Multiply your confidence with numbers at free skills courses

Whether it's skills for budgeting, shopping, sewing, measuring or more, these courses can help you! These free courses are running across Central Bedfordshire and Bedford Borough from August onwards.

How can 'Multiply' courses help you?

Multiply courses have been designed to support you to 'multiply', or increase, your confidence using numbers in everyday life. Whether this is to help you build confidence managing your money, using numbers at work or around the house with tasks such as sewing or measuring something. Everyone is welcome!

Practicing maths skills can be challenging, so these short and social workshops are a great way to get back into learning and boost your confidence with skills you use regularly in your day-to-day, perhaps even without realising!

These courses are free for adults aged 19 years and older who live or work in Central Bedfordshire and Bedford Borough.

What Multiply courses are running next?

There are lots of courses running in Central Bedfordshire and Bedford Borough. Take a look at the courses running in your area below. 

Click on the course links to read more information about the course content and to register your interest in attending. 

To register your interest, please click on the registration button on the course page and complete a short enquiry form. Please type the name of the course you'd like to attend on the form. If you'd like to attend more than one course, please complete one enquiry form and list all the courses you'd like to attend.

You will receive further information about the course/s and support to enrol onto the course.

Courses to feel confident with your money

Understanding finances can be tricky, but feeling confident with money is important for our wellbeing. These money skills courses will give you the skills to better take control of your finances.

To support your learning, some courses come with a £30 supermarket voucher included following the completion of the learning. 

*Vouchers are available subject to meeting eligibility criteria. 

Courses in Central Bedfordshire

Bedfordshire Employment and Skills Academy, LU5 5PY

These courses run from 10am to midday on Thursdays.

• Thursday 5 September, Become a Savvy Shopper (4 week course - voucher included *)

• Thursday 3 October, Cutting Costs in the Kitchen (4 week course - voucher included *)

Dunstable Community Halls, LU6 1HT

These courses run from 1pm to 3pm on Thursdays.

• Thursday 26 September, Become a Savvy Shopper (4 week course - voucher included *)

• Thursday 31 October, Cutting Costs in the Kitchen (4 week course - voucher included *)

Dunstable Library, LU5 4JD

This course runs from 12:30pm to 2:30pm on Tuesdays.

• Tuesday 24 September, Become a Savvy Shopper (4 week course - voucher included *)

Leighton Library, LU7 1RX

These courses run from 10am to midday on Tuesdays.

• Tuesday 10 September, Become a Savvy Shopper (4 week course - voucher included *)

• Tuesday 22 October, Cutting Costs in the Kitchen (4 week course - voucher included *)

Courses in Bedford Borough

ACCM at Cauldwell Community Centre, MK42 9HF

These courses run from 10am to midday on Fridays.

• Friday 16 August, Cutting Costs in the Kitchen (4 week course - voucher included *)

• Friday 13 September, Cost of Living Support (1 workshop)

• Friday 20 September, Budgeting and Saving (1 workshop)

• Friday 27 September, Understanding Borrowing and Debt (1 workshop)

• Friday 4 October, Making the Most of your Money (1 workshop)

• Friday 11 October, Become a Savvy Shopper (4 week course - voucher included *)

British Pakistani Welfare Association on Honey Hill Road, MK40 4NP

These courses run from 10am to midday on Thursdays.

• Thursday 3 October, Cost of Living Support (1 workshop)

• Thursday 10 October, Budgeting and Saving (1 workshop)

• Thursday 17 October, Understanding Borrowing and Debt (1 workshop)

• Thursday 24 October, Making the Most of your Money (1 workshop)

A voucher is included if you attend these four workshops: Cost of Living Support workshop, Budgeting and Saving workshop, Understanding Borrowing and Debt workshop, and Making the Most of your Money workshop. 

*Subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

Creative courses to practice useful number skills

We use numbers all the time every day, a lot of the time without even realising! These courses embed useful skills you use day-to-day at home and at work to help you build confidence with numbers through creative activities.

Courses in Central Bedfordshire

Dunstable Community Halls, LU6 1HT

This course runs from 1pm to 2pm on Thursdays.

• Thursday 22 August, Sewing Skills for Beginners (3 week course) 

Dunstable Library, LU5 4JD

These courses run from 12:30pm to 2:30pm on Tuesdays.

• Tuesday 10 September, Sew your own Draught Excluder (2 week course)

• Thursday 12 November, Sewing Skills for Beginners (3 week course) 

Houghton Hall Park, LU5 5FU

These courses run from 10am to midday on Tuesdays.

• Tuesday 1 October, Sew your own Draught Excluder (2 week course)

• Tuesday 22 October, Sewing Skills for Beginners (3 week course) 

• Tuesday 19 November, Origami Paper Crafts (1 workshop)

• Tuesday 26 November, Make a Macrame Knot Keyring (1 workshop)

Leighton Library, LU7 1RX

These courses run from 10am to midday on Tuesdays.

• Tuesday 13 August, Build a Recycled Bee Hotel (1 workshop)

• Tuesday 20 August, Bingo and Board Games (1 workshop) 

• Tuesday 26 November, Sew your own Draught Excluder (2 week course)

Courses in Bedford Borough

The Higgins on Castle Lane, MK40 3XD

These courses run from 11am to 1pm on Wednesdays.

• Wednesday 14 August, Build a Recycled Bee Hotel (1 workshop)

• Wednesday 21 August, Origami Paper Crafts (1 workshop)

• Wednesday 28 August, Mindfulness and Maths (1 workshop)

How to register your interest to attend a course

You can register your interest by clicking on the course links above. Alternatively, you can click on the registration form button below to enquire about a course. 

You will receive information on the course/s you have registered an interest in, and will then be sent an enrolment form to complete to book your place onto a course. You'll only need to complete an enrolment form once even if you want to attend more than one course.

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