With the world around us becoming ever more digital focused, you can develop your Essential Digital skills and become more confident in your abilities with our new range of FREE courses, designed to support you during this time.
You can learn how to use digital skills to connect with friends, local communities and the world around you with our courses, topics covered may include:
Being Safe Online
Using Online Platforms
Creating Online Networks
Getting Confident Online
Handling Information
Explore our range of FREE* courses and sign-up using our online enrolment portal. If you need support, get in touch, our friendly team can help!
*Note that most of our courses are FREE for Lancashire residents and where fees are applicable, this will be noted on your enrolment.
Whether you want a website for personal or business use, this course will guide you through the steps to create a site that you can be proud of, using a vast amount of FREE resources using world renowned website building platform, Wordpress.
Forthcoming Start Dates
Online Course
MON - 10/05/2021
18:00 to 21:00
3 week course
This course is now full Cost: Free to Lancashire residents
Online Course
MON - 21/06/2021
18:00 to 21:00
3 week course
6 Places Remaining Cost: Free to Lancashire residents
This course is perfect for individuals who are looking to have all their documents, spreadsheet, images and many more files in one place, stay in contact with family, friends and loved ones.
Forthcoming Start Dates
Online Course
Flexible Start Dates Available from: 15/04/2021
15 Places Remaining Cost: Free to Lancashire residents
This online course is designed to introduce you to Microsoft Excel and ultimately allow you to have the knowledge and skills for you to be able to create a spreadsheet incorporating basic formulas. It will provide you with the foundation skills needed to progress onto more advanced Excel courses.
Forthcoming Start Dates
Online Course
Flexible Start Dates Available from: 19/04/2021
7 Places Remaining Cost: Free to Lancashire residents
This online course is designed to introduce you to Microsoft PowerPoint and ultimately allow you to have the knowledge and skills for you to be able to create a professional looking slide show presentation.
Forthcoming Start Dates
Online Course
Flexible Start Dates Available from: 21/04/2021
12 Places Remaining Cost: Free to Lancashire residents
This online course is designed to introduce you to Microsoft Publisher and ultimately allow you to have the knowledge and skills for you to be able to create your own publications.
Forthcoming Start Dates
Online Course
Flexible Start Dates Available from: 15/04/2021
18 Places Remaining Cost: Free to Lancashire residents
This online course is designed to introduce you to Microsoft Word and ultimately allow you to get more out of your computer by increasing your knowledge of the range of tools Word provides. By the end of the course, you will be able to make documents look more professional using formatting and proof-reading tools.
Forthcoming Start Dates
Online Course
Flexible Start Dates Available from: 22/04/2021
10 Places Remaining Cost: Free to Lancashire residents
Whether you want a website for personal or business use, this course will guide you through the steps to create a site that you can be proud of. You will explore which are the best 'domain hosts', different website providers and start to learn skills to make your web pages stand out.
Forthcoming Start Dates
Online Course
Flexible Start Dates Available from: 19/04/2021
17 Places Remaining Cost: Free to Lancashire residents
Online Course
MON - 07/06/2021
18:00 to 20:30
2 week course
7 Places Remaining Cost: Free to Lancashire residents
Identity theft can happen when you least expect it. According to the UK’s fraud protection service approximately “80% of identity fraud in the first three months of this year was either attempted or perpetrated online, with many of us unwittingly leaving ourselves exposed” (Wright, 2015) Now you may be thinking it will never happen to me. WRONG! Without taking the correct security measures you will be leaving yourself vulnerable to thieves over the internet.
Forthcoming Start Dates
Online Course
TUE - 27/04/2021
13:30 to 16:00
1 day course
7 Places Remaining Cost: Free to Lancashire residents
Online Course
TUE - 06/07/2021
13:30 to 16:00
1 day course
13 Places Remaining Cost: Free to Lancashire residents
During the pandemic with shops being closed and deliveries at local stores being uncertain, it has become important that we are able to get what we need from other sources and Amazon has become one of the leading suppliers of goods to the UK and the rest of the world. In this course we will be looking at getting the most from Amazon including searching for an item, paying for an item safely, understanding key terminology and Amazon Prime.
Forthcoming Start Dates
Online Course
TUE - 22/06/2021
09:30 to 12:00
1 day course
14 Places Remaining Cost: Free to Lancashire residents
This short course has been designed to introduce you to Microsoft Outlook and ultimately to get the most out of your computer by increasing your knowledge about the range of tools provided by Outlook.
Forthcoming Start Dates
Online Course
Flexible Start Dates Available from: 16/04/2021
20 Places Remaining Cost: Free to Lancashire residents
This short course has been designed to introduce you to Microsoft Teams and ultimately to get the most out of your computer by increasing your knowledge about the range of tools provided by Outlook.
Forthcoming Start Dates
Online Course
Flexible Start Dates Available from: 15/04/2021
13 Places Remaining Cost: Free to Lancashire residents
This short course has been designed to introduce you to Social Marketing and ultimately to get the most out of social media by increasing your knowledge about the range of tools available.
Forthcoming Start Dates
Online Course
Flexible Start Dates Available from: 15/04/2021
12 Places Remaining Cost: Free to Lancashire residents
Online Course
TUE - 15/06/2021
18:00 to 20:30
2 week course
10 Places Remaining Cost: Free to Lancashire residents