The next £750,000: new resources and new opportunities
Since September 2025, we have invested almost £3 million in educational resources supporting a wide range of priorities.
From resources for new qualifications and Welsh history to innovative technology projects and free book schemes, these investments are already making a difference in classrooms and communities across Wales. I am incredibly proud of the team that has made this possible.
A key part of this work is building partnerships with national institutions, publishers, creative companies, and freelancers. Together, we are strengthening capacity across both the education and creative sectors in Wales while supporting suppliers and partners to develop and improve their capacity to deliver.
We are currently preparing for our next round of commissioning. This autumn, we’ll launch new commissioning opportunities worth around £750,000. These will focus on: literacy, numeracy, new qualifications, and well-being and anti-racism.
As well as commissioning new resources, we are strengthening the systems that support this work. Through our Quality Assurance Framework, we are creating an open and consistent approach to ensuring resources are high-quality, curriculum-aligned, accessible, user-friendly, and impactful.
We know that creating excellent educational resources requires expertise from the education sector and beyond. Our commissioning and quality assurance processes bring together practitioners, academics, national organisations, creative industries, technology specialists, and learners. This broad collaboration helps ensure resources are engaging, inclusive and relevant.
This collaborative approach is fundamental to how we work and make an impact, and I’m delighted to say that it’s already delivering results. Recent investments have brought new resources to Hwb supporting well-being, values and ethics, mathematics, and Welsh history, with further resources on human rights and anti-racism due in spring 2027.
We have also continued to address gaps in Welsh-language provision through investment in resources for learners with additional learning needs, Welsh-medium vocational learning, science education, and accessible formats for blind and partially sighted learners.
Our ways of working include continuous learning through engagement and research. Our research into literacy resources will be published in the autumn and the findings will guide our commissioning plans and priorities. By examining the evidence and reviewing what’s currently available and used in Wales, the research has identified what works best and where the gaps and opportunities lie. The Cyfeillion Adnodd Friends initiative will enable practitioners and others to help identify needs, shape priorities and evaluate the resources we fund.
Every investment we make is guided by the same ambition: to ensure that all learners and practitioners, whatever their backgrounds, have access to resources that will spark their imagination and encourage a lifelong love of learning.
Having worked in education and qualifications for almost 20 years, I know practitioners and learners are constantly facing huge changes. Adnodd’s unique role is to help them to confidently navigate those changes by supporting and inspiring learning through access to high-quality resources. Resources that are shaped by learner needs and delivered in engaging, accessible and adaptable formats.
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Emyr George, Adnodd chief executive