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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

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

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

Arts and Crafts

Develop your watercolour painting skills further by learning how to set out a composition and paint subjects such as seasonal foliage, snow scenes and winter trees.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Tuesday, 4 November 2025

Number of weeks: 7

Time: 14:30 - 16:30

Venue: Kendal Cancer Care

Full fee: £96.00
Concessionary fee: £50.50
Staff fee: £82.35

Arts and Crafts

Learn to analyse your art and the art of others and use this knowledge to add depth, both in content and meaning, to the watercolour paintings you produce during the course.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Tuesday, 4 November 2025

Number of weeks: 6

Time: 10:00 - 12:00

Venue: The Gather, Ennerdale

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

Arts and Crafts

This course will widen your knowledge of famous painters and art movements, and help you to apply the techniques and theory discussed in your own watercolours.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Tuesday, 16 September 2025

Number of weeks: 6

Time: 10:00 - 12:00

Venue: The Gather, Ennerdale

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

Arts and Crafts

Explore the art of using wire to create sculptures with a focus on nature-inspired designs such as different flowers, birds, bees, and trees! Perfect for new-comers to sculpture.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Friday, 12 September 2025

Number of weeks: 7

Time: 12:30 - 14:30

Venue: Kendal Cancer Care

Full fee: £96.00
Concessionary fee: £50.50
Staff fee: £82.35

Languages

Join our experienced tutor (and native Japanese speaker) Sakiko to start your journey into learning the Japanese Language. Please note this course is designed to be delivered over a full academic year, covering three terms. If you wish to join the course in term 2 or term 3 please contact the centre to arrange an initial assessment to check that this is the right course and level for you. We will also ask the course tutor to contact you to discuss your current level and any previous language learning you have undertaken, again to ensure that the course is appropriate and that you will have an enjoyable and high quality learning experience with the service.

Mode of attendance: Online

Start date: Wednesday, 17 September 2025

Number of weeks: 11

Time: 13:30 - 14:30

Venue: Online Delivery

Full fee: £66.00
Concessionary fee: £33.00
Staff fee: £56.10

Languages

This is a fabulous class for those want to learn a new language or those who want to re-learn a language from scratch. We have excellent Tutors who will help you achieve. Please note this course is designed to be delivered over a full academic year, covering three terms. If you wish to join the course in term 2 or term 3 please contact the centre to arrange an initial assessment to check that this is the right course and level for you. We will also ask the course tutor to contact you to discuss your current level and any previous language learning you have undertaken, again to ensure that the course is appropriate and that you will have an enjoyable and high quality learning experience with the service.

Mode of attendance: Online

Start date: Wednesday, 17 September 2025

Number of weeks: 12

Time: 18:00 - 20:00

Venue: Online Delivery

Full fee: £144.00
Concessionary fee: £72.00
Staff fee: £122.40

Languages

Our Upper Intermediate level classes are ideal for those learners who have attended our Beginner, Improver and Intermediate level classes, or who meet the required standard as a result of previous learning. Please note this course is designed to be delivered over a full academic year, covering three terms. If you wish to join the course in term 2 or term 3 please contact the centre to arrange an initial assessment to check that this is the right course and level for you. We will also ask the course tutor to contact you to discuss your current level and any previous language learning you have undertaken, again to ensure that the course is appropriate and that you will have an enjoyable and high quality learning experience with the service.

Mode of attendance: Online

Start date: Monday, 15 September 2025

Number of weeks: 12

Time: 17:30 - 19:00

Venue: Online Delivery

Full fee: £162.00
Staff fee: £137.70