Access to Higher Education Diplomas
Access to Higher Education Diploma (Health and Social Care)
This course is a great stepping stone to university and a career in a health related sector....
Access to Higher Education Diplomas
Access to Higher Education Diploma (Humanities and Social Science)
September 2026 - May 2027
This course is a great stepping stone to university and a career in a humanities related sector....
Personal and Social Development
Addiction: Physical Health and Recovery
Monday 13th - Wednesday 15th April 2026
Monday 27th - Wednesday 29th July 2026
This course is ideal for people that are in recovery or supporting those in recovery, maybe in a volunteer role or in paid employment....
Adult Skills: Pre-Access Course
Adult Skills: Pre-Access Course
January - June 2027
Thinking about going to university or applying for a job that needs higher level skills? This course will introduce you to the academic skills you need to succeed as well as the chance to brush up on your English, maths and digital skills....
Personal and Social Development
Anger Management (Men)
Friday 20th - Sunday 22nd March 2026
Friday 19th - Sunday 21st June 2026
Learn about what makes us angry, how it affects us and different coping mechanisms to help manage anger. Apply now!...
Personal and Social Development
Anger Management (Women)
Friday 27th - Sunday 29th March 2026
Friday 19th - Sunday 21st June 2026
This course will explore your relationship between different types of anger as well as recognising how to express your anger assertively and appropriately...
EducationWorking and Volunteering With People
Award In Education And Training (Level 3)
Friday 5th June - Sunday 19th July 2026
Fast-track your way through our NCFE-accredited introduction to teaching for people who are looking to become teachers and trainers in the FE and adult skills sectors. ...
Personal and Social Development
Becoming Your Best Self
Friday 17th - Sunday 19th April 2026
Are you ready to embark on a transformative journey towards becoming your best self? The "Becoming Your Best Self: Unlocking Your Full Potential" course is designed to help you realize your dreams, set meaningful goals, and make progress towards achieving them. ...
Personal and Social Development
Bereavement, Loss and Grief
Wednesday 25th - Friday 27th March 2026
Friday 24th - Sunday 26th April 2026
Apply now for this short course designed to help you to understand your own loss and to also recognise how you can help others who may be grieving...
English, Maths and IT
Breaking the Fear of Maths: Fractions, Decimals And Percentages
Friday 27th - Sunday 29th March 2026
Wednesday 22nd - Friday 24th July 2026
This course is designed to enhance your understanding and proficiency in working with these fundamental numerical representations....
Working and Volunteering With People
Coaching and Mentoring Skills
Wednesday 6th - Friday 8th May 2026
This course helps you develop the skills, knowledge and confidence you need to coach and mentor. It’s an ideal starting point for a career in coaching and mentoring....
Personal and Social Development
Coping With Mental Health
Wednesday 22nd - Friday 24th July 2026
This course will explore what mental health is and why good mental health is important. We will identify the factors which affect us and the common reasons why people experience poor mental health...
Personal and Social Development
Coping With PTSD and Informed Care
Friday 24th - Sunday 26th April 2026
This course will give you the knowledge, skills and insights needed to help you understand post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the basics of how trauma-informed care works ...
Personal and Social Development
Coping With PTSD and Trauma
Wednesday 15th - Friday 17th April 2026
Monday 29th June - Wednesday 1st July 2026
This course is for you if you have experienced trauma/PTSD and aims to empower you to regain control over their lives, build resilience, and embark on a journey of healing and recovery....
Personal and Social Development
Coping With Stress, Anxiety and Depression
Wednesday 6th - Friday 8th May 2026
We all experience challenges in our everyday lives but some more than others. This course will help you to understand anxiety and depression more and will give you some tools to help you to cope. ...
Sustainable Thinking and Action
Cross Pollinator Course – Part 3
Friday 29th May - Sunday 26th July 2026
Cross-pollinators are active community food growers, eco-practitioners and community green activists who support and visit different spaces, sharing resources, skills and ideas across projects, as well as promoting the creation...
English, Maths and IT
Digital Functional Skills – (Entry-Level 3)
Monday 4th - Wednesday 27th May 2026
This course will give you an understanding of, and competency in, the essential digital skills needed to enhance your everyday life. ...
English, Maths and ITWorking and Volunteering With People
Digital Functional Skills (Level 1)
Monday 16th March - Wednesday 22nd April 2026
Monday 8th June - Wednesday 1st July 2026
This course will give you an understanding of, and competency in, the essential digital skills needed to enhance your everyday life. ...
English, Maths and IT
Digital Skills for Everyday Life
Friday 22nd - Sunday 24th May 2026
This course is for people who want to get to grips with the everyday use of their device(s). Level Entry-Level 3 Fees This course could be FREE to you. Take...
Personal and Social Development
Emotional Health for Wellbeing
Wednesday 13th - Friday 15th May 2026
This course will help you to develop and grow by looking at ways to improve your emotional wellbeing. ...
Working and Volunteering With People
Engaging And Building Communities
Wednesday 25th - Friday 27th March 2026
Our Level 2 Engaging and Building Communities course is all about providing you with the foundation knowledge for a successful community venture. ...
English: Read for Meaning
Friday 22nd - Sunday 24th May 2026
This course is for anyone who would like to develop their ability in English ...
English, Maths and IT
English: Speaking and Listening
Wednesday 17th - Friday 19th June 2026
This course will improve your oral communication skills, including speaking fluency, pronunciation, active listening, and interpersonal communication. ...
English, Maths and IT
English: Write For Meaning
Monday 16th - Wednesday 18th March 2026
Friday 8th - Sunday 10th May 2026
The Write for Meaning course focuses on developing participants' writing skills and their ability to convey ideas clearly and coherently...
Working and Volunteering With People
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
Wednesday 22nd - Friday 24th July 2026
Discover how characteristics such as gender identity, ethnicity, social class, age and disability affect our working lives and explore how much workplaces have, or have not, adapted to current debates about accessibility and diversity....
Personal and Social DevelopmentSustainable Thinking and Action
Exploring The Outdoors For Wellbeing
Wednesday 8th - Friday 10th July 2026
This course is designed to introduce you to the use of the outdoors to improve your health and wellbeing....
Personal and Social Development
Finding Your Place in Society
Friday 17th - Sunday 19th July 2026
This course explores the mysteries of how humans interact in society...
Fircroft Foundations
Fircroft Foundations – a course for new communities
Wednesday 15th April - Friday 8th May 2026
This course is for men and women from new communities, refugees or asylum seekers who may have lived experience of modern slavery, trafficking and/or trauma. If you are an organisation...
English, Maths and IT
Functional Skills: Maths Level 1
Wednesday 1st - Friday 31st July
You will learn all areas of Level 1 Maths including graphs, percentages, decimals, fractions and probabilities. Register your interest today!...
Personal and Social Development
Get Creative And Feel Good
Friday 24th - Sunday 26th April 2026
This course is designed to unlock your creativity, foster self-expression, and promote overall well-being...
Sustainable Thinking and Action
Green Skills: Sustainable Communities
Friday 5th June - Sunday 12th July 2026
Following on from the successes of the Green Changemakers programme for educators, the Green Skills: Building the Future courses, Mother Gardens Bootcamp and the launch of the Cross Pollinator course,...
Personal and Social Development
How To Juggle Life and Wellbeing
Friday 20th - Sunday 22nd March 2026
Friday 19th - Sunday 21st June 2026
This course is designed to equip you with practical strategies and tools to find balance, enhance resilience, and prioritise self-care in the midst of life's demands....
Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) Award (Level 4) “Organisational Culture and Context”
Friday 29th May - Sunday 28th June 2026
This Award has an organisational focus, so you must be working or volunteering for an organisation while on the course. We will explore its purpose, structure and culture. Then analyse...
Working and Volunteering With People
Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) Award: Moving Into Middle Management – Level 4
Friday 20th February - Sunday 22nd March 2026
We’re taking Leadership and Management up a level. Our new Level 4 Award will support your progression into a middle manager role and help you avoid feeling squeezed between your operational and your strategic colleagues....
Subject Tasters
Introduction to Criminology
Friday 17th - Sunday 19th April 2026
This course will give you a deeper understanding of what constitutes a crime and deviance and some of the key explanations that seek to understand the root cause of criminal behaviour...
Subject Tasters
Introduction to Psychopathology
Monday 15th - Wednesday 17th June 2026
This course would benefit anyone wishing to understand how psychological perspectives attempt to explain mental health....
Working and Volunteering With People
Level 3 Certificate In ICT Systems And Principles
Monday 18th May - Wednesday 22nd July 2026
Improve your digital skills for work. If you are already working in IT and wanting a promotion, or you are looking for a job as a digital skills technician, this course is for you!...
Personal and Social Development
Love Shouldn’t Hurt: Understanding Domestic Violence and Abuse
Friday 27th - Sunday 29th March 2026
Wednesday 10th - Friday 12th June 2026
Monday 13th - Wednesday 15th July 2026
This course is designed to raise awareness, educate, and empower you on the critical issue of domestic violence....
English, Maths and IT
Maths for Beginners: Data Handling
Monday 13th - Wednesday 15th July 2026
This course is designed to equip you with the basic skills to interpret, analyse, and present data effectively....
English, Maths and IT
Measure Up! Maths for Everyday Life
Friday 12th - Sunday 14th June 2026
This course will help you to understand practical applications of measurement, geometry, and spatial awareness...
English, Maths and IT
Numbers for Everyday Life
Friday 1st - Sunday 3rd May 2026
This course is designed to develop your' understanding and proficiency in working with numbers...
Subject Tasters
Personal Study Management and Study Skills
Wednesday 1st - Friday 3rd July 2026
This course is suitable for anyone who is thinking about starting studying at a level 2 or above and even at university level. ...
Personal and Social Development
Physical Health and Nutrition for Happiness (Men)
Friday 20th - Sunday 22nd March 2026
Friday 17th July - Sunday 19th July 2026
This course is for anyone interested in improving their own physical health and happiness...
Personal and Social Development
Resilience, Coping Strategies and Non-Conventional Therapies
Friday 29th - Sunday 31st May 2026
This course will empower you with the knowledge, skills, and alternative approaches necessary to enhance resilience, cultivate effective coping strategies and explore non-conventional therapies for personal growth and well-being...
Working and Volunteering With People
Skills for Aspiring Support Workers
Wednesday 4th - Friday 20th March 2026
This course will give you the skills and knowledge needed to support people and will help you to confidently apply for work or volunteering roles with charities. ...
English, Maths and IT
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar
Friday 1st - Sunday 3rd May 2026
This course focuses on building a solid foundation in fundamental English language skills...
Personal and Social Development
Stand Up And Be Counted
Wednesday 24th - Friday 26th June 2026
Wednesday 15th - Friday 17th July 2026
This course is suitable for you if you are looking to enhance your self-confidence and improve your ability to have your voice heard in society. It is ideal if you are looking to build self-worth and assertiveness...
Personal and Social Development
The Power and Psychology of Positivity
Friday 22nd - Sunday 24th May 2026
This course will introduce you to the concepts of psychological positivity. We will explore theories of positive experiences, qualities and positivity in the community (civil positivity)...
Personal and Social Development
Understanding Addiction
Friday 13th - Sunday 15th March 2026
Wednesday 17th - Friday 19th June 2026
Wednesday 8th - Friday 10th July 2026
Being able to understand and support somebody through the impact of addiction can be both rewarding and challenging. This course will help you to understand addiction and how to support others...
Personal and Social Development
Understanding People and Building Relationships
Monday 16th - Wednesday 18th March 2026
Friday 29th - Sunday 31st May 2026
This course explores why we behave the way we do, and how we can modify our behaviours through self-awareness to engage more productively with others and learn more about ourselves...
Working and Volunteering With People
Working With Addiction and Recovery
Friday 5th - Sunday 7th June 2026
This course is ideal if you are working or volunteering and supporting people through addiction and recovery....
Working and Volunteering With People
Working With Autism And ADHD
Monday 8th - Wednesday 10th June 2026
On this course you will explore the characteristics, diagnosis, and neurodevelopmental aspects of ADHD and Autism and strategies for supporting individuals with these characteristics...
Working and Volunteering With People
Working With Domestic Violence and Abuse
Monday 20th - Wednesday 22nd July 2026
This course is designed to equip working professionals with the knowledge, skills, and sensitivity necessary to effectively support and empower survivors of domestic violence and abuse...
Working and Volunteering With People
Working with Homelessness and Poverty
Wednesday 10th - Friday 12th June 2026
This course provides you with an understanding of the complexities surrounding homelessness and poverty...
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Course brochure
All our adult education courses starting January to March 2026 in a handy PDF
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