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Tom Meek Awards
19th July 2010
This year the Tom Meek Award is celebrating its tenth birthday. Each year the awards night is a celebration of learning and achievement and there was certainly plenty to cram in to this year's event.
Kenneth MacAlpine has become our latest winner of the Tom Meek Award. Kenneth has had overcome a number of barriers to make progress with his learning. His experiences have encouraged him to put something back into his community including de… read more
FABE AGM Coming Up
17th May 2010
Friends of Adult Basic Education (FABE) is a voluntary organisation who support the work of ABE and help the students' voice to be heard.
Their Annual General Meeting will take place on Wednesday 26th May 7 - 9pm in The Adult Learning Centre at Bathgate.
If you want to get involved then come along. There will be coffee, tea, biscuits and the chance to join in a fun quiz and you might win a ?5 voucher.
Everyone is welcome.
?River City? Comes to the Regal!
17th March 2010
As part of 'Get into Reading' we invited Morag Bain, series producer, to come to the Regal Community Theatre on Wednesday 17th March and tell us how the 'River City' drama is put together ? from initial idea to the finished product which you see on T.V.
We had a brilliant evening and found out information about the scripts, locations, actors' characters and stunts.
Morag talked us through the programme where Ewan fell off the building and s… read more
Money Minefield Launched
6th October 2009
The Money Minefield board game was launched at St Margaret's Academy on 25th September. Money Minefield is a resource that has been developed in partnership by ABE and West Lothian Credit Union Forum and has been a firm favourite in the DOSH course.
Funding was gained to professionally produce 100 copies of the game to be distributed to schools and community groups across West Lothian in order to get people talking about money management.
The project had t… read more
A Celebration of Success.
25th August 2009
ABE and their partners picked up an award at the Council's annual Celebrating Success night on 14th August.
BBC TV presenter Jackie Bird hosted the ceremony, which was attended by more than 400 staff, councillors and event sponsors.
ABE came top in the Wealthier and Fairer category for their contribution to financial learning through the delivery of the DOSH course and the development of the Money Minefield board game. We were joined on th… read more
New Tom Meek Winner
9th July 2009
The new winner of the Tom Meek 'Student of the Year' award was unveiled at our annual awards ceremony. Elisa Kilgallon was awarded with the trophy and 6 other deserving nominees received certificates and had their achievements recognised. Elisa has had a busy year in is now working towards her 3rd qualification with ABE having already gained an SQA Core Skills in numeracy and the Creche Worker qualification. She received the trophy from Wes… read more
Adult Learners Awards finalists
23rd June 2009
The Scottish Adult Learning Partnership hosted their annual Scottish Adult Learners Awards in May. Several students made the trip to Edinburgh to collect their certificates as finalists in the STV Central regional awards. Janice Flynn had been nominated by her tutor for her efforts in her individual learning, this year. A group from Bathgate House were nominated for the group awards for their work on the
. LEAF won the award for their efforts to create change and improve learning opportunities in their village. <br /> <br />Since then Brenda has enrolled in… <a href='news.php?news_id=63' class='ntLink'>read more</a></p></div><div class='newsBox'><p class='headline'>FABE is FAB!</p>
<p class='date'>5th January 2009</p>
<p class='article'>Friends of Adult Basic Education, our student body, have had a busy year. Not only have they achieved charitable status but they have also developed their own microsite and been successful in receiving funds from ?Awards For All? to produce their own raising awareness DVD entitled ?Strictly Come Spelling?.<br />This busy year was completed when they found out they had won the group award at the recent West Lothian Volunteer of the Year awards which were held at the Hill… <a href='news.php?news_id=55' class='ntLink'>read more</a></p></div><div class='newsBox'><div class='imageBox'><img src='http://www.abeonline.org.uk/uploaded_images/48celeb success.JPG' border='0' /></div><p class='headline'>Celebrating Success!</p>
<p class='date'>25th September 2008</p>
<p class='article'>The team behind our successful project ?Creche Any Time, Any Place, Any Where? were delighted to find they were a winning combination. At the Council?s Celebrating Success Award ceremony held at West Lothian College on 15 August, the team was delighted to be the winner in the developing employees category.<br /> <br />The project continues to grow and develop with new courses already planned for Bridgend, Livingston and West Calder. If you would like further … <a href='news.php?news_id=48' class='ntLink'>read more</a></p></div><div class='newsBox'><div class='imageBox'><img src='http://www.abeonline.org.uk/uploaded_images/45015.jpg' border='0' /></div><p class='headline'>What a Night!</p>
<p class='date'>14th July 2008</p>
<p class='article'>Our annual Tom Meek Award celebration was held in the Kaim Park Hotel, Bathgate at the end of June. There were around 100 people in attendance; learners, family, friends and tutors all joined together to celebrate learning.<br /> <br />There were tears, laughter and much joy as we all shared in each other's achievements. Five young people achieved the bronze Youth Achievement Award and sixteen learners received 'Six Book Challenge' certificates.<br />&n… <a href='news.php?news_id=45' class='ntLink'>read more</a></p></div><div class='newsBox'><div class='imageBox'><img src='http://www.abeonline.org.uk/uploaded_images/42front cover.jpg' border='0' /></div><p class='headline'>Launches</p>
<p class='date'>10th April 2008</p>
<p class='article'>The completion of two student projects were celebrated earlier this year.<br />In February, the DVD of 'Strictly Come Spelling' was launched at the Regal Community Theatre. Staff, students and guests gathered for the first official showing of the film. Learners wrote and starred in the film which is a light-hearted look at the work done by ABE, from the students' point of view.<br />Then in March, the book 'I'm a Mum, Now What?' w… <a href='news.php?news_id=42' class='ntLink'>read more</a></p></div><div class='newsBox'><div class='imageBox'><img src='http://www.abeonline.org.uk/uploaded_images/29for web.jpg' border='0' /></div><p class='headline'>Inspirational!</p>
<p class='date'>9th July 2007</p>
<p class='article'>Inspiring! Awesome! Tear jerking! Emotional! Brilliant!<br /><br />All words that people who attended our Tom Meek Award celebration used to describe the experience. This year the event was held in the Kaim Park Hotel, Bathgate. There were around 80 people in attendance. Amongst the guests were friends and family of those who had been nominated – even grand children and a ‘Hearing Dog’!<br /><br />In total there were 9 nominations for the award. Information … <a href='news.php?news_id=29' class='ntLink'>read more</a></p></div><p class='linkBase'><a href='news.php?view=all' class='ntLink'>View all news articles >></a></p></div><div id='baserow'>){kind=link}