A TRADE union learning initiative is celebrating a decade of helping to improve the skills of workers across Wales.

The Wales Union Learning Fund (Wulf) is a network of more than 100 union learning centres, 150 projects and 1,200 union learning representatives. It gives access to learning to more than 10,000 employees across Wales.

Wales TUC head of learning services, Sian Cartwright said: “The Wales Union Learning fund is a crucial flagship Assembly Government programme. It is investment that demonstrates a huge return for the Welsh workforce and for the economy of Wales, transforming lives and empowering workers with the skills and confidence to achieve their career ambitions.

“Over the last decade unions have developed an impressive framework of projects, union learning reps and learning centres, to deliver more and more training opportunities for workers in Wales. Strengthening our fragile economy and building the knowledge-based industries of the future depends on the investment in skills we make now, and on top of the headline stories of economic benefit and career development are the human stories of individual achievement and personal development.

“It is particularly the combination of personal and professional growth that has been the stand-out characteristic of the Wales Union Learning Fund and it illustrates the unique added-value of funding the programme through unions.”

Deputy Minister for Science, Innovation and Skills Lesley Griffiths said: “The fund is helping existing workers up-skill and helping people back into work as quickly as possible. The development of our skills base has never been more important and it’s good to hear so many success stories.”

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