Course Information

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

Computer and Digital Skills for Beginners

Do you want to gain confidence in using technology for everyday tasks and personal enrichment. Whether you’re new to computers or seeking to enhance your digital literacy, this course is the perfect starting point for your journey into the digital world.

Cooking with numbers

Cooking with numbers will help you improve your maths skills through practical cooking activities. Designed using recipes, measurements and budgeting to make maths fun, relevant, and confidence-boosting in everyday life.

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.

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.

Exploring Smartphones

Want to know how to use your smartphone? Explore apps and settings. Learn how to set alarms, schedule appointments, add contacts, organise your phone, search the internet and communicate using WhatsApp or email. Learn how your phone can help you for work and everyday life.

Gardening with numbers

Develop your maths skills through practical gardening. Learn to use measuring, budgeting, and problem-solving through gardening tasks, making maths engaging, hands-on, and relevant to everyday life.

More Internet Skills

Do you feel confident with online shopping? No? This course is the right one for you! This course will give you the skills and confidence to shop online, make savings and pay safely and securely.

Small Business Ideas

Have you wondered what it is like to run your own small business? This course will give you an introduction to what is required to start, develop and grow your own business.