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Marketing Your Organisation
A two day course which will enable you to effectively communicate with the media and promote your organisation. You will learn how to write press releases, take and format digital images and design eye catching publicity.
Arrow GifCare Role Skills
This course is designed for anyone who is employed or volunteering in the Care sector. It focuses on the skills necessary to keep you and your customers safe and healthy at work. On completion of the course you can gain CIEH Level 2 Certificates in Food Safety and Health Safety.
Arrow GifSafe, Healthy Cooking
An introduction to food safety and basic kitchen management, practical catering skills, nutrition and menu planning. Gain a CIEH Level 2 Food Safety Certificate and a Certificate in Food Management and Healthy Living. This course would be useful to those employed or volunteering within the catering sector or those who work with food in any other capacity
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This is a dynamic, interactive course which will help you to ‘brush up’ on your numeracy and literacy skills and explore strategies to enable you to effectivel support your students. The course is inspiring, non threatening and fun. On successful completion you will have a CPD portfolio packed with practical and fun ways to support literacy and numeracy and have gained National Test Certificates in Literacy and Numeracy Level 2.
Arrow GifIntroduction to British Sign Language
Have you ever thought of learning British Sign Language but wondered if it was the language for you? 8 week introductory courses are available. They are ideal for those who would like to try out BSL. This course will give a friendly introduction to the language, and no prior knowledge is necessary. A course is also useful for anyone who would simply like to learn some basic survival signs. By the end of the course, you will be able to improve your communication skills with Deaf people on a range of topics that involve simple, everyday language.
Arrow GifASDAN Certificate in Community Volunteering
This is a straightforward, nationally recognised qualification for volunteers. It offers you the chance to show the skills you have used and developed as a volunteer and gain recognition for them. The course is run as a series of 6 workshops
Arrow GigAssertiveness & Decision Making
The Assertiveness and Decision making course (Entry Level 3) runs for four weeks. It looks at the issues that affect our ability to be assertive and to make decisions. Tools are given to improve your skill in both areas.
Arrow GifBusiness Start Up
This course is for anyone setting up their own business for the first time. Business concepts, market research and financial and resource planning are all covered. At the end of the course you will have a plan for your business.
Arrow GifDigital Photography
If you want to improve your photographic skills this course will teach you the basics of photo image capture. We can teach you to set up and use digital cameras and related materials and data. You will also gain an understanding of how photographic work is prepared, organised, carried out and concluded. The course will also help you to improve your numeracy skills.
Arrow GifIntroduction to Personal Safety
Think personal, think safety, think you. We are offering 2 awareness raising sessions: Personal Safety at Work – Learn about how to reduce the risks of becoming a victim of violence and aggression in the workplace and how to maintain a safer working environment. Lone Working - This session will help you identify risks relating to personal safety when lone working and strategies for tracing lone workers and working alone.

ESOL, Literacy & Numeracy.

Arrow GifESOL **
Would you like to improve your English to help you in your life in the UK? We can help you with: Shopping, Work, School, Health.
EVENING CLASSES AVAILABLE.
Arrow GifLiteracy **
Would you like to develop your reading and writing skills? We can help you with writing letters, filling in forms, reading between the lines and word processing
EVENING CLASSES AVAILABLE.
Arrow GifNumeracy **
Would you like to be more confident in real-life Maths? We can help you with cooking - weights and measures, making up a solution safely - ratios, knowing a bargain - percentages, measuring - areas and volume.
EVENING CLASSES AVAILABLE
Arrow GifFinancial Literacy
There has never been a more important time for everyone to improve their financial capability. This course will enable participants to gain the necessary skills, knowledge and understanding to make informed decisions and effective choices regarding their finances.
Arrow GifCreative Writing
The aim of the course is to foster enjoyment, build skills, stretch ways of working, set challenges & learn techniques whilst introducing the writer to several areas of writing practice.

**ESOL, Literacy and Numeracy courses run regularly and are available to join at any time.

IT.

Arrow Gif IT Taster Sessions
These informal 2 hour sessions will introduce you to using the Internet, how to set up an email account, Word Processing and other software packages.

ITQ 1 and 2

Arrow GifITQ 1
These informal 2 hour sessions will introduce you to using the Internet, how to set up an email account, Word Processing and other software packages.
Arrow GifITQ 2
If you have already mastered basic IT skills, this course will provide scope for you to improve and achieve a higher level IT NVQ. These courses run regularly and are available to join at any time. EVENING CLASSES AVAILABLE.
Arrow GifWebsite Design
Are you new to Web design and want to learn how to design and build simple websites using Dreamweaver software? This course will give you the skills needed to set up a
website.
 

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