Discover our courses
Beginners, improvers and professionals are all welcome to attend a short course where you'll meet other adult learners who share your interests to achieve personal and professional goals.
Courses run during evenings and weekends as well as intensive, week long courses during the summer.
If you'd like to discuss which course is right for you or have additional questions we'd love to help! You can email us or give us a call on +44 (0)115 848 2813.
Brand Guidelines and Marketing
This short course will delve into the core principles and strategies of effective brand marketing. From understanding your brand identity to implementing successful marketing campaigns, you'll gain valuable insights and practical skills.
Confident Presenting Skills
Master the art of delivering impactful presentations with poise and self-assurance. This course will equip you with the knowledge and techniques to shine in any presentation scenario.
Confident Writing for Business
Whether you're regularly writing emails and reports or presentations and project briefs, winning over your audience with the right words is essential. Learn how best to present specialist or technical information for a diverse range of stakeholders and audiences.
Creating Engaging Videos for Marketing
This course is for marketers or small business owners who want to create effective short videos for little or no cost. By the end of the course, you’ll understand all the stages of the production process, and have a finished video ready to share with your audience.
Crisis Communication Workshop
This one day workshop is a crash course in crisis management! You’ll be introduced to models of crisis management with real examples of global crises, looking at how to prepare for crises and how to respond to them.
Digital Marketing and Communication for the Creative Industries
Learn to craft bold digital campaigns using data, UX, ecommerce, and social media strategies for fashion and lifestyle brands.
Ethical Fundraising Communications for Charity Marketers and Managers
Learn to navigate ethical dilemmas in charity fundraising. Explore real-life case studies, build confidence in your comms, and strengthen your organisation’s integrity.
Futures-thinking for creative businesses
Expand your skills in creativity and transform the way you design products, services and communications so that they are guaranteed to be human-centered and future-proof. This course will help you build the essential foundations for delivering effective projects and successful collaborations.
Graphic Design for Content Creation and Marketing
Explore industry-standard tools including Adobe InDesign and Photoshop and engage in practical exercises to develop your design skills, creating content for both print and digital media. You’ll learn how to maintain a cohesive visual identity across diverse platforms and explore the digital landscape including social media design and AI integration.
Podcast Production for Beginners
This course introduces you to the best practices of developing and producing an original podcast series. It’s for businesses, individuals, community groups and organisations of all shapes and sizes who have a great story to tell and want to engage their audiences with news, views or entertainment.
PR for Small Businesses
Whether you are self-employed or running a small or medium sized enterprise (SME), PR is a vital tool, and it can be hard to understand what we should be doing when it comes to applying it effectively. On this course, you’ll apply PR theories to your business to consider what, if anything, you need to be doing differently or better to become more profitable.
PR Principles
On this course you’ll consider and manage how you are represented in the media (both online and in printed material), how you are perceived by your stakeholders and the wider public and develop your understanding behind the theory of PR and that how fits in with your marketing plans.
TikTok Marketing
Over four dynamic days, this course will guide you through the essential elements of TikTok content creation, from understanding the platform's unique features, looking at the For You Page, strategies, to creating viral-worthy videos.
Words That Sell: Compelling Copywriting
Unleash your creativity, sharpen your writing skills, and create impactful copywriting that allows your words to become the catalyst for successful engagement with your audience.
Writing and Presentation Skills for Professionals
Learn how to win over your audience with the right words. Ideal for anyone who would like to write more confidently, instead of fearing it!