Community Learning

Free community and family learning courses in your local area

Now, more than ever, being with other people in a safe and secure environment learning new things that are rewarding and enjoyable is more important than ever.

Whether you want to learn with other adults to improve your own skills, get into employment or just lift your mood or learn together with other families to support your children’s development, we have something to offer you.

We take learning out into the local communities through schools, faith centres, community centres and partner organisations.

This means that you can enjoy learning things that are important to you with others with trained experienced tutors.

We offer a huge range of courses for adults only or families. Here are just a few examples.

ESOL, English and maths • Digital skills (computing) • Keeping safe online • Gardening • Healthy eating on a budget • Arts and crafts such as sewing and jewellery making • Managing your money • Book clubs • Wellbeing • Preparing your child for school • Helping your children with their homework

Today we have celebrated Culture at City College Peterborough. My children and I have learnt cultures from Italy, China, India and Australia. It was extremely enjoyable doing all the crafts related to these countries. Celebrating different cultures brings understanding and respect among many people.

Eat Before You Print

Course code

14386000

Start date

4 Apr 2023

Day & Time

Tuesday 10:00 - 12:00

Sessions

1

Level

Not applicable

Location

City College Peterborough

Book Folding For Grandparents and Grandchildren

Course code

14386001

Start date

4 Apr 2023

Day & Time

Tuesday 10:00 - 12:00

Sessions

1

Level

Not applicable

Location

City College Peterborough

CLP2223GW: Green Activity Day

Course code

14385950

Start date

5 Apr 2023

Day & Time

Thursday 10:00 - 16:00

Sessions

1

Level

Not applicable

Location

Orton Longueville Woods

CLP2223GW: Green Activity Day

Course code

14385951

Start date

12 Apr 2023

Day & Time

Friday 10:00 - 16:00

Sessions

1

Level

Not applicable

Location

Central Park

CLP2223FL: Great Crested Newt Identification and Ecology

Course code

14385964

Start date

13 Apr 2023

Day & Time

Thursday 10:00 - 15:00

Sessions

1

Level

Not applicable

Location

Hampton Nature Reserve

CLP2223FL: Butterfly and Moth Identifcation and Surveying

Course code

14385965

Start date

13 Apr 2023

Day & Time

Tuesday 10:00 - 15:00

Sessions

1

Level

Not applicable

Location

Eye Green Nature Reserve

CLP2223BF: Box Works 3

Course code

14385936

Start date

17 Apr 2023

Day & Time

Monday 12:30 - 14:30

Sessions

12

Level

Not applicable

Location

Boxing Futures Ltd

CLP2223CPLT: Manmade

Course code

14385924

Start date

20 Apr 2023

Day & Time

Thursday 18:00 - 21:00

Sessions

3

Level

Not applicable

Location

Ace Training

Community Book Club: Summer Term

Course code

14385862

Start date

8 May 2023

Day & Time

Monday 18:00 - 20:00

Sessions

3

Level

Not applicable

Location

Online

CLP2223FL: Phase One Habitat Surveying

Course code

14385966

Start date

24 May 2023

Day & Time

Wednesday 10:00 - 15:00

Sessions

1

Level

Not applicable

Location

The Broadwalks Local Nature Reserve

CLP2223CPLT: Manmade

Course code

14385925

Start date

8 Jun 2023

Day & Time

Thursday 18:00 - 21:00

Sessions

5

Level

Not applicable

Location

Ace Training

CLP2223FL: Reptile Identifcation and Survey Training

Course code

14385967

Start date

8 Jun 2023

Day & Time

Thursday 10:00 - 15:00

Sessions

1

Level

Not applicable

Location

Hampton Nature Reserve

Are you a community organisation, charity, faith group or school who'd like City College Peterborough to deliver free community or family learning in your venue?

City College Peterborough works in partnership with schools and community organizations and provides funding and trained tutors to deliver free informal community learning to adults and families in Peterborough. We have over 75 years’ experience in delivering informal learning in our communities.

Our courses give everyone the opportunity to benefit. Studies have shown that informal community learning has huge benefits for adults’ physical and mental wellbeing, confidence and skills and can improve longevity of life.*

Having had a first taste of informal learning, adults are signposted to further opportunities, whether volunteering, further learning or employment.

*2019 Learning and Work Institute “Healthy, Wealthy and Wise.”

Family Learning is also free and is designed for parents/carers alone or with their children (early years only) to help parents support their children’s development during their early years and at school. Family Learning offers exciting and fun activities such as storytelling; reading; writing; numbers; science and learning about the world and has huge benefits and can improve school attendance and attainment and help adults develop their skills and confidence.

You can tell us what courses would benefit your community or families or we can provide you with a menu of the popular courses we deliver such as keeping up with the children; book clubs; family science; arts and crafts; gardening; healthy eating on a budget and make and mend.

If your organisation has a room to accommodate 8-10 people, we’ll provide trained, experienced tutors and funding and make the process easy by setting up, planning, promoting and delivering the courses.

Community Learning Partnerships - Bringing learning opportunities to where it matters most in the local community

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