The London Regional Adult Learners' Week Awards are given each year to individuals, groups, families, and learning projects that have demonstrated extra special creativity, imagination and/or energy in their learning experiences.

The Regional Awards Ceremony was held on Tuesday 22nd May at the V&A Museum in central London. The ceremony linked into two initiatives being run at the museum: Uncomfortable Truths – part of the celebrations surrounding the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery, and the "Inspired by" competition.

The ceremony was a great success with 19 learners receiving awards in front of over 150 friends, family and colleagues. Keynote speeches were provided by Sir Keith Ajegbo and John Stone, who also presented awards. Entertainment was provided by Annapoorna Kuppuswamy and Janani Vivekananda from the South Asian dance company Akademi, and there were also three presentations by the Royal Photographic Society to winners of the Adult Learners' Week Plus photography competition.

Uncomfortable Truths addresses the ways in which the legacy of slavery informs contemporary art and design in a display of a series of works throughout the museum's public spaces. This exhibition of new and specially commissioned work commemorates the bicentenary of the Parliamentary abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, seeking to reassess the human cost of slavery.

"Inspired by" is an annual competition run by the V&A as part of their Adult Learners' Week celebrations. Members of the public can submit any art, craft, multi-media or digital media work produced in the last or current year which has been inspired by the V&A's collections.

Click here to find out more about Unionlearn activity during Learning at Work Day in 2007.

Click here to see photos of the winners.

Click here for the 2007 winners' stories.

Other photos from the award ceremony are displayed below.