Courses

Applications are now open for the Peckham Digital Accelerator Zone, a free digital skills training programme designed by University of the Arts London (UAL) and UKBlackTech, running from November 2024 to March 2025.  

Flexible modules cover Web Development, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence, supported by career preparation workshops and networking events led by industry professionals. The programme is open to young people aged 18-30 from black and ethnic minority backgrounds, living in South London, who already have technical knowledge or an enthusiasm for technology, and are currently seeking employment. For more information and to apply, please visit: https://peckhamdaz.com/ or download a flyer here ^{(pdf, 5.5mb)}.

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Bermondsey Community Kitchen is providing a SEND programme for young people up to age 18.

Students can learn cooking skills and gain qualifications up to City and Guilds level 2.

Location:
9 Market Place, London, SE16 3UQ

Accessibility
Facilities are up one flight of stairs with no lift

How to apply
Please visit the Bermondsey Community Kitchen website to enquire

Contact 
For more information, call Mike Donvan on 0207 232 5111 or email infobermondseycommunitykitchen.co.uk

Further information

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• Download Newsletter - May 2023 ^{(pdf, 582kb)}
• Visit the Bermondsey Community Kitchen website

Want to work out what you’re passionate about and gain confidence to start your career?

On Princes Trust free courses you’ll get the chance to wow potential employers and learn from people who’ve already worked their way up at companies like ASOS, Sony, the NHS and Gap.

We offer free courses to young people aged 11 to 30 who are out of work, education and training and currently based in the UK. 
To find courses and opportunities near you, follow this link to the Princes Trust webpage

More information about our programmes available here

Telephone: 0800 842 842

You can build your confidence, try a new course or start your career with The Prince’s Trust. Our team is available to offer advice and guidance for 11 to 30-year olds, 9am to 9pm, seven days a week.

Click here to visit the Princes Trust to start a live chat session with an advisor.
Our opening hours are Monday to Sunday, 9.00am to 9.00pm. 

Shape develops training opportunities for disabled people in the creative sector. Shape works with disabled artists, focuses on inclusion in cultural institutions by training them to be more open to disabled people as well as running participatory arts and development programmes.

Website - https://www.shapearts.org.uk/
Telephone - 020 7424 7330
Email - info@shapearts.org.uk

Construction Youth Trust’s mission is to inspire and support young people to fulfil their career potential by connecting them with meaningful opportunities within the construction and built environment sector. Social mobility is at the heart of our work. Through our long-standing links with a wide range of employers, we connect young people directly to relatable role models, work experience placements, and, ultimately, employment, training, and education opportunities.

Our programme is designed to support young Southwark residents aged 16-30 who are currently not in education, employment or training and are interested in construction and built environment careers. Through an employer-led programme combining bespoke 1-1 coaching and group sessions, we aim to help young people to discover careers best suited to their skills and interests and support them to make positive progression on their career journey.

You could learn and gain Construction Multi-Skills, Level 1 Health & Safety and a CSCS card.

Construction Youth Trust deliver programmes all year around and have taster days to try and see if you would like to join us.

For more information contact our office:
Phone: 0207 467 9540
Website: Construction Youth Trust
Email: hello@constructionyouth.org.uk

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Southbank Mosaics are running their award winning courses for children interested in art and design for special needs students in the new academic year. Students make mosaic work for exhibition and develop their personal portfolios in a professional artisan studio.

This is for individual students and groups interested in art and design. We work with mainstream and Special Education Needs children. We also accommodate parents and SEN assistants or teachers. All children have the option of taking accredited courses in Level 2 (Introduction to Mosaic Making: Towards Employment) and every child who has taken a course with us in the past, has successfully achieved credits, awards or certificates. Some children have been coming to us for 5 years, with two students returning to volunteer at our sessions. Our central London location means we also visit the many galleries, festivals and events in the vicinity.

Criteria for access to service
Paid for service: £480 for term, one day per week. Can negotiate bespoke service. Evening and weekend courses for teachers and adults start from £150.00.

Accessibility of this service:
Sessions for groups and individual students have to be allocated according to our opening hours and tutor availability. Our sessions for schools are run Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 10am – 4pm during school terms. We unfortunately cannot accommodate wheelchair users as we are based on a church crypt with no lift.

How can I access this service?
Please contact our studio directly, calling us on 02076206070. We welcome a discussion about any individual learning needs.

Do you need to pay for this service?
Yes

Useful to know:
School Term only.

Training provided:
We provide a safe and nurturing environment where students can learn the practical skills of mosaic making, working on their own projects or contributing as part of a team to our public realm projects. We help each student to write an individual learning plan to capture their own goals and intentions and regularly review the plan with them to make sure focus is maintained.

Students will be able to gain the following:

• Design skills
• Mosaic making, fixing and installation skills
• Understanding of how to price their own work (if they wish to sell work)
• Understanding of how to operate and behave in a working art studio
• Experience of team work
• Patience and delayed gratification
• An understanding and insight into their own power to create
• Civic pride at seeing the work they help to make out on the streets
• Enhanced feeling of wellbeing
• Accredited qualifications (optional)

Drop in service: Please arrange an appointment with us if you want to see our studio and discuss training with us.

Telephone: 0207 620 6070
Email: info@southbankmosaics.com

The Thomas Calton Centre is the main activity hub for Southwark Council’s adult and family learning and skills service. The adult learning service offers a wide variety of classes, both day and evening. Programme courses include the improvement of literacy and numeracy skills, ESOL, childcare, woodwork, Pilates, Zumba fitness, improving job prospects, CV writing or job readiness skills and developing skills in a range of arts and crafts including textiles, health or creative writing.

Southwark Adult Learning service works with people in Southwark to create a fairer future for all and we are continuing to provide learners with learning opportunities to enjoy and achieve.

Our  programme  includes courses that:

• lead to formal qualifications
• help you gain job readiness skills
• help you improve your job prospects
• help you improve your literacy, numeracy and language skills
• help you gain recognised qualifications
• can lead to career change
• help you study for your own personal development
• develop skills in a range of arts and crafts, health and fitness or improve your creative writing

Contact us by phone 07436 701 899 or 07436 701 854 or email adult.learning@southwark.gov.uk.

To find out about all of our courses see Southwark Council's Adult Learning page.   

Walworth Garden Farm offer a variety of workshops for people over the age on 19. The workshops are all centred around Health and Wellbeing. These include Introduction to Gardening, Herbal Medicine, Yoga, Perfumery, Natural Cosmetics Making and more.

Who is the service for?
The Workshops are open to all over 19, however if you’re from a country within the EEA you can attend a free workshop each academic year. (We have a quota of free places, we suggest you book early to avoid disappointment)

Booking information
Pick a workshop and complete the booking form.
For further information or support please email: info@walworthgarden.org.uk

Do you need to pay for this service?
Some workshops are funded by Southwark Council. Some workshops are individually priced. You can buy and gift our workshops from our website.

Choose from hundreds of online courses from top universities and specialist organisations.

Browse our course list to find something that you’d like to learn about. We have courses in a diverse range of subjects and are always adding more. Courses vary in length. Most are six to ten weeks long but we also have some shorter two and three week courses.

Website: Future Learn

A 12 week introductory traineeship programme to Accounting, for those who are unemployed or have little/no work experience.

How to register: Register online here.

Overview: If you are aged between 16-18 and not sure which career path to choose, why not consider a 12 week traineeship at KBM.
A real opportunity to obtain work experience and learn new skills and career progression within a professional environment.