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Health and Wellbeing

This workshop introduces you to the basic skills you need to navigate safely in the hills using a map and compass.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Monday, 13 October 2025

Number of weeks: 1

Time: 13:00 - 16:00

Venue: Pennine Way CDC

Full fee: £19.50
Concessionary fee: £9.75
Staff fee: £16.58

Health and Wellbeing

This workshop introduces you to the basic skills you need to navigate safely in the hills using a map and compass.

Mode of attendance: Online

Start date: Monday, 3 November 2025

Number of weeks: 1

Time: 18:00 - 21:00

Venue: Online Delivery

Full fee: £18.00
Concessionary fee: £9.00
Staff fee: £15.30

Arts and Crafts

Mixed media art is creative, exciting and experimental. This course will show you how to have fun with art through collage, printing, painting, model making, assemblage and altered art.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Wednesday, 17 September 2025

Number of weeks: 12

Time: 15:30 - 17:30

Venue: Botcherby Community Centre

Full fee: £156.00
Concessionary fee: £78.00
Staff fee: £132.60

Arts and Crafts

Mixed media art is creative, exciting and experimental. This course will show you how to have fun with art through collage, printing, painting, model making, assemblage and altered art.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Thursday, 18 September 2025

Number of weeks: 12

Time: 18:30 - 20:30

Venue: Upperby CDC

Full fee: £156.00
Concessionary fee: £78.00
Staff fee: £132.60

Arts and Crafts

Portrait painting is challenging but exciting, and this course offers you a chance to experiment with different media, styles and techniques to produce a range of different portraits.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Tuesday, 16 September 2025

Number of weeks: 12

Time: 13:00 - 15:00

Venue: Botcherby Community Centre

Full fee: £156.00
Concessionary fee: £78.00
Staff fee: £132.60

Arts and Crafts

How much do you dare take away!

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Wednesday, 17 September 2025

Number of weeks: 6

Time: 16:30 - 18:30

Venue: Florence Art Centre (Egremont)

Full fee: £86.00
Concessionary fee: £47.00
Staff fee: £74.30

Arts and Crafts

Push your watercolour painting skills further by experimenting with expressive, loose, contemporary watercolour techniques and other media such as pen, collage and pastel.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Tuesday, 9 September 2025

Number of weeks: 7

Time: 14:30 - 16:30

Venue: Kendal Cancer Care

Fully Booked

Arts and Crafts

Watercolour painting is all about the building up of layers from light to dark. This course will look at the use of layers as a way to develop depth, texture and mix colours in your paintings.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Tuesday, 4 November 2025

Number of weeks: 6

Time: 13:00 - 15:00

Venue: The Gather, Ennerdale

Full fee: £78.00
Concessionary fee: £39.00
Staff fee: £66.30

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.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Tuesday, 16 September 2025

Number of weeks: 6

Time: 13:00 - 15:00

Venue: The Gather, Ennerdale

Fully Booked

Arts and Crafts

A seven-week course to build sewing machine skills while creating gathers and pleats from new or re-used fabrics.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Monday, 3 November 2025

Number of weeks: 7

Time: 13:00 - 16:00

Venue: Penrith Parish Centre

Full fee: £136.50
Concessionary fee: £68.25
Staff fee: £116.03