteers.

The Winners were:

Best eLearning programme:

Winner: Addaction

Commended: Royal Voluntary Service

Organisational buy-in: Raising the L&D profile

Winner: National Deaf Children’s Society

Commended: CRI

Amazing use of resources

Winner: Hanover Housing Association

Commended: Cats Protection

Outstanding return on investment/Return on Expectation

Winner: RNLI

Commended: Shaw Trust

Most effective use of Moodle for blended learning

Winner: Addaction

Commended: Orders of St John Care Trust

Commended: Royal Voluntary Service

And a special award, for Outstanding contribution to our community

Winner: Kyla Lacey-Davidson, Stroke Association

Martin Baker, founder and CEO of the Charity Learning Consortium, commented: “As far as I’m concerned, all members of the Consortium are winners because of the great work they do, despite limited resources. I feel incredibly proud of each and every one of them.

“Collaboration is at the heart of the Consortium: we’re proof of the adage that ‘together we are more powerful than on our own’, with research revealing that members are 50% more efficient in their use of learning technologies than non members in the third sector. Today’s conference and awards dinner was an inspiring example of that collaboration at work.

“Congratulations to our winners and huge thanks to everyone who has participated so wholeheartedly – particularly to the presenters, who gave their time for free to inspire our members in the work they do. The support of key people in the L&D industry is invaluable, both to our members and to our continuing evolution as a Consortium.”

Notes for editors: Photos, videos, case studies & Q&As with our award winners can all be made available – please ask! Email sfinch@charitylearning.org

The Charity Learning Consortium is unique. We enable cost effective eLearning within more than 120 third sector organisations, making online learning available to more than 300,000 volunteers and staff.

We're the largest group of charities, housing associations and not for profits working in the third sector in the UK, collaborating to make eLearning both affordable and effective. But we'd like to do even more! That's why we launched Giveback UK, and are asking everyone in the learning technologies community to take part, by donating resources and expertise to charitable organisations.

We want all sorts of people to get involved, so if you think you could do anything that could contribute to an online learning course, we really want to hear from you. Please come and chat at Learning Technologies, 29-30 January 2014, Olympia, London. Together we really can make a difference to the world. One resource at a time...