Workers' Educational Association

These courses provide learning opportunities for around 65,000 people per year, taught by over 2,000 professional tutors (most of whom work for the WEA part-time).

It also receives fees from learners on many of its courses and is often successful in funding bids from government, lottery and other sources for educational projects in local communities around the country.

Coleg Harlech was founded in 1925 as a residential college for workers' education, and in 2001 merged with the WEA (North Wales).

[citation needed] Its courses were organized mainly in venues such as community halls, arts centres and training rooms in workplaces.

Branches in Waitakere, Kāpiti Coast, Wellington, Canterbury, Te Anau, Gore and Southland provides flexible learning to over 12,000 students each year.

[10] The Canterbury branch initially held its classes in a dingy rented room down a back alley; now it is homed in the central city villa it purchased in 1957,[11] where it teaches over 130 courses a year.

[12] From the 1920s, it took adult education to nearly every nook and cranny of the Canterbury and Westland provinces through a travelling library book scheme.

[18] Similar Australian organisations include Melbourne's Centre for Adult Education, and historically, the many mechanics' institutes across the country.

There are also some branches in Canada which have presently and currently opened in March 2014 although however its services has been established since 1917 (98 years old) and is part of the WEA International; it operates mainly in Toronto, Ottawa, and Halifax as well as St Johns.

it is currently operated under the Canadian government licences and jurisdictions of division branch companies ltd.' (LLC) Lawrence Goldman, past President of the former Thames and Solent District WEA, has written: Joe England (ed.