Improve your arts & craft skills, or learn some new ones

We’ve got the best modern arts and crafts classes that you can do online or in person at one of our learning venues across England and Scotland. It's never been easier to try your hand at something a little different and discover a new talent.

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Our arts and crafts workshops are perfect if you’re looking to get creative and hands on.

Show your creativity

Take centre stage with one of our performing arts courses, or indulge your photography passion and strike a pose with tips and techniques on how to capture that perfect shot.  

Develop the skills and get crafty with some jewellery making, with no previous experience required. With courses in textiles and sewing, as well as the arts, we really do have something for everyone, and everyone is welcome too.  

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The combination of small class sizes and guidance from expert tutors means that taking part in one of our arts and crafts courses is the perfect place for you to develop your talent, learn a new skill, or start that hobby you’ve always wanted to try.

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Art Practical: Learn the Basics of Drawing Nature

Do you want to learn the basics of drawing nature? Why not join this course to develop your skills and creativity, find inspiration and receive support and encouragement? This one-week course aims to help you to explore different ways to make pencil marks; the use of tone and shading; line drawings; proportion, perspective and composition whilst drawing nature. You will also have the opportunity to ask questions and share your artworks with the tutor and other students on this Online, Two session course.
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Dates:
Wed 04/06/2025 -
Wed 11/06/2025
Times:
11:00am - 1:00pm
Duration:
2 sessions
Location:
Online
Tutor:
Deborah Crofts
Course code:
Q00021552
How you'll learn:
Online
Availability:
9 places remaining
Status:
Available
Fee range
Free to £14.80

Art Practical: Creative Art for Mindfulness

Join us to unleash your creativity and develop your creative skills. This day workshop will give you the opportunity to explore creative themes and ideas to inspire inventive response using a range of mediums to suit the project and your preference . Join us to immerse yourself in a day of creativity and be inspired. Learners will be encouraged to develop and share ideas within the session. Whatever your creative level or direction this workshop is designed to inspire and guide you to develop your creative confidence. Discover how the enjoyment of creative art can be creatively enjoyable and beneficial for well-being.
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Dates:
Thu 05/06/2025 -
Thu 10/07/2025
Times:
1:30pm - 3:30pm
Duration:
5 sessions
Location:
Online
Tutor:
Rachel Holland-Hargreaves
Course code:
Q00013102
How you'll learn:
Online
Availability:
10+ places remaining
Status:
Available
Fee range
Free to £44.40

Art Practical: Sketching Colour & Light with Chalk Pastels in Regents Park ; Queen Mary Rose Garden

Do you want to improve your confidence to sketch outdoors? Have you always been afraid to draw outside in public? This course will give you confidence to sketch outside with tips on how to draw quick sketches of moving people through the foliage, from location in Regents’ Park Rose Garden; there will be sketching and chalk pastel demonstrations, combined with drawing theory, showing ways to use a variety of materials and different styles of drawing from thumb nail sketching to building up a final composition. Come and join us in the Rose Garden in the Inner Circle at Regents Park London with your sketching equipment.
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Dates:
Fri 06/06/2025 -
Fri 06/06/2025
Times:
10:30am - 1:30pm
Duration:
1 sessions
Location:
Regents Park Queen Elizabeth Rose Garden
Regents Park
London
NW1 4NR
Tutor:
Debra Collis
Course code:
Q00019126
How you'll learn:
In venue
Availability:
7 places remaining
Status:
Available
Fee range
Free to £14.10

Craft: Upcycling Jewellery for well-being

This creative and eco-friendly course explores upcycling jewellery as a mindful and relaxing activity that promotes well-being. Learners will learn how to repurpose old or broken jewellery into unique, handcrafted pieces while experiencing the therapeutic benefits of hands-on creativity. The course encourages sustainability, self-expression, and stress relief through jewellery-making techniques. Suitable for beginners and those with crafting experience, this course is perfect for anyone looking to unwind, learn new skills, and create beautiful, meaningful accessories.
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Dates:
Wed 11/06/2025 -
Wed 09/07/2025
Times:
10:00am - 12:30pm
Duration:
5 sessions
Location:
Riverside Community Health Project (Newc
Carnegie Building
Atkinson Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE4 8XS
Tutor:
Nadia Belmajdoub
Course code:
Q00021946
How you'll learn:
In venue
Availability:
10+ places remaining
Status:
Available
Fee range
Free to £63.00

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Duration:
12 months
Fee:
£15

Still Life Photography - Personal Outcomes

This follow on course offers you the opportunity to plan and develop a personal outcome based on the photographers and styles covered in the previous course. You will be encouraged to reflect on your progress so far, evaluating which of the photographers inspired you the most and why? You will then be encouraged to choose just one Photographer to research and explore in depth, analysing and responding to their work in your own original way. Whilst researching, you will be practising how to make a photography journal, printing and writing about the development of your ideas.
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Dates:
Fri 13/06/2025 -
Fri 18/07/2025
Times:
11:00am - 4:00pm
Duration:
6 sessions
Location:
NST Hub (North Somerset Training Communi
31 Alexandra Parade
Weston-super-Mare
BS23 1QZ
Tutor:
Katie Dexter
Course code:
Q00017193
How you'll learn:
In venue
Availability:
7 places remaining
Status:
Available
Fee range
Free to £126.00

Painting Colour and Light with Watercolour in St James Park London

Have you always been afraid to draw and paint outside in public? This course will give you confidence to sketch outside with tips on how to draw quick sketches of moving people from location in St James Park by the lake; there will be sketching and watercolour demonstrations, combined with drawing theory, showing ways to use a variety of materials and different styles of drawing from thumb nail sketching to building up a final composition . Combine Watercolour and fine liner pen techniques to add to your art skills, tackling geese, trees, people and the lake. Bring your painting equipment along and join us.
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Dates:
Fri 13/06/2025 -
Fri 13/06/2025
Times:
10:30am - 1:30pm
Duration:
1 sessions
Location:
Meeting Place:St James Park Cafe (London
St. James's Park
London
SW1A 2BJ
Tutor:
Debra Collis
Course code:
Q00019127
How you'll learn:
In venue
Availability:
7 places remaining
Status:
Available
Fee range
Free to £12.60

Beginners Microsoft Word and PowerPoint skills

What would improved digital skills mean for your career or everyday life? No matter what your job role is, the chances are your day-to-day life would be easier with enhanced computer skills. This beginner’s Microsoft Word and PowerPoint course will help you learn the basics of Word and PowerPoint. This knowledge can help you in a wide variety of routine situations. These can include creating CVs, helping your kids with their homework, or preparing presentations for family events. You will learn how to Enter and Edit text in a document, save and print your work, format and align text, add images, create a poster and customise Templates in Word. Create Striking Presentations with images, and designs. Run slide shows and produce audience notes.
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Dates:
Fri 20/06/2025 -
Fri 25/07/2025
Times:
10:00am - 12:00pm
Duration:
6 sessions
Location:
Online
Tutor:
Mark Turk
Course code:
Q00022062
How you'll learn:
Online
Availability:
5 places remaining
Status:
Available
Fee range
Free to £44.40

Beginners Photo Editing

What would improved digital skills mean for your career or everyday life? No matter what your job role is, the chances are your day-to-day life would be easier with enhanced computer skills. This beginner’s Microsoft Word and PowerPoint course will help you learn the basics of Word and PowerPoint. This knowledge can help you in a wide variety of routine situations. These can include creating CVs, helping your kids with their homework, or preparing presentations for family events. You will learn how to Enter and Edit text in a document, save and print your work, format and align text, add images, create a poster and customise Templates in Word. Create Striking Presentations with images, and designs. Run slide shows and produce audience notes.
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Dates:
Fri 20/06/2025 -
Fri 25/07/2025
Times:
1:00pm - 3:00pm
Duration:
6 sessions
Location:
Online
Tutor:
Mark Turk
Course code:
Q00022064
How you'll learn:
Online
Availability:
5 places remaining
Status:
Available
Fee range
Free to £44.40

Art Practical: Explore and Draw the Human Form

Discover accessible ways to improve your skills in drawing the human form. Through a variety of different techniques to enhance our looking and understanding of all aspects of drawing the human figure – nude and clothed, you will be encouraged to get out of your comfort zone and see the subject afresh. You are encouraged to use this as an opportunity to use and get to know different materials and how they can influence your depiction in a natural rather than measured way. You will learn through demonstrations of techniques and through feedback and guidance given by your tutor on this online course with references to artists art work.
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Dates:
Mon 23/06/2025 -
Mon 14/07/2025
Times:
5:00pm - 7:30pm
Duration:
4 sessions
Location:
Online
Tutor:
Debra Collis
Course code:
Q00022003
How you'll learn:
Online
Availability:
10+ places remaining
Status:
Available
Fee range
Free to £37.00

Beginners Photo Editing skills

Sometimes you get that perfect shot. The lighting is right, the exposure is perfect, and the composition is balanced. Maybe you notice a stranger lurking in the background of the photo that throws everything off. Not to worry, there are tools that can help you remove areas of an image without leaving a trace! This photo editing course teaches you how to to add text to images and apply effects and filters. Crop (remove) unwanted areas of an image. Customise templates and create a collage. Add animation and save as a video or animated gif for a website.
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Dates:
Tue 24/06/2025 -
Tue 29/07/2025
Times:
12:30pm - 2:30pm
Duration:
6 sessions
Location:
Woodlands Community Library and Hub (Don
Windmill Balk Lane
Woodlands
Doncaster
DN6 7SF
Tutor:
Mark Turk
Course code:
Q00022066
How you'll learn:
In venue
Availability:
5 places remaining
Status:
Available
Fee range
Free to £50.40