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Curriculum area: Health and Wellbeing

Do you want to know how to live a healthy life? This course looks at aspects of our physical and mental health and wellbeing and how we can improve them.

Delivery type: In-person
Start date: Thursday, 6 May 2027
Number of weeks: 5
Time: 10:00 - 12:00
Venue: Lakeland House (Barrow)

Free Course

Curriculum area: Health and Wellbeing

Do you want to know how to live a healthy life? This course looks at aspects of our physical and mental health and wellbeing and how we can improve them.

Delivery type: In-person
Start date: Tuesday, 6 July 2027
Number of weeks: 4
Time: 09:30 - 12:00
Venue: Lakeland House (Barrow)

Free Course

Curriculum area: Arts and Crafts

Each week will focus on a different theme and skill to revise and develop the basic skills needed for watercolour painting.

Delivery type: In-person
Start date: Friday, 15 January 2027
Number of weeks: 9
Time: 09:30 - 11:30
Venue: Bransty Royal British Legion

Full fee: £135.00 | Concessionary fee: £67.50 | Staff fee: £114.75

Curriculum area: Arts and Crafts

Each week will be on a different theme and skill, from seascapes and watercolour washes, stone walls and textures to landscapes and limited colour palettes. You will learn how to work with watercolour in an experimental way to create exciting and dynamic paintings whilst learning the basic skills needed for watercolour painting.

Delivery type: In-person
Start date: Friday, 25 September 2026
Number of weeks: 12
Time: 09:30 - 11:30
Venue: Bransty Royal British Legion

Full fee: £180.00 | Concessionary fee: £90.00 | Staff fee: £153.00

Curriculum area: Arts and Crafts

The aim of this course is to experiment with watercolour and a range of mixed media to create interesting textures and marks in your paintings.

Delivery type: In-person
Start date: Friday, 16 April 2027
Number of weeks: 12
Time: 09:30 - 11:30
Venue: Bransty Royal British Legion

Full fee: £180.00 | Concessionary fee: £90.00 | Staff fee: £153.00

Curriculum area: Health and Wellbeing

Learn how what we eat and how it is prepared can have a big impact on our physical and mental health

Delivery type: In-person
Start date: Thursday, 15 April 2027
Number of weeks: 3
Time: 10:00 - 12:00
Venue: Lakeland House (Barrow)

Free Course

Curriculum area: Health and Wellbeing

Learn how to cook interesting, healthy meals for yourself and your family within your budget.

Delivery type: In-person
Start date: Thursday, 8 October 2026
Number of weeks: 4
Time: 10:00 - 12:00
Venue: Lakeland House (Barrow)

Free Course

Curriculum area: Health and Wellbeing

Learn how to cook interesting, healthy meals for yourself and your family within your budget for the holidays

Delivery type: In-person
Start date: Thursday, 10 December 2026
Number of weeks: 2
Time: 10:00 - 12:00
Venue: Lakeland House (Barrow)

Free Course

Curriculum area: ESOL

Do you want to improve your reading skills? Do you want to join a fun and friendly class? If the answer is yes then this could be the right course for you! By the end of this course your knowledge and skills will have improved and you will be confident to: use prepositions, adverbials and connectives, use knowledge of common words to understand text and find information, use detailed reading to find specific information. If this sounds very complicated do not worry! You will work with an experienced and enthusiastic ESOL tutor and a group of your peers to develop the skills and knowledge to achieve this qualification and be in the best position to move forward with your studies. You need to be able to attend classes each week and complete homework to give you the best chance of success. You will be able to study other awards in the ESOL Skills for Life suite of qualifications on successful completion.

Delivery type: In-person
Start date: Wednesday, 24 February 2027
Number of weeks: 15
Time: 12:30 - 14:45
Venue: Stricklandgate House

Free Course

Curriculum area: ESOL

Do you want to improve your speaking and listening skills? Do you want to join a fun and friendly class? If the answer is yes then this could be the right course for you! By the end of the course you will feel more confident to be able to: Understand directions and instructions, use intonation appropriately in statements and questions, use knowledge of grammatical detail e.g. past and present, continuous tense, present perfect tense, ‘used to’ understand text. You will be confident to use a range of ‘wh’ – questions, yes/no and open questions using different tenses. You will be able to give a short description using a range of adjectives, comparatives and superlatives. If this sounds daunting don`t worry! You will work with your peers and an experienced and enthusiastic ESOL tutor to develop the skills and knowledge to need to achieve this qualification and be in a positive position to move to further study. It is very important that you can attend all classes as this puts you in the best position to succeed.

Delivery type: In-person
Start date: Wednesday, 9 September 2026
Number of weeks: 22
Time: 09:15 - 12:00
Venue: Stricklandgate House

Free Course