Community Learning

A New You is a four-day training course to help improve your social, money management and communication skills both at home and in your place of work or volunteering. The course covers a range of topics and practical skills.

Our session topics are: Team Work, Being Assertive, Stress Awareness, and Communication / Life Skills.

Come and join us for 3 hours of FREE summer fun for you and your child/children.

Help them explore numeracy through a range of creative and physical activities. Make new friends and play with numbers!

Drinks and light refreshments will be provided.

Do you have a family budget?

Learn how to create a family budget in easy steps and how to keep track of your spending, which in turn, can make your money go further. You will learn how to keep a track of your spending, whilst improving your numeracy skills at the same time!

Learn how to improve your child's confidence in numbers by incorporating activities and awareness in everyday tasks.

The best way to improve confidence in numbers is by doing tasks where children are focused on something they enjoy and numbers are part of an activity. This in turn will improve your confidence as parent to continue to help your child develop this important life skill.

Come along and learn some new recipes and learn about the cost savings and health benefits of an air fryer. 

Attendees will have a 1 in 10 chance to WIN an air fryer. Below are the dates of our training upcoming training sessions.

This course helps you make the most of your store cupboard. It will look at current cooking habits and highlight areas where savings can be made. It will improve your confidence in cooking from scratch on a budget and is a chance to meet with other local people and share money-saving tips and recipe ideas.

Garment repair can be painful and expensive. We have so many clothes in our cupboards that occupy space and are so loved that we don’t have the heart to throw them away. Mending your clothes and upcycling them not only helps you save money but also helps reduce long-term impacts on the environment.  

In this session, participants will learn simple hand-sewing techniques that will enable them to repair much-loved clothes and make them wearable again. No sewing skills are needed. Just bring your garments that need repairing. If they wish, participants may bring their own sewing supplies.

Managing personal finances and making decisions about money are an important part of everyday life.

In this session you will understand how to budget and keep track of your spending and gain an overview on how finance is designed whilst improving your numeracy skills.

This session will help you to understand the benefit of shopping on a budget. It will look at your current shopping habits and highlight areas where savings can be made.

We are advertising courses for residents of certain communities, e.g. Cottonmill in St Albans, and Peartree in Welwyn Garden City. To register your interest in learning with your community members, get in touch!