Skills for Life: Practical Learning for Adults

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:

*You may be eligible for this course to be free if your personal income is less than £35,000 and you live in the York North Yorkshire Combined Authority postcode area.

If your personal income is between £25,000 and £35,000 we would request a 25% contribution to the cost of the course. Learners may study more than one tailored learning course, provided each course has a distinct learning objective and aim.

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.

Liz, Cookery School