In spite of challenges on many fronts, unions continue to prioritise learning and training in the full knowledge that this is a major boost to the life chances of individuals and the lifeblood of the union movement. This is in no small part sustained by unionlearn and the Union Learning Fund (ULF) which over the past year supported unions to help 210,000 people access some form of learning or training facilitated through ULF projects. If you add in the learners supported directly by unionlearn and the union reps trained by TUC Education the combined total benefiting was in the region of a quarter of a million during 2016-17.