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Android Smartphone for Beginners (BAR24T101)

Digital Skills

This course offers an introduction to Android Smartphones and how they can be used in everyday life. We will cover such topics as how to access the internet using your phone, how to access your emails and how to alter basic settings amongst other topics

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Thursday, 15 May 2025

Number of weeks: 3

Time: 10:00 - 12:00

Venue: Hindpool Community Centre

Free Course

Android Smartphone for Improvers (BAR24T102)

Digital Skills

The emphasis of this course is about Apps that we use in a ‘typical day’ scenario, such as a day out by train, city break by car, using Google maps as Satnav, online groceries and many more!

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Thursday, 12 June 2025

Number of weeks: 3

Time: 10:00 - 12:00

Venue: Hindpool Community Centre

Free Course

Beginners Drawing - - Develop Confidence in Outdoor Sketching (WHI24T076)

Arts and Crafts

Have you wanted to sketch and draw outside before? The aim of this course is to provide you with useful tips and to help you develop your confidence at sketching outside.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Friday, 6 June 2025

Number of weeks: 5

Time: 10:00 - 12:00

Venue: The Gather, Ennerdale

Full fee: £60.00
Concessionary fee: £30.00
Staff fee: £51.00

Beginners Drawing: Experimental Drawing (BAR24T074)

Arts and Crafts

This course will take you through the basic skills needed for drawing and introduce you to some exciting and interesting ways to create dramatic and lively drawings.

Mode of attendance: Online

Start date: Wednesday, 4 June 2025

Number of weeks: 6

Time: 09:30 - 12:00

Venue: Online Delivery

Full fee: £82.50
Concessionary fee: £41.25
Staff fee: £70.13

Beginners Painting - Develop Confidence in Outdoor Sketching (WHI24T075)

Arts and Crafts

Have you wanted to sketch and paint outside before but felt uncomfortable because people are watching? The aim of this course is to provide you with useful tips and to help you develop your confidence at sketching and using watercolour paint outside.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Tuesday, 3 June 2025

Number of weeks: 7

Time: 13:00 - 15:00

Venue: The Gather, Ennerdale

Full fee: £84.00
Concessionary fee: £42.00
Staff fee: £71.40

Beginners Photography- Photographing Devoke Water (WHI24T100)

Arts and Crafts

A trip to Devoke Water led by one of our experienced Photography Tutors.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Saturday, 21 June 2025

Number of weeks: 1

Time: 13:00 - 16:00

Venue: Devoke Water

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

Cook With Leftovers (BAR24T100)

Health and Wellbeing

This FREE course is to help you economise, by making tasty new dishes out of leftovers.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Thursday, 5 June 2025

Number of weeks: 5

Time: 10:00 - 12:00

Venue: Hindpool Community Centre

Free Course

Excel Improvers Workshop (BAR24T067)

Digital Skills

This course is suitable for learners who can use spreadsheet software at a basic level and would like to benefit from the more advanced features available. Learners will feel able to use more advanced tools & techniques, functions & formulas, allowing them to create workbooks with confidence.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Wednesday, 2 July 2025

Number of weeks: 4

Time: 13:30 - 15:30

Venue: Hindpool Community Centre

Free Course

Improvers Ceramics – Be Inspired by a Contemporary Potter (WHI24T095)

Arts and Crafts

Produce work that shows an inspiration from a contemporary potter.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Wednesday, 4 June 2025

Number of weeks: 5

Time: 16:30 - 18:30

Venue: Florence Art Centre (Egremont)

Full fee: £70.00
Concessionary fee: £40.00
Staff fee: £61.00