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Craft: Beginners Victorian Inspired Paper Craft
A modern maker’s practical guide to decorative paper-led traditions.
Beautiful step-by-step projects, each one taking its cue from a different tradition or technique, including origami, quilling, silhouette-cutting and fan-making, as well as contemporary paper sculpture
Led by contemporary designer/makers at the leading edge of today’s craft revival. The art of paper-made projects are functional, accessible, stylish and fashionable, and include tips on how to take the next steps towards developing your own designs.
This online course will give you the skill and confidence to express your passion for the handmade through the age-old crafts of cutting, sticking, folding and forming paper.
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Dates:Wed 22/01/2025 -
Wed 12/02/2025Times:1:30pm - 4:00pmDuration:4 sessionsLocation:OnlineTutor:Lois PittmanCourse code:Q00010151How you'll learn:OnlineAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £27.75
Get Ready for ESOL Reading (Entry 3)
Set yourself up for success at learning English with this ESOL preparation course. This course is designed to help you prepare for an ESOL entry 3 reading course. Learn key reading skills you’ll need for the entry 3 ESOL course in reading.
Get ready courses help you learn English at your own pace. They give you extra study time for each level and module so you can reach your full potential.
This is a non-accredited English course for adults. If you’re helping others access entry 3 ESOL classes in the UK, you’ve come to the right place.
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Dates:Wed 22/01/2025 -
Wed 19/03/2025Times:12:30pm - 3:00pmDuration:17 sessionsLocation:OnlineTutor:Rasha AhmedCourse code:Q00015950How you'll learn:OnlineAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £150.00
Beginners Lip Reading
Hearing impairments bring a variety of challenges, both to those who lose their hearing and their loved ones.
Luckily, there are communication techniques you can learn to be able to maintain healthy interactions. Learn to
communicate effectively despite hearing impairments with this beginners’ lip reading course. This course is
appropriate for you if you have hearing impairments or if you’d like to communicate with a friend or family
member with hearing loss. Lip reading for beginners gives you an introduction to some essential lip shapes.
Explore deaf awareness issues to understand how hearing loss affects communication. Learn about speech
patterns and cues to facilitate interactions.
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Dates:Wed 22/01/2025 -
Wed 19/03/2025Times:10:00am - 12:00pmDuration:8 sessionsLocation:Congleton Library (Congleton)
Congleton Library
Market Street
Congleton
CW12 1BUTutor:Debra BlinstonCourse code:Q00020673How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £67.20
Award in Preparation for Work in Community Interpreting Level 2
The role of the community interpreter is an integral part of our changing communities and increasingly important. The interpreter acts as a bridge between communities and enables people to access the services they need and approach situations which otherwise would not be possible.
The Level 2 Certificate in Preparing for the Community Interpreting Role enables learners who are speakers of other languages to develop the language and skills necessary to go on and train as Community Interpreters at Level 3 and Level 4.
This is the ideal qualification for anyone who wants to enter the interpreting profession and become a paid interpreter or volunteer in the UK.
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Dates:Wed 22/01/2025 -
Thu 01/05/2025Times:1:00pm - 3:00pmDuration:24 sessionsLocation:The Media Centre Huddersfield
Creative Media Centres Ltd
7 Northumberland St
Huddersfield
HD1 1RLTutor:Dorota RezulskaCourse code:Q00018423How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £300.00
WEA Membership
WEA membership is changing: more information is coming soon!
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Duration:12 monthsFee:£15
Creative Writing for Wellbeing-Body and Earth stories
This friendly creative writing course will invite you to enter into relationship with your bodies and surroundings. The session will be held in a supportive way and will integrate some simple meditation (adaptable to all bodies), prompts for creative and reflective expression through writing, and even some environmental science! You will be guided to a holistic understanding of person and place. This course is ideal for people who like to write and to contemplate how to live more skilfully as individuals, as a community and in relationship with their surroundings. There will be time for sharing small parts of your writing towards the end of the workshop but no pressure, it’s about an unfolding individual/shared creative process and participants need to feel at ease to write freely.
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Dates:Wed 22/01/2025 -
Wed 19/03/2025Times:10:00am - 12:30pmDuration:8 sessionsLocation:Shekinah Endeavour House (Torquay)
Endeavour House, 228 Union Str
Torquay
TQ2 5QSTutor:Ione HarrisCourse code:Q00017176How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £88.20
Entry Level Essential Digital Skills: Getting to grips with Microsoft Office
An exciting new opportunity to develop your confidence and skills in using Microsoft Office is coming to Woodlands Library!
This course will include learning to use Microsoft Word, PowerPoint & Outlook for Emails.
It’s a course for anyone, from beginners to those with a little more experience, giving you the essential skills for some of the most used platforms in the workplace and beyond.
This course is funded by South Yorkshire Combined Authority.
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Dates:Wed 22/01/2025 -
Wed 26/02/2025Times:9:30am - 11:30amDuration:6 sessionsLocation:Woodlands Community Library and Hub (Don
Windmill Balk Lane
Woodlands
Doncaster
DN6 7SFTutor:Mark TurkCourse code:Q00019928How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £50.40
Seated Yoga
Did you know yoga can help you get stronger and more flexible, no matter your age or abilities? There are yoga courses for all levels and needs. Even if you can’t take part in a standing class, this beginner’s yoga course can help you gain mobility without taking a toll on your joints.
Seated yoga is perfect for you if you’d have difficulty following a regular yoga lesson. Whether you have mobility issues or chronic fatigue, this yoga course can help you reduce stiffness in your joints and learn to relax. Enjoy the practice of yoga from a chair.
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Dates:Wed 22/01/2025 -
Wed 12/02/2025Times:1:00pm - 2:30pmDuration:4 sessionsLocation:Belgrave Neighbourhood Co-operative
Housing Association
131 Loughborough Road
Leicester
LE4 5LQTutor:Sukhwinder GarchaCourse code:Q00018762How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £37.80
Creativity for Calm
Are you looking for a relaxing hobby to help you unwind? Creating moments of calm in the day is essential for our emotional well-being and mental health. Step into the world of mindful crafts with this course and enjoy art for relaxation.
This creativity course allows you to explore your art and craft skills to find practices that soothe you. Whether you enjoy drawing, painting, origami, or craft-making, art courses can help you find a relaxing hobby.
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Dates:Wed 22/01/2025 -
Wed 26/03/2025Times:10:00am - 12:00pmDuration:10 sessionsLocation:Briardale house (Blyth)
Briardale Road
Blyth
NE24 5ANTutor:Elaine SwanCourse code:Q00020715How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee:Free
Personal Development: Beginners Language at Work
This course is put on in partnership with Wolverhampton City Council and the DWP. It is suitable with learners who wish to improve their English to get ready to apply for a job, who are unemployed and looking for work and who also have English as a second language. Learners with English as a second language, who are looking for work and receiving benefits and aged 19 plus are eligible. If you are in receipt of work related benefits, speak to your work coach at the Job Centre and mention JCP Wolverhampton Hub. Subject to eligibility, travel expenses can be paid. For further information call 07881 358679. There is an information and registration day planned and your advisor will let you know.
This course is funded by the West Midlands Combined Authority.
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Dates:Wed 22/01/2025 -
Wed 09/04/2025Times:9:45am - 11:45amDuration:12 sessionsLocation:The Old School Building (Wolverhampton)
The Old School
73 Dudley Road
Wolverhampton
WV2 3BYTutor:Saima GulzarCourse code:Q00015661How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:8 places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £92.40
Pre Entry ESOL: Get ready for Language at Work
This basic course will introduce learners to the world at work and the language needed to enter it. The course has been developed in partnership with Wolverhampton City Council which refers learners to this and other programmes hosted at the Old School, which is a community centre run by Blakenhall Action Community Forum. This course is particularly suitable for students are unemployed and have been referred by Job Centres to improve their spoken and written English and thereby get closer to getting a job.
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Dates:Thu 23/01/2025 -
Thu 10/04/2025Times:9:30am - 12:00pmDuration:12 sessionsLocation:The Old School Building (Wolverhampton)
The Old School
73 Dudley Road
Wolverhampton
WV2 3BYTutor:Shaheen ShahCourse code:Q00015594How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £126.00