Director of Education and Strategy, Workers' Educational Association

Peter Templeton is the Director of Membership, Volunteering & Marketing for the Workers’ Educational Association, Britain’s largest provider of adult education. The WEA is a charity established in 1903 based on principles of educational democracy. Students and volunteers have a very significant influence on the direction, planning and organising of the Association’s work. It had over 60,000 learners last year and a membership of over 45,000.

Peter joined the WEA in 1980 as a student through his union attending a course: ‘Will the microchip change our lives?’  He became a volunteer and, later, a sessional tutor for the Association until 1989 when he became a tutor organiser in the Black Country and Telford.

Over a number of years he increased his work for the Association nationally and from 2004-2011 was Director of Education & Strategy; in 2011 he became Director of Membership, Volunteering & Marketing.   He is based in the WEA’s Bristol office.