Course Information

The Community Learning Service offers a wide range of free or low-cost courses for adults (primarily aged 19+) across Staffordshire.

Countryside ways to wellbeing and animal care

Promote your positive health and wellbeing through animal care and countryside activities. Enjoy hands-on animal care and mindful countryside activities that foster calmness and confidence. 

Creativity in nature

Explore the joy of creativity through inspiration from nature. Over the four weeks, you will develop a tool-kit of creative, nature-based activities, exercises and ideas to support stress reduction through boosting creativity

Design, Craft, Create

Release your creativity with this course. Explore projects, from crafting unique decorative pieces for your home to making patterns and sewing. Enhance practical skills and confidence to express personal style in a fun, inspiring countryside setting.

Developing independence

Build your confidence and independence with this wellbeing course that will help you to progress with everyday skills. Travel safely, cook simple meals, shop smartly and stay safe online to live more confidently.

Digital Internet Skills

Have some very basic knowledge but need a refresher on using your device or the Internet. This course will explore filling out online forms, downloading and uploading files such as pictures, PDFs and Menus, Sharing files and attaching to emails as well as saving to folders and drives. Explore apps and settings and searching online for Information, Price comparisons, Maps, Shopping and Public Services all with safety, privacy and protection in mind.

Digital Office Skills

Unsure about Office Programs? Need to explore the basics of Formatting and editing in a Word processor, Create a simple Presentation (Slideshow) with some animations, explore creating a spreadsheet and using basic formulas? This course will explore the above as well as how to organise as well as saving to folders, file management and creating and organising files and folders with an explanation of the Cloud Storage and costs.