Join the National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA) for a range of free webinars and online training for the Community and Voluntary sector in 2024. All events and training will be online.

Winter series 2024 – Literacy opens doors

Read more on the current October and November 2024 event programme.

This is a four-part series of webinars exploring different aspects of literacy from financial literacy to literacy for political action. If you attend all four webinars in this series, you will get a NALA certificate of completion.

• Financial literacy and financial inclusion – meeting people where they are at (Friday 25 October, 10.00am – 11.00am).
• Literacy for social justice – the building blocks for political participation (Friday 1 November, 10.00am – 11.00am).
• Library literacy champions – making the library a welcoming place for everyone (Friday 8 November, 10.00am – 11.00am).
• Promoting learning in the family – One Book, One Film for All: a family learning project based on Cartoon Saloon’s WolfWalkers©️ (Friday 15 November, 10.00am – 11.00am)

Past events

If you missed our past events you can still watch our recorded sessions.

Spring webinars – Introduction to literacy

Summer spotlight – Literacy friendly in action

Anytime – Online literacy awareness Professional Development courses

Literacy in Ireland

In Ireland, over 500,000 adults struggle with reading and understanding information and using everyday maths*. This means they may find it difficult to: 

• fill in a form;
• divide or add up a bill; or  
• help kids with homework.  

Community and voluntary organisations provide essential support and services to communities across Ireland. You are in a unique position to champion literacy and be a support to those who are nervous or embarrassed to ask for help.  

Free webinars and training

These events will help you better understand the issues, hear from colleagues about being literacy friendly, and get tips you can bring back to your organisation.

Introduction to literacy – Webinar

This webinar is a one-hour introduction to literacy, numeracy and digital literacy in Ireland.

Introduction to literacy – Watch back recording

Summer spotlight – Literacy friendly in action

Community and voluntary organisations will share their experience and tips for being more literacy friendly in these two training webinars.

• Literacy friendly in action: Cooking up courage – Watch back recording
• Literacy friendly in action: Creating the space for confidence building – Watch back recording

Online literacy awareness Professional Development courses

You can sign up to different professional development courses for free on our Learn on with NALA website anytime. These include:

• Understanding literacy, numeracy and digital literacy
• Becoming literacy friendly 
• Introduction to integrating Literacy

The courses will take about 45 minutes to 1 hour to complete. You will get a NALA Professional Development Certificate on completion of the course.

The Adult Literacy for Life programme office have also recently launched a new online awareness course:

• Let’s talk about literacy – eLearning course

*Central Statistics Office 2012