AONTAS Adult Learners Festival 2009AONTAS Adult Learners Festival 2009

Are you interested in being involved in promoting the AONTAS Adult Learners’ Festival in your area?If so, you can become a ‘Local Link’. Acting as a Local Link for the

festival can be a benefit to your work and adult learners in your area!

What do Local Links do?

Local Links organise events to coincide with the week of the festival: 2nd – 6th February 2009. They often do this in collaboration with other adult and community education groups thereby maximising the impact of the event and reaching the greatest number of learners in an effective way. Local links also encourage other groups to hold or attend an event during the festival and help promote the week.

The Adult Learners’ Festival is a perfect opportunity to showcase your work and that of adult learn-ers, to promote and raise awareness about adult learning and to gain greater political interest for adult and community education.

All we ask:

The idea is that these activities can be incorporated into your existing work:

Mention the festival at any meetings you attend •

Plan your events during the festival (2 - 6 February 2009)•

Work with other groups in your area on an event •

Promote it to the local media.•

AONTAS will support you in the following way!

Local Links Day in November 2008 which includes media training, the chance to meet other local • links and share ideas

Adult Learners’ Festival promotional material for your event•

Your event will be promoted in the AONTAS E-bulletin and the Adult Learners’ Festival website•

A dedicated AONTAS staff member will be on hand to answer any queries you may have, provide • you with additional promotional material and give you regular festival updates

The AONTAS Communications Officer will be on hand to help you with any media / promtional • work

AONTAS Adult Learners Festival 2009

Thoughts from 2008 Local Links....

“As Local Link for the Adult Education Providers’ Network

in the Liberties area of Dublin, participation in the Aontas

Adult Learners Festival gave us the opportunity to showcase

the work of different centres in the area over the course of

the festival week. Working together helped strengthen links

within our network and gave me the opportunity to meet with

the learners and celebrate the achievements of a wide range of

different groups.”

“TARGET benefited greatly from being a local link in the

AONTAS Festival. Organising the day was good for boost-

ing staff morale and team building. Staff got a chance to

shine during the interviews with media and clients and

visitors all enjoyed the buzz created on the day. TARGET

got great coverage from the media and the AONTAS

magazine which we’re still benefiting from. As a Commu-

nity organisation with no marketing or research budget

we benefit hugely from linking with other organisations

and having our own services advertised.

Thanks AONTAS.”

There was a great buzz in the area

and I felt participation in the festival

helped strengthen the links within

the network and highlight the whole

subject of adult education

I think the advice of the AONTAS

team to keep is simple was very

valuable. We were able to provide

a widerange of activities during

the week to showcase the work of

different groups