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All set for the Challenge
Union Learning Reps at Fox's Biscuits in Batley are ready for the next Six Book Challenge. They've run the Challenge for the last two years, and this year they finally have their new learning centre with a dedicated 'reading corner'.
'Sometimes we come across people who didn't learn to read at school. The good thing about this place is that no one will see what book you pick up. You could take a kids' book home and say it's for your children to read. It might really be for you but no one would know, says Ash, one of the team of ULRs.
Indeed, that's how the ULRs launched the Challenge last year. In partnership with Kirklees Libraries they held a Family learning Day at Batley Library. There they encouraged parents to read six books with their children before taking up the Challenge for themselves.
'It's great we have our own reading corner", says Mary, another ULR. The first person to use it was author, Lindsay Ashford, who signed copies of her book The Rubber Woman, at the launch of the learning centre.
"The Six Book Challenge is a great idea', she said, 'and it was fantastic to meet and chat with so many different people."
All the ULRs at Fox's belong to the BFAWU which, so far, has outstripped all other unions in getting adult learners to take up the Challenge. In 2009 over 400 people took part at different workplaces where ULRs from the BFAWU promoted the Challenge. Hopefully they'll be even more successful in 2010.
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