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Digital Skills

This course offers an introduction to iPhones 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: Tuesday, 2 September 2025

Number of weeks: 2

Time: 09:30 - 12:00

Venue: Penrith Library

Free Course

Fully Booked

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: Friday, 10 October 2025

Number of weeks: 3

Time: 12:30 - 14:30

Venue: Civic Centre (Carlisle)

Free Course

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: Friday, 5 December 2025

Number of weeks: 3

Time: 12:30 - 14:30

Venue: Civic Centre (Carlisle)

Free Course

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, 27 November 2025

Number of weeks: 3

Time: 13:30 - 15:30

Venue: Kendal Library

Free Course

Digital Skills

A beginners guide to Microsoft PowerPoint. Learn how to create your own presentations and enhance them using images, transitions and animations.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Friday, 7 November 2025

Number of weeks: 3

Time: 09:30 - 12:00

Venue: Barrow Library

Free Course

Digital Skills

This qualification focuses on enabling learners to interact with word processing applications and tools commonly encountered in the workplace and in learning environments.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Monday, 29 September 2025

Number of weeks: 8

Time: 09:45 - 12:45

Venue: Penrith Library

Free Course

Digital Skills

This course is designed for Adults who would like basic IT skills to give them confidence to move on to a Beginners course.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Wednesday, 10 September 2025

Number of weeks: 3

Time: 10:00 - 12:00

Venue: Penrith Library

Free Course

Greener Curriculum

Reuse all your old scraps of fabric, curtains, bedding and old clothes and recycle them into something new and beautiful! Making something like this is a good way to capture memories of the past in your choice of fabrics and while we all work together, we will chat – a sociable and therapeutic way to spend time being creative and make new friends.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Saturday, 13 September 2025

Number of weeks: 1

Time: 10:00 - 16:00

Venue: Penrith Library

Free Course

Fully Booked

Greener Curriculum

A six-week course to build hand-sewing or machine skills while creating an interior decoration from re-used fabrics.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Monday, 15 September 2025

Number of weeks: 6

Time: 13:00 - 16:00

Venue: Penrith Parish Centre

Free Course

Greener Curriculum

Learn how to re purpose clothing by and reconstructing old pieces into a new up cycled item of clothing or accessory.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Tuesday, 4 November 2025

Number of weeks: 7

Time: 09:30 - 12:00

Venue: Workington Library

Free Course