FREE COURSES FOR EVERYONE

  

All their courses are designed to encourage people back into learning and promote confidence to enrol onto further courses with other providers, colleges or even university. Many will provide skills that will be of use in everyday life.

They can deliver the courses either at your venue or via Zoom. Ideally a minimum of 8 people. 

Healthy Eating, Healthy Body, Healthy Mind

This course will show you how easy it is to prepare healthy food, we will look at what is a healthy diet, portions and portion control, when eating at home or out. How to maintain a healthy eating style even when eating out. We will look at how to modify recipes and how simple changes to the way we cook and the ingredients we use can make food healthier.

Introduction To Computer Security

A course designed to help you recognize the hazards relating to computer use, and how to avoid them. It explains why we need security for computers, discusses what a firewall does, why we should use passwords, look at security packages and the components within them. It will help you to identify risks such as viruses and spam when on the internet, you will learn how credit card fraud can happen on the internet, identify the law and your rights around personal data. You will also look at types of data storage and explain why we should back up information.

Budgeting Skills

This course will help you recognize your attitudes to money and how this influences your choices. You will also look at the difference between ‘needs’ and ‘wants’ when it relates to spending. It will help you to understand the costs and benefits of saving and borrowing and different ways you can do this.

Basic First Aid

A non-accredited NOT hands on course really designed as first aid in the home. This course will help you identify various types of injuries such as cuts, burns and stings and how to deal with them. You will also learn about common emergencies such as choking, stroke and heart attack and how to deal with them until emergency help arrives.

Positive Steps To Building Confidence and Self-Esteem

This course is designed to help you identify different types of body language and how they might be seen by others and to help you be sure that what you are saying is what you mean. It will help you to identify what gives a good impression and a bad one, also ways of changing a negative impression to a positive one and how positive thinking can change how you see things and let your confidence shine.

Communication Skills

This course will include a basic introduction to British Sign Language, skill in handwriting/calligraphy as well as helping you to improve your listening skills.

Maths For Everyday Life

This course is a revisit to maths and finding your mathematics knowledge. You will work towards creating new solutions for old problems.

Act Safely in the Workplace

We all need to know how to work safely without any risk to health, this course is designed to help you achieve that. It will help you identify dangers in the workplace and how to deal with them. You will learn what to do in an emergency or an accident and the course will give you the knowledge to know how to look after your own and others health and safety.

English For Everyday Life

In this course you will revisit basic English skills. This includes learning appropriate etiquette, terminology, and references.

Skills Towards Employment

No matter whom you have an interview with it might be your child’s school, the doctors or someone else, you need to be prepared. This course will help you to be ready and able to answer questions about yourself and your personal history, it will also help you to prepare to ask questions relevant to the situation.

Learning And Development

Understanding of Children’s Behaviour

This course will help you to identify the different stages in children’s behaviour. Recognise ways to positively manage their actions and identify techniques, tips and tricks to break unwanted behaviour.

IT Support

Tailored to suit the individual needs of the Learner. Help develop confidence and improve IT skills.

Craft Skills

A fun course to help develop skills in creative writing, creating decorative items and designing posters.

There are no formal entry requirements for most courses. 

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