Build your confidence, learn a new skill, boost your wellbeing!
Is there something you want to learn or need a helping hand to start to understand?
We have a wide range of community courses including cookery, business, DIY and life skills courses. These courses are free*, and are a great way to improve your skills or learn something new.
Our Skills for Life courses include:
- Building Confidence To Return To Education
- Clay For Wellbeing - Therapeutic Ceramics
- Digital Skills for the Over 60s - Emails (Outlook)
- Digital Skills for the Over 60s - Shopping Safely Online
- Digital Skills for the Over 60s - Using the Internet Safely
- Digital Skills for the Over 60s - An Introduction to Social Media
- Building Confidence For Learning For ESOL Speakers
- DIY Skills To Build Confidence For ESOL Speakers
- Effective Communication For ESOL Speakers
- How Does UK Education Work For ESOL Speakers
- Helping Your Teenager With Their Maths GCSE
- Helping Your Teenager With Their English GCSE
- How To Help Your Teenager With Their Homework
- How To Read For Pleasure
- Mark Making For Improved Mood
- Reading To Develop Learning
- Researching To Develop Learning
- SEND Awareness For Parents Of Teenagers
- SEND Awareness For Parents Of Young Children
- Supporting A Young Person To Promote A Growth Mindset
- Skin Through The Years
- Writing to Develop Learning
* Courses not classed as community interest: You may be eligible for full fee remission for this course if your gross annual income is less than £25,000 and you live in the York North Yorkshire Combined Authority postcode area. If your gross annual income is between £25,000 and £35,000 we would request a 25% contribution to the cost of the course. If your gross annual income is over £35,000 there is a fee for this course. If you do not live in the York North Yorkshire Combined Authority area, you will not be able to do this course.
Courses classed as community interest: You may be eligible for full fee remission for this course if your gross annual income is less than £35,000 and you live in the York North Yorkshire Combined Authority postcode area. If your gross annual income is over £35,000 there is a fee for this course. If you do not live in the York North Yorkshire Combined Authority area, you will not be able to do this course.
What our students say
I’ve cooked for four kids and a husband for 30 years, but I came away from the Cookery School with new ideas - even just simple techniques that make things easier like chopping onions and Gio’s so calm and patient. He’s the opposite of what you see from chefs on television.
It was all so enjoyable, and we had a lovely lunch in the middle, as well as having stuff to take away that I could show off at home! You get the recipes to take home and everything is printed out in really simple steps. Every bit of it was fantastic and I absolutely loved it.
